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Podcast 201: The NFL’s concussion-research flaws
Podcast 200: Sorting out the results of breast biopsy
Podcast 199: Rethinking what medical journals do
Podcast 198: Three laws that could reduce U.S. firearm mortality
Podcast 197: A dissent on sepsis
Podcast 196: Sepsis redefined
Podcast 195: Pioglitazone for secondary prevention?
Podcast 194: Rising middle-age mortality rates are worrying
Podcast 193: Glioma survival lengthened
Podcast 192: Are we too sweet on HbA1c testing?
Podcast 191: The prostate screening conundrum
Podcast 190: Last line of antibiotic defense breached
Podcast 189: Blood Pressure Target Should Be 120, SPRINT Data Show
Podcast 188: Should “deintensification” be a quality-of-care measure?
Podcast 187: Colorectal adenomas not prevented by calcium and/or vitamin D
Podcast 186: Stop supplementing calcium!
Podcast 185: A Spirited Discussion on Medicare’s ‘Doc Fix’ Fix for Reimbursement
Podcast 184: Ruling out pulmonary embolism in primary care
Podcast 183: An Obesity ‘Switch’ in the Genome Described
Podcast 182: Dietary fat studies meta-analyzed — trans fat still a bad bet
Podcast 181: Oral Contraceptives’ Role in Reducing Endometrial Cancers
Podcast 180: A sketch of community-acquired pneumonia
Podcast 179: Pradaxa (dabigatran) reversal near?
Podcast 178: Why Should Clinicians’ Complicity in CIA Torture Matter to You?
Clinical Conversation 177: Can We Deliver NICEly?
Podcast 176: HPV Vaccine — How many doses are needed to confer protection?
Podcast 175: “Understanding Value-Based Healthcare” — A Discussion with the Authors of an Important New Book
Podcast 174: PARADIGM and Heart Failure
Podcast 173: Sensible Sodium Levels in View at Last
Podcast 172: Listening for the Diagnosis, a Conversation with Danielle Ofri
Podcast 171: PTSD Treatment Effects Remain Largely Unmeasured By the Military and the VA
Podcast 170 — An Emergency Physician Has the Tables Turned On Her and Returns with Lessons for All Clinicians
Podcast 169: New guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention
Podcast 168: The Camden Coalition’s work on alleviating the discontinuity of medical care
Podcast 167 — The polypill: adherence at last?
Podcast 166: Delirium and intensive care
Podcast 165: The Mediterranean diet’s salutary interaction with risk-conferring genes
Podcast 164: Talking about death
Podcast 163: Boston bombings – 4
Podcast 162: Boston bombings lessons part 3
Podcast 161: Boston bombings’ lessons part two
Podcast 160: The Marathon bombing — lessons learned
Podcast 159: Making the Clinical Diagnosis, But Blowing the Patient’s Treatment Preference
Podcast 158: Physician-assisted dying — a conversation with Dr. Marcia Angell about the Massachusetts ‘Death with Dignity’ ballot question
Podcast 157: Of parking lots, low back pain, the Yankees, writing, and — oh yes — clinical medicine
Podcast 156: Using low-dose CT screening for lung cancer in defined populations — a conversation with Peter Bach
Podcast 155: What’s wrong with U.S. healthcare and what will save it?
Podcast 154: Treating heart failure’s hypercoagulable state — warfarin or aspirin?
Podcast 153: Type 2 diabetes in young people — tough going on the treatment front
Podcast 152: Gum disease and atherosclerosis — evidence for an association, but not for a cause-and-effect
Podcast 151: Most people above age 10 have at least some cross-reactive antibodies to variant influenza
Podcast 150: Depression (and antidepressant use) after stroke or TIA
Podcast 149: High levels of white rice consumption seem linked to higher risks for type 2 diabetes
Podcast 148: Smoking cessation during pregnancy is probably more effective with behavioral approaches than with relying on nicotine replacement
Podcast 147: Proof that colonoscopy with polypectomy saves lives
Podcast 146: Cognitive impairment in primary care — screen or not?
Podcast 145: The Y chromosome and the possible role of a common variant in coronary disease in men.
Podcast 144: Hip fractures, PPIs, and smoking history in postmenopausal women — increased risks
Podcast 143: PPIs and asthma control — it doesn’t work in kids, either
Podcast 142: Really, why are you ordering that test?
Podcast 141: Clinically apparent atrial fibrillation increases stroke risk; does subclinical afib do the same?
Podcast 140: A new edition of the ACP’s manual on ethics for clinicians is available online
Podcast 139: CPAP for obstructive sleep apnea seems to improve some measures of the metabolic syndrome
Podcast 138: Why do kids in the U.S. get so many inappropriate broad-spectrum antibiotics?
Podcast 137: Clamping the umbilical cord — what’s the big rush?
Podcast 136: Aspirin lowers colorectal risks in Lynch syndrome — what are the implications for everyone else?
Podcast 135: HPV vaccine effective against anal intraepithelial neoplasia in MSM. Now, how to get it to young men before they’re sexually active?
Podcast 134: How (and why) surveillance in Barrett’s esophagus should change
Podcast 133: Over 50 years later, DES’s adverse effects continue
Podcast 132: In discussing a child’s overweight with parents, words matter
Podcast 131: Measuring the effect of the rotavirus vaccine program on kids in the U.S.
Podcast 130: If you’re a clinician concerned about health costs, wash your hands — don’t just wring them
Podcast 129: Non-aspirin NSAIDs are associated, as a class, with spontaneous abortion in a Quebec study
Podcast 128: Bleeding patients, inadvertently, into anemia happens more often than you might think
Podcast 127: Why QALYs matter
Podcast 126: Placebos and Medical ‘Meaning’
Podcast 125: The smoking-cessation drug varenicline poses some difficult tradeoffs.
Podcast 124: Getting more accuracy into blood pressure measurements
Podcast 123: Calcium’s benefits seem to peak out at about 800 mg daily
Podcast 122: Most newer antiepileptics apparently safer in early pregnancy — but not all.
Podcast 121: NSAIDs Unsafe at Any Dose after MI
Podcast 120: Pass the salt!
Podcast 119: Calcium supplements and risk
Podcast 118: Opioid prescribing patterns and accidental overdoses
Podcast 117: Atorvastatin and new-onset diabetes
Podcast 116: What do more sensitive troponin measurements mean for diagnosing ACS?
Podcast 115: Talking about the real-world use of dabigatran with Drs. Elaine Hylek and Samuel Goldhaber
Podcast 114: Guidelines for preventing cardiovascular disease in women
Podcast 113: Hot flashes and escitalopram
Podcast 112: MRSA guidelines from IDSA
Podcast 111: A look back on the year’s most clinically important developments.
Podcast 110: ARBs (and anti-hypertensives, generally) pose no measurable cancer risk, meta-analysis shows.
Podcast 109: An overview of the American Heart Association meeting, with cardiologist Harlan Krumholz
Podcast 108: CT screening for lung cancer
Podcast 107: Hospital falls and how to reduce them
Podcast 106: The barbershop and hypertension — a little off the top
Podcast 105: NSAIDs revisited
Podcast 104: Reassurance on clopidogrel and omeprazole.
Podcast 103: eGFR and cardiovascular risk assessment
Podcast 102: Short compression stockings would seem to have no further role clinically.