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Podcast 101: Osteoarthritis, chondroitin, and glucosamine — one of these things doesn’t belong.
Podcast 100: Practical informed consent
Podcast 99: Blacks’ higher rate of stent thrombosis apparently has a genetic basis.
Podcast 98: Leafy green vegetables apparently lower one’s risks for type 2 diabetes
Podcast 97: What happens when vena cava filters break?
Podcast 96: Survivors of childhood cancer face manageable reproductive risks.
Podcast 95: What if hypertensive patients titrated their own drug dosages?
Podcast 94: What does a new meta-analysis tell us about statins and primary prevention?
Podcast 93: Is computed tomography safe? Yes, but …
Podcast 92: Corticosteroids in COPD exacerbations — high-dose intravenous or low-dose oral?
Podcast 91: What risks do NSAIDs hold for healthy people? They’re not trivial.
Podcast 90: Preventing type 2 diabetes with low-dose metformin and rosiglitazone seems possible, but clinical use has to await results of another stud...
Podcast 89: Glasses aren’t just for reading any more. Listen in to how they can help the elderly avoid falls.
Podcast 88: Weighing the benefits of endovascular versus open repair in abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Podcast 87: After this week’s news, we reprise an interview from last December on pharyngitis in adolescents and young adults.
Podcast 86: Prompt follow-up after discharge for heart failure reduces early-readmission rates.
Podcast 85: B vitamins lower homocysteine levels, so why don’t they retard the progression of diabetic nephropathy?
Podcast 84: One year later, what have we learned from 2009 H1N1? A conversation with Richard Wenzel.
Podcast 83: An interview by CardioExchange’s editors on the COURAGE study
Podcast 82: Checklists save lives — lots of lives. Becoming a clinical automaton.
Podcast 81: When should you start screening for type 2 diabetes?
Podcast 80: Bisphosphonates and atypical hip fractures — how large is the risk?
Podcast 79: Prostate cancer, patients’ consultations, and the treatments they receive
Podcast 78: Just what are “comparative effectiveness” studies anyway?
Podcast 77: We revisit a conversation on treating community-acquired pneumonia according to the guidelines (and we’ve got current news).
Podcast 76: On saying “No” to patients’ requests.
Podcast 75: Which regimen for hypertension?
Podcast 74: How two SSRIs apparently interfere with tamoxifen therapy.
Podcast 73: How best to monitor patients on androgen-deprivation therapy for cardiovascular risks?
Podcast 72: A conversation about two new drugs for multiple sclerosis.
Podcast 71: We revisit, after a look at current clinical news, a conversation on the late clinical course of dementia.
Podcast 70: Considering the USPSTF breast-screening guidelines with your patients
Podcast 69: Eating soy foods and survival after breast cancer
Podcast 68: Change your approach to pharyngitis in adolescents and young adults.
Podcast 67: Unexpected “incidental” findings on pulmonary CT angiography present problems of pursuit and follow-up.
Podcast 66: Niacin versus ezetimibe in the face of high cardiovascular risk — a conversation with the ARBITER 6-HALTS trialist Allen Taylor
Podcast 65: A conversation about the utility of renovascular angioplasty in the face of atherosclerosis
Podcast 64: A conversation regarding on-pump versus off-pump CABG with Frederick Grover.
Podcast 63: A conversation about the adverse cardiometabolic effects of second-generation antipsychotic drugs in young patients with Christoph Correll
Podcast 62: A conversation with Jane Kim about cost-effectiveness of vaccinating women with HPV vaccine after age 30.
Podcast 61: A conversation about end-stage dementia.
Podcast 60: Weight loss in type 2 diabetes benefits obstructive sleep apnea — a conversation with Prof. Gary Foster
Podcast 59: A conversation about bacterial coinfection in 2009 H1N1 flu deaths with Dianna Blau of the CDC
Podcast 58: A repeat of the July 31 interview with the CDC’s Denise Jamieson on treating pregnant women who have suspected 2009 H1N1.
Podcast 57: Treating community-acquired pneumonia according to the guidelines
Podcast 56: A conversation with two JAMA staffers on their research into “ghost” authorship and “honorary” authorship in the principal medical journal...
Podcast 55: A conversation with Prof. Gilles Montalescot about his JAMA paper on immediate versus delayed intervention in non-ST-segment elevation acu...
Podcast 54: A conversation with Aaron Caughey, whose analysis of the literature shows that elective induction of labor does not, contrary to dogma, in...
Podcast 53: Patients extubated with hypercapnia can be managed better with noninvasive ventilation, a new study shows.
Podcast 52: Screening for intimate-partner violence doesn’t seem productive or very protective. What’s a concerned clinician to do?
Podcast 51: In pregnant women with suspected H1N1, treat promptly! A conversation with Denise Jamieson of the CDC.
Podcast 50: A re-podcast of an interview from February regarding the FDA’s plans for tightening regulations on opioid use.
Podcast 49: Three RASS Study researchers discuss their findings on the lack of benefit of renin-angiotensin blockade in the primary prevention of diab...
Podcast 48: A conversation with Les Irwig, which your bone scanner won’t like to hear.
Podcast 47: Total knee arthroplasty’s cost-effectiveness — a conversation with Elena Losina
Podcast 46: Does Genetic Testing for Clotting Mutations Matter? An interview with Jodi Segal of Johns Hopkins
Podcast 45: Prof. Martin Dennis discusses new findings discouraging the use of compression stockings after stroke
Podcast 44: Harlan Krumholz on new door-to-balloon-time findings.
Podcast 43: An interview with Martha Gulati on her research into the cardiovascular risks faced by symptomatic women who have normal angiograms.
Podcast 42: An interview with Danielle Ofri — author, editor, clinician.
Podcast 41: A repeat of an interview with Dr. Anne Schuchat of the CDC on childhood immunization levels.
Podcast 40: Tight control in type 2 diabetes — time to loosen up? A conversation with Mayo’s Victor Montori.
Podcast 39: A conversation with Kimford Meador about a new paper assessing the later cognitive effects of fetal exposure to antiepileptic drugs.
Podcast 38: A conversation about using PPIs in poorly controlled asthma — rather, not using them — with Robert A. Wise of Johns Hopkins.
Podcast 37: A conversation with Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia’s Donald Griesdale about a meta-analysis on tight gl...
Podcast 36: Michael K. Kearney is our guest. He talks about the self-care of clinicians engaged in end-of-life care.
Podcast 35: Clinical Conversations reprises an interview with Mary Tinetti about falls in the elderly.
Podcast 34: An interview with Cheryl Bushnell of Wake Forest about her paper in BMJ concerning migraines during pregnancy and the possibility of their...
Podcast 33: We repeat, after the principal news of the week, an interview with Stephen Hetz, co-editor of “War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq”
Podcast 32: Reprise of a June 2008 interview with Larry Allen from Duke, in which he talks about patients’ estimates of their life expectancy, compare...
Podcast 31: Making your clinical life easier — with genetics. Dr. Julie Johnson talks about using a patient’s genetic profile to help set their initia...
Podcast 30: Dr. Roger Chou of Oregon Health Sciences University talks about recent guidelines for opioid use in non-cancer pain and reflects on the FD...
Podcast 29: Dr. Brian Jack of Boston University sees RED (Re-Engineered Discharge) as a way to lower hospital readmissions.
Podcast 28: A discussion with Dr. Andrea Cipriani and Prof. John Geddes about their ranking of 12 antidepressants
Podcast 27: Dr. Steven E. Sobol talks with us about his paper on trends in pediatric head-and-neck infections from S. aureus — an increasing percentag...
Podcast 26: Dr. Wayne A. Ray talks about the dangers of sudden cardiac death from antipsychotic drugs
Podcast 25: Drs. Nicola Thompson and Joseph Perz talk about their Annals of Internal Medicine paper on the epidemiology of viral hepatitis outbreaks i...
Podcast 24: An interview with Dr. Douglas B. White on the perspectives of surrogate decision makers regarding discussions about their loved one’s prog...
Podcast 23: An interview with J. Michael Gaziano concerning two JAMA studies on the uselessness of dietary supplements in preventing prostate cancer
Podcast 22: Interview with Aaron Kesselheim about his meta-analysis of the efficacy of proprietary versus generic cardiovascular drugs.
Podcast 21: An interview with Dr. Steven T. DeKosky about his JAMA paper showing that ginkgo extract does not prevent dementia
Podcast 20: While we take a week off, we offer the reprise of an interview with Dr. Steven Woloshin of Dartmouth Medical School.
Podcast 19: An interview with Dr. Susan Davis about using testosterone in postmenopausal women who have low libido. Plus, the week’s news.
Podcast 18: News plus an interview with Prof. Riccardo Utili about infective endocarditis in the elderly
Podcast 17: News plus an interview with Dr. Arto Strandberg regarding midlife smoking
Podcast 16: This week’s news, plus an interview recorded earlier this year with Dr. John Douglas of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention
Podcast 15: The week’s news, plus an interview with Dr. Alexi A. Wright about her article in JAMA on end-of-life conversations and their cascading ben...
Podcast 14: News roundup and interview with Dr. Michael Hochman about his JAMA paper on how the news media cover drug research.
Podcast 13: News and interview with Dr. Stephen Hetz, co-editor of “War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq” and director of medical education at Beaumont...
Podcast 12: News and interview with Dr. Anne Schuchat, Director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Podcast 11: News and interview with Dr. Irene Hall, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC
Podcast 10: News and interview with Dr. Michel Ovize, Professor of Physiology and Cardiology, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon
Podcast 8: News and interview with Dr. Mary Tinetti, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale
Podcast 6: News and interview with Dr. Luigi Ferrucci, NIH Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD
Podcast 5: News and interview with Dr. Jack Hirsh, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Medicine, McMaster and Founding Director of the Henderson Research Cent...
Podcast 4: News and interview with Dr. Larry Allen, Clinical Instructor in Cardiology, Duke
Podcast 2: Interview with Dr. Joseph Ross of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Podcast 1: Interview with Dr. John Douglas of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention