Annals of Internal Medicine Podcast

New colorectal cancer screening guidelines; interview with Dr. Michael LeFevre of the US Preventive Services Task Force and the University of Missouri at Columbia; plus a summary of other articles in this week's issue.

Comparative effectiveness of newer insulins; sildenafil as add-on therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension; comments by Susan Dentzer of the journal Health Affairs on the health care reform debate; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Colorectal cancer screening with stool DNA testing; interview with David Ahlquist of the Mayo Clinic; plus a summary of all the articles in the October 7 issue.

Massage therapy for end-of-life pain; ipratropium and cardiovascular mortality; risk for community-acquired pneumonia with PPIs; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Looking for cancer in patients with venous thromboembolism; interview with Deborah Ornstein, MD, of Yale University; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Appropriateness ratings and underuse of coronary angiography in patients with chest pain; "Death of a Clinician-Educator" by Dr. Kimberly Manning of Emory University; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Rapid HIV testing in emergency departments; the United States Congress and Medicare Reform; interview with Richard Trachtman and Jonni McCrann of the American College of Physicians. Plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Preventing venous thromboembolism after knee arthroscopy; the first clinical use of penicillin in the US; interview with Charles Grossman, MD; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

The safety of combination LABA and inhaled corticosteroid treatment for asthma; interview with Kevin Weiss, MD, of the American Board of Medical Specialties; perspectives on improving surrogate decision making; interview with Jeffrey Berger, MD, of SUNY-Stonybrook; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Sequential therapy for Helicobacter pylori infection; comments from NIH Chemical Genomics Center Director Christopher Austin, MD on the state of genomics in clinical medicine; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Lipid monitoring in patients on statins; an interview with Paul Glasziou, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Oxford; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Testosterone for Treatment of Decreased Sexual Satisfaction in Women; comments from Rosemary Basson, MD, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Treating tobacco dependence as a chronic disease; an interview with Michael Steinberg, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at UMDNJ in New Brunswick, NJ; and excerpts from a recent Institute of Medicine panel discussion, with comments from CBO Director Peter Orszag, PhD and AHRQ Director Carolyn Clancy, MD on the future of comparative effectiveness studies. Plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

An overview of Massachusetts' health care reform effort; interview with Jon Kingsdale, PhD, Executive Director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority; universal inpatient surveillance screening for MRSA with comments from Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE, of the University of Pennsylvania; plus a summary of the all the articles in this week's issue.

Drugs used to prevent contrast nephropathy; an interview with Dr. Aine Kelly, Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology at the VAMC and University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; more on multidrug resistant-MRSA; and "I Can't Be Bothered," by Dr. Faith Fitzgerald. Plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.