PodMed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

This week’s topics include how often women need pelvic exams, what we can learn from the oldest old, mouse allergens and asthma, and cardiometabolic death and diet. Program notes: 0 :30 Learning from the oldest old 1:30 Physical performance and cognitive function 2:30 Living longer but more frail 2:50 Pelvic exam interval 3:52 Abandoning altogether […]

This week’s topics include testosterone supplementation, acupuncture and migraines, cardiac devices and MRI, and stem cell transplantation for MS. Program notes: 0:30 Testosterone supplementation for aging males 1:31 Looked at cognition and cardiovascular health 2:30 Plaque actually accelerated 3:30 Hypogonadism 3:50 Acupuncture and migraines 4:50 Did have a modest benefit 5:47 Stem cell transplantation in […]

This week’s topics include light treatment and Parkinson’s, ultrasound for bone healing, knee pain treatment over the Internet, and maintaining weight loss. Program notes: 0:30 Treating knee pain over the Internet 1:30 How did they do at 9 months? 2:10 Maintaining weight loss 3:10 Delivering over telephone 4:10 Regain significant weight 5:05 Parkinson’s treatment and […]

This week’s topics include risks of gestational diabetes, managing low back pain, ED physician opioid prescribing, and cooling the scalp for chemotherapy. Program notes: 0:34 Risk of gestational diabetes to infant 1:33 Needing a C-section increased 2:32 Managing low back pain 3:31 Chronic pain nonpharmacologic first 4:32 Imaging not helpful 5:01 Prescribing patterns among ED […]

This week’s topics include sickle cell trait and HbA1c, carcinogen levels and e-cigarettes, mutations and myelodysplastic syndrome, and kids ingesting pet medicines. Program notes: 0:33 Kids eating medicines intended for pets 1:34 Retrospective poison center data 2;28 Must have appropriate medication dispensing 2:40 Sickle cell trait and hemoglobin A1c 3:41 In diabetes the higher your […]

This week’s topics include heart problems and e-cigarettes, aortic valve replacement, the health impact of low socioeconomic status, and real life lung cancer screening data. Program notes: 0:33 Risk for premature death 1:33 Low SES more important than most other risk factors 2:34 Strengthen local communities 2:57 e-cigarettes and cardiovascular risk factors 3:58 Measured sympathetic […]

This week’s topics include at home sleep studies, an antibody for C.difficile infection, using big data to examine medical devices, and language concordance and type 2 diabetes control. Program notes: 0:35 Treatment of C. difficile 1:35 Antitoxin antibody 2:32 Phase III trial 2:55 Post market surveillance data of devices 3:55 Vascular closure devices 4:50 Registry […]

This week’s topics include coronary calcium scans and hypertension, a look at tonsillectomy, asthma in adults, and diabetes in China. Program notes: 0:32 High blood pressure and calcium scores 1:32 Traditional risk factors plus scan 2:26 Asthma in adults 3:28 A third didn’t have it 4:28 If controlled test again 5:00 Diabetes in China 6:01 […]

This week’s topics include alcohol abuse and CVD, gun violence in adolescents, social networks and gun violence, and weekend warriors. Program notes: 0:34 Weekend warriors 1:34 Compared to sedentary, they did have a reduction in mortality 2:32 For those who can’t do daily 3:00 Is gun violence contagious? 4:00 Looked at relationships 5:00 Now we […]

This week’s topics include managing earwax, metformin and other diseases, atypical antipsychotics in palliative care, and firearm purchase without a background check. Program notes: 0:51 Managing ear wax 1:51 Industry relative to removal 2:53 Putting cotton swabs not good 3:31 Metformin use and comorbidities 4:31 Does metformin increase or decrease mortality? 5:34 Firearm purchase without […]

This week’s topics include a review of sugar recommendations, preventing readmissions to the hospital, benefits of fish oil in pregnancy, and a look at healthcare spending. Program notes: 0:31 A look at sugar recommendations 1:30 Identified nine guidelines 2:30 All point to reducing sugar intake 3:20 Fish oil supplementation in pregnancy and asthma 4:20 Increase […]

This week’s topics include the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, choice of underwear color, aging wine, and keeping Brussels sprouts green. Program notes: 0:35 Annual fun recording 1:35 Color prominent in underwear choice 2:32 Women prefer red 3:01 Brussels sprouts aging 4:01 Exposed to white blue light 4:42 Aging wine 5:42 Do eight experiments over […]

This week’s topics include statins and Alzheimer’s, teen substance use, national mortality data, and psychiatric drug use in American adults. Program notes: 0:33 Cause specific mortality in the US 1:35 At over 80 million deaths 2:32 Not terribly surprising to see risk factors 3:00 How many US adults take a psychiatric drugs 4:01 Only 9% […]

This week's topics include a biomarker for Parkinson’s disease, therapy for blood clots after casting or knee arthroscopy, avoiding sickle cell crises, and CABG versus stunting. Program notes: 0:34 A biomarker for Parkinson’s disease 1:31 Use as a seed to accumulate misfolded protein 2:35 Utility in the face of no intervention? 3:31 Blood rather than CSF? […]

This week’s topics include frailty and postoperative risk, smoking, age and myocardial infarction, sports and cardiovascular mortality, and artificial intelligence and diabetic retinopathy. Program notes: 0:37 AI and diabetic retinopathy 1:37 Showed over 60,000 images to a computer 2:37 Device takes a picture and computer evaluates 3:23 Presurgical assessment of frailty 4:24 Three or four […]