2 Docs Talk: The podcast about healthcare, the science of medicine and everything in between.

Over the last couple of decades, the conversation surrounding hormone replacement therapy and menopause has been confusing. Does it work? Is it safe? What about alternative therapies? it’s hard to sort out conflicting information coming from various sources. In this episode we discuss:

• The recent history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
• HRT for symptom relief
• HRT, endometrial hyperplasia, and uterine cancer
• HRT and cardiovascular disease
• HRT and breast cancer
• Bioidentical hormones
• And more.

Resources

The Bitch is Back

Study of Women’s Health Across the Naiton (SWAN)

The Women’s Health Initiative

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In this episode we take a look back at our first year of podcasting and some of the more interesting topics we've discussed. Remember medical marijuana? What about vaccines or telemedicine? There are new developments in these areas and more and we discuss these new developments and more. Also, if you hang on to the end, you'll hear one of the few times we disagree. We disagreed, we discussed, we still like eachother. Kendall didn't even tweet about what yuuuge loser Amy is.

Podcasts we discuss in this episode:

Vaccines

Pricing Transparency

Medical Marijuana

Planned Parenthood

Birth Control

Back Pain

Telemedicine

Resources

MMR and SSPE

California Drug Price Relief Act (It didn't pass)

Voting Habits by Medical Specialty

Reclassification of Marijuana

CMS on Post-partum Reimbursements for LARCs

Yoga for Back Pain

FDA Approves Manufacture of Digital Stethescopes for Telemedicine by Tytocare

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The media serves us a lot of news about some very flashy diseases. Sometimes is skews our perception of what the most serious threats to our health really are. But no matter what new danger the latest headlines proclaim, heart disease remains the number one cause of death in the United States. Often, those deaths are caused by heart attacks. 

In today's episode, 2 Docs Talk about heart attacks, what they are, how they are treated, and how you should respond if you think you or someone near you is having one. 

Resources:

Prognosis after out of hospital cardiac arrest with and without automatic external defibrillation.

A stem cell treatment for heart disease currently being pursued.

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With the very stressful election we've all just been through, we thought it might be a good idea to lighten things up and have a little fun this week. So we are taking a look at the medical news this week to find teh fun and lightness we are all needing right about now. If you want to learn more about the items we talked about today, the links are listed below.

Why are we ticklish

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-tickling-rats-20161110-story.htm

Flu risk and birth year

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/health/flu-risk-birth-year/

Cannabis gym

http://hoodline.com/2016/11/world-s-first-cannabis-gym-to-debut-in-the-mission-this-spring

Sugar-sweetened beverage tax passed in four cities

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/misapplication-of-the-berkeley-soda-tax-to-diet-drinks/

FIT for colorectal screening

http://annals.org/aim/article/2571716/colorectal-cancer-screening-united-states-what-best-fit

Roller coaster kidney stones

http://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2557373

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If you live anywhere but under a rock, you know that Planned Parenthood has been the center of controversy in recent months. In this episode, we discuss the history of the organization and its founder Margaret Sanger. Then we dig into Planned Parenthood as it exists today and the controversy surrounding it.

The coverage of the controversy in the media is filled with innuendo and half-truths from both sides of the political spectrum. We wanted to know the facts, so we did a little searching. Since we recorded this episode, the courts in Houston did too, and found no evidence that they were profiting from the sale of fetal tissue or organs.

But, what role does Planned Parenthood play in healthcare today?

Do they provide needed services? What are those services? Is abortion their primary business? Should Medicaid funds cover their services? And finally, is there anything that can be done to curb the number of abortions performed today? (Hint: yes there is, and it has nothing to do with Roe v. Wade.)

Resources:

Where are Planned Parenthood Clinics Located?

Texas Tribune Articles on Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood Services by the Numbers

CDC Abortion Surveillance Report - 2012

New England Journal of Medicine on Planned Parenthood

Long Acting Reversible Contraception in Colorado

The Choice Project - LARCs in Colorado

November 8, 2016 has come and gone and no matter what box you checked you are probably a little surprised by the outcome. Donald Trump will be the 45th POTUS. 

This has the potential to shake things up in a lot of areas of American life, but we want to focus today on the healcare ramifications of a  Donald Trump presidency. What did he say he would do? Will he do it? And what will it look like if he does.

We refer to a couple of our previous podcasts in this show and they are worth a listen as you evaluate the plans Donald Trump is offering up:

Episode 10: What Does Planned Parenthood Actually Do?

Episode 6: Pricing Transparents in Medicine and Healthcare

The process of drug approval is long and expensive. To complicate matters, pharmaceutical companies, patients, an the FDA are all invested in the process, for different reasons - and they aren't always the same.

Today we discuss the story of how a new drug came to market and the unusual circumstances around its approval. 

Resources:

FDA grants accelerated approval to first drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

CDC on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Right to Try

Compassionate Use

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It's one of those things that doesn't feel so big and important compared to other medical problems, but in reality, acne can be a difficult problem to deal with.

For teens it can be a huge blow to already fragile self-confidence. It isn't a walk in the park for adults who find themselves with a break-out, either.

So today, we are talking about what causes acne, what the science says about dietary approaches to reducing it, and what the most current treatments are. 

Resources:

Acne: A Disease of Western Civilization

Prevalence, severity, and severity risk factors of acne in high school pupils: a community-based study.

Our podcast on supplements

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If you've paid any attention to the news over the past year or so, you've likely seen stories of greedy capitalists gouging the vulnerable by hiking up the prices of their life-saving drugs.

But are the prices hikes all that bad?

Yes. Yes, they are. And we talk about that to day on 2 Docs Talk.

Resources:

JAMA on Drug Pricing

Our episode on Hep C

Our episode on Alzheimers

Our episode on Pricing Transparency

You'd think that something like screening for prostate cancer would be free of controversy, but that just isn't the case. The benefits and risks of screening have been hotly debated by different medical organizations over the years.

Today, 2 Docs Talk about how prostate screening and the various issues surrounding it. This is a topic every man should discuss with his physicians, and we hope this hepls you know what questions to ask when you do.

Resources:

Weiner AB, Matulewicz RS, Eggener SE, Schaeffer EM. Increasing incidence of metastatic prostate cancer in the United States (2004-2013). Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2016 Jul 19.]

AU Tacklind J, Macdonald R, Rutks I, Stanke JU, Wilt TJ. TI Serenoa repens for benign prostatic hyperplasia. SO Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;12:CD001423.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/prostate/hp/prostate-screening-pdq