Clinical Conversations

By NEJM Group

From NEJM Journal Watch, this podcast features lively interviews, concise summaries, and expert commentary that busy clinicians need to stay current and improve patient care.... more

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November 12, 2009Podcast 64: A conversation regarding on-pump versus off-pump CABG with Frederick Grover.
Avoiding use of the heart-lung machine during coronary artery bypass grafting was supposed to lower neurocognitive problems and other complications after the procedure. A large randomized trial finds otherwise. We’ve got a conversation with one of the investigators, Frederick Grover.
To contact us, call 1-617-440-4374. You can write to me at [email protected].
This week’s links:
News links:
Primary Care Visit Length Increasing
H1N1 Update: CDC Releases ‘Quick Facts’ for Providers on Antiviral Drug Use
Aspirin for Primary Prevention ‘Should Not Be Routinely Initiated’
Interview links:
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: On Pump or Off Pump?
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November 02, 2009Podcast 63: A conversation about the adverse cardiometabolic effects of second-generation antipsychotic drugs in young patients with Christoph Correll
There are consequences of even short-term use of some drugs. Take the second-generation antipsychotics. A 3-month course can cause weight gain of almost 20 pounds in young people, according to a JAMA study. We interview Dr. Christoph Correll about the implications.
To reach Clinical Conversations, you can call 1-617-440-4374 or email me at [email protected].
This weeks news and interview links:
News:
Diabetes Prevention Interventions Have Long-Lasting Effects
Antibiotic Prophylaxis Lowers Risk for UTIs in Predisposed Kids
(Some of) You Are Feeling Very Sleepy…
Interview:
Atypical Antipsychotics Associated with Weight Gain and Other Adverse Metabolic Effects in Kids
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October 25, 2009Podcast 62: A conversation with Jane Kim about cost-effectiveness of vaccinating women with HPV vaccine after age 30.
The FDA seems set to announce a decision about vaccinating women past age 25 for HPV. A paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine this week indicates that such a strategy wouldn’t be cost-effective.
Don’t be put off by “cost-effectiveness” or by the fact that we actually discuss “QALY”s. It’s all good. We’ve got Harvard School of Public Health’s Jane Kim to guide your interviewer through the QALY thicket, and she’s a great guide.
Contact us at 1-617-440-4374 or write to [email protected].
This week’s links:
NEWS:
Aldosterone Antagonists Underused in Heart Failure
ACP Issues Guidelines on Hormonal Testing and Pharmacologic Management of Erectile Dysfunction
Ketorolac for Injection Recalled
Intensified BP Control Benefits Kids with Chronic Kidney Disease
INTERVIEW:
Adding HPV Vaccination to U.S. Cervical Screening Isn’t Cost-Effective After Age 30
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October 16, 2009Podcast 61: A conversation about end-stage dementia.
We talk with Susan Mitchell, a Harvard researcher who set out to characterize the final clinical stages of advanced dementia. There are some surprises — namely, the benefit of clear communications with patients and their families (which, come to think of it, shouldn’t come as much of a surprise at all).
Talk with us at 1-617-440-4374 or write to [email protected].
This week’s links:
Interview:
Advanced Dementia’s Course
News summaries:
Prophylactic Acetaminophen Reduces Immunogenicity of Childhood Vaccines
Nursing Home Residents See Marked Declines in Functional Status After Starting Dialysis
Minimally Invasive vs. Open Radical Prostatectomy
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October 10, 2009Podcast 60: Weight loss in type 2 diabetes benefits obstructive sleep apnea — a conversation with Prof. Gary Foster
It’s been treated as fact for a long time, but now there are data to prove it: weight loss in type 2 diabetes does ameliorate obstructive sleep apnea. Gary Foster of Temple University has an ongoing study of some 250 patients, and he’s just presented data on the first year of an anticipated 4-year follow-up. Listen in.
The gift deadline for our survey has been extended. The analysts want more data (don’t they always?), and so if you take the survey you’ll get a $5 gift certificate from Amazon. See the notice just above (or below) this text on the website for information. I don’t imagine they will extend the deadline much past the end of October, so please unload all your opinions upon us soonest.
If you’d rather do that informally and directly, you can always dial 1-617-440-4374 or contact me at [email protected].
This week’s links:
Interview — Beneficial Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients with Diabetes
News — H1N1 Update: CDC Releases 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Schedules
A Third of Patients with Chronic Back Pain Recover Within a Year
FDA Approves Intrauterine Device for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
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October 02, 2009Podcast 59: A conversation about bacterial coinfection in 2009 H1N1 flu deaths with Dianna Blau of the CDC
Early in the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, it was thought that bacterial coinfection was rare, but now that’s been shown to be untrue. Dr. Dianna Blau, one of the principal contributors to a study of coinfections in 77 fatal cases of 2009 H1N, is our guest.
This week’s interview links:
H1N1 Update: Bacterial Coinfection in H1N1-Related Deaths
CDC guidance on use of pneumococcal vaccine in H1N1 pandemic
IDSA/ATS guidelines
This week’s news links:
Benefits of Treating Mild Gestational Diabetes
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy Linked to Psychotic Symptoms in Children Years Later
Beneficial Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients with Diabetes
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September 29, 2009Podcast 58: A repeat of the July 31 interview with the CDC’s Denise Jamieson on treating pregnant women who have suspected 2009 H1N1.
Pregnant women are at greater risk for flu complications. This week, we repeat a conversation with a CDC researcher who’d just published a paper in Lancet urging prompt treatment with antivirals, even in the face of pending lab results. Contact us at 1-617-440-4374. This week’s links:
In Pregnancy, Treat Suspected H1N1 Promptly Without Awaiting Test Results
Maternal Use of Sertaline, Citalopram Linked to Septal Heart Defects in Offspring
HIV Vaccine Shows Unexpected, if Limited, Success
Prostate-Specific Antigen Doesn’t Measure Up as a Screening Test
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September 21, 2009Podcast 57: Treating community-acquired pneumonia according to the guidelines
When treated according to 2007 IDSA/ATS guidelines, community-acquired pneumonia is a less dangerous disease. You need to administer only 10 guideline-compliant treatments to elderly people, according to one estimate, in order to save a life. A good deal, no? We have the authors of two papers on the benefits of compliance as our guests this week. Their studies were published in the September 14 edition of Archives of Internal Medicine.
(A reminder to take the survey, please, if you haven’t already.)
This week’s interview links:
Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Guideline-Compliant Treatment Is Better
IDSA/ATS guidelines
This week’s news links:
Haemophilus Influenzae B Vaccine Recommendations
FDA Calls for Boxed Warning on Promethazine Hydrochloride Injection
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September 12, 2009Podcast 56: A conversation with two JAMA staffers on their research into “ghost” authorship and “honorary” authorship in the principal medical journal...
We’ve seen research into this area before — 18 months ago, in fact. (We interviewed Joseph Ross back then in Podcast #2.) This time we interview Joseph Wislar, a survey-research specialist at JAMA, and Annette Flanagin, its managing deputy editor. They’ve just presented the abstracted results of a survey on ghost and honorary authorship that encompasses hundreds of articles from the principal medical journals.
If you would like to comment, give us a call and leave a message at 1-617-440-4374 or drop me a note at [email protected].
This week’s links:
Barack Obama speech transcript
H1N1 Update: Early Results on Vaccine Indicate One Dose May Be Sufficient for Most Groups
FDA Advisers: HPV Vaccine Should Be Approved for Use in Boys, Young Men
New York Times story on “ghostwriting” in the principal medical journals
Link to last year’s interview with Joseph Ross
Physician’s First Watch coverage
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September 04, 2009Podcast 55: A conversation with Prof. Gilles Montalescot about his JAMA paper on immediate versus delayed intervention in non-ST-segment elevation acu...
French researchers find that in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome, delaying intervention until the next day does not affect the occurrence of death, MI, or the need for urgent revascularization by the one-month mark. We caught up with the study’s first author in Paris.
If you want access to earlier podcasts, you’ve come to the right place if you’re reading this at http://podcasts.jwatch.org. If you’d like to leave a note of delight or dismay, 1-617-440-4374 is the place to do so — or via email to me at [email protected].
This week’s news and interview links:
Immediate vs. Delayed Intervention in Non-ST-Segment Elevation ACS
2009 H1N1 Update: Childhood Deaths; Two-Dose Vaccine Likely; N95 Respirators
Nonsurgical Treatment for Dupuytren Contracture with Collagenase
Dabigatran at Least as Effective as Warfarin in Patients with Afib
Ticagrelor Superior to Clopidogrel in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes
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FAQs about Clinical Conversations:

How many episodes does Clinical Conversations have?

The podcast currently has 304 episodes available.