Clinical Conversations

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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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October 06, 2008Podcast 14: News roundup and interview with Dr. Michael Hochman about his JAMA paper on how the news media cover drug research.
The week ending Oct. 3, 2008, was relatively slow for medical news, but crammed with news of every other sort. This week’s interview features Michael Hochman, a third-year resident in internal medicine who has just published a paper on how the media cover research on new drugs. It seems they don’t make a habit of reporting funding sources.
Journal Watch links:
AHA Recommends Screening Patients with Coronary Heart Disease for Depression
News Media Coverage of Drug Trials Faulted
Journal links:
Circulation article on screening
Simple screening questionnaire
Interview links:
JAMA abstract
Science link:
Scientific illustration
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September 27, 2008Podcast 13: News and interview with Dr. Stephen Hetz, co-editor of “War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq” and director of medical education at Beaumont...
This week’s podcast includes an interview with Stephen Hetz, co-editor of the recently published book “War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Journal Watch links
Thrombolysis for Stroke Within 4.5 Hours Is Safe and Effective
Extending the Time Frame for Alteplase: The ECASS III Trial
Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Diabetic Pregnant Women
Maternal Influenza Vaccination Reduces Infant Influenza, Febrile Respiratory Illness
Maternal Influenza Immunization Protects Infants
Novel Approach to Infant Influenza
Survival After MI Better with Drug-Eluting Than with Bare-Metal Stents
Story links
NEJM alteplase abstract
NEJM alteplase editorial
BMJ glucose monitoring article
NEJM on maternal influenza vaccination
NEJM stents abstract
Interview link
Ordering “War Surgery” through the Government Printing Office
New Yorker link
Finnegan article online
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September 06, 2008Podcast 12: News and interview with Dr. Anne Schuchat, Director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
This week’s podcast includes an interview with Anne Schuchat about U.S. childhood immunization rates, along with the usual news roundup.
Journal Watch links
Physical Activity May Boost Cognitive Function in Older Adults
Vytorin (Simvastatin + Ezetimibe) Shows Little Benefit for Aortic Stenosis
New Questions and a Few Answers on Vytorin and Cancer Risks
Vytorin: Navigating Uncharted Waters
Omega-3s Improve Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients, Rosuvastatin Does Not
Exercise and cognitive impairment
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/903/3
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/9/1027
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/300/9/1077
Vytorin’s risks and efficacy
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMoa0804602
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMsa0806603
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/NEJMe0807200v1
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/902/1
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/902/2
http://cardiology.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/902/2
Omega-3 versus rosuvastatin in heart failure
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608612398/abstract
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608612404/abstract
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/903/1
Dr. Anne Schuchat interview links
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5735a1.htm
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August 09, 2008Podcast 11: News and interview with Dr. Irene Hall, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC
This week we talk with the CDC’s Irene Hall about the finding of an increased incidence of HIV infection in the U.S.
Journal Watch links
Do Not Screen for Prostate Cancer in Men 75 or Older, USPSTF Advises
Specialties Disagree on Need for ECG Evaluations Before Prescribing ADHD Drugs
Common Fertility Treatments of Little Benefit in Unexplained Infertility
Prostate screening
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/805/1
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/149/3/185
ADHD and ECG screening
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/122/2/451
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/117/18/2407
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/804/1
Infertility
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/808/1
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/aug07_2/a716
Dr. Hall interview
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/300/5/520
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/health/03aids.html
http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2008/r080803.htm
Acanthamoeba polyphaga mamavirus
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080806/full/454677a.html
http://www.bartleby.com/100/211.5.html#txt1
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August 02, 2008Podcast 10: News and interview with Dr. Michel Ovize, Professor of Physiology and Cardiology, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon
This week, after our usual news roundup, Michel Ovize is our guest, and he talks about preventing reperfusion injury during interventions for myocardial infarction. It all has to do with mitochondrial pores.
Journal Watch links
New NAMS Position Statement on Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy
Cyclosporine Attenuates Reperfusion Injury During Stenting
Does Cyclosporine Protect Against Myocardial Reperfusion Injury?
Pregestational diabetes
http://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(08)00639-X/abstract
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18216293?dopt=Abstract
Encephalitis
http://infectious-diseases.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/730/3
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18582201?dopt=Abstract
Postmenopausal hormone therapy
http://www.menopause.org/PSHT08.pdf
http://womens-health.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/731/3
Professor Ovize interview
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/5/473
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/359/5/518
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/731/2
http://cardiology.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/730/1
Fit mice
http://www.cell.com/
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July 26, 2008Podcast 9: News and interview with Prof. Robert Hogg, British Columbia Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver.
This week, Robert Hogg gives us his perspective on the increasing longevity seen with HIV infection in high-income countries.
Journal Watch links
Lipid Screening in Childhood – New Recommendations from the AAP
Consensus Statement Issued for Managing Prediabetes
Medicare to Reimburse Doctors Extra for Electronic Prescriptions
Lipid screening in children
http://pediatrics.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/716/1
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/122/1/198
Corticosteroid insufficiency
http://hospital-medicine.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/721/1
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18496365?dopt=Abstract
Managing prediabetes
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/724/1
http://www.aace.com/meetings/consensus/hyperglycemia/hyperglycemia.pdf
Medicare reimbursement
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/723/3
http://www.hhs.gov/news/facts/eprescribing.html
Shoot Out the Lights
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121692767218982013.html
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July 19, 2008Podcast 8: News and interview with Dr. Mary Tinetti, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale
We talk with Mary Tinetti about falls in the elderly and how to prevent them.
Journal Watch links
It’s Safe to Eat Tomatoes Again, FDA Says
U.S. Measles Hits 11-Year High – Most Cases Were Unvaccinated
Which Lipids Mark MI Risk Best?
Elderly Benefit from Joint Replacement, but Many Never Get the Option
FDA and Tomatoes
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/718/3
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01862.html
Measles
http://www.cdc.gov/Features/MeaslesUpdate/
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/714/1
Apolipoprotein B/A1 ratio.
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/718/2
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608610764/abstract
Joint replacement in the elderly
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/715/1
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/168/13/1430
Dr. Tinetti interview
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/3/252
http://www.fallprevention.org/
http://nihseniorhealth.gov/
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July 12, 2008Podcast 7: Interview with Dr. Nelson Adams, President, National Medical Association
Nelson Adams, president of the National Medical Association, joins us to discuss the American Medical Association’s apology to black physicians for its past efforts to exclude them from membership.
Journal Watch links
AMA Apologizes for Past Discrimination Against African-Americans
FDA Calls for Boxed Warning on Fluoroquinolones
Treating Hypertension Only Marginally Reduces Dementia Risk in the Very Elderly
HER2 Gene Test for Patients with Breast Cancer Approved
American Medical Association apology
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/711/1
Fluoroquinolones
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/709/1
Hypertension in the elderly
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/708/1
Herceptin
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/709/3
“The Americans”
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Frank-Americans-Jack-Kerouac/dp/386521584X
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July 05, 2008Podcast 6: News and interview with Dr. Luigi Ferrucci, NIH Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD
Luigi Ferrucci joins us to discuss the prognostic value of subtle neurologic abnormalities in the elderly.
Journal Watch links
Mortality Rates During First 5 Years of HIV Infection Similar to Rates in General Population
Survival With and Without HIV: Getting Closer
Management of Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes in Men vs. Women
Survival trends in HIV
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/702/1
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/1/51
http://aids-clinical-care.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/701/1
Management of non-ST-elevation coronary syndromes
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/702/2
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/300/1/71
http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/50/7/e1
Voyager II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2
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June 28, 2008Podcast 5: News and interview with Dr. Jack Hirsh, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Medicine, McMaster and Founding Director of the Henderson Research Cent...
Jack Hirsh discusses the American College of Chest Physicians’ new guidelines on antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy.
Home blood pressure monitoring
http://general-medicine.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/624/2
Depression and diabetes
http://psychiatry.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/623/2
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/618/1
Stroke risk
http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/624/1
Rivaroxaban
http://oncology-hematology.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/625/1
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