PodMed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

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 […]

Blood pressure lowering meds and fracture, LASIK surgery outcomes, treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm, and measles and mumps outbreaks. Program notes: 0:33 LASIK outcomes 1:33 Glares or haloes after surgery 2:31 Three or four times more likely to complain online 3:10 Measles and mumps outbreaks 4:10 Much higher than previously considered 5:10 Pertussis and whooping […]

This week’s topics include an alternative to statins, which vessel to use for bypass, NSAID risk, and genes versus lifestyle with regard to cardiovascular disease. Program notes: 0:48 Heart risk of NSAIDs 1:45 About 2.5% experienced heart attack, stroke 2:42 Short term low dose use is reassuring 3:03 What vessels to use for bypass 4:03 […]

This week’s topics include a new tool for predicting cardiovascular event risk, iPads for amblyopia, an antibody for non-small cell lung cancer, and high dose statins. Program notes: 0:42 Call out to a listener 1:30 Best way to treat lazy eye 2:30 Using Apple games that require both eyes 3:32 Only effective if child uses […]