This week’s topics include the mortality benefit of whole grains, changes to primary care practices that don’t seem to have helped, weight loss drugs, and reducing cardiovascular outcomes in people with diabetes and kidney compromise. Program notes: 0:32 Whole grain consumption 1:34 Compared the extremes of intake 2:32 Decrease by 15-18% 3:10 Weight loss drugs […]

This week’s topics include obesity trends in the US, the benefits of calorie restriction, a look at the Mediterranean diet, and syphilis screening guidelines. Program notes: 0:45 USPSTF recommendations for syphilis screening 1:47 One more thing for the STI panel 2:47 Not as much safe sex going on 3:07 Trends in obesity 4:06 6% of […]

This week’s topics include Zika and microcephaly, getting a handle on HIV in Africa, the impact of mortality data reporting, and suicides among US military. Program notes: 0:34 Suicidality among Army enlistees 1:38 Likely in second month of enlistment 2:36 More common in women 3:15 Getting a handle on HIV infection in Africa 4:15 Will […]

This week’s topics include metabolic surgery, talking with patients about advanced cancer, sodium in those with kidney disease, and blood pressure in the elderly. Program notes: 0:34 Blood pressure lowering in elderly 1:31 Blood pressure below 120 2:34 Intensive required one more medicine 3:35 Long term examination of treatment 4:01 Sodium and kidney disease 5:02 […]

This week’s topics include tai chi for knee osteoarthritis, silent MIs, improved lung cancer screening, and physicians inquiries about guns. Program notes: 0:41 Guns in the home and physician inquiry 1:44 Individual risk factors 2:44 Would death be avoided if criteria applied? 3:41 Knee osteoarthritis management 4:41 Tai chi two times per week for an […]

This week’s topics include symptoms in smokers, long term impact of caring for chronically ill, swaddling and SIDS, and CO2 and colonoscopy. Program notes: 0:49 Carbon dioxide and colonoscopy 1:50 CO2 absorbed much faster 2:50 Modest new equipment 3:38 Swaddling and SIDS 4:41 Increases rate of SIDS 5:42 Risk much higher if the baby is […]

This week’s topics include dementia and depression, complications of implanted defibrillators, the most common emergency surgeries, and treatment of insomnia. Program notes: 0:35 Treatment of insomnia 1:35 Medications only for short term 2:32 Has to be provided outside physician’s office 3:14 Implantable cardiac defibrillator complications 4:14 Inform patients of potential 5:15 Depression and dementia 6:18 […]

This week’s topics include asthma and under the tongue immunotherapy, reducing C. dif infections, safety of smoking cessation drugs, and antibiotic stewardship. Program notes: 0:39 Safety of smoking cessation medicines 1:40 None increased risk of psychiatric problems 2:40 How about combinations? 3:07 Sublingual immunotherapy 4:08 In people with moderate to severe asthma 5:09 Limited FDA […]

This week’s topics include reducing suicide, CABG plus medicines for some people, risk following TIA, and metformin first for type 2 diabetes. Program notes: 0:32 Look at a multitude of strategies to prevent suicide 1:32 16 different services implemented 2:32 Done in UK 3:32 How is care provided? 3:44 People who have CABG plus medicine […]

This week’s topics include teenage BMI and cardiovascular mortality, income and death, five star ratings for hospitals, and daily aspirin use. Program notes: 0:38 Hospital ratings and outcomes 1:35 About a fifth received two stars or one star 2:36 Socioeconomic status of individuals 3:18 Income and mortality 4:20 Access to healthcare didn’t correlate 5:20 Focus […]