Clinical Conversations

January 14th, 2022

Podcast 280: MIS-C after Covid-19 in adolescents — can vaccination prevent it?

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (or MIS-C) is a serious complication of Covid-19 infection, usually showing up about a month after infection. CDC worked with several hospitals around the U.S. to discern whether vaccination in adolescents would lessen the likelihood of this outcome. A vaccine hadn’t yet been approved, as it now is, for kids between […]

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April 30th, 2012

Podcast 153: Type 2 diabetes in young people — tough going on the treatment front

About half of adolescents with type 2 diabetes fail treatment with metformin alone within a few years. Things go somewhat better with metformin plus an intensive lifestyle intervention, and better still with the addition of rosiglitazone to metformin — however even the addition of the second drug leads to treatment failure about 40% of the time. […]

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