November 19th, 2010
Podcast 109: An overview of the American Heart Association meeting, with cardiologist Harlan Krumholz
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We’ve got Dr. Harlan Krumholz, editor of Journal Watch Cardiology and CardioExchange, to guide us through a week’s worth of the top research presented at the American Heart Association in Chicago.
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November 9th, 2010
Podcast 108: CT screening for lung cancer
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We talk with Dr. Denise Aberle, a principal investigator on the CT-for-lung-cancer-screening trial that the National Cancer Institute stopped last week. NCI stopped the trial when the trial’s monitoring committee found a 20% decrease in lung cancer deaths among those randomized to CT screening.
Listen in for a fascinating look at what happens when trials stop — and most especially for the implications of this one.
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November 5th, 2010
Podcast 107: Hospital falls and how to reduce them
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Our conversation is with Dr. Patricia Dykes of Boston’s Partners HealthCare. She’s first author on a paper published in JAMA earlier this week. In her study of fall prevention in hospitals, she and her team randomized eight medical units in four Boston-area hospitals either to their usual standards of fall prevention or to use of the “fall-prevention toolkit” — an intervention customized for each patient. The results are encouraging.
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- Radiology article on CT screening for lung cancer (free)
- National Cancer Institute’s news release on the CT study
- Duloxetine approved for chronic musculoskeletal pain
- BMJ article on vitamin E’s stroke hazards (free)
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October 22nd, 2010
Podcast 105: NSAIDs revisited
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In the face of scheduling problems we’ve had to postpone this week’s interview and use, instead, one from early this summer. It’s on NSAIDs, and if you missed it, it’s worth a listen. If you didn’t miss it, then join us again next week, but give a listen to the news round-up before you head off to rake leaves….
The pace of suggestions and comments has quickened, and I’m grateful. Please keep them coming to jelia@jwatch.org.
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- Stroke guidelines as published in Stroke
- First Watch summary of the guidelines plus links to hypertension & diabetes care standards
- FDA alert on prostate cancer drugs used for androgen deprivation therapy
- NEJM paper on dabigatran from August 2009
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October 8th, 2010
Podcast 104: Reassurance on clopidogrel and omeprazole.
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We welcome Dr. Danielle Bowen Scheurer to our conversational team this week She’s a hospitalist at the Medical University of South Carolina and an associate editor of Physician’s First Watch.
Our guest is Dr. Deepak Bhatt, who has just published some reassuring results on omeprazole’s putative interaction with clopidogrel in the New England Journal of Medicine.
If you’d like to suggest topics or ways to improve this podcast, we’re all ears. Drop me a line at jelia@jwatch.org — thank you.
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