February 5th, 2010
Podcast 73: How best to monitor patients on androgen-deprivation therapy for cardiovascular risks?
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A panel of the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and the American Urological Association issued a statement on androgen-deprivation therapy and cardiovascular risk. We’ve got an interview with the chair of the writing committee, Dr. Glenn Levine.
Interview-related links:
- Physician’s First Watch coverage of the statement
- Link to the statement, as published in Circulation
News-related links:
- Lancet retracts 1998 paper linking MMR vaccination and autism
- Use prefilled Sanofi Pasteur N1N1 vaccines before mid-February
- JAMA study on proteinuria
If you’d like to contact Clinical Conversations, call 1-617-440-4374 or write to jelia@jwatch.org
January 29th, 2010
Podcast 72: A conversation about two new drugs for multiple sclerosis.
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We’ve got Dr. William Carroll this week — we tried last week, but the 13-hour time difference between Boston and Perth just stymied me. Dr. Carroll speaks about his NEJM editorial concerning two new drugs for multiple sclerosis. Both are oral therapies that work to keep lymphocytes at bay in this disease.
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January 22nd, 2010
Podcast 71: We revisit, after a look at current clinical news, a conversation on the late clinical course of dementia.
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I tried arranging an interview across a 13-hour time difference, with no luck. We revisit, instead, an October conversation about the late clinical course of dementia.
First a look at the news.
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January 15th, 2010
Podcast 70: Considering the USPSTF breast-screening guidelines with your patients
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This is the podcast for January 15, 2010.
We have an interview on the impact of the USPSTF guidelines with two clinicians who study the best ways to communicate clearly with patients. I think you’ll like it.
You can reach me at jelia@jwatch.org or by calling 617-440-4374. If you like this podcast, there are many others in the archives, and they’re all free. I hope you find them useful.
News links:
Adult immunization schedule in MMWR
Platelet-rich plasma injections
Lack of evidence supporting rapid response teams
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January 8th, 2010
Podcast 69: Eating soy foods and survival after breast cancer
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I’ve been on vacation, and I hope that you’ve managed to sneak some time away as well.
In December, JAMA published an article associating increased survival after breast cancer with eating even modest amounts of soy food regularly. The work was done using a cohort in Shanghai, and the study’s first author agreed to an interview.
If you have comments (and there seems to have been more over the holidays, for some reason) please feel free to chime in. I’ll be better about evaluating them promptly for appropriateness.
You can also leave voice mail at 1-617-440-4374 and email me at jelia@jwatch.org.
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December 5th, 2009
Podcast 68: Change your approach to pharyngitis in adolescents and young adults.
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Dr. Robert Centor of the University of Alabama at Birmingham believes that the paradigm for treating pharyngitis in adolescents and young adults must change. Listen to our conversation and hear why.
Here are this week’s links:
Interview:
- Commentary Urges ‘Expanding the Diagnostic Paradigm of Pharyngitis’ in Young People
- Robert Centor’s blog — “Medrants”
News stories:
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