October 8th, 2010
Podcast 104: Reassurance on clopidogrel and omeprazole.
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 […]
May 2nd, 2010
Podcast 85: B vitamins lower homocysteine levels, so why don’t they retard the progression of diabetic nephropathy?
A surprise finding: homocysteine is supposed to be a factor in vascular inflammation, but lowering hyperhomocysteinemia in patients with diabetic nephropathy actually accelerated the decline of their GFRs. What gives? We have a conversation with Dr. J. David Spence, whose results were just published in JAMA. Interview-related link: JAMA paper on the effect of B vitamins on diabetic […]
April 16th, 2010
Podcast 83: An interview by CardioExchange’s editors on the COURAGE study
This week’s conversation introduces you to CardioExchange, a joint effort by Journal Watch and the New England Journal of Medicine to create an online community of clinicians interested in cardiovascular diseases. Two of CardioExchange’s editors, Dr. Richard Lange and Dr. L. David Hillis, interview Dr. William Boden of the COURAGE study, and Dr. Gregg Stone, an […]
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