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Stay informed of the most relevant medical developments by subscribing to Clinical Conversations (http://podcasts.jwatch.org), from Journal Watch. This podcast features a round-up of the week's top medical stories, clinically-oriented interviews and listeners’ comments…in 30 minutes or less. Produced by the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal Watch (jwatch.org) delivers independent, practical, and concise information you can trust.
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Podcast 156: Using low-dose CT screening for lung cancer in defined populations — a conversation with Peter Bach | Dr. Peter Bach is the first author on a new JAMA analysis of the benefits and harms of using low-dose CT screening for lung cancer. ... | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 155: What’s wrong with U.S. healthcare and what will save it? | Dr. Arnold Relman, longtime observer of the U.S. healthcare system and editor emeritus of the New England Journal of Medicine, proposes two major reforms: First, ... | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 154: Treating heart failure’s hypercoagulable state — warfarin or aspirin? | Heart failure brings problems associated with hypercoagulation, such as stroke and sudden death. An international study followed some 2300 patients with heart failure (ejection fractions of ... | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 ... | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 152: Gum disease and atherosclerosis — evidence for an association, but not for a cause-and-effect | The American Heart Association's scientific statement on "Periodontal Disease and Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease" is likely to raise hackles among those offering treatments for gum disease ... | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 151: Most people above age 10 have at least some cross-reactive antibodies to variant influenza | Influenza A (H3N2)v -- a novel flu virus that emerged last summer and shows signs of being able to transmit itself from person to person ... | 4/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 150: Depression (and antidepressant use) after stroke or TIA | After stroke or transient ischemic attack, depression is more common than among the general population, and the risk for depression extends beyond the early time ... | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 149: High levels of white rice consumption seem linked to higher risks for type 2 diabetes | A BMJ meta-analysis suggests that people with the highest levels of white rice consumption are at increased risk for type 2 diabetes. The authors examined four ... | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 148: Smoking cessation during pregnancy is probably more effective with behavioral approaches than with relying on nico | In the largest study of its kind, UK researchers find that helping pregnant women to quit smoking until at least delivery isn't helped much by ... | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 147: Proof that colonoscopy with polypectomy saves lives | Everyone "knows" that colonoscopy reduces risks of death from colorectal cancer, but it's good to have your knowledge actually verified, and a new bit of ... | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 146: Cognitive impairment in primary care — screen or not? | Current guidelines find no compelling therapeutic benefit to screening for cognitive impairment and dementia in primary care. The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has ... | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 145: The Y chromosome and the possible role of a common variant in coronary disease in men. | Haplogroups -- who knew? Ancient variations in the Y chromosome form what's known as haplogroups, and haplogroup I is common in Europe, particularly so in ... | 2/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 144: Hip fractures, PPIs, and smoking history in postmenopausal women — increased risks | PPIs are back on our radar, and this time it's their regular use among postmenopausal women. A BMJ article examines data from the Nurses' Health Study ... | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 143: PPIs and asthma control — it doesn’t work in kids, either | Controlling asthma by the use of proton pump inhibitors apparently doesn't work any better in children than it does in adults. Yet the practice is ... | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 142: Really, why are you ordering that test? | The American College of Physicians wants to encourage high-value, cost-conscious care. And so they convened a consensus panel of physicians to list tests that they ... | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 141: Clinically apparent atrial fibrillation increases stroke risk; does subclinical afib do the same? | Yes, it apparently does. An international study in the New England Journal of Medicine monitored subclinical atrial fibrillation among some 2600 patients who'd just received an ... | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 140: A new edition of the ACP’s manual on ethics for clinicians is available online | The new edition of the American College of Physicians Ethics Manual has just been released, and at 30 pages, it's well worth the reading time. It's ... | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 139: CPAP for obstructive sleep apnea seems to improve some measures of the metabolic syndrome | A double-blind crossover study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 3 months of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in patients with moderate ... | 12/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 138: Why do kids in the U.S. get so many inappropriate broad-spectrum antibiotics? | When kids go for ambulatory care, they get an antibiotic prescribed about 20% of the time. Half of those antibiotics are of the broad-spectrum variety. What ... | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 137: Clamping the umbilical cord — what’s the big rush? | A study from Sweden shows that immediate clamping of the cord at birth isn't such a great idea from the standpoint of the baby's iron ... | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 136: Aspirin lowers colorectal risks in Lynch syndrome — what are the implications for everyone else? | Last week's Lancet article on the effect of aspirin on risks for colorectal cancer in patients with Lynch syndrome -- a group at particularly high ... | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 135: HPV vaccine effective against anal intraepithelial neoplasia in MSM. Now, how to get it to young men before they | The quadrivalent HPV vaccine was effective at preventing anal intraepithelial neoplasias in men who have sex with men, it was reported last week. The larger question ... | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 134: How (and why) surveillance in Barrett’s esophagus should change | Barrett's esophagus no longer carries the promise of esophageal cancer that it seemed to, but it bears watching, especially in the first year after the ... | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 133: Over 50 years later, DES’s adverse effects continue | A cluster of clear-cell adenocarcinomas of the v****a in young women led to the realization some 40 years ago that almost all their mothers had ... | 10/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 132: In discussing a child’s overweight with parents, words matter | Words really do matter, and for clinicians discussing a child's overweight with parents, words can hurt, stigmatize, and discourage parents from taking the right actions. In ... | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 131: Measuring the effect of the rotavirus vaccine program on kids in the U.S. | Vaccines work, and here's more evidence. The quadrivalent rotavirus vaccine introduced in 2006 has dramatically lowered hospitalizations for rotavirus-related diarrhea among children under age 5, ... | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 130: If you’re a clinician concerned about health costs, wash your hands — don’t just wring them | Health Affairs has a study in which a few simple, but rigorously followed patient-care procedures in a pediatric ICU dropped infection rates, mortality, lengths of ... | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 129: Non-aspirin NSAIDs are associated, as a class, with spontaneous abortion in a Quebec study | Last week the Canadian Medical Association Journal published an analysis of data from the Quebec Pregnancy Registry showing that the use of any non-aspirin NSAID ... | 9/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 128: Bleeding patients, inadvertently, into anemia happens more often than you might think | An article in Archives of Internal Medicine examines what's called "diagnostic blood loss" -- the loss of blood through phlebotomy and not hemorrhage. The effect ... | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast 127: Why QALYs matter | This time we talk with Dr. Katia Noyes, first author on a study of the cost-effectiveness of disease-modifying drugs in multiple sclerosis. If you don't ... | 8/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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