Medscape Family Medicine Podcast
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Podcast Description
Latest medical news and features from Medscape Family Medicine
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EMR: Efficiency Mauled Repeatedly | Dr. John Marshall says that his efficiency as a clinician is undermined as he spends more and more time entering data into the EMR with less and less administrative support. Is there a way out? | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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After 13 Years, Still No Clear Benefit From PSA Screening | Dr. Gerald Chodak reviews the latest analysis of data from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, including criticisms of contamination. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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High Doses of Vitamin B and Diabetic Nephropathy: Any Good? | This F1000 commentary discusses a study on whether lowering homocysteine levels with high doses of vitamin B protects against diabetic nephropathy. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drug Shortages: A Problem for Everyone | Drug shortages occur in all disease states and affect all populations. Dr. Maris discusses this serious and growing issue. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Let Science Guide Us' on Prostate Screening | Dr. Gerald Chodak encourages clinicians to embrace the lessons offered thus far from the PLCO trial. | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Onset of Narcolepsy Following H1N1 Seasonal Peak | Is narcolepsy a consequence of H1N1 infection or H1N1 vaccination? | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Prescribe 2 BP Drugs Out of the Gate | Based on an Italian study or real-life experience, Henry Black recommends starting out with 2 drugs for most high-risk patients who have hypertension. | 1/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Checking for PAD and Saving Thousands of Lives | Henry Black, MD discusses a study that suggests we are woefully negligent in diagnosing and treating peripheral artery disease, which could significantly reduce morbidity and mortality. | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Give a Kidney for Christmas! Should We Pay Donors? | Jeffrey Berns discusses the issues of altruistic and paid kidney donations and whether either or both are desirable. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mental Health Care: The Times They Are a-Changin' | Medical homes. Accountable care organizations. Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman discusses how psychiatry fits into these and other evolving healthcare models. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Exercise for Life: Easier Than You Think | Sandra Fryhofer, MD, talks about a study that suggests exercising as little as 15 minutes a day can be lifesaving. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BP Beat-to-Beat and the Drugs That Reduce Variability | Henry Black, MD, talks about the hazards with blood pressure variability and drug combinations that may improve it. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dosing Errors in Kidney Patients: A Common UK-US Enemy | In this UK-US Skype conversation, Lynda Szczech and Donal O'Donoghue discuss their common enemy -- system problems and dosing errors in patient with kidney disease. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Latest on LVADs: What All Docs Need to Know | Ileana L. Piña, MD talks to James Kirklin about mechanical assist devices and how LVADs have graduated from being transition devices for transplant patients to long term therapy. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Are You Monitoring Diabetes Patients' Kidney Function? | Dr. Per-Henrik Groop, President of the European Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group, warns clinicians to monitor kidney function in patients with type 2 diabetes and to adjust their diabetes medications as needed. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cellphones and Cancer: An Update | Dr. Hans-Cristoph Diener discusses new data on the possible correlation between mobile phone use and malignancy. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Does Your Patient Really Have Fibromyalgia? | Dr. Charles Argoff reviews conditions that can mimic fibromyalgia. Differential diagnosis is key. | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NSAIDs and Chronic Kidney Disease | The CDC explains why you should be asking all your patients about NSAID use. | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Find and Cut Wasted Time From Each Patient Visit | Doctors can speed up the patient visit without rushing or sacrificing quality. This lets a physician see more patients each day. Here's how to analyze the patient visit workflow. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Hating Your Nose Pathologic? | Patients seek rhinoplasty because they dislike the shape or size or their noses. But is this pathologic? | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fish Oil and Vitamin D at ASN 2011: Good and Not Good | Jeffrey Berns doesn't introduce himself, but he does comment on 2 studies that came out of ASN 2011. Paracalcitol was disappointing in CKD patients but fish oil showed interesting results in dialysis. | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Renal Denervation and SYMPLICITY HTN-3: What to Expect | George Bakris, MD, talks to Raymond R. Townsend, MD, about renal denervation, SIMPLICITY-3, and the definitions of resistant and refractory hypertension. | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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AIM-HIGH Ends Day 3 Wrap-Up at AHA 2011 | Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD, reviews day 3 at American Heart Association 2011, with a focus on the AIM-HIGH results, which have caused significant debate. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Major Advances in Fibromyalgia | Pathophysiologic breakthroughs, the role of depression, and other fibromyalgia highlights from this year's American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nondrug Therapies in ADHD | Dr. Robert Findling discusses the most effective nonpharmacologic therapies for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cocktails Used in PCI: Day 1 at AHA 2011 | Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD, reviews day 1 at the American Heart Association meeting, with a focus on the drugs used to prevent complications associated with percutaneous coronary intervention. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Boosting Profits: How to Increase Staff Efficiency | Sometimes the wrong staff members are inadvertently doing the wrong things. Hidden office inefficiencies can cost a practice money. Here's how to solve that problem. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Coming Wave of Infectious Disease Rapid Diagnostics | One-hour pathogen identification, 3-hour quantification, and while-you-wait self diagnosis are a few of the innovations in rapid ID diagnostics foreseen by John Bartlett, MD. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Problem With Drug Shortages | How is the FDA responding to actual and potential drug shortages? | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The NICE Hypertension Guidelines: A Monitoring Revolution | George Bakris, MD, talks to Rajiv Agarwal, MD, via Skype about the NICE hypertension guidelines and the critical practice-changing components. | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Surgical Fires: How They Start and How to Prevent Them | In this FDA peer-to-peer video Stephanie Joseph and Dr. Kenneth Silverstein discuss his experience with surgical fires, which led to important and innovative improvements in preventive systems. | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What's Next in the Fight Against Noncommunicable Diseases? | Noncommunicable diseases kill 36 million people each year. The UN Summit on NCDs was an important first step but what's next in the fight against diabetes, cancer, heart, and lung diseases? | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fighting Noncommunicable Diseases: The Tobacco Component | Tobacco is one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide. Learn what the World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative is doing to combat tobacco use globally. | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Tool Guides Patients in Prostate Cancer Decisions | An interactive, online decision aid may help patients with clinically localized prostate cancer better understand their disease, but does it go far enough in explaining the treatment options? Dr. Gerald Chodak offers his thoughts. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Infant Cataracts: Screening in Primary Care | Infant cataracts should be treated in the first 6 weeks of life. Detection of these relatively rare congenital anomalies requires the best screening by primary care providers. | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Duration of Bisphosphonate Use and the US Food and Drug Administration | What does the recent US FDA vote regarding the need to clarify duration of bisphosphonate treatment mean for your patients? Dr. Andrew Kaunitz offers his recommendations. | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CCBs and Alzheimer Disease: Clues From China | In the last commentary of a 7-part series, Murray Epstein talks with Jiguang Wang about the exciting studies suggesting a positive benefit of CCBs on dementia. | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Noncompliant vs Noncooperative Patients: Treat Them Differently? | An ethics expert says that patients who refuse to adhere to recommended care differ from those who want to but fall short of their good intentions. The way you deal with each could affect the results. | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Risk for Congenital Heart Defects | Knowing who is at risk, counseling appropriately, and screening newborns could go a long way toward reducing the morbidity and mortality of congenital heart defects. | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lower Hospital Subsidies vs Lower Resident Hours: Now What? | Henry Black, MD, provides his opinion on the critical issue of the competing forces of reduced subsidies for teaching hospitals, reduced hours for residents, and PCP shortages. | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Proton Pump Inhibitors and Bone Fractures: What's the Risk? | Dr. David Johnson offers his perspective on a recent systematic review and meta-analysis that evaluated the potential risk for bone fractures associated with proton pump inhibitor use. | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nondipping and Microalbuminuria: Another China Challenge | In the fifth commentary in this 7-part series, Jiguang Wang talks to Murray Epstein about his concern of the overuse of short- vs long-term antihypertensives. | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Congenital Heart Disease: When Kids Grow Up | Kids with congenital heart disease increasingly survive until school age and beyond. But do they thrive? Dr. Wernovsky examines long-term neurodevelopmental concerns with these children. | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Allergic to Eggs? It's OK to Get a Flu Shot | In response to the release of this fall's flu shot recommendations, Sandra Fryhofer, MD, confirms the use of vaccinations in people with egg allergies. | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Can PCPs and Pain Docs Curb Opioid Abuse? | Dr. Charles Argoff discusses a new SAMHSA report on the growing problem of prescription drug abuse in the United States. How can PCPs and pain specialists help address the problem? | 8/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The JAMA Study on Low Sodium Risk: A Clue From China | In the fourth commentary in this 7-part series, Murray Epstein discusses with Jiguang Wang a possible reason for the JAMA study results that found risk with low sodium intake. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getting Older, Getting Fatter: Here's Why | Henry Black, MD, discusses a well-conducted study that explores the reasons why we gain weight as we age. | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Best Diuretic: Is it Finally Clear Now? | Henry Black discusses the decades-long question about the best diuretic: Is it chlorthalidone or hydrochlorothiazide? | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Menopausal Hot Flashes: Are SSRIs a Treatment Option? | More women are seeking nonhormonal therapy for menopausal vasomotor symptoms. Dr. JoAnn Manson discusses the results of a trial that studied the efficacy of the antidepressant escitalopram for hot flashes. | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Recurrence of Major Depression in Adolescents | A study assesses the recurrence of major depression in adolescents, even after treatment. | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 50 Episodes |
