Medscape Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Podcast
By Medscape
To listen to an audio podcast, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to download and subscribe to podcasts.
Podcast Description
Latest medical news and features from Medscape Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Lung Cancer: New Drugs, Emerging Therapies | Dr. Mark Kris highlights new developments in lung cancer -- including targeted therapies for small cell carcinoma and promising immunotherapies -- to be presented at ASCO® 2012. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
2 |
Blood Cancers: What to Look for in Leukemia | Dr. Bruce Cheson highlights noteworthy studies, new drugs, and impressive data in ALL, CLL, and CML that will be discussed at ASCO® 2012. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
3 |
Crossing Boundaries in Molecular Therapy: HER2 in ALL | Looking at a recent report describing the use of trastuzumab in HER2-positive ALL, Dr. Maurie Markman considers what this means for the future of molecular-targeted cancer therapy. | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
4 |
Can a Hospital Say, 'Only Thin Doctors Can Work Here'? | A Texas hospital refuses to hire overweight staff, including doctors and nurses. Is this ethical -- or sensible? A leading bioethicist gives his take on the situation. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
5 |
Does Elevated Risk Require MRI? | Dr. Kathy Miller commends the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) for a recent study assessing the value of MRI in women at intermediate risk for breast cancer. | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
6 |
Cleaning the Healthcare Closet | Because the healthcare budget is not likely to get any bigger, Dr. John Marshall comments that we may need to 'clean the healthcare closet' to make room for new therapies. What can we do without? | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
7 |
Doc Takes Issue With Public Views of EMR | Comments posted to a New York Times article about electronic medical records prompt Dr. Bruce Cheson to assess the pros and cons of EMRs. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
8 |
How We Do Harm | Dr. Kathy Miller provides a short book review of Dr. Otis Brawley and Paul Goldberg's essential review of the US healthcare system. | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
9 |
ID Trivia: New Champ for Largest Virus? | Don't miss the latest from Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, about the newest (and biggest) megavirus. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
10 |
What Increases the Risk for Persistent MRSA After Decolonization? | A new study looks at the relationship between combined low-level mupirocin and genotypic chlorhexidine resistance and persistent MRSA. William R. Jarvis, MD, comments. | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
11 |
Testing for Lyme Disease: Follow the Steps | When faced with a patient with potential Lyme disease, following the correct testing procedures will avoid false-negative and false-positive results. | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
12 |
Star Wars in the Empire of All Maladies | Dr. Bruce Cheson and his fellows discuss The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee’s book about the history of cancer, and pick the investigators whose contributions they find most compelling. | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
13 |
Rebiopsy: Should New Finding Redirect Therapy? | If biopsy of metastatic breast cancer shows a phenotype that differs from that found at diagnosis, should the new finding redirect therapy? Dr. Kathy Miller gives her take on this complex issue. | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
14 |
Can Aspirin Slow Cancer Progression? | Dr. David Kerr reports on a study detailing the link between inflammation and colorectal carcinogenesis and how it might be exploited to slow tumor progression and possibly even prevent CRC. | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
15 |
Variant H3N2 Influenza Virus: What You Should Know | Find out when you should be considering infection with this novel influenza virus in your patients. | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
16 |
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 |
|
17 |
Healthcare Gone Missing: The State of the Union Address | Henry R. Black, MD, and Roxana Mehran, MD, talked with Medscape after the 2012 State of the Union address about why healthcare was missing and what that portends. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
18 |
Does a BRCA Mutation in the Family Increase Cancer Risk? | Dr. Maurie Markman discusses findings of a recent paper assessing the risk for breast cancer in BRCA-negative relatives of BRCA-positive patients. | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
19 |
The Patient With Cirrhosis: Don't Miss This | Dr. David Johnson reviews the most common omissions in the clinical care of patients with cirrhosis. | 12/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
20 |
NCI's Varmus Changes the Metaphor: There Is No War on 'Cancer' | It has been 40 years since President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act. What have learned? What progress have we made? And what challenges lie ahead? | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
21 |
Celiac Disease: What Is Your Biopsy Protocol? | Dr. David Johnson comments on an analysis of biopsy protocols in the evaluation of celiac sprue that suggests a low adherence to the current guideline recommendations. Are diagnoses being missed? | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
22 |
Stopping the Hospital Spread of Gram-Negative Bacilli | With the bottom of the beta-lactam barrel clearly visible, these strategies to halt transmission are imperative. | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
23 |
A 'Dirty Bomb' Hits Colorectal Cancer | Dr. John Marshall discusses regorafenib, perifosine, and aflibercept -- 3 promising treatments for refractory colorectal cancer. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
24 |
New Screening Guidelines: To Pap or Not to Pap? | Revised guidelines on cervical cancer screening, while reasonable, may not be in the best interest of individual patients, says Dr. Maurie Markman, and should not dictate practice. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
25 |
Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Any Survival Benefit? | Sandra Fryhofer, MD, discusses screening for ovarian cancer using the CA-125 test in light of a 13-year study of its impact on survival. | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
26 |
Steve Jobs: Fast Times in Computer and Cancer Science | Dr. John Marshall reflects on the progress made in the diagnosis and treatment of neuroendocrine pancreas cancer in the time since Steve Jobs’ diagnosis and the distance still needed to go to cure this disease. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
27 |
Harnessing the Power of Stem Cells in the Clinic | A greater understanding of stem cells is opening new insight into cancer growth and development. The next step is using this knowledge for new therapeutic approaches. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
28 |
Contagion, the Movie: An Expert Medical Review | How realistic is the movie Contagion? Our infectious disease/vaccine expert, Paul A. Offit, MD, offers a review specifically for medical professionals. | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
29 |
SuPar in Super Levels: A Breakthrough in Focal Sclerosis? | Jeffrey Berns reports on a basic science report that has a potentially important impact on nephrology, specifically the effect of elevated serum soluble urokinase receptor (suPAR) on focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
30 |
Summer Reading: One Doc's Required List | Dr. Bruce Cheson designates 2 award-winning, nonfiction books as compulsory reading for his oncology fellows and recommends the titles to Medscape viewers as rewarding summer reading. | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
31 |
The Future of Cancer Treatments | In this video commentary, Dr. Maurie Markman discusses how results from a recent lung cancer study might change the way we look at personalized medicine in the future. | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
32 |
Welcome to Developments to Watch | This series of video programs highlights research at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and how it will affect clinical practice in the coming years. | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
33 |
Stromal Reaction: New High-Risk Feature in CRC | Dr. John Marshall reports on adjuvant therapy data presented at the 13th ESMO World Conference on Gastrointestinal Cancer, which was held in June in Barcelona. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
34 |
Does "Early" Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer Affect Survival? | Seeking medical care at the first symptom of ovarian cancer does not improve survival in a provocative study reported on by Dr. Maurie Markman. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
35 |
CMS Partnership to Drastically Cut Errors | Donald M. Berwick, MD, of the CMS talks about Partnership for Patients, a public-private coalition to prevent hospital complications and dramatically reduce patient errors. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
36 |
New Infection Prevention Guidance for Outpatient Settings | Hot off the presses. What should you be doing if you take care of patients in any outpatient setting, from clinic to surgery center? | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
37 |
Can Congress Pass Federal Tort Reform? | Eli Y. Adashi talks to Congressman Phil Gingrey, MD, who expresses his strong support of tort reform and his opposition to the Medicaid Maintenance of Effort Requirements of the Affordable Care Act. | 7/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
38 |
The Sustainable Growth Rate -- What Happens Now? | Senator Tom Coburn describes the future of Medicare reimbursements and comments on other issues of concern for physicians, such as tort reform and the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act. | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
39 |
Predicting Which Patients May Have CRE on Hospital Admission | Learn more about the 3 factors that may predict carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) colonization or infection in newly admitted hospital patients. William R. Jarvis, MD, comments. | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
40 |
Test, Don't Guess: NSCLC Motto | Dr. Mark Kris underscores the importance of testing for EGFR mutations in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, as evidenced by recent ASCO® presentations. | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
41 |
Preventive Care: Finally Covered, Says Don Berwick | Donald M. Berwick, MD, of CMS talks about what is now being covered for preventive care under the Affordable Care Act and where you can find more information. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
42 |
Senator Coburn on Medicaid: Let the Market Decide | Tom Coburn, one of 3 physicians in the US Senate, discusses the realities of Medicaid in today's healthcare system and the struggles faced by healthcare providers and patients. | 6/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
43 |
E-Prescribe by January -- Here's How | Donald M. Berwick, MD, of the CMS provides specific advice and resources for implementing e-prescribing into your practice. | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
44 |
Your Patient Is at 21% Risk for Something -- Now What? | Henry Black and Andrew Vickers discuss risk stratification and how to decide whether and how to treat patients at relatively low risk. | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
45 |
Breast Cancer: New Data on Prevention and Treatment | Dr. Kathy Miller highlights what she expects to be the big news at ASCO in breast cancer, from prevention to metastatic disease. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
46 |
Art Caplan on Ethics and Clinical Trials, The Stem Cell Debate, and More | Internationally renowned bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, talks with Eli Y. Adashi, MD, about the ethics of clinical trials overseas and other hot button issues of debate in medicine. | 5/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
47 |
Imputation -- Filling the Gaps in the Data | Black and Andrew Vickers discuss imputation and how it works when a trial lacks all the data. | 5/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
48 |
CT Radiation and Cancer Risk | With increasing use of CT scans, radiation exposure is going up. Is it time for a paradigm shift? | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
49 |
Riding the Creatinine Roller Coaster: Nephrologist's Tricks for PCPs | Lynda Szczech, MD, the current President of the National Kidney Foundation, explains the issues involved with creatinine levels in estimating kidney function. | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
|
50 |
Resistant UTIs: Running Out of Options | What are the treatment options for resistant UTIs? What antibiotics may work? Paul G. Auwaerter, MD, offers an ID consult. | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 50 Episodes |
