Medscape Transplantation Podcast
By Medscape
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Description
Latest medical news and features from Medscape Transplantation
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CleanShould We Refuse Transplants for People With Disabilities? | Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the moral argument about when transplantation should and shouldn't be considered in people with disabilities. | 3/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEnhancing the Effectiveness of Medical Missions | Dr Wilner and Dr Loh discuss approaches to optimizing the value of medical missions through local partnership and the organization 53rd Week. | 3/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKidney Patients Left in the Wind: A Heartfelt Story | Dr Szczech provides a sobering view on what extreme actions uninsured immigrants are taking to push their symptom boundaries to near death every week in order to get emergent hemodialysis. | 3/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEncourage Even HIV Patients to Become Organ Donors? | With organs for transplant in short supply, it's vital to talk to patients--even if they are elderly or have a disease like HIV--about the prospect of becoming donors, an ethicist says. | 2/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLiver Before Heart: Reversing Combined Organ Transplantation | Drs Sudhir Kushwaha and Rocky Daly share their considerations in reverse-order heart-liver transplant cases at Mayo's Heart Transplant Clinic. | 3/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLeana Wen: Managing the Health of a City Amid the Freddie Gray Riots | Dr Leana Wen, city health commissioner for Baltimore, speaks with Medscape Editor-in-Chief Dr Eric Topol about her work as an emergency medicine physician and public health advocate. | 9/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnruly Teenagers Deserve Organ Transplants Too | Bioethicist Art Caplan argues that doctors shouldn't try to separate the saints from the sinners on transplant waiting lists. | 8/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean'Emperor' in Close-Up: A Talk With the Director | Dr Harold Burstein gets an oncologist's behind-the- cameras view of 'Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,' from Barak Goodman, director of the Ken Burns documentary. | 3/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBaby Born From Transplanted Uterus: Should We Be Doing This? | A woman born without a womb had a uterus transplanted and successfully became pregnant and gave birth. This event turned out happily, but it raises many ethical issues. | 11/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean'Docs Should Promote Gun Safety With Patients': Caplan | Gun violence is a public health issue, says a leading bioethicist. As such, it's up to doctors to talk about gun safety with patients. | 3/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHospital Security Cameras: Too Much Invasion of Privacy? | Hospital video cameras have become much more common, but some patients and doctors feel that they are too intrusive and have eroded privacy. Is there cause for alarm? | 3/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTransplant Safety: Recognizing Donor-Derived Infections | Microsporidiosis is an emerging transplant-associated infection, and CDC depends on astute clinicians to recognize the signs of this and other donor-derived diseases. | 2/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanArtificial Hearts: Maybe Not Such a Blessing | A French company recently implanted a new artificial heart, and the patient is doing well. But artificial hearts raise many ethical and practical issues. | 2/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDeciding on Death While Traumatized and Under Pressure? | A man suffered a tragic, sudden accident and woke up paralyzed and with a breathing tube. Doctors asked him whether he wanted to continue living. Should they have waited? | 12/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCreative Disruption? She's 29 and Set to Reboot Lab Medicine | A 29-year-old Stanford dropout has developed a new biotechnology that threatens to give laboratory medicine its biggest shakeup in decades. | 11/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFDA's Hamburg on Clearing the Hurdles to Drug Approvals | FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, MD, talks with Medscape at the National Health Research Forum in Washington, DC. | 10/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 'Darkest Year Ever' for the NIH? | American Psychiatric Association President Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman on how government policies are out of sync with our country's medical needs. | 10/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIs It Ethical to Tweet From Someone's Deathbed? | People share the most private moments on social media, even when someone is at death's door. Is this an invasion of privacy? | 10/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean'Do As I Do: Take Aspirin Daily’ | The evidence for the benefits of low-dose aspirin in primary and secondary prevention of colorectal cancer is so compelling that it has convinced CRC specialist Dr. David Kerr to take 100 mg daily. | 8/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean'Would You Sell Your Soul for $10?' | Dr. Bruce Cheson forecasts that the Sunshine Act, requiring physicians to disclose most payment and gifts from industry over $10, will bring showers of misinterpretation and could hinder research. | 8/26/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChildren Shouldn't Automatically Receive Organ Transplants | Should a child receive lungs even if she is not the best transplant candidate? Art Caplan, PhD, says that children shouldn't automatically jump to the front of the line. | 8/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOrganized Medicine: The Problem or the Solution? | George Lundberg talks about the RUC -- how its structure and evolution have harmed healthcare, and the necessity of changing it. | 8/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDoctors and Nurses Should Be Drug-Tested -- Get Used to It | Many doctors consider mandatory drug testing for health professionals an insult, but if we're going to improve quality of patient care, it makes sense, says bioethicist Art Caplan. | 8/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLung Transplantation in Kids: When All Else Fails | Which children are likely to require lung or heart-lung transplantation? | 7/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTransplant Options for Patients With Type 1 Diabetes | Outcomes in whole-pancreas transplants continue to improve, as investigators study less invasive islet transplants. Dr. Michael Rickels discusses the latest developments with Dr. Anne Peters. | 6/28/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTopol on the Cancer Clinic of the Future | Dr. Eric Topol explains how the cancer clinic of the future will look. | 4/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTopol and Reed on a More Collaborative Drug Pipeline | Dr. Eric Topol interviews Dr. John Reed on his big decision to change careers and move to Switzerland. | 3/28/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanClone a 'Jurassic Park' Human: Why Not? | A Harvard genetics professor says that we have the ability to produce a cloned Neanderthal baby and it's worth discussing. Bioethicist Art Caplan has strong feelings about it. | 2/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShould Doctors Reveal Public Figures' Health Details? | Can an elected official keep the details of his or her health issues private? The public may be clamoring to know, but do they have that right? A leading bioethicist shares his thoughts. | 1/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHHS Secretary Sebelius on the ACA and Women's Health Benefits | Medscape One-on-One host Eli Adashi, MD, talks with Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius about the new healthcare benefits offered to women under the ACA. | 10/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPractice of Medicine: Anxiety Up, Morale Down | If healthcare as an industry is booming, asks Dr. John Marshall, then why is morale low among physicians? He has an idea or two -- and a question. | 10/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTopol on Why Hospitals Are Still the Antechamber to the Tomb | Dr. Eric Topol talks about how electronic data can be used to improve patient care in hospitals. | 10/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Top MD and EHR Leader Sheds Light on the Confusion | Many docs are confused about EHR certification and meaningful use. Dr. Karen Bell, chair of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, sheds light on the key issues. | 8/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDid Molestation Continue Because Sports Are Too Important? | The child molestation scandal involving Jerry Sandusky at Penn State was terrible, but did it go on for so long because the importance placed upon sports prompted people to turn a blind eye? | 8/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTwo Docs Punch Left and Right After SCOTUS Ruling | Henry Black and Roxana Mehran argue the impact on physicians of the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act. | 6/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSen Blumenthal: Decisions Should Be Made by Doctors | Sen Richard Blumenthal discusses the importance of healthcare reform; why the Physician Payments Sunshine Act is a work in progress; and why doctors, not politicians, know what's best for patients. | 6/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRep Hayworth: Doc Pressure Needed for SGR, Liability Reform | Rep. Nan Hayworth, MD (R, New York), offers her thoughts on funding Medicare and Medicaid and finding permanent solutions to the sustainable growth rate formula and medical liability reform. | 6/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAntos on Why 'President Romney' Might Keep Parts of ACA | In this 2-part series, 2 renowned healthcare economists give their opinions of what US healthcare would look like should Mitt Romney be elected President in November. | 5/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCleaning 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? | 3/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSteve Jobs: One More Thing | Dr. Bruce Cheson comments on Walter Isaacson's biography Steve Jobs, finding a poignant lesson in the life and death of the entrepreneur whom the author calls a 'magician genius.' | 3/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDoc 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. | 3/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow 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. | 3/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStar 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. | 3/2/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShould Mentally Challenged Patients Receive Organ Transplants? | A Philadelphia doctor refused to recommend a kidney transplant for a mentally disabled 3-year-old girl. An ethicist talks about whether mentally challenged patients should receive organ transplants. | 2/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEMR: 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? | 2/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHealthcare 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. | 1/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHRSA's Wakefield on CHCs, ACOs and Strengthening the Health Workforce | Community health centers may already be ahead of the curve when it comes to care coordination, strengthening the healthcare workforce and the implementation of ACOs under the Affordable Care Act. | 1/10/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNCI'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? | 12/21/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShould Gay Doctors Reveal Their Orientation to Patients? | A religious radio host recently exhorted parents to avoid gay doctors. An ethics expert talks about patients’ right to select their physicians and doctors’ rights to be open about their lives. | 11/18/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStopping the Hospital Spread of Gram-Negative Bacilli | With the bottom of the beta-lactam barrel clearly visible, these strategies to halt transmission are imperative. | 11/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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