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From NEJM Journal Watch, this podcast features lively interviews, concise summaries, and expert commentary that busy clinicians need to stay current and improve patient care.

Episode Date
Podcast 301: Monkeypox — what to look for, how to treat
Aug 19, 2022
Podcast 300: NADIM II trial offers “quite exciting” results in lung cancer
Aug 11, 2022
Podcast 299: Lung cancer and atezolizumab — results from the IMpower010 trial
Aug 09, 2022
Podcast 298: COPD exacerbations — 7 days of antibiotics versus 2
Aug 02, 2022
Podcast 297: Forget about all that vitamin D testing!!
Jul 28, 2022
Podcast 296: A roundtable on the question, Why are young internists flocking to the hospitalist practice style?
Jul 20, 2022
Podcast 295: How should clinicians manage severe (but asymptomatic) carotid artery stenosis while awaiting CREST-2’s results?
Jul 06, 2022
Podcast 294: PD-1 blockade in locally advanced rectal cancer
Jun 29, 2022
Podcast 293: HER2-“low” breast cancer and its reponse to an antibody-drug conjugate
Jun 27, 2022
Podcast 292: Informed consent and apnea testing for death — or — What is death, anyway?
Jun 17, 2022
Podcast 291: Unionized nursing homes had lower mortality during Covid-19
May 24, 2022
Podcast 290: USPSTF’s new take on aspirin and primary prevention of CVD
May 08, 2022
Podcast 289: Saline versus balanced crystalloids — what to choose
May 04, 2022
Podcast 288: Following up with a Ukrainian narcologist
Apr 21, 2022
Podcast 287: Thinking about quality-of-life in migraine
Apr 10, 2022
Podcast 286: Talking about addiction treatment by candlelight from Ukraine’s Donetsk region
Mar 21, 2022
Podcast 285: GERD’s revised guidelines — an internist and a gastroenterologist discuss them.
Mar 11, 2022
Podcast 284: The clinical situation in Ukraine
Mar 08, 2022
Podcast 283: More data — this time from the U.K. — about post-Covid vaccination
Feb 22, 2022
Podcast 282: Vaccination after Covid-19 recovery prolongs natural immunity to reinfection
Feb 17, 2022
Podcast 281: Drug Costs — What’s “The Right Price” for prescription pharmaceuticals?
Feb 05, 2022
Podcast 280: MIS-C after Covid-19 in adolescents — can vaccination prevent it?
Jan 14, 2022
Podcast 279: Age-specific data do better than age-adjusted data in revealing health inequities
Sep 27, 2021
Podcast 278: Where equity and community health intersect — a conversation with Joseph Betancourt
Apr 27, 2021
Podcast 277: Race and clinical equity — know your patients — a conversation with Karen Dorsey Sheares
Apr 26, 2021
Podcast 276: Pay attention to the structural barriers that contribute to clinical inequity — Karol Watson
Apr 18, 2021
Podcast 275: Race and Clinical Equity — a Conversation with Dr. Kimberly Manning
Apr 11, 2021
Podcast 274: Preliminary Thoughts on the 2021 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference
Jan 18, 2021
Podcast 273: The journals and the pandemic — NEJM
Aug 29, 2020
Podcast 272: And now for something completely different… almost
Aug 08, 2020
Podcast 271: Checking back in with Florida — 4 months later
Aug 05, 2020
Podcast 270: Is healthcare privacy possible if “all data are health data”?
Jul 14, 2020
Podcast 269: The pandemic in Texas is like a “slow-rolling level 6 hurricane”
Jul 06, 2020
Podcast 268: Cannabis and road accidents — is there an association?
Jun 29, 2020
Podcast 267: Acute kidney injury in COVID-19 — how one New York system dealt with it
May 19, 2020
Podcast 266: Interferon and early treatment in COVID-19 bring good outcomes
May 10, 2020
Podcast 265: COVID-19 in skilled nursing facilities
May 01, 2020
Podcast 264: Is COVID-19 pushing MIs out of emergency departments?
Apr 20, 2020
Podcast 263: Checking in with Connecticut and Michigan on medicine after COVID-19
Apr 15, 2020
Podcast 257: Here comes the summer after COVID-19
Apr 06, 2020
Podcast 262: COVID-19’s larger lessons
Apr 01, 2020
Podcast 261: COVID-19 as a medical disaster
Mar 29, 2020
Podcast 260: Interview with a Broward County, Florida, emergency room physician
Mar 27, 2020
Podcast 259: A first-year resident tells us what he sees in the Covid-19 pandemic
Mar 25, 2020
Podcast 258 — One clinician’s experience of the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S.
Mar 19, 2020
Podcast 256 — Anthony Fauci: Talking with patients about COVID-19
Mar 10, 2020
Podcast 255: Salt talks — transcript included
Mar 06, 2020
Podcast 254: Old malpractice liability strategies need rethinking
Feb 28, 2020
Podcast 253: Is a single-dose HPV vaccination effective?
Feb 21, 2020
Podcast 252: We revisit our chat about chatting about guns
Feb 13, 2020
Podcast 251: Intermittent fasting
Feb 07, 2020
Podcast 250: #MeToo in the OR
Jan 30, 2020
Podcast 249: Quality time with your EHR — or just time?
Jan 24, 2020
Podcast 248: “Hotspotting” didn’t work in its home town — why?
Jan 17, 2020
Podcast 247: Managing dyspepsia
Dec 20, 2019
Podcast 246: Where we die now
Dec 12, 2019
Podcast 245: We revisit a 2018 episode on NPs’, PAs’, and MDs’ performance in the primary care of diabetes
Dec 06, 2019
Podcast 244: Colchicine after myocardial infarction
Nov 28, 2019
Podcast 243: Lowering high blood pressure lowers dementia risk
Nov 22, 2019
Podcast 242: Tranexamic acid saves lives after traumatic bleeds
Nov 15, 2019
Podcast 241: Talking about guns with patients
Nov 07, 2019
Podcast 240: Overuse of statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular events
Nov 01, 2019
Podcast 239: Talking with veterans
Oct 25, 2019
Podcast 238: Preparing for the unthinkable chaos of a mass-casualty event
Oct 18, 2019
Podcast 237: U.S. health spending — where is the outrage?
Oct 11, 2019
Podcast 236: Is an AI better at diagnosis?
Oct 04, 2019
Podcast 235: Forced sexual initiation and its clinical aftermath
Sep 27, 2019
Podcast 234: Pay for women pediatricians lags
Sep 19, 2019
Podcast 233: Antipsychotics are no solution to delirium during hospitalization
Sep 11, 2019
Podcast 232: Basic organic chem and drug pricing
Sep 06, 2019
Podcast 231 — The evidence behind VA’s suicide-prevention guidelines
Aug 30, 2019
Podcast 230 — Hospital-readmissions gaming?
Aug 23, 2019
Podcast 229: Simplifying perioperative anticoagulation in AF
Aug 16, 2019
Podcast 228: Hematuria — should the workup include imaging?
Aug 08, 2019
Podcast 227: Chronic kidney disease and anticoagulants
Aug 02, 2019
Podcast 226: What we need to talk about when we talk about health
Jun 11, 2019
Podcast 225: Managing diabetes in primary care — are there quality differences among NPs, PAs, and MDs?
Nov 28, 2018
Podcast 224: What’s a “preprint server,” and how might it change how we think about journals?
Aug 23, 2018
Podcast 223: What are the implications of the BP guidelines?
Aug 14, 2018
Podcast 222: Growing prominence of NPs in primary care
Jul 20, 2018
Podcast 221: Pertussis makes a comeback — kids have an outsize role
Apr 10, 2018
Podcast 220: Mumps outbreaks — blame waning protection, not new viruses or bad vaccines
Apr 04, 2018
Podcast 219: Digital rectal exams shouldn’t be routine in primary care
Mar 28, 2018
Podcast 218: Better integration of midwifery associated with better birth outcomes
Mar 14, 2018
Podcast 217: Aspirin and rivaroxaban “comparably effective and safe” for prophylaxis after arthroplasty
Mar 09, 2018
Podcast 216: What role for MRI in breast cancer screening?
Feb 22, 2018
Podcast 215: Has primary care been Amazon-ized?
Nov 06, 2017
Podcast 214: Drug-drug interactions and bleeding risks with NOACs
Oct 10, 2017
Podcast 213: Continuous glucose monitoring in pregnancies with type 1 diabetes
Sep 22, 2017
Podcast 212: BP in CKD — Where’s the Sweet Spot?
Sep 14, 2017
Podcast 211: On (not) staying the (antibiotic) course
Aug 20, 2017
Podcast 210: Jerome Kassirer — an editor looks back
Aug 17, 2017
Podcast 209: “The guidelines need to be rewritten” to encourage antibiotic use after incision and drainage of small skin abscesses
Jul 09, 2017
Podcast 208: How inequality kills — David Ansell talks with us about his new book
Jun 11, 2017
Podcast 207: Fecal transplants, the gut microbiome and future medical care
May 12, 2017
Podcast 206: Gluten avoidance and cardiac risks
May 07, 2017
Podcast 205: Listen to the patient!
Jan 13, 2017
Podcast 204: Medical marijuana’s effect on Medicare prescriptions
Jul 10, 2016
Podcast 203: What’s wrong with guidelines
Jun 09, 2016
Podcast 202: Disaster Medicine — a New Edition
May 12, 2016
Podcast 201: The NFL’s concussion-research flaws
Apr 08, 2016
Podcast 200: Sorting out the results of breast biopsy
Mar 25, 2016
Podcast 199: Rethinking what medical journals do
Mar 15, 2016
Podcast 198: Three laws that could reduce U.S. firearm mortality
Mar 10, 2016
Podcast 197: A dissent on sepsis
Mar 04, 2016
Podcast 196: Sepsis redefined
Feb 28, 2016
Podcast 195: Pioglitazone for secondary prevention?
Feb 18, 2016
Podcast 194: Rising middle-age mortality rates are worrying
Feb 03, 2016
Podcast 193: Glioma survival lengthened
Dec 21, 2015
Podcast 192: Are we too sweet on HbA1c testing?
Dec 10, 2015
Podcast 191: The prostate screening conundrum
Nov 21, 2015
Podcast 190: Last line of antibiotic defense breached
Nov 19, 2015
Podcast 189: Blood Pressure Target Should Be 120, SPRINT Data Show
Nov 09, 2015
Podcast 188: Should “deintensification” be a quality-of-care measure?
Nov 01, 2015
Podcast 187: Colorectal adenomas not prevented by calcium and/or vitamin D
Oct 25, 2015
Podcast 186: Stop supplementing calcium!
Oct 06, 2015
Podcast 185: A Spirited Discussion on Medicare’s ‘Doc Fix’ Fix for Reimbursement
Sep 28, 2015
Podcast 184: Ruling out pulmonary embolism in primary care
Sep 22, 2015
Podcast 183: An Obesity ‘Switch’ in the Genome Described
Aug 21, 2015
Podcast 182: Dietary fat studies meta-analyzed — trans fat still a bad bet
Aug 16, 2015
Podcast 181: Oral Contraceptives’ Role in Reducing Endometrial Cancers
Aug 07, 2015
Podcast 180: A sketch of community-acquired pneumonia
Jul 19, 2015
Podcast 179: Pradaxa (dabigatran) reversal near?
Jul 11, 2015
Podcast 178: Why Should Clinicians’ Complicity in CIA Torture Matter to You?
Jul 04, 2015
Clinical Conversation 177: Can We Deliver NICEly?
Jun 22, 2015
Podcast 176: HPV Vaccine — How many doses are needed to confer protection?
Jun 12, 2015
Podcast 175: “Understanding Value-Based Healthcare” — A Discussion with the Authors of an Important New Book
Jun 03, 2015
Podcast 174: PARADIGM and Heart Failure
Sep 10, 2014
Podcast 173: Sensible Sodium Levels in View at Last
Aug 30, 2014
Podcast 172: Listening for the Diagnosis, a Conversation with Danielle Ofri
Jul 30, 2014
Podcast 171: PTSD Treatment Effects Remain Largely Unmeasured By the Military and the VA
Jun 25, 2014
Podcast 170 — An Emergency Physician Has the Tables Turned On Her and Returns with Lessons for All Clinicians
Jun 05, 2014
Podcast 169: New guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention
Nov 12, 2013
Podcast 168: The Camden Coalition’s work on alleviating the discontinuity of medical care
Sep 25, 2013
Podcast 167 — The polypill: adherence at last?
Sep 15, 2013
Podcast 166: Delirium and intensive care
Aug 21, 2013
Podcast 165: The Mediterranean diet’s salutary interaction with risk-conferring genes
Aug 15, 2013
Podcast 164: Talking about death
Aug 01, 2013
Podcast 163: Boston bombings – 4
Jun 14, 2013
Podcast 162: Boston bombings lessons part 3
May 21, 2013
Podcast 161: Boston bombings’ lessons part two
May 14, 2013
Podcast 160: The Marathon bombing — lessons learned
May 09, 2013
Podcast 159: Making the Clinical Diagnosis, But Blowing the Patient’s Treatment Preference
Nov 10, 2012
Podcast 158: Physician-assisted dying — a conversation with Dr. Marcia Angell about the Massachusetts ‘Death with Dignity’ ballot question
Oct 18, 2012
Podcast 157: Of parking lots, low back pain, the Yankees, writing, and — oh yes — clinical medicine
Jun 26, 2012
Podcast 156: Using low-dose CT screening for lung cancer in defined populations — a conversation with Peter Bach
May 21, 2012
Podcast 155: What’s wrong with U.S. healthcare and what will save it?
May 14, 2012
Podcast 154: Treating heart failure’s hypercoagulable state — warfarin or aspirin?
May 03, 2012
Podcast 153: Type 2 diabetes in young people — tough going on the treatment front
Apr 30, 2012
Podcast 152: Gum disease and atherosclerosis — evidence for an association, but not for a cause-and-effect
Apr 19, 2012
Podcast 151: Most people above age 10 have at least some cross-reactive antibodies to variant influenza
Apr 14, 2012
Podcast 150: Depression (and antidepressant use) after stroke or TIA
Mar 30, 2012
Podcast 149: High levels of white rice consumption seem linked to higher risks for type 2 diabetes
Mar 16, 2012
Podcast 148: Smoking cessation during pregnancy is probably more effective with behavioral approaches than with relying on nicotine replacement
Feb 29, 2012
Podcast 147: Proof that colonoscopy with polypectomy saves lives
Feb 25, 2012
Podcast 146: Cognitive impairment in primary care — screen or not?
Feb 18, 2012
Podcast 145: The Y chromosome and the possible role of a common variant in coronary disease in men.
Feb 13, 2012
Podcast 144: Hip fractures, PPIs, and smoking history in postmenopausal women — increased risks
Feb 03, 2012
Podcast 143: PPIs and asthma control — it doesn’t work in kids, either
Jan 27, 2012
Podcast 142: Really, why are you ordering that test?
Jan 21, 2012
Podcast 141: Clinically apparent atrial fibrillation increases stroke risk; does subclinical afib do the same?
Jan 13, 2012
Podcast 140: A new edition of the ACP’s manual on ethics for clinicians is available online
Jan 07, 2012
Podcast 139: CPAP for obstructive sleep apnea seems to improve some measures of the metabolic syndrome
Dec 18, 2011
Podcast 138: Why do kids in the U.S. get so many inappropriate broad-spectrum antibiotics?
Dec 10, 2011
Podcast 137: Clamping the umbilical cord — what’s the big rush?
Nov 18, 2011
Podcast 136: Aspirin lowers colorectal risks in Lynch syndrome — what are the implications for everyone else?
Nov 04, 2011
Podcast 135: HPV vaccine effective against anal intraepithelial neoplasia in MSM. Now, how to get it to young men before they’re sexually active?
Oct 29, 2011
Podcast 134: How (and why) surveillance in Barrett’s esophagus should change
Oct 14, 2011
Podcast 133: Over 50 years later, DES’s adverse effects continue
Oct 08, 2011
Podcast 132: In discussing a child’s overweight with parents, words matter
Sep 30, 2011
Podcast 131: Measuring the effect of the rotavirus vaccine program on kids in the U.S.
Sep 23, 2011
Podcast 130: If you’re a clinician concerned about health costs, wash your hands — don’t just wring them
Sep 16, 2011
Podcast 129: Non-aspirin NSAIDs are associated, as a class, with spontaneous abortion in a Quebec study
Sep 10, 2011
Podcast 128: Bleeding patients, inadvertently, into anemia happens more often than you might think
Aug 12, 2011
Podcast 127: Why QALYs matter
Aug 04, 2011
Podcast 126: Placebos and Medical ‘Meaning’
Jul 17, 2011
Podcast 125: The smoking-cessation drug varenicline poses some difficult tradeoffs.
Jul 08, 2011
Podcast 124: Getting more accuracy into blood pressure measurements
Jun 25, 2011
Podcast 123: Calcium’s benefits seem to peak out at about 800 mg daily
Jun 03, 2011
Podcast 122: Most newer antiepileptics apparently safer in early pregnancy — but not all.
May 19, 2011
Podcast 121: NSAIDs Unsafe at Any Dose after MI
May 15, 2011
Podcast 120: Pass the salt!
May 07, 2011
Podcast 119: Calcium supplements and risk
Apr 22, 2011
Podcast 118: Opioid prescribing patterns and accidental overdoses
Apr 08, 2011
Podcast 117: Atorvastatin and new-onset diabetes
Apr 01, 2011
Podcast 116: What do more sensitive troponin measurements mean for diagnosing ACS?
Mar 25, 2011
Podcast 115: Talking about the real-world use of dabigatran with Drs. Elaine Hylek and Samuel Goldhaber
Mar 11, 2011
Podcast 114: Guidelines for preventing cardiovascular disease in women
Mar 02, 2011
Podcast 113: Hot flashes and escitalopram
Jan 27, 2011
Podcast 112: MRSA guidelines from IDSA
Jan 13, 2011
Podcast 111: A look back on the year’s most clinically important developments.
Dec 17, 2010
Podcast 110: ARBs (and anti-hypertensives, generally) pose no measurable cancer risk, meta-analysis shows.
Dec 03, 2010
Podcast 109: An overview of the American Heart Association meeting, with cardiologist Harlan Krumholz
Nov 19, 2010
Podcast 108: CT screening for lung cancer
Nov 10, 2010
Podcast 107: Hospital falls and how to reduce them
Nov 05, 2010
Podcast 106: The barbershop and hypertension — a little off the top
Nov 03, 2010
Podcast 105: NSAIDs revisited
Oct 22, 2010
Podcast 104: Reassurance on clopidogrel and omeprazole.
Oct 08, 2010
Podcast 103: eGFR and cardiovascular risk assessment
Oct 01, 2010
Podcast 102: Short compression stockings would seem to have no further role clinically.
Sep 26, 2010
Podcast 101: Osteoarthritis, chondroitin, and glucosamine — one of these things doesn’t belong.
Sep 17, 2010
Podcast 100: Practical informed consent
Sep 10, 2010
Podcast 99: Blacks’ higher rate of stent thrombosis apparently has a genetic basis.
Sep 03, 2010
Podcast 98: Leafy green vegetables apparently lower one’s risks for type 2 diabetes
Aug 20, 2010
Podcast 97: What happens when vena cava filters break?
Aug 15, 2010
Podcast 96: Survivors of childhood cancer face manageable reproductive risks.
Jul 30, 2010
Podcast 95: What if hypertensive patients titrated their own drug dosages?
Jul 09, 2010
Podcast 94: What does a new meta-analysis tell us about statins and primary prevention?
Jul 02, 2010
Podcast 93: Is computed tomography safe? Yes, but …
Jun 25, 2010
Podcast 92: Corticosteroids in COPD exacerbations — high-dose intravenous or low-dose oral?
Jun 18, 2010
Podcast 91: What risks do NSAIDs hold for healthy people? They’re not trivial.
Jun 11, 2010
Podcast 90: Preventing type 2 diabetes with low-dose metformin and rosiglitazone seems possible, but clinical use has to await results of another stud...
Jun 05, 2010
Podcast 89: Glasses aren’t just for reading any more. Listen in to how they can help the elderly avoid falls.
May 28, 2010
Podcast 88: Weighing the benefits of endovascular versus open repair in abdominal aortic aneurysm.
May 21, 2010
Podcast 87: After this week’s news, we reprise an interview from last December on pharyngitis in adolescents and young adults.
May 16, 2010
Podcast 86: Prompt follow-up after discharge for heart failure reduces early-readmission rates.
May 07, 2010
Podcast 85: B vitamins lower homocysteine levels, so why don’t they retard the progression of diabetic nephropathy?
May 02, 2010
Podcast 84: One year later, what have we learned from 2009 H1N1? A conversation with Richard Wenzel.
Apr 23, 2010
Podcast 83: An interview by CardioExchange’s editors on the COURAGE study
Apr 16, 2010
Podcast 82: Checklists save lives — lots of lives. Becoming a clinical automaton.
Apr 09, 2010
Podcast 81: When should you start screening for type 2 diabetes?
Apr 02, 2010
Podcast 80: Bisphosphonates and atypical hip fractures — how large is the risk?
Mar 27, 2010
Podcast 79: Prostate cancer, patients’ consultations, and the treatments they receive
Mar 19, 2010
Podcast 78: Just what are “comparative effectiveness” studies anyway?
Mar 12, 2010
Podcast 77: We revisit a conversation on treating community-acquired pneumonia according to the guidelines (and we’ve got current news).
Mar 05, 2010
Podcast 76: On saying “No” to patients’ requests.
Feb 27, 2010
Podcast 75: Which regimen for hypertension?
Feb 19, 2010
Podcast 74: How two SSRIs apparently interfere with tamoxifen therapy.
Feb 12, 2010
Podcast 73: How best to monitor patients on androgen-deprivation therapy for cardiovascular risks?
Feb 05, 2010
Podcast 72: A conversation about two new drugs for multiple sclerosis.
Jan 29, 2010
Podcast 71: We revisit, after a look at current clinical news, a conversation on the late clinical course of dementia.
Jan 22, 2010
Podcast 70: Considering the USPSTF breast-screening guidelines with your patients
Jan 15, 2010
Podcast 69: Eating soy foods and survival after breast cancer
Jan 08, 2010
Podcast 68: Change your approach to pharyngitis in adolescents and young adults.
Dec 05, 2009
Podcast 67: Unexpected “incidental” findings on pulmonary CT angiography present problems of pursuit and follow-up.
Nov 24, 2009
Podcast 66: Niacin versus ezetimibe in the face of high cardiovascular risk — a conversation with the ARBITER 6-HALTS trialist Allen Taylor
Nov 22, 2009
Podcast 65: A conversation about the utility of renovascular angioplasty in the face of atherosclerosis
Nov 13, 2009
Podcast 64: A conversation regarding on-pump versus off-pump CABG with Frederick Grover.
Nov 12, 2009
Podcast 63: A conversation about the adverse cardiometabolic effects of second-generation antipsychotic drugs in young patients with Christoph Correll
Nov 02, 2009
Podcast 62: A conversation with Jane Kim about cost-effectiveness of vaccinating women with HPV vaccine after age 30.
Oct 25, 2009
Podcast 61: A conversation about end-stage dementia.
Oct 16, 2009
Podcast 60: Weight loss in type 2 diabetes benefits obstructive sleep apnea — a conversation with Prof. Gary Foster
Oct 10, 2009
Podcast 59: A conversation about bacterial coinfection in 2009 H1N1 flu deaths with Dianna Blau of the CDC
Oct 02, 2009
Podcast 58: A repeat of the July 31 interview with the CDC’s Denise Jamieson on treating pregnant women who have suspected 2009 H1N1.
Sep 29, 2009
Podcast 57: Treating community-acquired pneumonia according to the guidelines
Sep 21, 2009
Podcast 56: A conversation with two JAMA staffers on their research into “ghost” authorship and “honorary” authorship in the principal medical journal...
Sep 12, 2009
Podcast 55: A conversation with Prof. Gilles Montalescot about his JAMA paper on immediate versus delayed intervention in non-ST-segment elevation acu...
Sep 04, 2009
Podcast 54: A conversation with Aaron Caughey, whose analysis of the literature shows that elective induction of labor does not, contrary to dogma, in...
Aug 21, 2009
Podcast 53: Patients extubated with hypercapnia can be managed better with noninvasive ventilation, a new study shows.
Aug 14, 2009
Podcast 52: Screening for intimate-partner violence doesn’t seem productive or very protective. What’s a concerned clinician to do?
Aug 09, 2009
Podcast 51: In pregnant women with suspected H1N1, treat promptly! A conversation with Denise Jamieson of the CDC.
Jul 31, 2009
Podcast 50: A re-podcast of an interview from February regarding the FDA’s plans for tightening regulations on opioid use.
Jul 19, 2009
Podcast 49: Three RASS Study researchers discuss their findings on the lack of benefit of renin-angiotensin blockade in the primary prevention of diab...
Jul 11, 2009
Podcast 48: A conversation with Les Irwig, which your bone scanner won’t like to hear.
Jul 02, 2009
Podcast 47: Total knee arthroplasty’s cost-effectiveness — a conversation with Elena Losina
Jun 29, 2009
Podcast 46: Does Genetic Testing for Clotting Mutations Matter? An interview with Jodi Segal of Johns Hopkins
Jun 19, 2009
Podcast 45: Prof. Martin Dennis discusses new findings discouraging the use of compression stockings after stroke
May 29, 2009
Podcast 44: Harlan Krumholz on new door-to-balloon-time findings.
May 23, 2009
Podcast 43: An interview with Martha Gulati on her research into the cardiovascular risks faced by symptomatic women who have normal angiograms.
May 17, 2009
Podcast 42: An interview with Danielle Ofri — author, editor, clinician.
May 08, 2009
Podcast 41: A repeat of an interview with Dr. Anne Schuchat of the CDC on childhood immunization levels.
May 04, 2009
Podcast 40: Tight control in type 2 diabetes — time to loosen up? A conversation with Mayo’s Victor Montori.
Apr 25, 2009
Podcast 39: A conversation with Kimford Meador about a new paper assessing the later cognitive effects of fetal exposure to antiepileptic drugs.
Apr 20, 2009
Podcast 38: A conversation about using PPIs in poorly controlled asthma — rather, not using them — with Robert A. Wise of Johns Hopkins.
Apr 11, 2009
Podcast 37: A conversation with Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia’s Donald Griesdale about a meta-analysis on tight gl...
Apr 04, 2009
Podcast 36: Michael K. Kearney is our guest. He talks about the self-care of clinicians engaged in end-of-life care.
Mar 30, 2009
Podcast 35: Clinical Conversations reprises an interview with Mary Tinetti about falls in the elderly.
Mar 20, 2009
Podcast 34: An interview with Cheryl Bushnell of Wake Forest about her paper in BMJ concerning migraines during pregnancy and the possibility of their...
Mar 14, 2009
Podcast 33: We repeat, after the principal news of the week, an interview with Stephen Hetz, co-editor of “War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq”
Mar 09, 2009
Podcast 32: Reprise of a June 2008 interview with Larry Allen from Duke, in which he talks about patients’ estimates of their life expectancy, compare...
Feb 28, 2009
Podcast 31: Making your clinical life easier — with genetics. Dr. Julie Johnson talks about using a patient’s genetic profile to help set their initia...
Feb 20, 2009
Podcast 30: Dr. Roger Chou of Oregon Health Sciences University talks about recent guidelines for opioid use in non-cancer pain and reflects on the FD...
Feb 16, 2009
Podcast 29: Dr. Brian Jack of Boston University sees RED (Re-Engineered Discharge) as a way to lower hospital readmissions.
Feb 08, 2009
Podcast 28: A discussion with Dr. Andrea Cipriani and Prof. John Geddes about their ranking of 12 antidepressants
Jan 31, 2009
Podcast 27: Dr. Steven E. Sobol talks with us about his paper on trends in pediatric head-and-neck infections from S. aureus — an increasing percentag...
Jan 26, 2009
Podcast 26: Dr. Wayne A. Ray talks about the dangers of sudden cardiac death from antipsychotic drugs
Jan 18, 2009
Podcast 25: Drs. Nicola Thompson and Joseph Perz talk about their Annals of Internal Medicine paper on the epidemiology of viral hepatitis outbreaks i...
Jan 12, 2009
Podcast 24: An interview with Dr. Douglas B. White on the perspectives of surrogate decision makers regarding discussions about their loved one’s prog...
Dec 21, 2008
Podcast 23: An interview with J. Michael Gaziano concerning two JAMA studies on the uselessness of dietary supplements in preventing prostate cancer
Dec 13, 2008
Podcast 22: Interview with Aaron Kesselheim about his meta-analysis of the efficacy of proprietary versus generic cardiovascular drugs.
Dec 06, 2008
Podcast 21: An interview with Dr. Steven T. DeKosky about his JAMA paper showing that ginkgo extract does not prevent dementia
Nov 21, 2008
Podcast 20: While we take a week off, we offer the reprise of an interview with Dr. Steven Woloshin of Dartmouth Medical School.
Nov 19, 2008
Podcast 19: An interview with Dr. Susan Davis about using testosterone in postmenopausal women who have low libido. Plus, the week’s news.
Nov 08, 2008
Podcast 18: News plus an interview with Prof. Riccardo Utili about infective endocarditis in the elderly
Oct 31, 2008
Podcast 17: News plus an interview with Dr. Arto Strandberg regarding midlife smoking
Oct 25, 2008
Podcast 16: This week’s news, plus an interview recorded earlier this year with Dr. John Douglas of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention
Oct 17, 2008
Podcast 15: The week’s news, plus an interview with Dr. Alexi A. Wright about her article in JAMA on end-of-life conversations and their cascading ben...
Oct 10, 2008
Podcast 14: News roundup and interview with Dr. Michael Hochman about his JAMA paper on how the news media cover drug research.
Oct 06, 2008
Podcast 13: News and interview with Dr. Stephen Hetz, co-editor of “War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq” and director of medical education at Beaumont...
Sep 27, 2008
Podcast 12: News and interview with Dr. Anne Schuchat, Director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Sep 06, 2008
Podcast 11: News and interview with Dr. Irene Hall, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC
Aug 09, 2008
Podcast 10: News and interview with Dr. Michel Ovize, Professor of Physiology and Cardiology, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon
Aug 02, 2008
Podcast 9: News and interview with Prof. Robert Hogg, British Columbia Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver.
Jul 26, 2008
Podcast 8: News and interview with Dr. Mary Tinetti, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale
Jul 19, 2008
Podcast 7: Interview with Dr. Nelson Adams, President, National Medical Association
Jul 12, 2008
Podcast 6: News and interview with Dr. Luigi Ferrucci, NIH Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD
Jul 05, 2008
Podcast 5: News and interview with Dr. Jack Hirsh, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Medicine, McMaster and Founding Director of the Henderson Research Cent...
Jun 28, 2008
Podcast 4: News and interview with Dr. Larry Allen, Clinical Instructor in Cardiology, Duke
Jun 21, 2008
Podcast 3: Interview with Dr. Steven Woloshin of Dartmouth Medical School
Jun 14, 2008
Podcast 2: Interview with Dr. Joseph Ross of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Jun 07, 2008
Podcast 1: Interview with Dr. John Douglas of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention
Apr 19, 2008