Johns Hopkins University PodMed

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References for the JHU weekly Medicine News Roundup Podcast PodMed, weekly podcast looking at the top medical stories of the week for people who want to become informed participants in their own health care. Hosts: Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange M.D., professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

hopkinsmedicine.org/news/audio/podcasts/Podcasts.html

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Chris Aldrich

This week’s topics include the power of peer mentoring, endoscopic versus open repair of hernias, seven factors related to cardiovascular health and death, and antioxidants for Alzheimer’s disease.
Papers can be found here: http://jhu.md/Hid8Jq
The podcast itself: http://jhu.md/GTIFxP
Video preview on YouTube: http://jhu.md/GYCxZO
And featured in the blog this week, more information about the peer counseling/mentoring study: http://jhu.md/HmULhO

28th March

Chris Aldrich added documents to this group

Peer mentoring and financial incentives to improve glucose control in african american veterans: a randomized trial.

Trends in Cardiovascular Health Metrics and Associations With All-Cause and CVD Mortality Among US Adults

Antioxidants for Alzheimer Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial With Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker Measures

Comparative Analysis of Diaphragmatic Hernia Repair Outcomes Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database.

28th March

Chris Aldrich added documents to this group

Vital Signs: Preventing Clostridium difficile Infections

Donepezil and Memantine for Moderate-to-Severe Alzheimer's Disease

Intratumor Heterogeneity and Branched Evolution Revealed by Multiregion Sequencing

Association of mental health disorders with prescription opioids and high-risk opioid use in US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.

15th March

Chris Aldrich added documents to this group

Dutasteride in localised prostate cancer management: the REDEEM randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Engineered H5N1: A Rare Time for Restraint in Science.

Sexual Activity and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

16th February

Franz Ross has joined this group

12th February

Mary Spiro has joined this group

2nd February

Chris Aldrich added documents to this group

Extent of illicit drug use and dependence, and their contribution to the global burden of disease

How well do international drug conventions protect public health?

Drug policy and the public good: evidence for effective interventions

Association Between Marijuana Exposure and Pulmonary Function Over 20 Years

And 7 more

20th January

Chris Aldrich

We've also got a bonus episode this month for the International Headlines! Listen to Michael Klag, the Dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins, discussing some of the international medical headlines including a series of articles on drugs from The Lancet and the controversial case of publishing information about how to make the H1N1 flu virus more virulent.

Podcast: http://jhu.md/zZyKlZ
Related papers: http://jhu.md/yBF0Hd />

20th January

Chris Aldrich

The PodMed episode for the week of 1/16/12 includes long distance running and cardiac death, marijuana smoking and lung function, dangers of a new blood thinning agent, and dementia and hospitalizations.
The video overview can be seen at: http://jhu.md/xMpIef /> The Blog: http://jhu.md/yidWOC /> The podcast: http://jhu.md/xJYNPM /> And naturally all the papers here at Mendeley: http://jhu.md/zXTZGu /> Or find links to them all at: http://jhu.md/zhB2Vu

20th January