PodMed: A Medical News Roundup From Johns Hopkins (with audio)

PodMed is a weekly podcast from Johns Hopkins Medicine. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week.

This week's topics include euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, a new model for breast cancer trials, biomarkers, and S. aureus in families.

Program notes:

0:31 A new approach to breast cancer studies

1:31 Stage 2 or 3 breast cancer

2:29 Looking at pathologic remission

3:38 Biomarker recommendations

4:40 Couple key issues

5:21 Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

6:22 Five states allow physician assistance

7:23 Individuals lose autonomy, want to die with dignity

8:00 Staphylococcus aureus in families

9:00 Sibling five times more likely

10:27 End

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PodMed: A Medical News Roundup From Johns Hopkins (with audio)