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 reducing suicide, CABG plus medicines for some people, stroke risk following a transient ischemic attack (TIA), and metformin first for type 2 diabetes.

Program notes:

0:32 Look at a multitude of strategies to prevent suicide

1:32 16 different services implemented

2:32 Done in U.K.

3:32 How is care provided?

3:44 People who have CABG plus medicine

4:45 Surgery better now

5:44 Years 2 to 10 group with both did better

6:37 Risk following TIA

7:37 Risk of stroke 5.1%

8:35 Metformin first choice

9:35 Least expensive

10:35 End

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