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 asthma and under the tongue immunotherapy, reducing C. diff infections, safety of smoking cessation drugs, and antibiotic stewardship.

Program notes:

0:39 Safety of smoking cessation medicines

1:40 None increased risk of psychiatric problems

2:40 How about combinations?

3:07 Sublingual immunotherapy

4:08 In people with moderate to severe asthma

5:09 Limited FDA approval

5:44 Antibiotic stewardship

6:44 Identified top 20% of overprescribers

7:45 Nobody mandating change

8:00 Reducing C. diff infections in hospital

9:00 Estimated to save quite a lot

10:30 End

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