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 Zika and microcephaly, getting a handle on HIV in Africa, the impact of mortality data reporting, and suicides among members of the U.S. military.

Program notes:

0:34 Suicidality among Army enlistees

1:38 Likely in second month of enlistment

2:36 More common in women

3:15 Getting a handle on HIV infection in Africa

4:15 Will avert over 2 million HIV transmissions

5:00 Public reporting of mortality data

6:00 Reporting did not impact mortality

7:00 Difficult to compare

7:21 Estimate of Zika microcephaly

8:21 Real world validation

9:18 Avoid poor sanitation

10:07 End

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