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 sudden cardiac death in youth, novel anticoagulants, dietary habits of Americans, and plant-based therapies for menopausal symptoms.

Program notes:

0:30 Comprehensive look at dietary habits of Americans

1:30 Less processed meat

2:34 Worth undertaking

2:52 Global look at novel anticoagulants

3:53 Meta-analysis with coumadin

4:53 Limited options for reversal

5:32 Plant-based therapies for menopausal symptoms

6:34 Over 6,000 women

7:35 Sudden cardiac death in youth

8:38 Establish cause in about a quarter

9:35 Belies exercise risk

10:26 End

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