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 two on HIV management, obesity and death, and the benefits of special shoes for osteoarthritis.

Program notes:

0:30 Shoes and knee osteoarthritis

1:31 Unloading shoes or not

2:32 Six months of use

3:03 Condom use in couples with HIV in one partner

4:05 Condom not used but HIV treatment in place

5:07 HIV treatment at detection of infection

5:40 Patient navigators in HIV-positive people

6:40 Three groups randomized

7:50 Obesity and death

8:50 BMI over 40 triples risk

9:50 Number of reasons for premature death

10:20 End

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