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 the cost of physical inactivity, the mortality impact of sedentary behavior, behavioral activation for depression, and skin inspections for skin cancer.

Program notes:

0:32 Mortality and physical inactivity

1:33 If you sit for 8 hours increased mortality by 58%

2:33 Looked at over a million individuals

3:31 You have to do 60-95 minutes

3:44 Global economic burden of inactivity

4:44 Physical activity declining worldwide

5:11 Behavioral activation for depression

6:11 Go out to exercise or go out to dinner

7:11 May have applicability widely

7:25 USPSTF recommendations for skin inspection

8:25 Only about 50% with dermatologists

9:12 Inspect even scalp

10:08 End

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