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, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, look at the top medical stories of the week.
This week's topics include preventing inappropriate shocks with implanted defibrillators, cleaning baby's pacifier, supplements and macular degeneration, and recommendations for lung cancer screening in smokers.
Program notes:
0:56 Book called 'Bad Pharma'
1:50 Pacifiers and parental mouths
2:54 Less asthma, eczema and environmental allergens
3:46 Macular degeneration and supplements
4:46 Antioxidants plus additional supplements no more benefit
5:40 Low-dose CT for lung cancer screening
6:40 Great time to attempt cessation
7:41 Relatively modest reduction in lung cancer death
8:28 Prevention of inappropriate shock from ICDs
9:28 Reprogrammed device
11:02 End
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