Podcast 301: Monkeypox — what to look for, how to treat
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE . This time, we look to New York for guidance on recognizing and treating monkeypox. D...
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20 of 301 episodesPodcast 300: NADIM II trial offers “quite exciting” results in lung cancer
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE . We’re back with another interview from this year’s IASLC conference. This time, Chri...
Podcast 299: Lung cancer and atezolizumab — results from the IMpower010 trial
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE . Interim results on overall survival in phase 3 of the IMpower010 trial were presente...
Podcast 298: COPD exacerbations — 7 days of antibiotics versus 2
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE AT THIS LINK . In treating most exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COP...
Podcast 297: Forget about all that vitamin D testing!!
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE . THE USUAL AUDIO FILE IS AVAILABLE BELOW Steven Cummings has co-written a take-no-pri...
Podcast 296: A roundtable on the question, Why are young internists flocking to the hospitalist practice style?
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS ROUNDTABLE IS AVAILABLE CLICK HERE . THE USUAL AUDIO FILE IS AVAILABLE BELOW Your host is old enough to remember w...
Podcast 295: How should clinicians manage severe (but asymptomatic) carotid artery stenosis while awaiting CREST-2’s results?
CREST-2’s results are probably more than a year away. In the meantime, what to do about diagnosed severe (but asymptomatic) carotid stenosis...
Podcast 294: PD-1 blockade in locally advanced rectal cancer
Locally advanced rectal cancer usually receives a three-part treatment: chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy and then surgery. In a small-c...
Podcast 293: HER2-“low” breast cancer and its reponse to an antibody-drug conjugate
Patients with metastatic breast cancer whose tumors express low levels of HER2 are generally classified and treated as having HER2-negative...
Podcast 292: Informed consent and apnea testing for death — or — What is death, anyway?
Apnea testing is part of the protocol used to determine whether a patient is dead according to neurologic criteria. The question is, do clin...
Podcast 291: Unionized nursing homes had lower mortality during Covid-19
In the early waves of the Covid-19 pandemic why did patients in unionized nursing homes, have a roughly 10% lower rate of mortality than tho...
Podcast 290: USPSTF’s new take on aspirin and primary prevention of CVD
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently issued its sixth set of guidelines on using daily aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease...
Podcast 289: Saline versus balanced crystalloids — what to choose
Saline or balanced crystalloids? The question of which resuscitation fluid to use in clinical practice seems to have been settled by recent...
Podcast 288: Following up with a Ukrainian narcologist
Spend 15 minutes with Dr. Natalia Shevchuk, whom we interviewed by candlelight last month . She is sheltering in the Odessa region now, havi...
Podcast 287: Thinking about quality-of-life in migraine
During the American Academy of Neurology’s 2022 meeting in Seattle, Dr. Richard Lipton of Albert Einstein College of Medicine took questions...
Podcast 286: Talking about addiction treatment by candlelight from Ukraine’s Donetsk region
Dr. Natalia Shevchuk (pictured above) treats substance use disorders in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Her face is candlelit because her town is...
Podcast 285: GERD’s revised guidelines — an internist and a gastroenterologist discuss them.
Gastroesophageal reflux, or GERD, was the focus of a revised set of guidelines issued in January in the American Journal of Gastroenterology...
Podcast 284: The clinical situation in Ukraine
Some 85 years ago Guernica was bombed, and after that came Dresden, Coventry, Hiroshima, Bach Mai, and the rest. This episode of Clinical Co...
Podcast 283: More data — this time from the U.K. — about post-Covid vaccination
You want more evidence that post-recovery vaccination against Covid-19 reinfection helps? Here is a careful study from the U.K. that followe...
Podcast 282: Vaccination after Covid-19 recovery prolongs natural immunity to reinfection
Governments’ directives about how and when to vaccinate people who’ve recovered from Covid-19 vary widely. But, according to this episode’s...