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 end-of-life care in a spectrum of illness, dementia and blood transfusions, co-prescribing of naloxone with opioids, and treatment of binge eating disorder.
Program notes:
0:31 End-of-life treatments
1:32 Compared with cancer
2:33 Advancing disease apparent
3:28 Must bring to our attention
5:05 47% fewer ED visits initially
6:00 Binge eating disorder and treatment
7:00 Therapist led CBT
7:45 Blood transfusions and dementia
8:46 At risk for neurodegenerative disorders
9:45 Is prion in blood?
10:43 End