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 a look at beta blockers, intranasal flu vaccine efficacy, acetaminophen during pregnancy, and a new osteoporosis treatment.
Program notes:
0:32 Intranasal flu vaccine versus intramuscular vaccine
1:34 Studied in Hutterites
2:32 Previously thought more effective in children
3:24 New osteoporosis drug
4:25 Compared to both placebo and previous medication
5:25 Injected medicine
5:42 Association between Tylenol use and childhood behavior
6:42 Primarily second and third trimester
7:42 What are alternatives?
8:04 Beta blockers after stenting
9:04 Did not lower their risk of heart-related issues
10:01 Payment based on guidelines
10:47 End