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 new tool for predicting cardiovascular event risk, iPads for amblyopia, an antibody for non-small cell lung cancer, and high-dose statins.
Program notes:
0:42 Call out to a listener
1:30 Best way to treat lazy eye
2:30 Using Apple games that require both eyes
3:32 Only effective if child uses
3:52 High-dose statins
4:52 Observational study of veterans
5:50 Also decrease inflammatory state
6:22 Antibody for non-small cell lung cancer
7:25 Taking a look at pathways
8:15 New cardiovascular risk tool
9:15 How changes will impact
10: 50 End