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 managing preeclampsia, diet soft drinks and stroke, autoimmune conditions and malaria, and fecal immunochemical testing and colorectal cancer.
Program notes:
0:36 Malaria, lupus and MS
1:36 B-cell activating factor or BAF
2:34 Sickle cell anemia also
3:16 Diet soft drinks and stroke
4:16 Threefold increased risk of stroke and Alzheimer's
5:29 Guidelines on preeclampsia
6:29 All women have blood pressure measurement
7:29 Deliver baby
7:37 Fecal immunochemical testing and colorectal ca
8:38 No problem up to 7-9 months
9:35 Reduce number of screening colonoscopy
10:37 End