September 8, 2014 – Eds and Meds
Anchor lead: How do academic medical centers benefit those around them? Elizabeth Tracey reports Moody’s, a bond credit rating business, recently touted academic medical centers in the northeast as...
View ArticleSeptember 9, 2014 – Open Notes
Anchor lead: Do you want to read what your doctor writes about you? Elizabeth Tracey reports Open Notes is a project that’s been underway for several years allowing patients to read their own medical...
View ArticleSeptember 10, 2014 – Honesty
Anchor lead: Would reading your own medical chart result in a little too much information? Elizabeth Tracey reports Open Notes may be coming soon to your physician’s office, allowing you to read your...
View ArticleSeptember 11, 2014 – Chip Technology
Headline: Can a ‘human on a chip’ advance medical science faster than other models? Elizabeth Tracey reports Medical research is a billion dollar undertaking that may soon be accelerated with use of...
View ArticleSeptember 12, 2014 – Infection and Inflammation
Anchor lead: New models for laboratory research help understand infections and inflammation better, Elizabeth Tracey reports Don’t be surprised if sometime soon your physician asks for a very small...
View ArticleOctober 29, 2014 – : Big Data Promise
Anchor lead: Has big data delivered on any of its promise in healthcare? Elizabeth Tracey reports Electronic medical records have been deployed nationally, and many researchers are attempting to glean...
View ArticleOctober 30, 2014 – Clinical Insight
Anchor lead: Big data from electronic medical records may help medical trials, Elizabeth Tracey reports Clinical trials are the gold standard by which much of medicine moves forward, but they’re...
View ArticleDecember 14, 2015 – Negative Results
Anchor lead: The NIH has mandated that all research results, including negative ones, be made available on their website, Elizabeth Tracey reports As a taxpayer, you’re contributing quite a lot to...
View ArticleDecember 28, 2015 – Who’s Buying
Anchor lead: Should you be concerned about decreased government funding for medical and scientific studies? Elizabeth Tracey reports More industry funded studies are taking place even while numbers of...
View ArticleDecember 29, 2015 – Evidence and Profit
Anchor lead: What should be done to compensate for industry objectives in scientific research? Elizabeth Tracey reports Should you be concerned that when a clinical trial is conducted by industry the...
View ArticlePodMed – Week of April 25, 2016
This week’s topics include reducing suicide, CABG plus medicines for some people, risk following TIA, and metformin first for type 2 diabetes. Program notes: 0:32 Look at a multitude of strategies to...
View ArticlePodMed – Week of August 15, 2016
This week’s topics include the impact of exercise on chronic medical conditions, more ICU care and outcomes, m-health and diabetes, and insurance status and cancer outcomes. 0:36 Diabetes and m-health...
View ArticleOctober 24, 2016 – Reproducibility
Anchor lead: As taxpayers, we’re all vested in scientific studies that can be reproduced, Elizabeth Tracey reports The majority of scientific studies are funded with taxpayer dollars through the NIH,...
View ArticleOctober 25, 2016 – Trial Results
Anchor lead: Why aren’t researchers putting complete trial data on the NIH’s website? Elizabeth Tracey reports January 2017 marks the point of no tolerance for the NIH, which has warned researchers...
View ArticleApril 14, 2017 – Cell Trash
Anchor lead: What used to be thought of as cellular trash turns out to have a function, Elizabeth Tracey reports What used to be thought of as a cellular garbage disposal now turns out to have a...
View ArticleApril 20, 2017 – Randomness
Anchor lead: Modifications to DNA may help cells adapt, Elizabeth Tracey reports Epi is a prefix that means on top of, and so-called epigenetic changes, those made on top of DNA, are known to be...
View ArticleApril 21, 2017 – Cancer and Entropy
Anchor lead: Cancer cells may utilize epigenetic changes even more than normal cells, Elizabeth Tracey reports DNA is modified by actual changes in the sequence, known as mutations, and by so-called...
View ArticleApril 24, 2017 – Solving Disparity
Anchor lead: How can salary disparities between physicians be overcome? Elizabeth Tracey reports Recent release of 2016 analysis of physician salaries reveals that gaps remain between men and women...
View ArticleApril 25, 2017 – Physician Burnout
Anchor lead: A new survey says most docs would choose medicine again, Elizabeth Tracey reports Burnout among medical professionals, especially doctors, is much in the news lately, but now a new survey...
View ArticleApril 26, 2017 – Mouse Models
Anchor lead: Are mice really any use in medical research? Elizabeth Tracey reports Mice are under fire in the scientific community lately, with detractors pointing out that discoveries made in this...
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