Opioid Prescribing: Rising to the Challenge
An opioid abuse epidemic now plagues US healthcare. It was caused, in part, by overzealous advocacy for controlling chronic pain resulting in overuse of narcotics. There are now 2 million Americans ad...
15 Mar 201623min
Treating Geriatric Polypharmacy by Deintensifying Unnecessary Diabetes Treatment
Polypharmacy is a rapidly worsening problem that hits elderly patients particularly hard. As patients grow older, they need more medications but at the same time become less capable of managing the c...
8 Mar 201627min
2015 Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations for Women at Average Risk
The American Cancer Society breast cancer screening guidelines have been changed to recommend annual screening for women older than 45 and every other year screening for women older than 55. Older wom...
23 Feb 201622min
Antibiotic Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults
Community acquired pneumonia accounts for 600,000 hospital admissions a year. Many patients with this disease are quite ill and have a very high mortality. To save lives, the appropriate antibiotics s...
9 Feb 201618min
New Dietary Guidelines
The 2015-2020 US Dietary Guidelines for Americans were recently released. They are intended to provide guidance for health policy officials and clinicians regarding healthy diets and establishing goal...
2 Feb 201625min
Peripheral Neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy is a highly prevalent and morbid condition affecting 2% to 7% of the population. Patients frequently experience pain and are at risk of falls, ulcerations, and amputations. It is...
19 Jan 201626min
Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Constipation
Constipation is one of the most frequent problems clinicians are asked to deal with. Despite how common it is, constipation is frequently not treated adequately. In this podcast, Arnold Wald, MD, expl...
12 Jan 201627min
Antibiotics vs Appendectomy for Uncomplicated Appendicitis Treatment
Appendicitis is one of the most common reasons people undergo abdominal surgery. Lost in history are the reasons why appendectomy was performed in the first place, and in the hundred years since appen...
29 Des 201519min
