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Podcast title Conversations in Medicine
Website URL http://www.clinicalpodcast.com...
Description A chat with the author of important, newly published research or with some other leading clinician.
Updated Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:15:00 EST
Category Science & Medicine
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Episodes

1. A heart transplant he raised issues that many clinicians could face regarding cardiac transplantation in older patients
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Description: When former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant he raised issues that many clinicians could face regarding cardiac transplantation in older patients. Mary Norine Walsh, MD, is chair of the ACC Patient Centered Care Committee as well as Medical Director of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at St. Vincent Heart Center of Indianapolis, Indiana.

2. Oral food challenge tolerance rates are higher in patients with asthma
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Description: Oral food challenge tolerance rates are higher in patients with asthma, according to Carrie Lee, APNP, and Monica Vasudek, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They spoke about their study.

3. How doctors die
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Description: With Ken Murray, MD, retired University of Southern California clinical faculty member and family practitioner in Burbank. His article, "How Doctors Die," can be found at http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/read/nexus/

4. Some patients with pacemakers or defibrillators can safely have MRI
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Description: With Saman Nazarian, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, discussing his article in Annals of Internal Medicine.

5. African Americans are more likely to excrete protein in their urine than whites.
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Description: With William McClellan, Jr., MD, professor of medicine at Emory University.

6. Video:Alcohol consumption effects symptom severity in fibromyalgia
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Description: Terry H. Oh, MD, and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, studied 946 patients with fibromyalgia and found that low and moderate alcohol drinkers had significantly better scores than non-drinkers on the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) physical function and job ability scales and better SF-36 scores on physical functioning, pain index, and physical component summary scales.

7. Infants born to mothers who took DHA during pregnancy have fewer colds and shorter illnesses
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Description: With Beth Imhoff-Kunsch, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Emory and co-author of a study published in the journal Pediatrics.

8. Video: The emerging problem of community-acquired Clostridium difficile
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Description: Clostridium difficile infection is an important cause of intestinal disease, one generally associated with the inpatient setting. But recent changes in the epidemiology of the disease show a rise in community-acquired cases outside the hospital among those without traditional risk factors. Erik Dubberke, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA, notes that recently discharged patients are at highest risk of C. difficile infection.

9. Report from ICAAC: The emergence of gram-negative resistance
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