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 lowering cholesterol and outcomes, a new agent for ulcerative colitis, handgun purchases after mass shooting events, and bystander CPR and long-term outcomes.
Program notes:
0:31 Handgun purchases after mass shootings
1:31 Gun purchases tripled over time period
2:31 Constraints on gun research
2:45 Bystander CPR and use of defibrillators
3:45 More likely to be alive 1 year later
4:32 PCSK-9 and cardiovascular outcomes
5:32 27,000 patients
6:33 Lower we get it the better
7:21 New agent for ulcerative colitis
8:21 Twice as effective at inducing remission
9:21 Will become part of the standard therapy
10:09 End