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 and dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at Texas Tech, look at the top medical stories of the week.
This week's topics include complications following surgery for urinary incontinence, real-life data on HIV prevention in high-risk men, transmission of pertussis among siblings, and telemedicine recommendations.
Program notes:
0:35 Surgical treatment for urinary incontinence
1:35 Followed almost 60,000 women
2:39 Reassuring but daunting for women who need it
3:37 Mean age 52
3:50 Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV
4:52 Behavior was somewhat riskier
5:54 Minor side effects common
7:10 Two thirds from immediate family
8:10 Recommendations regarding telemedicine
9:17 Supports expanded role
10:45 End