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July 15, 2008   Play:
– Preventing venous thromboembolism after knee arthroscopy; the first clinical use of penicillin in the US; interview with Charles Grossman, MD; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

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July 1, 2008   Play:
– The safety of combination LABA and inhaled corticosteroid treatment for asthma; interview with Kevin Weiss, MD, of the American Board of Medical Specialties; perspectives on improving surrogate decision making; interview with Jeffrey Berger, MD, of SUNY-Stonybrook; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Listen (29:53 min, 14 Mb)

June 17, 2008   Play:
– Sequential therapy for Helicobacter pylori infection; comments from NIH Chemical Genomics Center Director Christopher Austin, MD on the state of genomics in clinical medicine; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Listen (18:35 min, 8.5 Mb)

Jun 3, 2008   Play:
– Subclinical thyroid disease and coronary heart disease; an interview with Paul Ladenson, MD, of Johns Hopkins University; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Listen (22:58 min, 11 Mb)

May 20, 2008   Play:
– A description of Annals' new ACP Journal Club section; interview with section editor R. Brian Haynes, MD, MSc, PhD, of McMaster University; comments from NIH Director Elias Zerhouni about the future of medical research. Plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Listen (31:36 min, 15 Mb)

May 6, 2008   Play:
– Lipid monitoring in patients on statins; an interview with Paul Glasziou, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Oxford; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Listen (21:13 min, 10 Mb)

April 15, 2008   Play:
– Testosterone for Treatment of Decreased Sexual Satisfaction in Women; comments from Rosemary Basson, MD, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada; plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

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April 1, 2008   Play:
– Treating tobacco dependence as a chronic disease; an interview with Michael Steinberg, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at UMDNJ in New Brunswick, NJ; and excerpts from a recent Institute of Medicine panel discussion, with comments from CBO Director Peter Orszag, PhD and AHRQ Director Carolyn Clancy, MD on the future of comparative effectiveness studies. Plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

Listen (36:00 min, 17 Mb)

March 18, 2008   Play:
– An overview of Massachusetts' health care reform effort; interview with Jon Kingsdale, PhD, Executive Director of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority; universal inpatient surveillance screening for MRSA with comments from Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE, of the University of Pennsylvania; plus a summary of the all the articles in this week's issue.

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March 4, 2008   Play:
– New tests for diagnosing tuberculosis; an interview with Dr. Dick Menzies, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics at McGill University in Montreal; and excerpts from an Institute of Medicine panel discussion, with comments from Dr. Mark McClellan on the future of comparative effectiveness studies. Plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

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February 19, 2008   Play:
– Drugs used to prevent contrast nephropathy; an interview with Dr. Aine Kelly, Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology at the VAMC and University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; more on multidrug resistant-MRSA; and "I Can't Be Bothered," by Dr. Faith Fitzgerald. Plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

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February 5, 2008   Play:
– The effects of Medicare Part D on older adults' expenses and prescription utilization; an interview with Dr. John Ayanian of Harvard Medical School on transitioning into Medicare coverage; and the comparative effectiveness of drugs to treat osteoporosis. Plus a summary of all the articles in this week's issue.

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January 15, 2008   Play:
– Multidrug resistant MRSA infection in men who have sex with men; an interview with study coauthors Binh Diep, PhD and Henry Chambers, MD, of the University of California San Francisco; and a systematic review of evidence for improving end-of-life care. Plus a summary of all the articles in this week’s issue.

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January 1, 2008   Play:
– What the U.S. can learn from the health care systems of other countries, with comments by Dr. Fred Ralston, Chair of the Health and Public Policy Committee of the ACP. Plus a summary of articles on the cost-effectiveness of digital mammography and the effect of drug concentration expressions on dosing errors.

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2007 - Volume 147        2008 - Volume 148 - Chinese


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