By Rick Lange, MD, and Elizabeth Tracey
Johns Hopkins Medicine Published: August 31, 2012
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, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, look at the top medical stories of the week.
This week's topics include screening adults for hepatitis C, circumcision in male infants, cannabis use in adolescence, and benefits of exercise in avoiding chronic disease in aging.
Program notes:
0:39 Midlife fitness and avoiding chronic disease
1:32 Stress test at fifty and how that correlated with eight chronic diseases
2:37 Hepatitis C screening
3:36 Those born between 1945 and 1965
4:22 Circumcision in infant males
5:21 Health benefits outweigh the risks
6:21 Decreased risk of HIV by 60%
6:49 Cannabis use in adolescence
7:49 Neuropsychological testing both before and after
8:43 Even with cessation it doesn't help
9:16 Are some therapeutic benefits
10:22 End
This week's topics include screening adults for hepatitis C, circumcision in male infants, cannabis use in adolescence, and benefits of exercise in avoiding chronic disease in aging.
Program notes:
0:39 Midlife fitness and avoiding chronic disease
1:32 Stress test at fifty and how that correlated with eight chronic diseases
2:37 Hepatitis C screening
3:36 Those born between 1945 and 1965
4:22 Circumcision in infant males
5:21 Health benefits outweigh the risks
6:21 Decreased risk of HIV by 60%
6:49 Cannabis use in adolescence
7:49 Neuropsychological testing both before and after
8:43 Even with cessation it doesn't help
9:16 Are some therapeutic benefits
10:22 End
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