Peanut Allergy Tx; Probiotics and Gastroenteritis: It's PodMed Double T!

PodMed Double T is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. 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 probiotics for gastroenteritis in kids, personality characteristics in adolescence and mortality risk, peanut allergy treatment and outcomes relative to chronic disease management based on providers.

Program notes:

0:45 Peanut allergy treatment

1:45 Placebo arm also

2:45 Start as early as possible?

3:35 PAs, nurse practitioners and physicians and diabetes management

4:35 Almost 370,000 patients

5:35 Stop calling them midlevel providers

6:10 Probiotics in gastroenteritis in kids

7:10 1,800 subjects

8:10 At least these two ineffective

8:20 Personality characteristics in teenage years and mortality

9:20 Impulsivity associated with increased risk

10:27 Most personality assessments done in older folks

11:48 End

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