Annals of Internal Medicine Podcast

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-S

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.

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.

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.

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 Direct

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 Lautenba

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 Fitzgera

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.

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. Pl

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 eff