10 min

PodMed – Week of October 9, 2017 PodMed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

    • Medicine

This week’s topics include how the Zika virus changed, outcomes after surgery and health literacy, e-cigarettes and healthcare costs, and a reaction to tattooing.



Program notes:



0:36 Case report of an outcome after a tattoo

1:32 Reaction to the tattoo ink but not cancer

2:32 Not cancer just a reaction

2:46 Mutations in the Zika virus

3:44 More likely to have brain malformation

4:46 Lot of controversy over this study

5:00 Health literacy and outcomes after surgery

6:01 No correlation with readmission

7:02 Very few minority patients

7:15 E-cigarettes and cost savings

8:15 People still had exposure to nicotine

9:15 How to quantify e-cigarette safety

10:39 End



Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/10/09/e-cigarette-benefits/

This week’s topics include how the Zika virus changed, outcomes after surgery and health literacy, e-cigarettes and healthcare costs, and a reaction to tattooing.



Program notes:



0:36 Case report of an outcome after a tattoo

1:32 Reaction to the tattoo ink but not cancer

2:32 Not cancer just a reaction

2:46 Mutations in the Zika virus

3:44 More likely to have brain malformation

4:46 Lot of controversy over this study

5:00 Health literacy and outcomes after surgery

6:01 No correlation with readmission

7:02 Very few minority patients

7:15 E-cigarettes and cost savings

8:15 People still had exposure to nicotine

9:15 How to quantify e-cigarette safety

10:39 End



Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/10/09/e-cigarette-benefits/

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