POEM of the Week Podcast

Episode 695: Monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer disease: A lack of clinically meaningful benefits, plus significant harms

Episode 694: Patient reminders combined with clinician audit and feedback increases human papillomavirus vaccine uptake

Episode 693: Canadian Thoracic Society guidelines for pharmacotherapy of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Episode 692: Scottish screening: 0 cases of invasive cervical cancer in women who received at least 1 dose of bivalent HPV vaccine at 12 or 13 years of age

Episode 691: High-dose recombinant flu vaccine: NNT = 3000 to prevent one more infection, no impact on hospitalization

Episode 690: Delivery of bad news via phone = in-person delivery

Episode 689: PCI is better than placebo for stable angina in patients who do not take anti-anginal medications (ORBITA-2)

Episode 688: Wait-and-watch is an option for patients with symptomatic but uncomplicated gallstones

Episode 687: Brexpiprazole improves agitation scores in adults with Alzheimer disease who have agitated behaviors

Episode 683: Cognitive behavioral therapy effective for patients with fatigue associated with long COVID

Episode 686: ACC/AHA guideline for the management of patients with chronic coronary disease

Episode 685: Positive, rather than negative, messaging of weight loss might motivate patients to try to lose weight

Episode 680: Wrong blood pressure cuff size can falsely increase or decrease readings

Episode 679: Early BP treatment for acute ischemic stroke has no impact on mortality or functional outcomes (CATIS-2)

Episode 682: The risk of breast cancer overdiagnosis is high for older women

Episode 681: Esketamine is superior to quetiapine for remission of treatment-resistant depression (ESCAPE-TRD)

Episode 678: Acetaminophen and ketorolac are more effective than morphine in alleviating pain in adults with renal colic

Episode 677: Terbinafine 250 mg once daily — 12 weeks on, 12 weeks off, 4 weeks on — is preferred for onychomycosis in adults

Episode 676: Nearly zero risk of sexually transmitting HIV when viral loads are less than 1000 copies per mL

Episode 684: Network meta-analysis: Limited data show that high-dose aspirin decreases incidence of colorectal cancer