International Medical News is a monthly podcast from Johns Hopkins Medicine. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Michael Klag, MD, MPH, dean of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, look at the top international news of the month gone by.
This month's topics include health events on airplanes, an update on the new coronavirus MERS, therapy for survivors of violence, and HIV's impact on global health.
Program notes:
0:11 Health events on airplanes
1:11 Most fainting or syncope
2:11 Great review for treating common problems in this setting
2:29 CDC update on MERS
3:30 New type of coronavirus
4:30 Two studies on group therapy in survivors of violence
5:30 Resulted in much better outcomes
6:30 HIV and its impact on global health
7:30 Everyone treated with antiretrovirals where resources are
8:31 How AIDS invented global health
9:30 Must have supranational view of disease
10:11 End
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