32: Weekly Dose Podcast: Global Diabetes Gaps, Declining Salt Substitute Use, Flu Vaccine Safety, Vaginal Estradiol, and Preconception CT Risks

33: Weekly Dose Podcast: CRC Screening, Gestational Diabetes, Food Noise, Vaccine Attitudes, and MI Etiology

This week’s podcast reviews new findings on colonoscopy adherence, rt-CGM in gestational diabetes, semaglutide and food noise, vaccine attitudes, and MI etiology.

32: Weekly Dose Podcast: Global Diabetes Gaps, Declining Salt Substitute Use, Flu Vaccine Safety, Vaginal Estradiol, and Preconception CT Risks

In this episode of the Weekly Dose Podcast by Patient Care Online, we review key clinical updates for primary care professionals. Topics include global disparities in diabetes diagnosis and control, the underuse of salt substitutes for hypertension prevention, and new vaccine research showing high-dose flu shots are safe for older adults. The episode also covers women’s health studies on the safety of vaginal estradiol after stroke and potential reproductive risks linked to preconception CT scans. The roundup emphasizes prevention, detection, and safe management across primary care.

30: Weekly Dose Podcast: Depression Risk After Chronic Illness, Vaginal Estradiol Safety, GLP-1 Updates, Cancer Risk Reduction, and CVD Outcomes

In this episode of the Weekly Dose podcast by Patient Care Online, we review recent studies on key clinical topics: the heightened risk of depression after chronic illness diagnosis, the safety of vaginal estradiol for women with prior stroke, the approval of generic liraglutide for obesity, the potential cancer risk reduction with GLP-1 therapies, and cardiovascular benefits of semaglutide in patients with obesity. The episode highlights important findings and their implications for clinical practice, offering health care professionals timely updates across mental health, women’s health, obesity management, cancer prevention, and cardiovascular care.

25: Weekly Dose: New Endocrine Guidelines, Digital Asthma Gains, AI Trust Gap, GLP-1 & Dementia Risk, First CHE Treatment

This week’s Weekly Dose covers new Endocrine Society guidelines on preexisting diabetes in pregnancy and primary aldosteronism screening, a digital asthma management tool that improved symptoms but revealed disparities, public perceptions of physicians using AI, evidence linking GLP-1 receptor agonists to reduced dementia risk, and the FDA’s first approved treatment for chronic hand eczema.

24: Weekly Dose: Pediatric Vaccine Safety, Atopic Dermatitis, Dementia Risk, and Maternal Depression

In this episode of the Weekly Dose, Patient Care editors review recent studies on key health care topics. Highlights include health care professionals’ views on diets and nutrition training, the link between cycling and reduced dementia risk, the role of tau pathology in late-life depression, the safety of aluminum in childhood vaccines, and the impact of maternal depression on parenting.