Podcast 8: News and interview with Dr. Mary Tinetti, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale

We talk with Mary Tinetti about falls in the elderly and how to prevent them.

Journal Watch links

• It’s Safe to Eat Tomatoes Again, FDA Says
• U.S. Measles Hits 11-Year High – Most Cases Were Unvaccinated
• Which Lipids Mark MI Risk Best?
• Elderly Benefit from Joint Replacement, but Many Never Get the Option

FDA and Tomatoes

• http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/718/3
• http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01862.html

Measles

• http://www.cdc.gov/Features/MeaslesUpdate/
• http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/714/1

Apolipoprotein B/A1 ratio.

• http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/718/2
• http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608610764/abstract

Joint replacement in the elderly

• http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/715/1
• http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/168/13/1430

Dr. Tinetti interview

• http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/359/3/252
• http://www.fallprevention.org/
• http://nihseniorhealth.gov/

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