Podcast 9: News and interview with Prof. Robert Hogg, British Columbia Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver.

This week, Robert Hogg gives us his perspective on the increasing longevity seen with HIV infection in high-income countries.

Journal Watch links

• Lipid Screening in Childhood – New Recommendations from the AAP
• Consensus Statement Issued for Managing Prediabetes
• Medicare to Reimburse Doctors Extra for Electronic Prescriptions

Lipid screening in children

• http://pediatrics.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/716/1
• http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/122/1/198

Corticosteroid insufficiency

• http://hospital-medicine.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/721/1
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18496365?dopt=Abstract

Managing prediabetes

• http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/724/1
• http://www.aace.com/meetings/consensus/hyperglycemia/hyperglycemia.pdf

Medicare reimbursement

• http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/723/3
• http://www.hhs.gov/news/facts/eprescribing.html

Shoot Out the Lights

• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121692767218982013.html

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