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Questioning Medicine

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  • Join Andrew on a medical rollercoaster as we ask a medical question and answer it based on recent published papers.

    Copyright 2024 Questioning Medicine
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  • Episode 320: 319. President Biden has COVID, Should the First Lady Take Paxlovid?

    Episode 320: 319. President Biden has COVID, Should the First Lady Take Paxlovid?
    Jul 18 2024

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309002
    In this placebo-controlled trial, postexposure prophylaxis with nirmatrelvir–ritonavir for 5 or 10 days did not significantly reduce the risk of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.


    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309003

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2118542


    Pfizer has some serious problems! #pfizer
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    9 mins
  • Episode 319: 318. Risk of Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in Patients Prescribed Semaglutide

    Episode 319: 318. Risk of Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in Patients Prescribed Semaglutide
    Jul 17 2024
    Risk of Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in Patients Prescribed Semaglutide


    this paper out in JAMA makes you think this is an issue but likely just too much noise with only 17 patietns and didnt control for confounders




    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/2820255
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    10 mins
  • Episode 318: 317. METHODS MONDAY- What is a Confounder?

    Episode 318: 317. METHODS MONDAY- What is a Confounder?
    Jul 15 2024

    Be careful, most observational data have a large amount of confounders not accounted for and even when accounted for you can never account for all the confounders
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    10 mins
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