Hot Off the Press With MedEvidence!

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Announcer 0:00

Welcome to the MedEvidence Monday Morning Radio Show, hosted by Kevin Geddings of WSOS and Augustine Radio, and powered by ENCORE Research Group. Each Monday morning, Dr. Michael Koren calls in to bring you the latest medical updates with a insightful discussions. MedEvidence is where we help you navigate the real truth behind medical research, both a clinical and research perspective. So sit back, relax, and get ready to learn about the truth behind the data in medicine and healthcare. This is MedEvidence!

Kevin Geddings 0:30

Joining me live on the studio line right now, Dr. Michael Koren, medical doctor, cardiologist, and research scientist, and also the founder of MedEvidence, which we talk a lot about here at WSOS. I want you to check out the website medevidence.com. That's medevidence.com, the truth behind all the healthcare data that's swirling around the internet universe, right, Dr. Koren?

Dr. Michael Koren 0:51

It is, it is. You actually have me today when I'm in the Med Evidence office. Often we talk early on Monday mornings when I'm driving into the office. But today at lunchtime, I'm actually here in the MedEvidence office in the heat of battle. So we will literally be getting information from different sources and figuring out what to project to our patient population and how to prepare some of our educational events. So right before I got online, I was working with Sharon Smith, who runs our MedEvidence office here, about training of doctors in Orlando for clinical research. So not only do we conduct trials, but we actually train other physicians on how to do their jobs. And we have our big annual training session in Orlando this weekend. So if there are any people in the clinical research industry that wants to be part of it, it's actually in Orlando on April 24th and 27th, to be precise. And it's a CME program where uh medical professionals can get information and get credit for that information. And it's a it's a wonderful meeting. It's a neat meeting and it's what we're doing as we speak. So I know that's probably not something that most of your listeners would necessarily do, but you may find one or two out there that'd be interested in the type of thing that we do here. So it's kind of a typical situation for us.

Chase 2:13

Dr. Koren, we just got word that the Journal of Clinical Investigation did a study that now losing too much body fat can harm your health.

Dr. Michael Koren 2:21

Hey Chase, come on. I uh you can say hello. This is Chase. She's one of our great people here at MedEvidence that actually is in charge of some of our social media uh outreach. So just say hello to everybody.

Chase 2:32

Hi guys.

Dr. Michael Koren 2:34

So this so hold on, Chase, come on. I let's just go over this. So this is hot off the press.

Chase 2:38

Hot off the press, even though we don't say that anymore.

Dr. Michael Koren 2:41

Oh, we we don't say hot off the press anymore. What do we say?

Chase 2:43

Uh just in.

Dr. Michael Koren 2:44

Just in. Okay, got it. All right. Well, I'm old school, So this is interesting. So, Kevin, this is kind of a typical thing that we look at. So this came out saying that if you lose too much body weight too fast, you can actually develop inflammation in your bloodstream, which you know is a really bad thing.

Kevin Geddings 3:02

Hmm

Dr. Michael Koren 3:02

So this is the type of thing that we sort of address in clinical trials. We do these clinical trials where we're not only looking to see how much weight people lose, but whether or not they develop inflammation or if that inflammation gets better during the course of time. So, for example, if somebody's interested in a weight loss study, give us a call because not only will we perhaps get them into a study where they'll get a GLP-1 for free, but we'll also monitor them in ways that they won't get monitored in standard practice. So I think that's kind of interesting. Thanks, Chase. This is really cool stuff. Thank you. Let's just definitely get this out on the website.

Chase 3:34

Sounds good.

Dr. Michael Koren 3:35

All right.

Kevin Geddings 3:38

No, and the website is MedEvidence.com. If you're just tuning in and wondering what we're talking about, uh it's a great resource, you know, because there's so much bad health information swirling around the internet, especially on Instagram and Google and places like that, or you're talking to artificial intelligence. This is a website, obviously, where they back up everything that they put out there with facts. And so that's the most important thing, right? Everything on MedEvidence.com is something we can trust, right, Dr. Koren?

Dr. Michael Koren 4:06

Absolutely. Yes. So we do this vetting process as uh you kind of just saw, where stories come in, and the stories that we think are most relevant and most trustworthy are the stuff that we will push out to the patient population. It's also something we use so that when we're running our clinical trials, we make sure that we're running the best clinical trials and that we keep our patients informed. You know, one of the key ethical principles of running clinical research is constantly keeping the patients informed so they're truly consented on the risks and benefits of what we're doing. So it's kind of a neat part of what we do, and MedEvidence is our platform to get that information out to the general public. So you know you kind of see what I do day to day. I actually uh..

Benton 4:47

Dr. Koren, got a new one hot off the press here.

Dr. Michael Koren 4:50

Uh so he's using my old school uh stuff. Just in, right?

Benton 4:54

Just in.

Dr. Michael Koren 4:54

All right, all right.

Benton 4:55

So this is actually.

Dr. Michael Koren 4:55

Hold on, just introduce yourself. This is Benton.

Benton 4:57

Oh hey Kevin, this is Benton. I talk to you every once in a while by email.

Dr. Michael Koren 5:01

He's actually great he's a great medical writer. So Benton has a lot of his articles on the Med Evidence website. And I learn from Benton every day. Thank you for the good work on your writing. But what's what's going on here?

Benton 5:11

So this is fresh out of England. It's a uh AI tool used to predict heart failure. And this is actually done at Oxford, so not really relevant, but we should probably keep an eye on it.

Dr. Michael Koren 5:19

Okay.

Benton 5:20

In case it starts coming over here, it was published in the American Journal of Cardiology.

Dr. Michael Koren 5:23

Okay. That's a good journal I published a lot there. Yeah, yeah. Is this the the study that we did with the app in St. Augustine?

Benton 5:29

No, it's not. This is uh this is all post-hoc. So the app we did was looking at people's speech patterns and how they change over time. And this is just looking at CT scan.

Dr. Michael Koren 5:38

Okay. That's interesting. So the study we did was actually an interventional study using AI, but it was a randomized study, and this is sort of a retrospective study.

Benton 5:48

Yeah.

Dr. Michael Koren 5:48

So the stuff that we did in St. Augustine is actually more state of the art than this.

Benton 5:51

I would think so.

Dr. Michael Koren 5:52

Yeah, that's that's really cool. Well, thanks for sharing that. But that's and it's in it's it predicts heart failure, right?

Benton 5:57

Yeah.

Dr. Michael Koren 5:57

Okay, which is obviously a huge problem. And it's an area that we're very actively involved now. So if somebody has told you who's listening that you've been diagnosed with heart failure, may want to come down to our St. Augustine site or other sites in our network and learn more about it and see if there's any cutting edge research that could be beneficial. Well, thank you for that. That's great. All right.

Kevin Geddings 6:17

Yeah, that's cool insight. You're right, because Dr. Koren, we've talked for many, many months about MedEvidence and how it's a great resource for people wanting accurate healthcare information from the internet. But uh now we got a little insight as to how it all comes together every day. It's pretty cool. Yeah, well, thank you. Thank you for that.

Dr. Michael Koren 6:34

Yeah, so I'm gonna get back to work here, Kevin. But any any other thoughts or questions or pressing issues from your end?

Kevin Geddings 6:39

Now we just need to make sure that folks check out the website, medevidence.com. The truth behind the data, that's medevidence.com. Dr. Michael Koren, thank you for taking time out during this lunchtime. We'll speak with you soon. Sounds great, Kevin. Have a great week.

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