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This podcast covers the landscape, from the latest findings in PTSD diagnosis, the use of supercomputers in clinical medicine, and tantalizing ovarian cancer screening test results that turned out not to be reproducible.

A study published this week reports that a machine known as magnetoencephalography can correctly identify PTSD 90% of the time.  Researchers at the VA in Minneapolis, Minnesota used technology that has been studied for years: imaging the activity of the brain using magnetic sensors.  Wikipedia has a nice article about the technique, but it should be noted that the Wikipedia article about Magneto the comic book character is probably longer.»

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NEJM reports study showing early pain medicine cuts PTSD rates in half?

A new study looks at using the videogame "Tetris" as an intervention to reduce PTSD. In a highly controlled environment (subjects shown a film to simulate trauma and the Tetris played within 30 minutes of the film) there were fewer traumatic flashbacks in the videogame group. The study got a favorable review on the usually skeptical NHS Behind the Headlines website which has had a very high quality of content reviewing current medical findings.

PTSD common in family members of ICU patients

Does Fosamax prevent fractures...or cause them? "I felt a fracture then I fell" says one patient.