Podcast 38: A conversation about using PPIs in poorly controlled asthma — rather, not using them — with Robert A. Wise of Johns Hopkins.

There are lots of people with poorly controlled asthma who are on PPIs, but don’t need to be. That’s the clear implication of research just published in the New England Journal of Medicine. We’ll talk with a member of the writing committee, Dr. Robert A. Wise.

If you like what you hear, call 1-617-440-4374, and if you don’t, the number’s the same — call anyway.

Here are the principal links for this week’s podcast:

• PPIs Don’t Improve Asthma Control
• Exercise Training Brings ‘Modest Results’ in Heart Failure
• Many Healthy Older Adults Not Being Screened for Colorectal Cancer
• ACC/AHA Release Consensus Document on Pulmonary Hypertension

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