Welcome to the 2 Minute Medicine® Podcast, summarizing the latest medical studies, curated and written by practicing physicians. On this podcast, twice a month, we cover the latest in healthcare news and research evidence.

We begin this episode by discussing our two articles of the week. Our first article of the week comes from the New England Journal of Medicine and is entitled “Postexposure Doxycycline to Prevent Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections.” Our second article of the week comes from the New England Journal of Medicine and is entitled “Trial of Hybrid Closed-Loop Control in Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes.”

(00:00) Introduction.

(01:25) First article of the week.

(04:10) Second article of the week.

In the second half of our episode, we bring a medical eye to popular events. In this episode, we take a closer look at how around 15 million Americans could lose their Medicaid coverage, discuss aerospace medicine, Hugh Jackman’s skin cancer scare, earth day, and more!

(06:52) The scan “Millions off medicaid”

(09:28) Aerospace medicine.

(11:28) Hugh Jackman and skin cancer

(13:04) Earth day.

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The 2 Minute Medicine® Podcast- Episode 13