This week’s topics include best practices for flu immunization, when to implant a defibrillator after a heart attack, benefit lack in using nontraditional factors to predict coronary artery disease, and which foods cause the majority of food borne illness.

Program notes:
0:27 Food borne illnesses
1:28 Over 1500 separate outbreaks
2:25 Goes for foods with a peel as well
3:11 Lack of impact with nontraditional risk factors
4:11 Don’t have data to show their benefit
5:11 Early implantation of defibrillators isn’t helpful
6:10 Defibrillators improve survival late after event
6:59 Two studies related to flu vaccination
7:59 Earlier we can immunize the more effective
9:00 Who should get vaccinated?
9:45 End

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