🕗 Medical Devices: Beyond Pills and Vaccines Ep. 275

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Most pills are taken daily, and many vaccines protect for around a year, but could medical device products last even longer? In this episode of the Monday Morning Minute, Dr. Michael Koren joins Kevin Geddings and explains what medical devices are and how they can make long-term differences for patients. The two discuss device treatments for diabetes, weight loss, atrial fibrillation, blood pressure, and how AI may be able to help.

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Episode Transcript

Announcer (00:00):
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(00:20):
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Kevin Geddings (00:30):
Dr.
Michael Koren, of coursemedical doctor, cardiologist,
also research scientist and heheads up the show with ENCORE
Research Group.
He's local, right here in ourpart of Northeast ENCORE
Research Group, with officesnext door to UF Flagler Hospital
in the Whetstone building,where they are recruiting for
all kinds of leading clinicaltrials.
Leading edge clinical trials.
We're going to talk about oneof those in just a second, but

(00:50):
we wanted to talk this morningabout the topic of medical
products.
A lot of times we're talkingabout pills and vaccines and
things that you can take, butthere's some progress being made
with just medical products,right?

Dr. Michael Koren (01:04):
Yeah, it's a very interesting, subtle but
constant change in the directionof medicine, and what I mean by
that is we're always lookingfor different ways of innovating
, and for many years thoseinnovations were mostly pills or
vaccines, as you point out, butmore and more we're seeing this

(01:24):
approach to treating medicalproblems that looks at
procedures for quote morepermanent results.
So, for example, right nowwe're doing a really, really
interesting study for peoplewith, let's say, diabetes or
people who are overweight or whohave both problems, and what

(01:44):
we're doing is we're askingpeople first to take some
medication to control theirweight, Semaglutide as or
Ozempic Mounjaro that that typeof medicine and then to try to
maintain long-term results,we're then inviting them to have
a procedure where part of theirsmall intestine is ablated.
I.

(02:04):
e.
that means that what we'redoing is reducing the ability of
those cells to absorb certainnutrients.
That would lead to weight gainand to increases in blood sugar
levels.
So it's an interesting way oftaking something that we know
works short term, for example,the use of these drugs and
sustaining it over a longer term, so that perhaps someday people

(02:26):
can come off the drugs andstill have a sustained response
over a longer period of time.
So we're, as we speak,recruiting for that study and if
people are interested in thisconcept, please give us a call.
But again, this is part of alarger trend of doing more and
more things that are looking atprocedures.
We do procedures, for example,in the heart-calf lab, where we

(02:53):
put in new types of stents ornew types of devices that can
help the heart muscle getstronger.
We've been certainly involvedin things that, for example, use
a pacemaker to pace the carotidsinus, which helps lower blood
pressure and may make the heartstronger, through a device that
can be programmed and used basedon one's blood pressure and

(03:13):
one's needs in terms of theirheart muscle function.
And we also do using devicesthat use different type of
computer algorithms to helppeople decide when to take
diuretics or when to take othermedications.
So there's a fascinating newarea for medicine, which is not
just pills or vaccines.

Kevin Geddings (03:34):
Yeah, your opportunity out there, if you're
listening to us right now, toparticipate in some leading-edge
clinical research, medicalresearch, and not get involved
with necessarily vaccines ortaking pills, but even a
wearable device, something assimple as a like, might be
similar to your Apple watch,right?

Dr. Michael Koren (03:52):
Exactly Well, the Apple watch is one example
of a group that we work with interms of determining whether or
not these watches are good atdetecting atrial fibrillation.
We've also worked with Samsungon that, so a lot of really,
really interesting technologies.
But the main point that I thinkeverybody should take home with
is that there's ways oftreating things other than drugs

(04:14):
and vaccines, and if you'reinterested in that, give us a
call and we'll see if we have aprogram that fits your needs.

Kevin Geddings (04:20):
Well, once again , that phone number here locally
in Northeast Florida, includinghere in St Augustine and St
Johns County 904-730-0166 forEncore Docs, 904-730-0166.
And odds are you'll be going totheir offices right there at
the Whetstone building at UFFlagler hospital.
We've got a great team there,very relaxed environment.

(04:40):
I've participated in some ofthese trials.
Karen on our team has as well.
It's a it's a fun experienceand you actually feel like
you're, you know, making acontribution to society and get
a little compensation in theprocess.
So it's all good, go toEncoreDocs.
com, encoredocs.
com.
Before we let you go, Dr.
Koren, how about a little shoutout for MedEvidence, and if

(05:01):
people are looking for blank,they should check out
MedEvidencecom right.

Dr. Michael Koren (05:07):
Absolutely Everybody should check out
MedEvidence.
com.
I think you'll get a laugh outof this.
So there's been a lot of talkabout AI and you and I have
talked about it.
A lot of it is hype, but someof it's interesting and we'll
find out where AI fits intomedicine over the long run.
But we asked an AI bot to giveus a testimonial about med

(05:28):
evidence and the AI bot saidthat it used to Google its
symptoms and was alwaysconstantly worried that they had
this, that or the other illness.
Now they use MedEvidence andthey sleep better at night.

Kevin Geddings (05:41):
That's awesome.
That ought to be like turnedinto like a TV commercial.
That's amazing.

Dr. Michael Koren (05:47):
This is what AI said about MedEvidence.
So we have a very strongtestimonial from AI about how
wonderful MedEvidence is, socheck it out.

Kevin Geddings (05:56):
That's awesome.
That is funny.
Oh man, All right.
Well, Dr.
Koren, we always appreciate youtaking time out of your busy
schedule to be with us on Mondaymornings.
We hope you have a good weekand stay safe out there, okay.

Dr. Michael Koren (06:07):
Same to you, good talking to you.

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