EDUC 8112 Podcast Reviews – Assignment Solution
Podcast Reviews
Step One: Prepare a page for your eportfolio titled, “Podcasts Reviews’
Number it 1 through 5.
Step Two: Review the topics below. Choose any five podcasts, one from each category listed below,
that peak your interest, or choose number eleven.
Please complete an audio review of, i.e. listen to, the Podcast Reviews:
1. The FDA strengthening warnings related to kidneys and the diabetes medicines canagliflozin
(Invokana, Invokamet) and dapagliflozin (Farxiga, Xigduo XR)
2. The FDA’s update evaluating burns and scars risk with Zecuity (sumatriptan) migraine patch use
3. Serious risks and death when combining opioid pain or cough medicines with benzodiazepines
4. A description revision of mental health side effects of stop-smoking medicines Chantix and Zyban
5. Updated information about blood clot risk in women taking birth control pills containing drospirenone
6. Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs safety label changes deemed important by the FDA
7. Burns associated with the use of over-the-counter topical muscle and joint pain relievers
8. Any one ‘Directors Corner’ podcast
9. Any one ‘Biomarker Qualification Program’ podcast
10. Any one ‘Drug Shortages’ podcast
11. Any two FDA podcasts of your choice not listed above and any three from the categories above.
Step Three: Listen to the podcast
Step Four: State the title of the podcast
Step Five: Provide a three to four sentence overview of each of these followed by
a single sentence stating your personal opinion or a subject relevant comment.
