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This week’s topics include dangers of newer oral contraceptives, elevated thyroid hormone and fractures, aflatoxin and gallbladder cancer, and HDL cholesterol efflux and heart disease. Program notes: 0:34 Newer oral contraceptives and risk of VTE 1:31 VTE and older and …
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This week’s topics include chest pain in the ED, long term effects of lithium, steroids and sciatica, and new asthma treatment. Program notes: 0:50 Asthma management 1:50 Modified DNA enzymes 2:31 Lithium and kidney, thyroid and parathyroid 3:31 Increased risk …
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Anchor lead: Family histories don’t rule when it comes to breast cancer prognosis, Elizabeth Tracey reports Do women who’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer need to worry about what’s happened to relatives with the disease? No, a study of several …
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Anchor lead: Can a supplement reduce some skin cancer recurrences? Elizabeth Tracey reports Skin cancers are very common, and although only melanoma is usually life-threatening, they can require disfiguring surgery and often recur. Now an Australian study shows that in …
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Anchor lead: A team approach may help in pulmonary embolism, Elizabeth Tracey reports. Pulmonary embolism, abbreviated PE, is when a blood clot forms in the blood vessels to the lung and may be life-threatening. People with cancer, trauma, those who …
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Anchor lead: Can targeting a single enzyme help both heart failure and arrhythmias? Elizabeth Tracey reports Heart failure and disordered beating of the heart known as arrhythmia are killers, but as different as they appear clinically they have an enzyme …
