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Anchor lead: A new vaccine against tuberculosis brings hope, Elizabeth Tracey reports A new tuberculosis vaccine protects about 50% of the people who receive it from contracting the infection, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found. …
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Anchor lead: Can a finding in gambling monkeys help people control risk taking behavior? Elizabeth Tracey reports A specific brain area has been shown to impact a trained monkey’s risk-taking choices, a Johns Hopkins study reveals. Veit Stuphorn, a neuroscientist …
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Anchor lead: A new study in monkeys helps understand risk taking behavior, Elizabeth Tracey reports Training monkeys to gamble has identified a new brain region involved in the actual process of choosing to take risks, researchers at Johns Hopkins have …
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Anchor lead: How can we promote genetic testing among close relatives of those with cancer-related mutations? Elizabeth Tracey reports Cascade testing is a strategy for testing close relatives of someone with a known mutation for cancer, with a new study …
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Anchor lead: If you’re at increased risk for a cardiovascular event, statins may be your best prevention strategy, Elizabeth Tracey reports In the wake of the ASPREE trial, where daily aspirin in healthy older folks didn’t reduce cardiovascular disease but …
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Anchor lead: Is there anyone who still should use aspirin daily? Elizabeth Tracey reports A daily aspirin didn’t help reduce cardiovascular events in healthy older people, a recent large study called ASPREE found. Erin Michos, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins, …
