Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:02 — 1.4MB)
Subscribe: RSS
Anchor lead: Fewer teenagers are smoking and vaping, Elizabeth Tracey reports There’s been a big decline in the number of US teenagers smoking cigarettes and vaping, the latest CDC data show. Mike Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:02 — 1.4MB)
Subscribe: RSS
Anchor lead: For people who have trouble speaking, an electrical current delivered through the skull may help, Elizabeth Tracey reports Primary progressive aphasia, or PPA, is medicalese for a condition where people have trouble speaking or naming things, but don’t …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05 — 1.5MB)
Subscribe: RSS
Anchor lead: People who have trouble communicating may have a condition called primary progressive aphasia, or PPA, and there is a therapy that may help, Elizabeth Tracey reports When someone has trouble talking, it may have a number of causes, …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:06 — 1.5MB)
Subscribe: RSS
Anchor lead: Can prescribing food help people with diabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you were prescribed healthy foods and brought to a pharmacy that provided them along with recipes and preparation methods, would that help you follow doctor’s orders? Yes, …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:06 — 1.5MB)
Subscribe: RSS
Anchor lead: A new class of drugs is very effective at reducing LDL cholesterol, Elizabeth Tracey reports PCSK9 inhibitors. The name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue but several new studies have shown that this class of injectable medications is …
