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July 28, 2016 – Calling for a Consult
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Anchor lead: You can ask for a palliative care consultation yourself, Elizabeth Tracey reports Many people with troubling and sometimes disabling symptoms of chronic health conditions aren’t offered palliative care, a medical specialty devoted to helping people live best with …
July 26, 2016 – Euthanasia
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Anchor lead: How much euthanasia and physician assisted suicide takes place around the world? Elizabeth Tracey reports How often do people choose euthanasia and physician assisted suicide in places where it is legal? That was the subject of a recent …
July 25,2016 – HPV Cancers
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Anchor lead: Even as rates of many cancer types are falling, one keeps rising, Elizabeth Tracey reports Human papilloma viruses cause cancer, and that’s why a vaccine has been developed against the most common cancer causing types. Yet new data …
July 22, 2016 – Blood Brain Barrier
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Anchor lead: Could a new technique help deliver therapies to the brain? Elizabeth Tracey reports Our brains are protected from the rest of our circulation by something called the blood brain barrier, but this elegant system keeps therapies from crossing …
July 21, 2016 – Parkinson Increase?
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Anchor lead: Are the numbers of people who develop Parkinson’s disease increasing? Elizabeth Tracey reports Parkinson’s disease has a number of symptoms, but perhaps the most distressing is the tremor that accompanies movement, rendering even the most common tasks challenging. …
July 19, 2016 – Military Model
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Anchor lead: How much of the military’s advances can be applied to civilian medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Almost all of trauma medicine relies on interventions developed on the battlefield, with a recently reported study identifying a number of strategies that …