Category: Health Newsfeed

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Anchor lead: Violence against nurses on the job has increased, Elizabeth Tracey reports The last decade has seen an over 100% increase in violence against nurses on the job, US Labor Department statistics reveal. Ron Langlotz, director of nursing for …

December 26, 2016 – Violence Against Nurses Read more »

Posted on Posted in All Podcasts, Critical Care Medicine, Health Newsfeed, Surgery, Surgical Care
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Anchor lead: When frailty is factored in, surgery outcomes are better, Elizabeth Tracey reports Frailty in an older person who needs surgery can be assessed and planned for by a multidisciplinary team, with a dramatic reduction in mortality, a recent …

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Posted on Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Death and Dying, Health Newsfeed
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Anchor lead: While psilocybin can be helpful to people with cancer, caution is needed, Elizabeth Tracey reports Psilocybin helped people with cancer relieve depression and anxiety, a study conducted jointly at Johns Hopkins and NYU has shown. Roland Griffiths, a …

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Posted on Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Health Newsfeed, Pediatrics
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Anchor lead:  Even when they’ve survived, those who had cancer as children continue to be concerned, Elizabeth Tracey reports Data on surviving childhood cancer get better and better, but now a study in Annals of Internal Medicine finds that those …

December 20, 2016 – Surviving Childhood Cancer Read more »