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Anchor lead: The Apple watch may help people with epilepsy, Elizabeth Tracey reports The Apple watch is more than a status symbol, a new study underway at Johns Hopkins proves. It is a critical tool underpinning efforts to understand seizures …
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Anchor lead: Can a comprehensive approach to treatment stave off development of schizophrenia? Elizabeth Tracey reports An episode of psychosis that often is quite prolonged may be the first symptom that schizophrenia is in the offing, and if that episode …
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Anchor lead: Does a genetic test to assess breast cancer recurrence risk deliver? Elizabeth Tracey reports Oncotype is a commercially available genetic test for breast tumors that’s now been validated for women with low risk disease, a recent study in …
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Anchor lead: Should the FDA mandate low nicotine cigarettes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Smoking low nicotine cigarettes seems to result in more smokers making cessation attempts, a recent New England Journal of Medicine study found. Enid Neptune, a lung expert at …
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Anchor lead: Are low nicotine cigarettes the answer to smoking cessation? Elizabeth Tracey reports Smokers who had no intention of quitting the habit and who were provided with low nicotine cigarettes make twice as many attempts to stop smoking as …
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Anchor lead: Who should really take a calcium supplement? Elizabeth Tracey reports Calcium supplements are very popular, with a recent survey finding one in three or one in two women taking them. Yet two studies in the British Medical Journal …
