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May 30, 2016 – Telemedicine and Urgent Care
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Anchor lead: Should you choose telemedicine if you need medical care urgently? Elizabeth Tracey reports Telemedicine has proven really helpful for many people, including those with things like Parkinson’s disease, some skin conditions, and psychiatric visits in underserved areas. But …
May 27, 2016 – Regional Team
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Anchor lead: How can harms for emergency surgeries be reduced? Elizabeth Tracey reports Seven operations account for the majority of complications, costs and death associated with emergency surgery, a recent study found. Robert Higgins, director of surgery at Johns Hopkins, …
May 26, 2016 – Seven Surgeries
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Anchor lead: Just a few surgeries top the list for emergencies and deaths, Elizabeth Tracey reports A mere seven operations top the list for common procedures performed as emergencies, and also account for 80 percent of deaths, costs relative to …
May 25, 2016 – CMV Vaccine
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Anchor lead: Can public awareness drive a vaccine for CMV infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports Zika virus infection during pregnancy is a problem, but possibly even greater is cytomegalovirus, or CMV, research by Ravit Boger, a pediatric infectious disease expert at …
May 24, 2016 – CMV and Learning
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Anchor lead: Exposure to the CMV virus during pregnancy may lead to learning disabilities in children, Elizabeth Tracey reports CMV, or cytomegalovirus, is an important cause of newborn abnormalities worldwide, likely a much bigger problem than Zika, Ravit Boger, a …
May 23, 2016 – More Than Zika
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Anchor lead: If you’re worried about Zika virus infection, perhaps you should think of another virus, too, Elizabeth Tracey reports Cytomegalovirus, abbreviated CMV, is a highly infectious virus that most likely far outstrips Zika virus infections during pregnancy as a …