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January 23, 2015 – HPV not Pap

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Health Newsfeed

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Anchor lead: Screening for cervical cancer will now consist largely of HPV screening, Elizabeth Tracey reports Women in the US are accustomed to having a Pap smear to assess their risk of cervical cancer. Now new guidelines employ testing for …

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January 22, 2015 – Target Audience

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Heart And Vascular

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Anchor lead: A program in rural Maine shows that targeting your audience really does help reduce heart disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Forty years of data don’t lie: when residents of a rural Maine county took part in a targeted risk …

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January 21, 2015 – Group Effort

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Heart And Vascular

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Anchor lead: When people are educated to reduce risk factors for heart disease, the payoffs are big, Elizabeth Tracey reports Take one low resource county in rural Maine with lots of at risk residents for heart disease, add a comprehensive …

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January 20, 2015 – Random Nature

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Health Newsfeed

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Anchor lead: If most of cancer is due to bad luck should we just give up now? Elizabeth Tracey reports Two-thirds of cancer cases are due to bad luck, a slew of recent headlines trumpeted after the publication of a …

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January 19, 2015 – Mutation Accretion

Posted on January 16, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Cancer, Health Newsfeed

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Anchor lead: What should we make of the bad luck factor in cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports Is the majority of cancer due to simple bad luck? That’s one interpretation of a recent Johns Hopkins study published in the journal Science. …

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January 16, 2015 – Change in Treatment

Posted on January 8, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Neurology And Neurosurgery

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Anchor lead: Using mechanical techniques as well as drugs may improve stroke outcomes, Elizabeth Tracey reports If the clot busting drug called TPA fails to dissolve the blood clot when someone has a stroke, what should be done? A new …

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January 15, 2015 – Clot Removal

Posted on January 8, 2015 Posted in All Podcasts, Health Newsfeed, Neurology And Neurosurgery

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Anchor lead: What’s the best way to remove blood clots from the brain? Elizabeth Tracey reports Stroke experts are jubilant at results of a study reported recently where mechanical techniques to remove blood clots from the brains of people who …

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Category: Health Newsfeed

January 23, 2015 – HPV not Pap

January 22, 2015 – Target Audience

January 21, 2015 – Group Effort

January 20, 2015 – Random Nature

January 19, 2015 – Mutation Accretion

January 16, 2015 – Change in Treatment

January 15, 2015 – Clot Removal