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March 31, 2015 – Two Pathways
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Anchor lead: Can finding a second pathway to heart failure help patients? Elizabeth Tracey reports Congestive heart failure kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, largely by one of two aberrant cellular pathways. While the first has been known …
March 30, 2015 – PDE 9
March 27, 2015 – Outcome Measures
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Anchor lead: How should you compare doctors and hospitals? Elizabeth Tracey reports Do physicians game the system when measures such as 30 day mortality are used to grade their performance, as a recent report suggests? Joseph Califano, a head and …
March 26, 2015 – Premedication in Elderly
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Anchor lead: Should premedication before surgery be used in elderly people? Elizabeth Tracey reports When older people undergo surgery, delirium sometimes results, with delayed or sometimes permanently impaired cognitive recovery. Can using medicines to alleviate anxiety contribute, as a recent …
March 25, 2015 – Premedication
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Anchor lead: Should medicine for anxiety be given before surgery? Elizabeth Tracey reports Sometimes people are so anxious before surgery they are given a medication to help. Now a new study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association …
March 24, 2015 – Modest Results
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Anchor lead: A trial called Finger took a comprehensive approach to slowing down Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Employing physical and mental activity, social interaction and nutritional intervention failed to appreciably slow down development of Alzheimer’s disease, a trial called …