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This week’s topics include sickle cell trait and HbA1c, carcinogen levels and e-cigarettes, mutations and myelodysplastic syndrome, and kids ingesting pet medicines. Program notes: 0:33 Kids eating medicines intended for pets 1:34 Retrospective poison center data 2;28 Must have appropriate …
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This week’s topics include heart problems and e-cigarettes, aortic valve replacement, the health impact of low socioeconomic status, and real life lung cancer screening data. Program notes: 0:33 Risk for premature death 1:33 Low SES more important than most other …
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Anchor lead: A new treatment offers hope for people with non-small cell lung cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports A new type of therapy for people with non-small lung cancer, which has historically been very hard to treat, has shown quite promising …
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Anchor lead: Some tumors evade the best defenses, Elizabeth Tracey reports Even as cancer treatments are becoming more targeted and specific, some tumors are demonstrating their ability to evade them, a recent case report in the New England Journal of …
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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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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 …
