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This week’s topics include managing hypertension in those 80 and older, new cholesterol guidelines cost-effectiveness, a new agent to reduce potassium in the blood, and community-acquired pneumonia. Program notes: 0:40 Community acquired pneumonia 1:37 2/3 of time couldn’t find an …
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This week’s topics include open versus microsurgical laminectomy, PT versus surgery for lumbar issues, sudden cardiac death and exercise, benefits of leisure time, moderate or vigorous exercise on mortality, and height and coronary artery disease. Program notes: 0:35 Height and …
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Anchor lead: Nurses get sidelined by chronic injury quite often, Elizabeth Tracey reports The daily grind of working on your feet, lifting people who can’t help themselves and a host of other tasks frequently result in chronic injury for nurses, …
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Anchor lead: How many medicines can someone with chronic fatigue syndrome or severe exercise intolerance disease expect to take? Elizabeth Tracey reports Systemic exercise intolerance disease or SEID is the new name for chronic fatigue syndrome, and it is thought …
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Anchor lead: There is evidence from testing to help make the diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome or systemic exercise intolerance disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports If you suspect you have chronic fatigue syndrome, newly renamed SEID or systemic exercise intolerance disease, …
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Anchor lead: What’s behind a recent name change for chronic fatigue syndrome? Elizabeth Tracey reports Chronic fatigue syndrome, abbreviated by some providers as CFS, has been renamed by no less an august body than the Institute of Medicine, at the …
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This week’s topics include a name change for chronic fatigue syndrome, iron supplementation after blood donation, benefits of alcohol consumption, and more death relative to smoking. Program notes: 0:35 Deaths due to smoking 1:35 Adjusted for age, race and other …
