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This week’s topics include a novel vaccine delivery method, aspirin and preeclampsia, air pollution and mortality in seniors, and exercise and dementia. Program notes: 0:48 Acknowledge our listeners 1:48 Novel way to deliver flu vaccine 2:50 Side effects and effectiveness …

PodMed – Week of July 3, 2017 Read more »

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This week’s topics include how often women need pelvic exams, what we can learn from the oldest old, mouse allergens and asthma, and cardiometabolic death and diet. Program notes: 0 :30 Learning from the oldest old 1:30 Physical performance and …

PodMed – Week of March 13, 2017 Read more »

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This week’s topics include managing earwax, metformin and other diseases, atypical antipsychotics in palliative care, and firearm purchase without a background check. Program notes: 0:51 Managing ear wax 1:51 Industry relative to removal 2:53 Putting cotton swabs not good 3:31 …

PodMed – Week of January 9, 2017 Read more »

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This week’s topics include statins and Alzheimer’s, teen substance use, national mortality data, and psychiatric drug use in American adults. Program notes: 0:33 Cause specific mortality in the US 1:35 At over 80 million deaths 2:32 Not terribly surprising to …

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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: Could Parkinson’s disease spread from cell to cell like an infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports A protein known by the acronym LAG3 may be the key to understanding how Parkinson’s disease progresses in the brain, research by Ted Dawson …

November 1, 2016 – Parkinson’s Pathology Read more »