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Anchor lead: Is there any benefit to aggressively lowering blood glucose in people with diabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports How low should blood sugar go to control the many consequences of diabetes, especially cardiovascular problems? For many years the thought was …
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This week’s topics include cavity shaving for breast tumors, long term outcomes in treated type 2 diabetes, addition of another agent to lower LDL cholesterol, and breast cancer screening recommendations. Program notes: 0:35 Breast tumor cavity shaving 1:35 Had surgeons …
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This week’s topics include autism and vaccines, oral insulin and diabetes prevention, management of first time seizures in adults, and long term effects of Ebola virus infection. Program notes: 0:40 Vaccines and autism 1:44 Looked at over 95,000 children 2:45 …
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This week’s topics include chef-enhanced school meals, diabetic retinopathy treatment, exercise, vitamin D and falls, and stents versus medical therapy for those at risk for a second stroke. Program notes: 0:34 Chefs and school meals 1:34 Randomized to chef or …
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Anchor lead: Keeping blood sugar under control may soon be more automated, Elizabeth Tracey reports Your pancreas largely uses two hormones, insulin and glucagon, to manage your blood sugar automatically. Now a new device called an artificial pancreas that also …
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Anchor lead: Can the drug metformin be used to head off the development of diabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Prediabetes is the condition where frank diabetes appears likely to develop, with many physicians looking into how to head it off if …
