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This week’s topics include health impact of coffee, measuring body temperature, germ line mutations and cancer in kids, and a treatment for respiratory syncytial virus. Program notes: 0:35 Coffee and health 1:31 Decrease in cardiovascular mortality 2:36 Way to measure …
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Anchor lead: Should you modify your meat eating habits based on WHO recommendations? Elizabeth Tracey reports Processed meat and to a lesser degree, red meat, are carcinogens, the WHO announced to a stunned world recently. Is there more to this …
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Anchor lead: Should you give up eating processed and red meats? Elizabeth Tracey reports Processed meats are carcinogens, the World Health Organization has announced, with red meat a probable carcinogen. Yikes. Just how alarmed should you be? Mike Klag, dean …
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This week’s topics include diabetes and mortality, red meat and death, flavored tobacco, and mortality trends in the US. Program notes: 0:39 Processed meats and cancer risk 1:31 No randomized controlled trials 2:31 Carbon footprint with meat production? 3:36 Mortality …
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Anchor lead: Who should really take a calcium supplement? Elizabeth Tracey reports Calcium supplements are very popular, with a recent survey finding one in three or one in two women taking them. Yet two studies in the British Medical Journal …
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This week’s topics include cancer in elephants, red wine and type 2 diabetes, CRE facts, and ongoing Ebola concerns. Program notes: 0:34 Persistent presence of Ebola virus 1:33 100 male survivors 2:31 Don’t know what the risk is 3:32 Elephants …
