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This week’s topics include frailty and postoperative risk, smoking, age and myocardial infarction, sports and cardiovascular mortality, and artificial intelligence and diabetic retinopathy. Program notes: 0:37 AI and diabetic retinopathy 1:37 Showed over 60,000 images to a computer 2:37 Device …
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This week’s topics include changing therapy with a genetic assessment of breast cancer, outcomes from hernia repair, a new agent for osteoporosis, and syncope and pulmonary embolism. Program notes: 0:30 Results of hernia repair 1:32 Either mesh, or routine surgery …
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This week’s topics include roller coasters and kidney stones, colonoscopy in those older than 70, benefits of exercise in older folks, and the health impact of cleft palate. Program notes: 0:42 Kidney stones and roller coasters 1:41 Model kidney and …
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This week’s topics include metabolic surgery, talking with patients about advanced cancer, sodium in those with kidney disease, and blood pressure in the elderly. Program notes: 0:34 Blood pressure lowering in elderly 1:31 Blood pressure below 120 2:34 Intensive required …
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This week’s topics include dementia and depression, complications of implanted defibrillators, the most common emergency surgeries, and treatment of insomnia. Program notes: 0:35 Treatment of insomnia 1:35 Medications only for short term 2:32 Has to be provided outside physician’s office …
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This week’s topics include Guillain-Barre and Zika infection, inducing older first time moms, long term survival from childhood cancers, and screening for visual acuity in older adults. Program notes: 0:31 Guillain-Barre syndrome and Zika 1:31 Compared with historical infection 2:31 …
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Anchor lead: How does normal aging affect levels of thyroid hormone? Elizabeth Tracey reports Many, many people take synthetic thyroid hormone because their own levels seem to be too low. But an increasing body of research, including a recent study …
