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Anchor lead:  If you need one more reason to get a flu shot, think heart attack, Elizabeth Tracey reports Heart attacks, or myocardial infarctions as they’re known formally, are more likely in folks who have had the flu than in …

September 23, 2015 – Heart Attacks and Flu Read more »

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This week’s topics include treatment of Chagas’ disease, do tired surgeons make more mistakes, sleep and common colds, and management of chronic sinusitis. Program notes: 1:17 Management of Chagas’ disease 2:17 Prospectively treated over 2800 patients 3:15 Prevention needed 3:37 …

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This week’s topics include trans fats, testosterone supplements and atherosclerosis, frozen versus fresh oocytes, and cardiac troponin measurement in people with diabetes and cardiac risk. Program notes: 0:35 Trans versus saturated fats 1:35 Trans fats increased risk for cardiovascular disease …

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This week’s topics include appropriate therapy for those with atrial fibrillation and have also had stents placed, an Ebola vaccine, helping blind people overcome insomnia, and the benefits of oral contraceptives. Program notes: 0:48 An effective Ebola vaccine 1:49 Ninety …

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Anchor lead:  Are recent successes with CPR sustainable? Elizabeth Tracey reports When bystanders initiate CPR during apparent heart attacks, more of those folks survive, recent studies show.  While these results are very encouraging, Gordon Tomaselli, director of cardiology at Johns …

August 7, 2015 – Changing Heart Disease Read more »