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Anchor lead:  Should you manage your own blood pressure medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports Many people with high blood pressure are capable of managing not just monitoring but also increasing or decreasing their medicines to keep blood pressure under control, a …

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Anchor lead:  One day soon you may be called upon to manage your own blood pressure, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood pressure is a tricky thing, going up temporarily in stressful situations like a doctor’s office.  So rather than rely on …

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This week's topics include treating adolescent depression, self management of hypertension, transmissibility of MERS, and cardiovascular events around the world. Program notes: 0:31 Self management of high blood pressure 1:30 Increase or decrease medications themselves 2:30 Estimated 20% of people …

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This week’s topics include salt and hypertension, Chikungunya in the US, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colorectal cancer, and BMI and cancer. Program notes: 0:35 Exhaustive studies on salt and high blood pressure 1:35 Salt intake, cardiovascular disease and mortality 2:35 Natural …

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This week's topics include strokes of unknown origin and atrial fibrillation, vitamin D and hypertension, pertussis infection in adolescents and persistent cough, and tomosynthesis for breast cancer detection. Program notes: 0:31 New iTunes link 1:05 Tomosynthesis for breast cancer detection …

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This week’s topics include kidney denervation, long term impact of bariatric surgery, the dangers of transfusions, and prevention of erectile dysfunction in men who have radiation for prostate cancer. Program notes: 0:37 Kidney denervation and high blood pressure 1:37 Those …

PodMed – Apr 7, 2014 Read more »