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This week’s topics include a new antibody for asthma, early treatment in COPD, mumps vaccine to curtail an outbreak, and medical exemptions from routine vaccinations. Program notes: 0:38 Avoiding vaccines with medical exemptions 1:38 More people who are vaccinated the …
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This week’s topics include complications of aortic valve surgery, effectiveness of nasal flu vaccination, testing for Epstein Barr virus and nasopharyngeal cancer, and hepatitis C treatment. Program notes: 0:31 How effective is the flu vaccine? 1:31 Reformulation of nasal type …
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This week’s topics include football and CTE, discontinuing statins, intramuscular HIV meds, and long term risks of stroke and TIA. Program notes: 0:32 Stroke and TIA risk 1:35 Adverse outcomes five years later 2:35 Be aggressive about managing risk 3:24 …
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Anchor lead: Scientists have successfully produced a virus from scratch, Elizabeth Tracey reports Using freely available materials and methods, researchers have revealed the successful recreation of an extinct virus, a relative of smallpox. Andrew Pekosz, a virologist at Johns Hopkins, …
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Anchor lead: Online testing proves consumers can help manage their own healthcare, Elizabeth Tracey reports Men and women who are concerned they may have a common sexually transmitted infection can elect testing via online and mail services in some parts …
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This week’s topics include treating resistant hepatitis C infection, a new regimen for breast cancer, evolution of non-small cell lung cancer, and minocycline for MS. Program notes: 0:44 Evolution of lung cancer 1:42 Did genetic analysis of whole tumor 2:42 …
