Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:01 — 1.4MB)
Subscribe: RSS
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 …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 10:15 — 14.1MB)
Subscribe: RSS
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 …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 10:36 — 14.6MB)
Subscribe: RSS
This week’s topics include physician age and outcomes, abortion via telemedicine, age to begin screening for cardiovascular disease, and vaccination of travelers. Program notes: 0:31 Physician age and patient outcomes 1:30 Lower for physicians under 40 2:30 More up to …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 10:05 — 13.9MB)
Subscribe: RSS
This week’s topics include weight and mortality, normal BMI and cardiovascular risk factors, flu vaccination and mortality in kids, and an increased incidence of thyroid cancer. Program notes: 0:35 Flu vaccination and death in children 1:35 About a fourth of …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05 — 1.5MB)
Subscribe: RSS
Anchor lead: The rate of human papilloma virus infection in men is quite high, Elizabeth Tracey reports Human papilloma viruses, abbreviated HPV, cause cancer, with some viral strains more problematic than others. Now a new study looks at a national …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 10:13 — 14.0MB)
Subscribe: RSS
This week’s topics include at home sleep studies, an antibody for C.difficile infection, using big data to examine medical devices, and language concordance and type 2 diabetes control. Program notes: 0:35 Treatment of C. difficile 1:35 Antitoxin antibody 2:32 Phase …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:04 — 1.5MB)
Subscribe: RSS
Anchor lead: How can bacteria in the mouth and rheumatoid arthritis be related? Elizabeth Tracey reports Looking at someone’s genes may one day help determine whether they are at risk to develop rheumatoid arthritis, research by Felipe Andrade and colleagues …
