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Anchor lead: Can a simple treatment reduce a common hospital-acquired infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports Spores of clostridium difficile, an organism often responsible for diarrhea and sometimes death of hospitalized people, may be effective in preventing reccurence of the illness, a …
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This week’s topics include Clostridium difficile treatment, cardiovascular risk factors for adolescents, lariat device for atrial fibrillation, and digoxin and mortality. Program notes: 0:40 Possible treatment for C.dif 1:40 Can we use a different strain to colonize? 2:40 Immediately after …
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This week’s topics include neonatal abstinence syndrome, early HPV vaccination, new vaccine for herpes zoster, and IVC filters for pulmonary embolism. Program notes: 0:36 HPV vaccination 1:36 Reduced risk of dysplasia 2:30 Parents underestimate child’s sexual experience 3:01 New herpes …
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This week’s topics include autism and vaccines, oral insulin and diabetes prevention, management of first time seizures in adults, and long term effects of Ebola virus infection. Program notes: 0:40 Vaccines and autism 1:44 Looked at over 95,000 children 2:45 …
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This week’s topics include apple consumption and physician visits, Ebola vaccine, acetaminophen and low back pain, and the diseases and conditions afflicting Brunis edwardii. Program notes: 0:44 Ebola vaccine 1:44 No adverse effects noted 2:44 Need more rigorous trials 3:44 …
