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This week’s topics include diet quality and longevity, health and coffee, treating depression, and prostatectomy in early prostate cancer. Program notes: 0:33 Coffee drinking and longevity 1:33 Over 185,000 people followed in one study 2:32 Can’t advocate for a type …
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This week’s topics include ultra-long acting insulin, dressed up veggies, lithium during pregnancy, and a new risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Program notes: 0:38 How veggies are described and consumption 1:35 Indulgent description improved choice 2:46 Education and cardiovascular disease …
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Anchor lead: Depression treatment for younger people needs attention, Elizabeth Tracey reports Depression is this year’s focus for the World Health Organization, and Patricia Davidson, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, says a particular emphasis must be on …
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This week’s topics include alcohol abuse and CVD, gun violence in adolescents, social networks and gun violence, and weekend warriors. Program notes: 0:34 Weekend warriors 1:34 Compared to sedentary, they did have a reduction in mortality 2:32 For those who …
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This week’s topics include managing earwax, metformin and other diseases, atypical antipsychotics in palliative care, and firearm purchase without a background check. Program notes: 0:51 Managing ear wax 1:51 Industry relative to removal 2:53 Putting cotton swabs not good 3:31 …
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This week’s topics include statins and Alzheimer’s, teen substance use, national mortality data, and psychiatric drug use in American adults. Program notes: 0:33 Cause specific mortality in the US 1:35 At over 80 million deaths 2:32 Not terribly surprising to …
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Anchor lead: What can be done for depression that’s difficult to treat? Elizabeth Tracey reports Depression can be resistant to treatment, but not impossible. That’s the hopeful message of a new book by Dean MacKinnon, a psychiatrist and depression expert …
