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Anchor lead: For people who have trouble speaking, an electrical current delivered through the skull may help, Elizabeth Tracey reports Primary progressive aphasia, or PPA, is medicalese for a condition where people have trouble speaking or naming things, but don’t …

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This week’s topics include patient monitoring of cancer symptoms and survival, negative impact of alcohol consumption, lymph node dissection in melanoma, and significance of small aneurysms in brain. 0:32 Patient monitoring of cancer symptoms and survival 1:34 Reported to nurse …

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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 …

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Anchor lead: People who’ve had certain kinds of heart attacks should be cooled down afterward, Elizabeth Tracey reports The American Academy of Neurology has recently advised that when people experience certain types of heart attacks, they should be cooled down …

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