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This week’s topics include end of life cancer care, the Zika virus, PT and Parkinson’s, and afib in women. Program notes: 0:35 Zika virus 1:37 Pregnant women recommended not to travel 2:35 Rise in microcephaly in Brazil 3:05 Atrial fibrillation …

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Anchor lead:  Can a helmet using electrical fields improve survival from some brain tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports A helmet employing alternating electrical field pulses has been shown to improve survival from glioblastoma, one type of deadly brain tumor, a study …

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This week’s topics include low value screening tests, planned at home births, brain death, and opioid prescription after overdose. Program notes: 0:38 Brain death nationally 1:40 Every hospital that would declare brain death 2:39 Family advocates 3:01 Women who deliver …

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This week’s topics include a new treatment for one form of leukemia, opioid prescription guidelines, dangers of common medications in teenagers with regard to fetal risk, and electrical fields for a type brain tumor. Program notes: 0:32 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia …

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Anchor lead:  Can new techniques allow better monitoring of brain tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports All cells shed DNA into blood and bodily fluids when they break open, a fact that’s being exploited in discerning whether cancers have returned or metastasized.  …

November 26, 2015 – Brain Tumor Monitoring Read more »

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Anchor lead:  Apple’s leap into health care may help people with epilepsy, Elizabeth Tracey reports Can using an Apple watch to monitor epileptic seizures help people with the condition manage them better?  That’s the hope of Nathan Crone, one principal …

November 4, 2015 – Watch Benefit Read more »