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Anchor lead: If you have heart failure but not diabetes, should you consider a diabetes drug? Elizabeth Tracey reports Medications for diabetes known as SGLT2 inhibitors have been shown to reduce hospitalization and death for people with one type of …
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Anchor lead: Two diabetes drugs may benefit people with heart failure, Elizabeth Tracey reports A diabetes drug with the tongue-twisting name ‘empagliflozin’ reduced both hospitalizations for heart failure as well as cardiovascular death in people with one type of heart …
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Anchor lead: Can a diabetes drug help reduce Alzheimer’s risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports Metformin is the first line medication for type 2 diabetes, and now an Australian study has shown that people taking it experience less Alzheimer’s disease compared to …
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Anchor lead: Estimates are that about 10% of the US population has been exposed to Sars-CoV2, Elizabeth Tracey reports Seroprevalence refers to looking for antibodies to an infection in a population, with the most recent study in the US finding …
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Anchor lead: Volunteers in the UK plan to allow themselves to be infected with Sars-CoV2 following vaccination, Elizabeth Tracey reports How can you tell if a Sars-CoV2 vaccine works? Most studies inject two groups of people, one of whom gets …
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Anchor lead: What accounts for an apparent decline in severity of Covid-19? Elizabeth Tracey reports Numbers of people infected with Sars-CoV2 continue to rise nationally, yet the rates of hospitalization and death are largely declining, recent data show. Brian Garibaldi, …
