Category: Health Topics
These podcasts are health related
HIV and Covid Risk
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Anchor lead: Does having HIV put someone at higher risk for severe Covid infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports Covid-19 is putting worldwide efforts to contain both HIV and tuberculosis at risk, after the best year yet for containment in 2018. Joseph …
Mental Illness and Covid
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Anchor lead: More people are reporting mental health problems as the pandemic rages on, Elizabeth Tracey reports Mental health problems are spiking along with rising COVID-19 cases in many parts of the world, the Lancet reports. Eric Strain, a psychiatrist …
Parallel Epidemics
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Anchor lead: Overdose deaths are increasing along with COVID-19 mortality, Elizabeth Tracey reports Deaths from drug overdoses are reaching record levels even as those from COVID-19 continue to climb, CDC data reveal. Eric Strain, a drug abuse expert at Johns …
What Helps?
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Anchor lead: Antibody treatment may point the way to why some people with COVID-19 get critically ill while others don’t, Elizabeth Tracey reports Antibodies don’t tell the whole story when it comes to the development of critical illness in people …
Good News
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Anchor lead: In the rather bleak landscape of COVID-19, convalescent plasma emerges as a bright spot, Elizabeth Tracey reports Convalescent plasma treatment, where antibodies in the blood of someone who has recovered from COVID-19 are given to hospitalized people with …