Category: Health Topics
These podcasts are health related
Modifying Treatment
Home Visits and Heart Failure
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Anchor lead: Sending a nurse to a person’s home helps manage heart failure, Elizabeth Tracey reports People with heart failure often contend with complicated self-care plans and are at high risk for repeated hospitalizations. Now a new study shows that …
Improving Mammography
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Anchor lead: Can artificial intelligence improve mammography? Elizabeth Tracey reports Can the power of mammography to correctly identify breast cancers be improved used artificial intelligence or machine learning? A recent study finds it can. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel …
Breast Cancer Treatment and Antioxidants
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Anchor lead: Supplements known as antioxidants may be harmful for women being treated for breast cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’re being treated for breast cancer, taking supplements that fall into a category known as ‘antioxidants’ may not be a …
Suicides and Opioids
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Anchor lead: How many opioid overdoses may actually be suicides? Elizabeth Tracey reports Opioid overdose deaths may actually be suicides in a sizeable number of cases, a recent study projects. Eric Strain, a drug addiction expert at Johns Hopkins, says …
Not Just Adults
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Anchor lead: Adolescents experience opioid overdose and need treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports Fewer than one in fifty adolescents who come to an emergency department with opioid overdose and survive are offered recommended treatment to help them avoid a recurrence, a …