Category: Health Topics
These podcasts are health related
January 18, 2019 – Incentivizing Healthy Choices
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Anchor lead: Even paying people to make more healthful choices may not work, Elizabeth Tracey reports Paying people who are at risk to develop diabetes, are overweight or who smoke cigarettes to make lifestyle changes to reduce their health risks …
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January 17, 2019 – Blood Clots and Cancer
January 16, 2019 – Pain Treatment
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Anchor lead: Opioids really aren’t always best when it comes to pain, Elizabeth Tracey reports When it comes to pain treatment, opioid medications are best, right? Wrong, a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found. The …
January 15, 2019 – Helping Opioid Addiction
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Anchor lead: What are the possibilities when it comes to medicines for addiction? Elizabeth Tracey reports As deaths from opioids continue apace, figuring out how best to help people overcome addiction is more important than ever, with one recent study …
January 14, 2019 – Daily or Monthly?
January 11, 2019 – Preventing Mgen
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Anchor lead: Preventing infection with Mgen is the best way to avoid it, Elizabeth Tracey reports Mgen is shorthand for Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that can cause severe problems in women, including pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility, …