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Anchor lead: What is ketamine’s role in treating depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Ketamine is in the news lately, with physicians opening clinics nationally to administer the drug to treat depression. Irving Reti, a depression expert at Johns Hopkins, says that …
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Anchor lead: How useful is transcranial magnetic stimulation for treating depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS for short, utilizes magnetic waves to stimulate a specific area of the brain and may be helpful in treating depression, with …
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Anchor lead: Education helps make sure people receive medicines to prevent blood clots, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood clot prevention is extremely important in hospitalized persons, but more than 10% of the time doses of medicines to prevent them are missed. …
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Anchor lead: Why do patients in the hospital refuse blood clot prevention medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood clots are a big problem for hospitalized patients, and can result in death. Yet in more than one in ten circumstances medicines to …
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Anchor lead: How can technology help support people to age as well as possible? Elizabeth Tracey reports Can engineering technologies enable help older people age in place? That’s one hope of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at Johns …
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Anchor lead: One of the biggest barriers for some people with chronic illness is access to care, Elizabeth Tracey reports ‘Social determinants of health’ is one of the most used buzz-phrases currently, identifying someone’s social factors as primary in determining …
