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Anchor lead: How does your neighborhood affect your risk of diabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Do you walk around your neighborhood, or does it lack sidewalks, lighting, and safety, rendering it essentially unwalkable? That factor turns out to have a lot …
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Anchor lead: How can design thinking improve people’s experiences in the hospital? Elizabeth Tracey reports Patient experiences in the hospital should be the best they can be, and to that end, Johns Hopkins chief patient experience officer Lisa Allen and …
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Anchor lead: How can studying the experience of patients in the hospital help improve things? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’ve been a patient in a hospital lately, you’ve likely been given a questionnaire to evaluate your experience. Fill it out. …
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This week’s topics include how the Zika virus changed, outcomes after surgery and health literacy, e-cigarettes and healthcare costs, and a reaction to tattooing. Program notes: 0:36 Case report of an outcome after a tattoo 1:32 Reaction to the tattoo …
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Anchor lead: Are food challenges safe? Elizabeth Tracey reports Food challenges done in allergist's offices are generally quite safe, a recent study of about 6000 such tests concluded. Corrine Keet, an allergist at Johns Hopkins, describes the results. Keet: Food …
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Anchor lead: With all the peanut allergy around, what should parents do? Elizabeth Tracey reports Peanut allergy is a frightening thing, with seemingly frequent reports of sudden death among children following peanut ingestion, and new products coming an the market …
