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Anchor lead: Can overcoming heart disease be as simple as changing fats? Elizabeth Tracey reports Saturated fats, such as those in meats and butter, are bad for your heart, and you should substitute vegetable fats, especially extra virgin olive oil. …
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Anchor lead: A new band aid kind of patch may soon improve vaccination rates, Elizabeth Tracey reports Are you phobic about needles and injections? Many people are, especially children, so a new vaccine technology reported recently in the Lancet that …
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Anchor lead: Can a band aid like patch replace needles in vaccination? Elizabeth Tracey reports Imagine getting your flu immunization each year without an injection, painlessly, and on your own schedule. That’s the promise of a new band aid like …
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This week’s topics include a novel vaccine delivery method, aspirin and preeclampsia, air pollution and mortality in seniors, and exercise and dementia. Program notes: 0:48 Acknowledge our listeners 1:48 Novel way to deliver flu vaccine 2:50 Side effects and effectiveness …
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Anchor lead: Some factors behind the opioid overdose epidemic have been identified, Elizabeth Tracey reports Almost 60,000 people have died of opioid overdose in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate. Mike Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins …
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Anchor lead: A new test may allow women to help themselves when it comes to vaginitis, Elizabeth Tracey reports More and more testing involves people taking samples themselves, and a new test for vaginitis developed by Charlotte Gaydos, a sexually …
