Category: Health Topics
These podcasts are health related
November 2, 2016 – Sayana Press
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Anchor lead: Can a self-administered injection help African women achieve effective family planning? Elizabeth Tracey reports Imagine an easy to use, inexpensive and reliable means of birth control that no one can tell if you’re using. Amy Tsui, an international …
November 1, 2016 – Parkinson’s Pathology
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Anchor lead: Could Parkinson’s disease spread from cell to cell like an infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports A protein known by the acronym LAG3 may be the key to understanding how Parkinson’s disease progresses in the brain, research by Ted Dawson …
October 31, 2016 – Cell Death
PodMed – Week of October 31, 2016
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This week’s topics include state reckoning of smoking and cancer, promoting breastfeeding, testing for familial hypercholesterolemia, and supplemental oxygen in moderate COPD. Program notes: 0:40 State of the Union with regard to smoking 1:40 40% in Arkansas 2:40 Ban smoking …
PodMed – Week of October 24, 2016
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This week’s topics include changing therapy with a genetic assessment of breast cancer, outcomes from hernia repair, a new agent for osteoporosis, and syncope and pulmonary embolism. Program notes: 0:30 Results of hernia repair 1:32 Either mesh, or routine surgery …
October 28, 2016 – Embracing Variation
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Anchor lead: Emerging technologies may help us understand why some people respond to medical treatments and some don’t, Elizabeth Tracey reports Trying to understand why some people respond to certain medicines or treatments and others don’t is a kind of …