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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Anchor lead: How is the silicone chip industry joining forces with medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports The same kind of technology that’s used in your cell phone may someday soon provide a range of mobile medical testing, that will benefit not …
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Anchor lead: Are oral contraceptives linked to depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Women who use hormonal methods of birth control, including oral contraceptives, may be at risk to develop depression, a very large study with about a million Danish women found. …
