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This week’s topics include home care and survival, timing of HRT, Lyme disease and long term antibiotics, and cardiac procedures before surgery. Program notes: 0:34 Lyme disease and long term antibiotics 1:35 Randomized to placebo or one of two antibiotic …

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Anchor lead:  People who have hepatitis C can be organ donors, Elizabeth Tracey reports If you need a kidney transplant you can now obtain an organ from someone infected with hepatitis C, the viral illness that infects the liver, often …

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Anchor lead:  Now kidneys may not need to be matched for transplantation, Elizabeth Tracey reports If you need a kidney transplant, you can now accept one from almost anyone, a study led by Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns …

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