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Anchor lead: Can occupational therapy help improve visual function? Elizabeth Tracey reports Occupational therapy for people with low vision delivered at home, and directed specifically toward helping them with tasks they identified as both meaningful and challenging, helped avoid depression, …
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Anchor lead: Can occupational therapy help people with compromised vision avoid depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Depression is common in people with vision loss, especially as it comprises their ability to function. Now research by Ashley Deemer and colleagues at Johns …
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This week’s topics include deaths relative to diabetes, increases in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes among US youth, the benefits of spinal manipulation for low back pain, and draft recommendations regarding prostate cancer screening. Program notes: 0:40 Prostate …
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Anchor lead: Should teenagers be able to access over the counter oral contraceptives? Elizabeth Tracey reports Teenagers should be able to access over the counter oral contraceptives, based on the scientific literature relative to safety and efficacy, a Johns Hopkins …
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Anchor lead: Why do some men with prostate cancer respond to high testosterone? Elizabeth Tracey reports Injections of high amounts of the male hormone testosterone are able to slow down prostate cancer in some men with advanced disease, ongoing research …
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Anchor lead: Some men with advanced prostate cancer respond to high dose testosterone, Elizabeth Tracey reports Many treatments for prostate cancer rely on reducing the male hormone testosterone, but research by Sam Denmeade and colleagues at Johns Hopkins has shown …
