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This week’s topics include a new treatment for one form of leukemia, opioid prescription guidelines, dangers of common medications in teenagers with regard to fetal risk, and electrical fields for a type brain tumor. Program notes: 0:32 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia …
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Anchor lead: Fewer men are being screened for prostate cancer using PSA testing, Elizabeth Tracey reports In the wake of the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommendations a few years ago, fewer men are having PSA screening for prostate …
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Hormone deprivation therapy and dementia, happiness and health, a sickle cell drug, and too much HbA1c testing. Program notes: 0:38 Happiness and mortality 1:32 17% unhappy 2:35 Advocate for Eyore-like behavior? 3:01 Too much HbA1c measurement 4:02 Why is too …
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Anchor lead: New treatments for HIV are on the horizon, Elizabeth Tracey reports World AIDS Day 2015 is kind of a good news/bad news picture, with medications that are effective in both containment and transmission, but many not receiving them. …
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Anchor lead: While there’s much to celebrate this Worlds AIDS Day, challenges remain, Elizabeth Tracey reports World AIDS Day 2015 gave many a reason to feel hopeful, since effective medicines to both contain and prevent transmission of the virus do …
