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Anchor lead: Apple’s leap into health care may help people with epilepsy, Elizabeth Tracey reports Can using an Apple watch to monitor epileptic seizures help people with the condition manage them better? That’s the hope of Nathan Crone, one principal …
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Anchor lead: The Apple watch may help people with epilepsy, Elizabeth Tracey reports The Apple watch is more than a status symbol, a new study underway at Johns Hopkins proves. It is a critical tool underpinning efforts to understand seizures …
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Anchor lead: Can a comprehensive approach to treatment stave off development of schizophrenia? Elizabeth Tracey reports An episode of psychosis that often is quite prolonged may be the first symptom that schizophrenia is in the offing, and if that episode …
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This week’s topics include diabetes and mortality, red meat and death, flavored tobacco, and mortality trends in the US. Program notes: 0:39 Processed meats and cancer risk 1:31 No randomized controlled trials 2:31 Carbon footprint with meat production? 3:36 Mortality …
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This week’s topics include comprehensive intervention in first episode psychosis, nicotinamide and skin cancer, total knee replacements, and common cardiovascular medicines and their worldwide use. Program notes: 0:39 Multipronged approach to first episode psychosis 1:38 Two year outcomes 2:37 Cost …
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Anchor lead: Does a genetic test to assess breast cancer recurrence risk deliver? Elizabeth Tracey reports Oncotype is a commercially available genetic test for breast tumors that’s now been validated for women with low risk disease, a recent study in …
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Anchor lead: Should the FDA mandate low nicotine cigarettes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Smoking low nicotine cigarettes seems to result in more smokers making cessation attempts, a recent New England Journal of Medicine study found. Enid Neptune, a lung expert at …
