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Anchor lead: Should medicine for anxiety be given before surgery? Elizabeth Tracey reports Sometimes people are so anxious before surgery they are given a medication to help. Now a new study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association …
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Anchor lead: A trial called Finger took a comprehensive approach to slowing down Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Employing physical and mental activity, social interaction and nutritional intervention failed to appreciably slow down development of Alzheimer’s disease, a trial called …
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Anchor lead: Can a multifaceted approach delay Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports Can memory decline and the development of Alzheimer’s disease be slowed down by a global approach to risk factors? That was the hope of the FINGER trial, recently …
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This week’s topics include results from transcatheter valve replacement, transfusions after cardiac surgery, managing humeral fractures, and the benefits of a vegetarian diet on colon cancer risk. Program notes: 0: 36 Vegetarian diets and colorectal cancer risk 1:36 Non-vegetarians also …
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Anchor lead: Can another approach avoid use of antipsychotic medicines in people with Alzheimer’s? Elizabeth Tracey reports The acronym DICE describes a new approach developed by Constantine Lyketsos, an Alzheimer’s disease expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, to assist clinicians …
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Anchor lead: Recent federal data reveal that use of a class of medications to control behavior in people with Alzheimer’s disease just keeps going up, Elizabeth Tracey reports Atypical antipsychotics are a class of medications sometimes used to keep behavior …
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Anchor lead: Keeping blood sugar under control may soon be more automated, Elizabeth Tracey reports Your pancreas largely uses two hormones, insulin and glucagon, to manage your blood sugar automatically. Now a new device called an artificial pancreas that also …
