Category: Health Topics
These podcasts are health related
April 1, 2015 – Cancer at Work
March 31, 2015 – Two Pathways
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Anchor lead: Can finding a second pathway to heart failure help patients? Elizabeth Tracey reports Congestive heart failure kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, largely by one of two aberrant cellular pathways. While the first has been known …
March 30, 2015 – PDE 9
PodMed – Week of March 23, 2015
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This week’s topics include stents versus CABG, screening people without symptoms for heart disease, agreement about breast biopsies, and imaging for low back pain in older folks. Program notes: 0:47 CABG versus stents 1:49 Second generation drug-eluting stents 2:47 Stents …
March 26, 2015 – Premedication in Elderly
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Anchor lead: Should premedication before surgery be used in elderly people? Elizabeth Tracey reports When older people undergo surgery, delirium sometimes results, with delayed or sometimes permanently impaired cognitive recovery. Can using medicines to alleviate anxiety contribute, as a recent …
March 25, 2015 – Premedication
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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 …