Category: Health Topics
These podcasts are health related
PodMed – Week of January 19, 2015
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This week's topics include successful community-based intervention for cardiovascular disease, ethnicity and breast cancer, overuse of aspirin, and overuse of tight blood sugar control. Program notes: 0:32 Community based intervention for cardiovascular disease risk reduction 1:31 Hypertension, cholesterol, smoking 2:32 …
PodMed – Week of January 12, 2015
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This week’s topics include random mutations and cancer risk, increased mortality and type 1 diabetes, concussion and rest, and kidney donation and pregnancy risk. Program notes: 0:42 Concussion management? 1:42 All presented soon after concussion 2:41 One to two days …
January 16, 2015 – Change in Treatment
January 15, 2015 – Clot Removal
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Anchor lead: What’s the best way to remove blood clots from the brain? Elizabeth Tracey reports Stroke experts are jubilant at results of a study reported recently where mechanical techniques to remove blood clots from the brains of people who …
January 14, 2015 – Stroke Treatment
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Anchor lead: Using medications and removing clots helps many with strokes, Elizabeth Tracey reports The blood clot-busting drug called TPA is known to help people with strokes due to clots recover much better, but sometimes clots are stubborn and just …