Category: Patient Care
November 21, 2016 – COPD and Oxygen
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Anchor lead: For some with COPD, oxygen isn’t helpful, Elizabeth Tracey reports Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is in the top causes of death worldwide. For some people whose disease is still moderate, can supplemental oxygen help? Robert Wise, …
November 2016 Pulse
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Dean Rothmans explains that patient care is the most important reason for scientific results to be reproducible. Program notes: 0:10 Reproducibility of research results 1:11 Outright fraud uncommon 2:12 Each requires a different tack to solve 3:14 Make sure the …
November 9, 2016 – Precision Medicine Forethought
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Anchor lead: What are some of the ethical issues surrounding precision medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Precision medicine holds a lot of promise, allowing someone’s own genetic makeup to be utilized in determining what diseases they might develop, and what treatments …
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October 28, 2016 – Embracing Variation
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Anchor lead: Emerging technologies may help us understand why some people respond to medical treatments and some don’t, Elizabeth Tracey reports Trying to understand why some people respond to certain medicines or treatments and others don’t is a kind of …
October 27, 2016 – Chips and Medicine
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Anchor lead: How is the silicone chip industry joining forces with medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports The same kind of technology that’s used in your cell phone may someday soon provide a range of mobile medical testing, that will benefit not …