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Anchor lead: Gene therapy may one day soon cure hemophilia, Elizabeth Tracey reports Hemophilia can usually be managed well with infusions of missing blood clotting factors, most often factor XIII and factor IX. Yet the schedule is onerous, requiring infusions …
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Anchor lead: New treatments are helping people with hemophilia live better, Elizabeth Tracey reports Hemophilia is a blood clotting disorder that used to be a death sentence. After the blood clotting factors that were missing were identified, treatment became possible. …
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Anchor lead: New prescribing guidelines for opioid medications may affect you, Elizabeth Tracey reports In the wake of new opioid prescribing guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, don’t be surprised if your physician suggest alternatives to …
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Anchor lead: The CDC has released new guidelines for opioid prescriptions, Elizabeth Tracey reports Will new opioid prescription guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention help stem the tide of opioid deaths? Eric Strain, a drug abuse …
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This week’s topics include early parental nutrition, meditation for low back pain, use of complementary medicine by seniors, and non-invasive ventilation after abdominal surgery. Program notes: 0:34 Parenteral nutrition for kids 1:34 Early or eight days later 2:35 Lots about …
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This week’s topics include behavior change and genetic risk, quitting smoking cold turkey, better prescribing, and avoiding vaccination consequences Program notes: 0:40 Eradicating infectious disease 1:35 Measles and pertussis 2:35 Civic duty to be vaccinated 3:35 Centralized mechanism to monitor …
