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This week’s topics include a review of sugar recommendations, preventing readmissions to the hospital, benefits of fish oil in pregnancy, and a look at healthcare spending. Program notes: 0:31 A look at sugar recommendations 1:30 Identified nine guidelines 2:30 All …

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Anchor lead:  Even when they’ve survived, those who had cancer as children continue to be concerned, Elizabeth Tracey reports Data on surviving childhood cancer get better and better, but now a study in Annals of Internal Medicine finds that those …

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This week’s topics include state reckoning of smoking and cancer, promoting breastfeeding, testing for familial hypercholesterolemia, and supplemental oxygen in moderate COPD. Program notes: 0:40 State of the Union with regard to smoking 1:40 40% in Arkansas 2:40 Ban smoking …

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Anchor lead: Are oral contraceptives linked to depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Women who use hormonal methods of birth control, including oral contraceptives, may be at risk to develop depression, a very large study with about a million Danish women found.  …

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