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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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Anchor lead: Can targeted messages improve acceptance of the HPV vaccine? Elizabeth Tracey reports The HPV vaccine prevents cancer, but less than half of young teenagers receive it. Now brief, targeted messages developed by the Centers for Disease Control and …
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This week’s topics include Zika complications, hypothermia and in-hospital heart attack, long term heart attack survival and hospital performance, and ADHD medications and bone mineral density. Program notes: 0:35 Hypothermia and heart attacks 1:33 About 6% treated with hypothermia 2:32 …
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This week’s topics include breast density and mammography, genetic analysis and chemotherapy in early breast cancer, reducing sugar for kids, and treating essential tremor. Program notes: 0:32 Reducing sugar consumption in kids 1:35 A third of what kids are currently …
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This week’s topics include obesity trends in the US, the benefits of calorie restriction, a look at the Mediterranean diet, and syphilis screening guidelines. Program notes: 0:45 USPSTF recommendations for syphilis screening 1:47 One more thing for the STI panel …
