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This week's topics include measles, cost effectiveness of hypertension therapy, donation to biobanks, and screening of childhood emotional and behavioral problems. Program notes: 0:44 Cost effectiveness of managing high blood pressure 1:44 13,000 fewer deaths each year 2:44 Almost always …
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Anchor lead: 3D printing holds promise for providing prosthetic hands worldwide, Elizabeth Tracey reports 3D printers are being used by Albert Chi, an orthopedic and trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues to make hands for children who lack them. …
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Anchor lead: Can 3D printing supply inexpensive prostheses? Elizabeth Tracey reports 3D printing is being utilized for applications ranging from car parts to body parts. Such is the utility underway with the direction of Albert Chi, an orthopedic and trauma …
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This week’s topics include telomeres and the Mediterranean diet, as needed or continuous asthma medications, CDC circumcision guidelines, and safe sleeping for babies. Program notes: 0:50 Telomeres and the Mediterranean diet 1:45 Correlation and aging? 2:45 Other diets didn’t do …
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This week’s topics include best therapy for Marfan syndrome, food at school, high potassium treatment, and chronic cough treatment. Program notes: 0:31 Breakfast and lunch at school 1:30 Hundreds of schools participated 2:31 Lunch from home had more sodium and …
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Anchor lead: There are strategies to employ to avoid enterovirus infection, Elizabeth Tracey reports Two toddlers have died so far as enterovirus 68 sweeps the US. Even as concerns about Ebola virus escalate domestically, parents especially are concerned about enterovirus …
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Anchor lead: Children around the US are becoming infected with an enterovirus, Elizabeth Tracey reports While the world’s attention is focused on Ebola virus, another viral illness, enterovirus 68, has spread across the US, killing two young children so far, …
