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This week’s topics include appropriate use of beta blockers after heart attack, timing of allergenic foods for infants, a wearable device and its impact on weight loss, and vasectomy and prostate cancer. Program notes: 0:38 A device and weight loss …

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This week’s topics include long term results in low risk prostate cancer, ovarian cancer screening, statin benefits, and sex differences in MI. Program notes: 0:32 Benefits of statins 1:32 Reduces deaths from cardiovascular causes 2:33 Benefit clearly outweighs risk 3:22 …

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Anchor lead: Can better technology reduce the number of prostate biopsies? Elizabeth Tracey reports More aggressive prostate cancers are diagnosed using MRI guided biopsy than the traditional approach, a Johns Hopkins study led by Ballantine Carter, a prostate cancer expert, …

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