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This week’s topics include symptoms in smokers, long term impact of caring for chronically ill, swaddling and SIDS, and CO2 and colonoscopy. Program notes: 0:49 Carbon dioxide and colonoscopy 1:50 CO2 absorbed much faster 2:50 Modest new equipment 3:38 Swaddling …
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This week’s topics include asthma and under the tongue immunotherapy, reducing C. dif infections, safety of smoking cessation drugs, and antibiotic stewardship. Program notes: 0:39 Safety of smoking cessation medicines 1:40 None increased risk of psychiatric problems 2:40 How 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 …
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Anchor lead: Advertising clearly gets kids to use e-cigarettes, Elizabeth Tracey reports The majority of kids and adolescents surveyed recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported seeing advertisements for e-cigarettes, and that fact, coupled with the rising …
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Anchor lead: Advertising and marketing do impact the number of young people using e-cigarettes, Elizabeth Tracey reports Children and adolescents are being exposed to a lot of e-cigarette advertising, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, and that’s not …
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Anchor lead: Should the FDA mandate low nicotine cigarettes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Smoking low nicotine cigarettes seems to result in more smokers making cessation attempts, a recent New England Journal of Medicine study found. Enid Neptune, a lung expert at …
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Anchor lead: Are low nicotine cigarettes the answer to smoking cessation? Elizabeth Tracey reports Smokers who had no intention of quitting the habit and who were provided with low nicotine cigarettes make twice as many attempts to stop smoking as …
