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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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This week’s topics include managing hypertension in those 80 and older, new cholesterol guidelines cost-effectiveness, a new agent to reduce potassium in the blood, and community-acquired pneumonia. Program notes: 0:40 Community acquired pneumonia 1:37 2/3 of time couldn’t find an …

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This week’s topics include autism and vaccines, oral insulin and diabetes prevention, management of first time seizures in adults, and long term effects of Ebola virus infection. Program notes: 0:40 Vaccines and autism 1:44 Looked at over 95,000 children 2:45 …

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This week’s topics include a new drug for heart failure, ZMapp for Ebola, beta blockers in atrial fibrillation and heart failure, and flu vaccine in pregnant women with HIV. Program notes: 0:33 ZMapp for Ebola 1:30 Mortality over 70% 2:32 …

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This week’s topics include DNA testing for genetic fetal abnormalities, fever in African children, a vaccine for enterovirus, and selenium, vitamin E and prostate cancer. Program notes: 1:03 Enterovirus vaccine 2:01 Developed in China 3:04 Prenatal testing for trisomies 4:04 …

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