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August 30, 2018 – Overdose Death
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Anchor lead: New CDC data estimate many more opioid deaths than previously thought, Elizabeth Tracey reports 72,000. That’s the number of deaths related to drug overdoses in the United States in 2017, the most recent data from the Centers for …
August 29, 2018 – Epinephrine Use
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Anchor lead: Does using epinephrine help when people experience a heart attack outside the hospital? Elizabeth Tracey reports The hormone epinephrine is often used by paramedics to restart the heart in people who’ve experienced an out of hospital cardiac arrest. …
August 28, 2018 – Climate Change and Health
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Anchor lead: Helping control fertility may be one key to managing climate change, Elizabeth Tracey reports More natural disasters, deaths due to extreme heat, expanded territories for disease carrying insects, these are just a few of the consequences of climate …
August 27, 2018 – Cured Meat Danger?
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Anchor lead: Are cured meats in the diet associated with mental illness? Elizabeth Tracey reports People hospitalized with an episode of mania, one feature of bipolar disorder, ate more cured meats than those without the illness, a recent study by …
August 24, 2018 – Cured Meats and Bipolar Disorder
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Anchor lead: Cured meats may be linked to the mania phase of bipolar disorder, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who are hospitalized for mania are more than three times as likely to have consumed cured meats, which are high in …
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August 23, 2018 – YAP and Cancer
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Anchor lead: A protein known as YAP may be important in both cancer and autoimmune disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Can inhibiting a protein known by the shorthand YAP help improve the effectiveness of immunotherapies against cancer? Yes, if results in …