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Anchor lead: A new test may allow women to help themselves when it comes to vaginitis, Elizabeth Tracey reports More and more testing involves people taking samples themselves, and a new test for vaginitis developed by Charlotte Gaydos, a sexually …
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Anchor lead: Online testing proves consumers can help manage their own healthcare, Elizabeth Tracey reports Men and women who are concerned they may have a common sexually transmitted infection can elect testing via online and mail services in some parts …
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This week’s topics include international obesity, a lack of benefit to self-monitoring glucose, driving and ADHD, and antibiotic use in the hospital and adverse events. Program notes: 0:50 Lack of benefit relative to glucose self-monitoring 1:55 No difference in hemoglobin …
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Anchor lead: Children comprise a disturbing percentage of gun-related deaths, Elizabeth Tracey reports Children younger than 18 years of age account for thousands of gun-related injuries and deaths yearly, the CDC has reported. Mike Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins …
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Anchor lead: Fewer teenagers are smoking and vaping, Elizabeth Tracey reports There’s been a big decline in the number of US teenagers smoking cigarettes and vaping, the latest CDC data show. Mike Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School …
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Anchor lead: For people who have trouble speaking, an electrical current delivered through the skull may help, Elizabeth Tracey reports Primary progressive aphasia, or PPA, is medicalese for a condition where people have trouble speaking or naming things, but don’t …
