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Anchor lead: Can temporarily restricting blood flow improve outcomes from heart surgery? Elizabeth Tracey reports Ischemic preconditioning is the insider trader term for temporarily restricting blood flow to the heart prior to heart surgery with an eye toward improving outcomes, …

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Anchor lead: Can eye movements help doctors avoid missing strokes? Elizabeth Tracey reports A new device that examines eye movements may be key in helping doctors identify people who are having a stroke but don’t have typical symptoms.  David Newman-Toker, …

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This week’s topics include cancer in elephants, red wine and type 2 diabetes, CRE facts, and ongoing Ebola concerns. Program notes: 0:34 Persistent presence of Ebola virus 1:33 100 male survivors 2:31 Don’t know what the risk is 3:32 Elephants …

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