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Anchor lead: Many people with cancer report a toxic financial burden, Elizabeth Tracey reports Money looms large in the minds of a significant percentage of people with cancer, along with all the other concerns they have about their disease, a …
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Anchor lead: How do brain networks impact on mental illness? Elizabeth Tracey reports Brain networks, parts of the brain that talk with each other, may be critical to understanding mental conditions and illnesses, including ADHD, a recent study concludes. Constantine …
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Anchor lead: How do other illnesses affect care of someone with Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports It costs billions of dollars to treat the coexisting illnesses of someone who has Alzheimer’s disease, a recent large study in the UK found, …
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Anchor lead: Will removing the substance known as amyloid slow down Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports The amyloid hypothesis holds that accumulation of amyloid, mostly protein, in the brain, is important in causing Alzheimer’s disease, yet studies so far using …
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This week’s topics include teenage BMI and cardiovascular mortality, income and death, five star ratings for hospitals, and daily aspirin use. Program notes: 0:38 Hospital ratings and outcomes 1:35 About a fifth received two stars or one star 2:36 Socioeconomic …
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Anchor lead: Good news on the childhood cancer front, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who’ve had cancer as children are surviving longer and having fewer new cancers develop as well as fewer complications of treatment, a recent very large study in …
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Anchor lead: How does use of high tech devices complicate the experience of death? Elizabeth Tracey reports LVAD is shorthand for left ventricular assist device, a technology that keeps the heart beating even at the last stages of heart failure. …
