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Anchor lead: A team approach may help in pulmonary embolism, Elizabeth Tracey reports. Pulmonary embolism, abbreviated PE, is when a blood clot forms in the blood vessels to the lung and may be life-threatening. People with cancer, trauma, those who …
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Anchor lead: Can targeting a single enzyme help both heart failure and arrhythmias? Elizabeth Tracey reports Heart failure and disordered beating of the heart known as arrhythmia are killers, but as different as they appear clinically they have an enzyme …
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Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Director William Nelson discusses top cancer news during May 2015. Program Notes: 0:34 Sun-related cancer 1:32 500 mg nicotinamide daily 2:30 Standardized genetic tests 3:32 National Institute of Standards and Technology 4:32 Altered DNA sequence in …
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This week’s topics include measles vaccination benefits, smoking cessation incentives, the dangers of different testosterone delivery methods, and sonography for upper extremity DVT. Program notes: 0:30 Measles vaccination benefits 1:32 What accounts for reduced mortality? 2:31 Decreased other infectious disease …
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Anchor lead: Can a simple treatment reduce a common hospital-acquired infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports Spores of clostridium difficile, an organism often responsible for diarrhea and sometimes death of hospitalized people, may be effective in preventing reccurence of the illness, a …
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Anchor lead: Patients can help physicians deliver the best care by clearly identifying what they want, Elizabeth Tracey reports Surprise! Your physician may just as unhappy about discussing bad news with you as you are upset by hearing it. But …
