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This week’s topics include the effect of education on prenatal testing, Ebola estimates, varicose vein therapy, and PET scanning to diagnose lung cancer. Program notes: 0:40 Ebola update 1:40 Numbers of cases doubling every 20-30 days 2:40 Body prepared by …
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Anchor lead: Informed parents make for healthier kids, Elizabeth Tracey reports Getting parents up to speed on what their kids need in terms of preventive health care may help overcome conclusions reached in a recent study showing that many children …
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Anchor lead: Why don’t parents get as much preventive healthcare for their kids as they can? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’re a parent, have you had your child appropriately screened and vaccinated throughout their lifetime? A recent Journal of the …
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Anchor lead: Will the rising tide of diabetes worldwide sweep away gains made in tuberculosis control? Elizabeth Tracey reports Multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis are already worldwide concerns. Enter now the worldwide epidemic of diabetes, which a recent …
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Anchor lead:Diabetes complicates tuberculosis, Elizabeth Tracey reports Diabetes and tuberculosis, two worldwide health problems of epidemic proportion, work in synchrony to make things even worse. That’s according to a recent Lancet series. Jonathan Golub, a tuberculosis and diabetes expert at …
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Anchor lead: Should you manage your own blood pressure medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports Many people with high blood pressure are capable of managing not just monitoring but also increasing or decreasing their medicines to keep blood pressure under control, a …
