Category: PodMed

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This week's topics include preconditioning for cardiac bypass surgery, shoe wedges for knee arthritis, overcoming a genetic tendency for diabetes, and a low risk ankle rule. Program Notes Related Article: Prepping for Bypass  

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This week's topics include iron supplements, transfusion and infection, flu vaccine and heart attacks, blacks and kidney disease, global attempts to improve blood pressure control. Program Notes Related Article: Get a Flu Shot!

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This week's topics include early heart valve surgery, who benefits from CRT, finasteride for prostate cancer prevention, and thalotomy for essential tremor. Program Notes Related Article: A Treatment for Essential Tremor!

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This week's topics include approval of additives to food, self-monitoring of blood pressure, glucose and dementia, and peripheral arterial disease worldwide. Program Notes Related Article: What About Those Additives  

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This week's topics include debriding wounds and healing, who needs an echocardiogram, physician attitudes toward health care costs, and menthol cigarette dangers. Program Notes Related Article: What Do Physicians Think About Healthcare Costs?  

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This week's topics include breast cancer death racial disparity, kids care in retail clinics, rabies from solid organ transplant, and maternal smoking and child conduct. Program Notes Related Article: Docs In A Box

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This week's topics include infertility in women who've survived childhood cancer, targeting lung cancer screening, aspirin and colorectal cancer in women, and antihypertensive drugs, compliance and stroke risk. Program Notes Related Article: Who Should Be Screened For Lung Cancer?