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This week’s topics include the impact of exercise on chronic medical conditions, more ICU care and outcomes, m-health and diabetes, and insurance status and cancer outcomes. 0:36 Diabetes and m-health 1:38 Text messaging improved eating behaviors 2:38 Long term impact? …

PodMed – Week of August 15, 2016 Read more »

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This week’s topics include reducing suicide, CABG plus medicines for some people, risk following TIA, and metformin first for type 2 diabetes. Program notes: 0:32 Look at a multitude of strategies to prevent suicide 1:32 16 different services implemented 2:32 …

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Anchor lead:  What should be done to compensate for industry objectives in scientific research? Elizabeth Tracey reports Should you be concerned that when a clinical trial is conducted by industry the results may not be objective?  Stephan Ehrhardt, lead author …

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Anchor lead: Should you be concerned about decreased government funding for medical and scientific studies? Elizabeth Tracey reports More industry funded studies are taking place even while numbers of National Institutes of Health studies are declining, a Johns Hopkins study …

December 28, 2015 – Who’s Buying Read more »