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Anchor lead: New CDC data estimate many more opioid deaths than previously thought, Elizabeth Tracey reports 72,000. That’s the number of deaths related to drug overdoses in the United States in 2017, the most recent data from the Centers for …
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Anchor lead: Does using epinephrine help when people experience a heart attack outside the hospital? Elizabeth Tracey reports The hormone epinephrine is often used by paramedics to restart the heart in people who’ve experienced an out of hospital cardiac arrest. …
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Anchor lead: Helping control fertility may be one key to managing climate change, Elizabeth Tracey reports More natural disasters, deaths due to extreme heat, expanded territories for disease carrying insects, these are just a few of the consequences of climate …
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Anchor lead: Are cured meats in the diet associated with mental illness? Elizabeth Tracey reports People hospitalized with an episode of mania, one feature of bipolar disorder, ate more cured meats than those without the illness, a recent study by …
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Anchor lead: Cured meats may be linked to the mania phase of bipolar disorder, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who are hospitalized for mania are more than three times as likely to have consumed cured meats, which are high in …
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Anchor lead: A protein known as YAP may be important in both cancer and autoimmune disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Can inhibiting a protein known by the shorthand YAP help improve the effectiveness of immunotherapies against cancer? Yes, if results in …
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Anchor lead: Blood transfusions increase someone’s risk for blood clots, but there are strategies in place to minimize risk, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood transfusions around the time of surgery increase someone’s risk of aberrant blood clots twofold, a study by …
