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Anchor lead: Identifying thyroid disease may need to change as people age, Elizabeth Tracey reports Thyroid diseases are common as people age, especially an underactive thyroid gland known as hypothyroidism. Now a new study by thyroid expert Jenna Mammen at …
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Anchor lead: Should the US follow the lead of other countries in destigmatizing drug use? Elizabeth Tracey reports Portugal is being put forward as a model for decreasing opioid addiction and overdose death, where destigmatization is the linchpin along with …
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Anchor lead: What would be helpful about declaring opioid overdoses a national emergency? 64,000 people dead from opioid overdoses last year. Those are the dire statistics, and Eric Strain, a drug abuse expert at Johns Hopkins, says their impact is …
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Anchor lead: Helping manage health care costs is something called ‘high value care,’ Elizabeth Tracey reports Health care costs too much. That’s an inescapable fact, and one that may be helped by an approach called ‘high value care.’ Paul Rothman, …
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This week’s topics include Medicare spending on frail elderly, resorbable stents, men with HPV, and procalcitonin to assess antibiotic need. Program notes: 0:41 Looking at procalcitonin to determine antibiotic use 1:42 Improve or worsen survival 2:40 Point of care testing …
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Anchor lead: There is a role for opioid medications in managing some chronic pain, Elizabeth Tracey reports Now that federal authorities are so focused on curtailing the opioid epidemic, does that mean that there’s no place for these medicines in …
