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Anchor lead: How can recommendations from the Institute of Medicine help stem the tide of opioid overdose? Elizabeth Tracey reports Even as debate over repealing many aspects of the Affordable Care Act continues in DC, the Institute of Medicine and …
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Anchor lead: Senator John McCain’s brain tumor will likely require more than surgery to treat, Elizabeth Tracey reports Brain tumors have come into focus with Senator John McCain’s diagnosis. Matthias Holdhoff, a brain cancer expert at Johns Hopkins, describes what’s …
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This week’s topics include football and CTE, discontinuing statins, intramuscular HIV meds, and long term risks of stroke and TIA. Program notes: 0:32 Stroke and TIA risk 1:35 Adverse outcomes five years later 2:35 Be aggressive about managing risk 3:24 …
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Anchor lead: The US attorney general has revealed a crackdown on some opioid treatment centers, Elizabeth Tracey reports Imagine seeking help for your opioid addiction, only to be sent off to an out of state treatment facility where bogus treatment …
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Anchor lead: If typical antidepressants don’t work, adding another type of medicine may help, Elizabeth Tracey reports In people with depression that doesn’t respond totally to the usual antidepressant medications, adding another type of drug known as an atypical antipsychotic …
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Anchor lead: Will Maryland’s new law to prevent generic drug price gouging spread nationally? Elizabeth Tracey reports Should pharmaceutical companies be able to raise the price of generic drugs by thousands of percentage points overnight, in the absence of any …
