March 30, 2017 – Glucose and Alzheimer’s
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Anchor lead: How does glucose in the brain affect the development of Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports People with Alzheimer’s disease have lower levels of glucose in their brain, researchers have known for some time. Now it appears that’s mediated …
March 29, 2017 – Cancer and Evolution
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Anchor lead: Why do most cancers arise from random mutations? Elizabeth Tracey reports Random mutations are the cause of most cancers, a new paper published in Science by Bert Vogelstein and Cristian Tomasetti at Johns Hopkins shows. Tomasetti says these …
March 28, 2017 – Cancer Numbers
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Anchor lead: What percentage of common cancers are due to random mutations? Elizabeth Tracey reports Randomly acquired mutations in DNA account for the majority of cancer, a striking new Johns Hopkins study published in Science by Bert Vogelstein and Cristian …
March 27, 2017 – Random Cancer
PodMed – Week of March 27, 2017
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This week’s topics include ‘drip and ship,’ direct to consumer ads, steroid injections for low back pain, and cancer mutations. Program notes: 0:37 Drip and ship 1:37 Best to closest stroke center 2:37 TPA helpful in expanding window 3:43 Mutations …
March 24, 2017 – Drug-Brain Interactions
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Anchor lead: When opioids are combined with another drug, the chances of overdose increase, Elizabeth Tracey reports Opioid overdose is epidemic, and now a study in the British Medical Journal shows that when these drugs are taken with benzodiazapines such …