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Anchor lead: Even as rates of many cancer types are falling, one keeps rising, Elizabeth Tracey reports Human papilloma viruses cause cancer, and that’s why a vaccine has been developed against the most common cancer causing types. Yet new data …
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Anchor lead: Could a new technique help deliver therapies to the brain? Elizabeth Tracey reports Our brains are protected from the rest of our circulation by something called the blood brain barrier, but this elegant system keeps therapies from crossing …
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Anchor lead: Are the numbers of people who develop Parkinson’s disease increasing? Elizabeth Tracey reports Parkinson’s disease has a number of symptoms, but perhaps the most distressing is the tremor that accompanies movement, rendering even the most common tasks challenging. …
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Anchor lead: How much of the military’s advances can be applied to civilian medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Almost all of trauma medicine relies on interventions developed on the battlefield, with a recently reported study identifying a number of strategies that …
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Anchor lead: Fats of certain types really are deadly, Elizabeth Tracey reports Certain dietary fats really do increase the risk of death from a number of diseases, the most recent research confirms. Redonda Miller, president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, …
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This week’s topics include two on HIV management, obesity and death, and the benefits of special shoes for osteoarthritis. Program notes: 0:30 Shoes and knee osteoarthritis 1:31 Unloading shoes or not 2:32 Six months of use 3:03 Condom use in …
