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This week’s topics include end of life care in a spectrum of illness, dementia and blood transfusions, coprescribing of naloxone with opioids, and treatment of binge eating disorder. Program notes: 0:31 End of life treatments 1:32 Compared with cancer 2:33 …
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Anchor lead: New guidelines add additional choices to colon cancer screening, Elizabeth Tracey reports Colonoscopy used to be the only method recommended by many authorities for colon cancer screening, but no more. The United States Preventive Services Task Force has …
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Anchor lead: Many large retail pharmacies are moving into city neighborhoods and providing health services, Elizabeth Tracey reports Inner city neighborhoods are seeing expansion of large retail pharmacies into their communities, where they offer health screenings of many types as …
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Anchor lead: People are using the over the counter medication Imodium as an opiate substitute, Elizabeth Tracey reports. People who are addicted to opiate medications have been turning to the over the counter medication called loperamide as a legal and …
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Anchor lead: An implantable medicine may help opioid addicts, Elizabeth Tracey reports Beating opioid addiction may now be easier with the use of an existing medication called buprenorphine, in a newly FDA approved formulation that is implanted under the skin. …
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Anchor lead: Will an integrated approach to bladder cancer help reduce deaths from the disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports For the first time in three decades a new treatment has received FDA approval for bladder cancer. Stephanie Cooper Greenberg, and her …
