April 4, 2017 – Supplement Help
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Anchor lead: Do supplements really help your health or is it your belief they will? Elizabeth Tracey reports Ginseng supplements, which have been shown to help fatigue in people with cancer, really didn’t show any benefit relative to placebo in …
April 3, 2017 – Ginseng and Fatigue
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Anchor lead: Does the supplement ginseng help fatigue? Elizabeth Tracey reports People with HIV, even when the virus is under control, often experience fatigue. Now a new study by Adriana Andrade at Johns Hopkins and colleagues has examined whether ginseng …
PodMed – Week of April 3, 2017
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This week’s topics include a single novel prosthesis report, the benefits of knee replacement, resorbable stents, and health policy on opioid prescription and treatment for addiction. Program notes: 0:32 Stents that are bioresorbable 1:32 Typical metallic stent versus bioabsorbable 2:29 …
Pulse March 2017
March 31, 2017 – More Than One
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 …