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Anchor lead: How will strategies to streamline medical care affect you? Elizabeth Tracey reports Choosing Wisely is the name of an education and research effort underway around the country, taking aim at where medical tests or treatments can be safely …
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This week’s topics include home care and survival, timing of HRT, Lyme disease and long term antibiotics, and cardiac procedures before surgery. Program notes: 0:34 Lyme disease and long term antibiotics 1:35 Randomized to placebo or one of two antibiotic …
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Anchor lead: Can three simple strategies reduce gun deaths? Elizabeth Tracey reports Ninety percent of the deaths due to handgun violence in the US could be averted with three simple strategies, a recent study in the Lancet asserts, including background …
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Anchor lead: Gene therapy may one day soon cure hemophilia, Elizabeth Tracey reports Hemophilia can usually be managed well with infusions of missing blood clotting factors, most often factor XIII and factor IX. Yet the schedule is onerous, requiring infusions …
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Anchor lead: New treatments are helping people with hemophilia live better, Elizabeth Tracey reports Hemophilia is a blood clotting disorder that used to be a death sentence. After the blood clotting factors that were missing were identified, treatment became possible. …
