Anchor lead: Can you overcome a stressful childhood with regard to your own stress response? Elizabeth Tracey reports Stressful childhood experiences ranging from parental divorce, alcoholism or depression to bullying, have been shown to hard wire a heightened stress response …
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Anchor lead: Can better technology reduce the number of prostate biopsies? Elizabeth Tracey reports More aggressive prostate cancers are diagnosed using MRI guided biopsy than the traditional approach, a Johns Hopkins study led by Ballantine Carter, a prostate cancer expert, …
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Anchor lead: MRI is very useful when it comes to prostate biopsies, Elizabeth Tracey reports Using magnetic resonance imaging to direct a prostate biopsy improves results, a recent Johns Hopkins study led by Ballantine Carter, a prostate cancer expert, has …
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This week’s topics include the cost of physical inactivity, the mortality impact of sedentary behavior, behavioral activation for depression, and skin inspections for skin cancer. Program notes: 0:32 Mortality and physical inactivity 1:33 If you sit for 8 hours increased …
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Anchor lead: How well does a new vaccine against meningitis work? Elizabeth Tracey reports It’s every parent’s nightmare: a meningitis outbreak where your college student goes to school. Now a new study reports on how well a candidate vaccine …
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Anchor lead: More data is emerging on the impact of Zika, Elizabeth Tracey reports The number of cases of Zika virus infection continue to climb worldwide, and additional aspects of infection are being identified. Mike Klag, dean of the Johns …
