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This week’s topics include metabolic surgery, talking with patients about advanced cancer, sodium in those with kidney disease, and blood pressure in the elderly. Program notes: 0:34 Blood pressure lowering in elderly 1:31 Blood pressure below 120 2:34 Intensive required …
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This week’s topics include tai chi for knee osteoarthritis, silent MIs, improved lung cancer screening, and physicians inquiries about guns. Program notes: 0:41 Guns in the home and physician inquiry 1:44 Individual risk factors 2:44 Would death be avoided if …
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Anchor lead: How can harms for emergency surgeries be reduced? Elizabeth Tracey reports Seven operations account for the majority of complications, costs and death associated with emergency surgery, a recent study found. Robert Higgins, director of surgery at Johns Hopkins, …
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Anchor lead: Just a few surgeries top the list for emergencies and deaths, Elizabeth Tracey reports A mere seven operations top the list for common procedures performed as emergencies, and also account for 80 percent of deaths, costs relative to …
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Anchor lead: Can public awareness drive a vaccine for CMV infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports Zika virus infection during pregnancy is a problem, but possibly even greater is cytomegalovirus, or CMV, research by Ravit Boger, a pediatric infectious disease expert at …
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Anchor lead: Exposure to the CMV virus during pregnancy may lead to learning disabilities in children, Elizabeth Tracey reports CMV, or cytomegalovirus, is an important cause of newborn abnormalities worldwide, likely a much bigger problem than Zika, Ravit Boger, a …
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Anchor lead: If you’re worried about Zika virus infection, perhaps you should think of another virus, too, Elizabeth Tracey reports Cytomegalovirus, abbreviated CMV, is a highly infectious virus that most likely far outstrips Zika virus infections during pregnancy as a …
