May 4, 2016 – Weight and CVD
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Anchor lead: Even slightly overweight people are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports A very large study following young men for almost two decades shows that even when people are at the high end of normal weights, …
May 3, 2016 – Married With Cancer
May 2, 2016 – Measurement
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Anchor lead: Better measures are needed to assess patient safety, Elizabeth Tracey reports Patient safety could get a huge boost with better tools to measure it. That’s according to Peter Pronovost, a patient safety expert at Johns Hopkins and author …
Pulse: May 2016
April 2016 – Cancer News Review
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In this month's Cancer News Review, Kimmel Cancer Center director Bill Nelson comments on a link between marriage and cancer survival, as well as the high burden of cancer costs. Program notes: 0:20 Married people with cancer 1:20 Other things …
PodMed – Week of April 25, 2016
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This week’s topics include reducing suicide, CABG plus medicines for some people, risk following TIA, and metformin first for type 2 diabetes. Program notes: 0:32 Look at a multitude of strategies to prevent suicide 1:32 16 different services implemented 2:32 …