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This week’s topics include diabetes and mortality, red meat and death, flavored tobacco, and mortality trends in the US. Program notes: 0:39 Processed meats and cancer risk 1:31 No randomized controlled trials 2:31 Carbon footprint with meat production? 3:36 Mortality …
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This week’s topics include comprehensive intervention in first episode psychosis, nicotinamide and skin cancer, total knee replacements, and common cardiovascular medicines and their worldwide use. Program notes: 0:39 Multipronged approach to first episode psychosis 1:38 Two year outcomes 2:37 Cost …
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Anchor lead: Does a genetic test to assess breast cancer recurrence risk deliver? Elizabeth Tracey reports Oncotype is a commercially available genetic test for breast tumors that’s now been validated for women with low risk disease, a recent study in …
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Anchor lead: Should the FDA mandate low nicotine cigarettes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Smoking low nicotine cigarettes seems to result in more smokers making cessation attempts, a recent New England Journal of Medicine study found. Enid Neptune, a lung expert at …
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Anchor lead: Are low nicotine cigarettes the answer to smoking cessation? Elizabeth Tracey reports Smokers who had no intention of quitting the habit and who were provided with low nicotine cigarettes make twice as many attempts to stop smoking as …
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Anchor lead: Who should really take a calcium supplement? Elizabeth Tracey reports Calcium supplements are very popular, with a recent survey finding one in three or one in two women taking them. Yet two studies in the British Medical Journal …
