April 12, 2016 – Genetic Risk
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Anchor lead: If you knew your genetic risk for a disease, would that change your behavior? Elizabeth Tracey reports Even when presented with individualized genetic risk assessments for things like heart disease or diabetes, most people don’t change their behavior …
April 11, 2016 – Choosing Wisely
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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 …
PodMed – Week of April 4, 2016
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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 …
April 8, 2016 – Controlling Guns
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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 …