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Anchor lead: People who receive palliative care at home live longer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Palliative care, which is intended to alleviate symptoms of disease and improve quality of life at every stage of illness, helped people who were dying at …
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Anchor lead: Mindfulness helps in managing low back pain, Elizabeth Tracey reports Low back pain affects almost everyone at some point in their lifetime. Now a new study demonstrates that mindfulness techniques and yoga are just as good as cognitive …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
