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Anchor lead: A novel vending machine helps nursing moms at Johns Hopkins, Elizabeth Tracey reports Johns Hopkins is leading the way in helping support breastfeeding moms when they return to work. Meg Stoltzfus, a work life expert at Johns Hopkins, …
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Anchor lead: Big data from electronic medical records may help medical trials, Elizabeth Tracey reports Clinical trials are the gold standard by which much of medicine moves forward, but they’re expensive and often take years to complete. Electronic medical records …
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Anchor lead: Has big data delivered on any of its promise in healthcare? Elizabeth Tracey reports Electronic medical records have been deployed nationally, and many researchers are attempting to glean new insights about disease and treatments from these massive quantities …
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Anchor lead: What can we learn from recent Ebola transmission domestically? Elizabeth Tracey reports Everyone has 20/20 hindsight, the saying goes, and while that’s usually true, rigorous examination of recent cases of Ebola virus transmission here in the US is …
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Anchor lead: Why have nurses contracted Ebola in the western world? Elizabeth Tracey reports Two in Texas and one in Spain- how is it that nurses are developing Ebola infection while other members of the Western healthcare teams remain uninfected? …
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This week’s topics include fecal transplant capsules, stem cells for macular degeneration, exercise and depression in teens, and Ebola predictions. Program notes: 0:59 Ebola update from WHO 1:50 Case fatality of 70% 2:48 Domestic concerns 3:50 Public health message re:Ebola …
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Anchor lead: There are strategies to employ to avoid enterovirus infection, Elizabeth Tracey reports Two toddlers have died so far as enterovirus 68 sweeps the US. Even as concerns about Ebola virus escalate domestically, parents especially are concerned about enterovirus …
