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This week’s topics include stents versus CABG, screening people without symptoms for heart disease, agreement about breast biopsies, and imaging for low back pain in older folks. Program notes: 0:47 CABG versus stents 1:49 Second generation drug-eluting stents 2:47 Stents …
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Anchor lead: How should you compare doctors and hospitals? Elizabeth Tracey reports Do physicians game the system when measures such as 30 day mortality are used to grade their performance, as a recent report suggests? Joseph Califano, a head and …
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Anchor lead: Should premedication before surgery be used in elderly people? Elizabeth Tracey reports When older people undergo surgery, delirium sometimes results, with delayed or sometimes permanently impaired cognitive recovery. Can using medicines to alleviate anxiety contribute, as a recent …
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Anchor lead: Should medicine for anxiety be given before surgery? Elizabeth Tracey reports Sometimes people are so anxious before surgery they are given a medication to help. Now a new study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association …
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Anchor lead: A trial called Finger took a comprehensive approach to slowing down Alzheimer’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports Employing physical and mental activity, social interaction and nutritional intervention failed to appreciably slow down development of Alzheimer’s disease, a trial called …
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Anchor lead: Can a multifaceted approach delay Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports Can memory decline and the development of Alzheimer’s disease be slowed down by a global approach to risk factors? That was the hope of the FINGER trial, recently …
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This week’s topics include results from transcatheter valve replacement, transfusions after cardiac surgery, managing humeral fractures, and the benefits of a vegetarian diet on colon cancer risk. Program notes: 0: 36 Vegetarian diets and colorectal cancer risk 1:36 Non-vegetarians also …
