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Anchor lead: Can another approach avoid use of antipsychotic medicines in people with Alzheimer’s? Elizabeth Tracey reports The acronym DICE describes a new approach developed by Constantine Lyketsos, an Alzheimer’s disease expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, to assist clinicians …
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Anchor lead: Recent federal data reveal that use of a class of medications to control behavior in people with Alzheimer’s disease just keeps going up, Elizabeth Tracey reports Atypical antipsychotics are a class of medications sometimes used to keep behavior …
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Anchor lead: Keeping blood sugar under control may soon be more automated, Elizabeth Tracey reports Your pancreas largely uses two hormones, insulin and glucagon, to manage your blood sugar automatically. Now a new device called an artificial pancreas that also …
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Anchor lead: Can the drug metformin be used to head off the development of diabetes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Prediabetes is the condition where frank diabetes appears likely to develop, with many physicians looking into how to head it off if …
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Anchor lead: Feeding peanut early may be the best way to avoid allergies, Elizabeth Tracey reports Consumption of peanuts very early in infancy may preclude the development of peanut allergy, a New England Journal of Medicine study shows. Redonda Miller, …
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This week's topics include the impact of cleaner air on lung development, dangers of testosterone, drugs for coping with shift work, and anti anxiety meds before surgery. Program notes: 0:34 Testosterone dangers 1:32 Observational studies suggest risk 2:31 Strict criteria …
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Anchor lead: Nurses get sidelined by chronic injury quite often, Elizabeth Tracey reports The daily grind of working on your feet, lifting people who can’t help themselves and a host of other tasks frequently result in chronic injury for nurses, …
