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Anchor lead:Diabetes complicates tuberculosis, Elizabeth Tracey reports Diabetes and tuberculosis, two worldwide health problems of epidemic proportion, work in synchrony to make things even worse.  That’s according to a recent Lancet series.  Jonathan Golub, a tuberculosis and diabetes expert at …

September 29, 2014 – Diabetes and TB Read more »

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Anchor lead:  Should you manage your own blood pressure medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports Many people with high blood pressure are capable of managing not just monitoring but also increasing or decreasing their medicines to keep blood pressure under control, a …

September 26, 2014 – Medicine Experience Read more »

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Anchor lead:  One day soon you may be called upon to manage your own blood pressure, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood pressure is a tricky thing, going up temporarily in stressful situations like a doctor’s office.  So rather than rely on …

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Anchor lead:  Epigenetic changes are confirmed in several types of cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports What do lung, breast, colon and several other cancers have in common?  Research by Andrew Feinberg and colleagues at Johns Hopkins and Harvard has shown a …

September 23, 2014 – : Epigenetics and More Cancers Read more »

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This week’s topics include Ebola face to face, the best way to diagnose kidney stones in the ED, spinal manipulation for sciatica, and generic versus trade name statins. Program notes: 0:31 Ebola Face to Face 1:31 Takes about five minutes …

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