Mar 7, 2014 – Cancer Costs
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Health newsfeed for Friday, March 7, 2014 ANCHOR LEAD: AS CANCER COSTS SKYROCKET, PATIENTS WANT TO BE INFORMED, ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS Cancer care internationally is in crisis, with costs skyrocketing as demands for care also increase. Now a new paper …
PodMed – Week of Mar 10, 2014
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This week’s topics include genetic modification of HIV susceptibility, chronic hepatitis C in the US, moving at risk kids to more affluent neighborhoods, and the impact of casino opening on obesity in American Indian children. Program notes: 0:31 Chance HIV …
Mar 06, 2014 – Organ Harvest
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Health newsfeed for Thursday, March 6, 2014 ANCHOR LEAD: SHOULD SPECIAL CENTERS BE DEVELOPED TO RECOVER ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANT? ELIZABETH TRACEY REPORTS An organ recovery center in St. Louis has just published data revealing that when a center dedicated to …
PodMed – Week of Feb 28, 2014
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This week’s topics include DNA testing for genetic fetal abnormalities, fever in African children, a vaccine for enterovirus, and selenium, vitamin E and prostate cancer. Program notes: 1:03 Enterovirus vaccine 2:01 Developed in China 3:04 Prenatal testing for trisomies 4:04 …