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This week’s topics include new hip and knee prostheses, cannabis use in adolescents, questionable use of medicines in people with dementia, and aspirin to prevent preeclampsia. Program notes: 0:35 Cannabis use in teenagers 1:35 Frequency of use before age 17 …
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Anchor lead: New models for laboratory research help understand infections and inflammation better, Elizabeth Tracey reports Don’t be surprised if sometime soon your physician asks for a very small tissue sample from you to develop a laboratory model of one …
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Headline: Can a ‘human on a chip’ advance medical science faster than other models? Elizabeth Tracey reports Medical research is a billion dollar undertaking that may soon be accelerated with use of stem cell technology. Mark Donowitz, a gastroenterologist and …
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Anchor lead: Do you want to read what your doctor writes about you? Elizabeth Tracey reports Open Notes is a project that’s been underway for several years allowing patients to read their own medical charts, including their physician’s notes. Howard …
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Anchor lead: How do academic medical centers benefit those around them? Elizabeth Tracey reports Moody’s, a bond credit rating business, recently touted academic medical centers in the northeast as helping to bolster bond ratings in various cities, Baltimore among them, …
