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Sunday House Call, #725, February 2, 2020: Subduing peanut anaphylaxis
Sunday House Call, #725, February 2, 2020: Subduing peanut anaphylaxis Topics today include: The FDA approves the first oral treatment to reduce the risk of peanut anaphyaxis for children and adolescents. Lung repairs itself more than expected after people stop smoking. Your calls about: An x-ray shows some degeneration of the sacroiliac joint in an…
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The pathophysiology of how stress contributes to the development of grey hair
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 31, 2020 Source:Scientists Confirm That Stress Can Indeed Turn Hair Grey Reference:Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives depletion of melanocyte stem cells
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Environmental and health consequences of fracking report raises some awareness of the issue but unfortunately cherry picks it sources for information to support its mandate.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 30, 2020 Source:Birth defects, cancer and disease among potential health risks from fracking for Canadians, doctors warn Reference: Link to report
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Electroconvulsive therapy has it indications for use and does help people who suffer from treatment-resistant mental illness
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 29, 2020 Source:It may sound scary but Electroconvulsive Therapy is saving lives
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Little evidence to suggest surgical face masks will protect you from coronavirus
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 28, 2020 Source:Can face masks protect you from the coronavirus? Experts weigh in
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Sunday House Call, #724, January 26, 2020: Hey MSM, what is the real denominator?
Sunday House Call, #724, January 26, 2020: Hey MSM, what is the real denominator? Topics today include:How news media’s reports of coronavirus fail to recognize the many unreported mild cases of the disease. They use deaths per reported cases thereby inflating the death rate. This article gets it right. Your calls about: Recommendations to take…
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Hygiene practices and lack of meat-handling regulations in open markets likely contributed to the development of a novel coronavirus.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 24, 2020 Source:Snakes could be the source of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
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Basic science mouse study of a common protein target shared in multiple cancers warrants further assessment in humans. No treatments on the horizon but this epitomizes good scientific research.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 23, 2020 Source:New scientific breakthrough could lead to ‘one-size-fits-all’ cancer treatment Reference:Genome-wide CRISPR–Cas9 screening reveals ubiquitous T cell cancer targeting via the monomorphic MHC class I-related protein MR1
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