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H1N1 pandemic severity update and the effectiveness of antivirals in otherwise healthy adults
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 9, 2009 Sources: British researchers say little evidence Tamiflu works, but WHO says the drug is useful Swine Flu Pandemic May Be Less Severe Than Expected
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Prescription opiods associated with increasing levels of overdose and mortality: study
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 8, 2009 Source: Study finds huge rise in oxycodone deaths (The “huge rise” is an increase of 13 per million) Reference: Prescribing of opioid analgesics and related mortality before and after the introduction of long-acting oxycodone
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Costs of diabetes care to increase
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 7, 2009 Source: Diabetes called a brewing ‘economic tsunami’
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New experimental technique may reduce bone marrow transplant rejections
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 2, 2009 Source: New technique could revolutionize stem-cell transplants
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Treatments for Seasonal Affective Disorder abound but do they work?
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 1, 2009 [display_podcast] Source: Bright Ideas for Treating the Winter Blues
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Why the H1N1 vaccine program continues despite the decline in infection rates
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 30, 2009 Source: Week six of flu shot campaign
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Experimenting on children who have autism
An excellent review of alternative therapies for the treatment of autism is published in the November 22, 2009 edition of the Chicago Tribune. Please take a gander at how fear is being used to motivate some parents to seek dubious and unvalidated approaches to the treatment of this disorder. In effect, we are witnessing an…
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What would have been on Sunday House Call #292, November 29, 2009
Sunday House Call #292 These interviews were to be broadcast this Sunday. I will post them then. With all the information in the news about H1N1 and disease transmission and prevention, there is a body of evidence that is not being recognized as a primary factor in developing approaches to disease control. A McMaster University…
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Sunday House Call Cancelled
It is with great disappointment that I must announce that future editions of Sunday House Call have been cancelled. I would like to thank the listeners who have supported the show and have made those two hours on Sunday a special time for me for the past five and a half years. It was the…
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