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Numbers you should know for cardiovascular disease risk
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 20, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: The Guide to Beating a Heart Attack
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Sunscreen use recommendations and new FDA labelling regulations
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 10, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: The Push for Daily Sunscreen Few People Apply It the Right Way, New Labels Try to Help; a Shot Glass of Protection in the Morning
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Using whole genome mapping no panacea for disease screening
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 4, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Gene Maps Are No Cure-All Study Warns That DNA Scanning to Predict Disease Can Mislead; ‘Not a Crystal Ball’ Reference: The Predictive Capacity of Personal Genome Sequencing
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Recognizing the impact of mammogram false positive results
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 3, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Study finds some early breast cancer overdiagnosed Reference: Overdiagnosis of Invasive Breast Cancer Due to Mammography Screening: Results From the Norwegian Screening Program
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Longevity calculator raises awareness of lifestyle choice health risks
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 2, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Five unhealthy habits sending us to an early grave Reference: Life expectancy quiz from ICES at http://www.rrasp-phirn.ca/risktools.
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Should specialists be doing primary care?
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 28, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Gynecologists urged to screen for heart disease
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Injectable medication might help specific populations reach heart disease prevention targets
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 27, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: New Injection Might Lower Tough-to-Treat Cholesterol Reference: Safety and Efficacy of a Monoclonal Antibody to Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9 Serine Protease, SAR236553/REGN727, in Patients With Primary Hypercholesterolemia Receiving Ongoing Stable Atorvastatin Therapy
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Test may help predict imminent heart attack
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 22, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Weird cells may lead to heart attack prediction test Reference: Characterization of Circulating Endothelial Cells in Acute Myocardial Infarction
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ASA study for cancer prevention interesting but leaves out large studies stating the opposite and uses studies not originally designed for cancer outcomes
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 21, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: More research touts aspirin for cancer prevention Reference: Aspirin Benefits May Include Cancer Prevention Primary source: The Lancet Source reference: Rothwell PR, et al “Short-term effects of daily aspirin on cancer incidence, mortalilty, and nonvascular death: Analysis of the time course of…