Recent Episodes
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Vaping Eliminates Benefit of Smoking Cessation
For people who began vaping as way to stop smoking cigarettes may want to consider quitting after hearing this episode. A large study of people who quit smoking, those who switched to vaping had more than 50 percent higher risk of lung cancer and were twice as likely to die of the disease compared to those who quit outright. The study also suggests that using e-cigarettes to quit traditional cigarettes seems to negate some of the benefits of quitting outright but was still better than continuing to smoke.
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The Switch for Sleep
In terms of overall health, for a long time, sleep wasn't considered to be all that important. Today, that's all changed. Sleep is key to keeping us healthy and yet, getting enough of it is elusive for more than 50 million Americans. Sleep deprivation puts us at risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney issues, obesity and even depression.
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Otzi's Microbiome
Every time I write a new episode on Ötzi the iceman, I think this is it. Nope! Scientists have just completed the most comprehensive analysis of the mummy's microbiome, adding to the bacteria, fungi and yeasts they've identified in more than three decades of sampling.
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Hope for Pancreatic Cancer
Treatment for pancreatic cancer had been static for decades despite the money and effort to find answers. But a significant breakthrough came this spring. A trial of a new drug called Daraxonrasib involving 500 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer lived for an extra 13 months compared with those
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Liquid Biopsy for Cancer Detection
We're a long way from curing cancer, but one way to work toward this goal is to diagnose cancer early. It's key to surviving cancer or to living longer with it. Treating it early means cancer has less chance of growing and spreading. That's why we need a simple blood test to diagnose cancer.
