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Medical Minute: Potassium Stress

This week’s Medical Minute discusses new investigations into the connection between potassium and physical symptoms associated with chronic stress. 

February 03, 2023
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Medical Minute: Chronic Rejection

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a potential new “early warning system” to spot chronic rejection in organ transplant recipients.  

January 26, 2023
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Medical Minute: Subcutaneous Fat

This week’s Medical Minute discusses how subcutaneous fat plays a different role in males versus females when it comes to the brain inflammation that contribute to dementia and stroke.

January 21, 2023
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Medical Minute: Peripheral Artery Disease

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a new study looking directly at whether certain negative social determinants play a role in the prevalence of Peripheral Artery Disease in black adult populations.

January 14, 2023
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Medical Minute: PTSD Treatment

This week’s Medical Minute discusses new laboratory evidence that an old blood pressure medicine may help weaken traumatic memories that lead to debilitating PTSD.

January 07, 2023
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Medical Minute: Kynurenine

This week’s Medical Minute discusses the relationship between tryptophan, the amino acid that contributes to the sleepiness we feel after the big Thanksgiving meal, and “Kynurenine”, an important ingredient in the fuel that powers our cells.

November 25, 2022
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Medical Minute: Tryptophan

This week’s Medical Minute discusses “Tryptophan”, the amino acid that contributes to our feeling sleepy after the big Thanksgiving meal, but is also key to many other body functions.

November 25, 2022
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Medical Minute: Pandemic Numbers

This week’s Medical Minute discusses findings by mathematical modelers that indicate the number of people who contracted COVID-19 worldwide, and the number of people who died as a result, may be far larger than initially reported.

November 19, 2022
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Medical Minute: Psoriasis Heart Attack

This week’s Medical Minute discusses an update on a study that examines the connection between the chronic inflammatory disease Psoriasis and heart attacks.

November 12, 2022
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Medical Minute: NTM

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a big group of bacteria that are present virtually everywhere. It is harmless for most of us, but can increase the risk of dying in people whose kidneys have failed.

November 05, 2022
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Medical Minute: Amino Acid

This week’s Medical Minute discusses an amino acid that may help protect the vision of premature babies and people with diabetes.

October 29, 2022
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Medical Minute: Stress Cancer

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a new study indicating that chronic stress alone can increase the risk of dying from cancer.

October 22, 2022
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Medical Minute: Osteoporosis

This week’s Medical Minute discusses potentially problematic side effects of a largely effective, inexpensive drug used to treat those at risk of fractures from osteoporosis, the bone weakening condition typically associated with aging.

October 15, 2022
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Medical Minute: Exosome Labeling

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a new technique scientists have developed to label the biological couriers that transport molecules between cells called “exosomes”

September 30, 2022
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Medical Minute: Motor Proteins

This week’s Medical Minute discusses the little-known role of so-called “Motor Proteins” that are essential to life, but can also cause disease.

September 30, 2022
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