Newscast segments: |
| | | • PSA: If You’re Pregnant and You Smoke
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| | | Your risk of your baby being born too small is one and a half to three and a half times greater.
| Duration: 00:29
File Size: 454 KB |
 | PSA -- Children Are Not Immune to Medical Errors
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Medication errors occur three times as often in children as adults. Dr. Carolyn Clancy has some advice for parents.
| Duration: 00:49
File Size: 774 KB |
| Radiocast -- Tips for Medication Safety
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Avoid medication mix-ups with this consumer checklist of five simple tips.
| Duration: 01:58
File Size: 1.80 MB |
 | Advice Column -- Busting Myths About Health Care Quality
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Many supposed truths are based on old, incomplete, or simply incorrect information.
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| Newscast -- Lead Story: The Nation's 10 Most Expensive Medical Conditions
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
A new survey by AHRQ reveals that treating the nation’s 10 most expensive medical conditions cost about $500 billion in 2005.
| Duration: 08:55
File Size: 8.17 MB |
Newscast segments: |
| | | • Feature: The Nation’s 10 Most Expensive Medical Conditions
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| | | A new survey by AHRQ reveals that treating the nation’s 10 most expensive medical conditions.
| Duration: 00:53
File Size: 835 KB |
| | | • Feature: Telemedicine Project Links Rural Care Clinicians with their Counterparts in the City
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| | | Telemedicine can help patients use technology to connect with their doctors.
| Duration: 03:50
File Size: 3.52 MB |
| | | • Feature: Tips for Taking Medical Tests and Getting the High-Quality Care you Deserve
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| | | Dr. Carolyn Clancy talks about how asking questions when you are told to have medical tests is key to getting safer, higher quality health care.
| Duration: 02:26
File Size: 2.23 MB |
| | | • Radiocast: Medical Tests
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| | | AHRQ has tips to help you make sure you get the high quality care you deserve.
| Duration: 02:00
File Size: 1.83 MB |
| | | • PSA: Tips to Prevent Medical Errors
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| | | You can help avoid errors by being more involved in your health care.
| Duration: 00:28
File Size: 448 KB |
| Radiocast -- African American Health Care Disparities
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
A look at health care disparities between ethnic groups.
| Duration: 02:00
File Size: 1.84 MB |
| Advice Column -- Asking Questions About Medical Tests
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Asking questions about medical tests—which ones you need, which ones you don't, and what the results tell you—can help you stay healthy and alert your doctor to the signs ...
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| Newscast -- Lead Story: What to Ask Before You Undergo Elective Surgery
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
What you need to know if you are having surgery.
| Duration: 08:26
File Size: 7.72 MB |
Newscast segments: |
| | | • Feature: Nearly a Million Americans are Being Treated for Shingles
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| | | Nearly a million Americans are being treated for shingles infections each year at a cost of about $566 million.
| Duration: 00:44
File Size: 696 KB |
| | | • Feature: Rheumatoid Arthritis Medications
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| | | While the cause of rheumatoid arthritis is unknown, researchers have long-studied treatments that typically begin with medications. But which drugs work best?
| Duration: 02:15
File Size: 2.07 MB |
