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Week of February 22, 2008 |
This week's topics include the best treatment for just diagnosed Crohn's disease, FDA and Supreme Court activity affecting healthcare, post-stroke treatment, and surgery for spinal stenosis.
Program notes
0:22 FDA has played a role in off label use
1:23 When stents were approved they were for certain indications
2:23 Initial studies it is off label but needs to be studied
3:29 If FDA has approved states can't override
4:29 Appropriate treatment of newly diagnosed Crohn's
5:30 Use of monoclonal antibody
6:17 Key to this study is early use
7:06 Spinal stenosis results from disk bulging
8:21 Unusual to have spinal stenosis in younger people
9:09 Symptoms of stroke
10:12 In the past clot dissolving agents restricted to short window
11:10 If patient has an ischemic penumbra
11:56 End
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