This week’s topics include bed bugs, homes for people with alcoholism, patients in whom statins don’t help, and cervical cancer assessment.

Program notes:
0:30 Bed bugs
1:13 Transmitted by contact
2:10 Itching and redness
3:08 Cervical cancer assessment
4:08 Great virtue is a one time test
4:41 Statins don’t help in patients undergoing hemodialysis
5:41 You would predict a benefit but its not seen
6:27 Can’t just draw broad conclusions
6:46 Study looking at housing for homeless people
7:46 These individuals ran up at bill of 8 million dollars
8:46 Housing that doesn’t require abstention
9:54 End

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