This week’s topics include computer-based smoking cessation programs, lack of benefit in stopping HRT prior to mammography, a risk score for type 2 diabetes, and a swine flu update.

Program notes:
0:42 Computer-based interventions for smoking cessation
1:40 In adolescents it wasn’t very effective
2:23 Compared to controls increased by 50%
3:01 Stopping HRT previous to mammography
4:05 Even though it decreased breast density it didn’t decrease recall
5:05 Physicians made them aware of risks and benefits
5:17 Risk score system for diabetes
6:12 Fat cells secrete something that increases risk
7:04 Swine flu risk
8:04 Globalization so infection travels fast
9:10 St. Louis isolated flu cases
10:15 End

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