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Week of June 6, 2008

This week's topics include patient perceptions of mortality with heart failure, a potential new treatment of heart attacks, managing nausea related to chemotherapy, and preventing kidney failure in people with diabetes.

Program notes
0:23 May be a new treatment in heart attack
1:20 Clot occludes blood flow
2:22 Both are invasive techniques
3:00 Review article of nausea and chemotherapy
4:07 Newer agents are not sedating
5:00 Assessed people's perception of life expectancy
6:13 Don't consider invasive therapies
7:04 Patient participation important
7:44 Diabetes and kidney failure
8:18 Look for albumin in urine
9:03 Evaluation of kidneys every year
10:01 End

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