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Week of June 13, 2008

This week's topics include vitamin D and heart attacks in men, lack of cardiovascular benefit of tight blood sugar control, avoiding macular degeneration, and a new way to make flu vaccine.

Program notes
0:30 Macular degeneration
1:30 Don't recognize gradual loss of vision
2:35 Prevent new blood vessel formation
3:10 Reduced death with fish oil ingestion
4:05 Tight blood sugar control in diabetes and death
5:17 Probably not just simple diabetes
6:29 Use hemoglobin A1c
7:30 Avoid egg allergy with flu vaccine
8:00 Vitamin D and heart attacks in men
9:00 Vitamin D easily assessed
9:51 End

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