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Week of August 15, 2008

This week's topics include physical activity in immigrant children, psychotherapy trends in the US, one benefit of estrogen therapy, and prostate cancer screening in older men.

Program notes
0: 20 Estrogen therapy benefit
1:22 Estrogen affects different pathways in the brain
2:15 Less psychotherapy taking place
3:16 Benefits of CBT in managing mental illness
4:28 Need better reimbursement
4:40 Don't screen older men for prostate cancer
5:33 No benefit in screening in men with less than 10 years to live
6:24 Men over the age of 75
7:21 Problem with patients accepting this change
7:50 Lack of physical activity in immigrant children
8:46 Children with least access to medical care
9:37 End

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