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Week of August 22, 2008

This week's topics include role of vitamin B in cardiovascular disease, cautions on HPV vaccine use, new treatment for cystic fibrosis and diabetes and arsenic.

Program notes
0:30 Cystic fibrosis treatment
1:30 Truncated protein defect
2:24 Personalized medicine
3:13 HPV vaccination implications
4:15 Use of vaccine at particular ages
5:17 How and to whom to administer vaccine
5:37 B vitamins and heart disease
6:27 Supplementation doesn't help
7:05 Arsenic exposure in water and type 2 diabetes
8:07 Inorganic form deleterious
9:02 Attack at level of water supply
10:23 End

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