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This week’s topics include statins and pneumonia, pneumovax in smokers, the role of c-reactive protein and a potential new obesity drug.
Program notes
0:25 Potential drug for obesity
1:22 What’s different is people lose twice as much weight
2:24 Originally developed for Alzheimer’s
3:15 Pneumonia and statins
4:13 Had to take at time of admission
4:52 C-reactive protein
5:49 Increased risk for cardiovascular disease?
6:50 Knowing about genetic makeup influences therapy
7:14 Vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia
8:14 Flu pandemic and pneumonia
9:07 Seldom see in young individuals
9:46 End
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