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Week of November 07, 2008

This week’s topics include HPV infection detection and possible vaccination of boys, the role of homocysteine, physician prescribing of placebos, and chronic medication use in children.

Program notes
0:21 BMJ study on physician prescription of placebos
1:19 Placebos can be inert or active
2:23 Have prescribed placebos
3:03 Alarming increase in medication use in kids
4:57 Use of HPV vaccine in boys
6:34 Oral rinse can detect
7:20 If the incidence was higher we would do
7:36 Two studies on homocysteine
8:00 Homocysteine and depression
9:00 Whether treatment affects disease
10:01 Lowering homocysteine doesn’t help
10:25 End

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