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This week’s topics include supine versus prone ventilation in the ICU, best treatment for COPD exacerbations, who benefits from prostate cancer treatment, and sports participation after ICD implantation.

This week’s topics include bugs for dinner, a new treatment for hepatitis C, pelvic prolapse surgery, and paying for health in developing countries.

This week’s topics include preventing inappropriate shocks with implanted defibrillators, cleaning baby’s pacifier, supplements and macular degeneration, and recommendations for lung cancer screening in smokers.

This week’s topics include surgery versus PT for meniscal repairs, dangers of azithromycin, HIV screening recommendations, and allergies in kids in the US and elsewhere.

This week’s topics include H7N9, diabetes report card, valproate and autism, and worms in Chinese schoolchildren.

This week’s topics include glutamine and antioxidants in ICU patients, CT scans to diagnose osteoporosis, childhood migraine and colic, and chronic kidney disease predictors.

This week’s topics include carnitine and red meat, controlling the childhood obesity problem, PSA screening guidelines, and walking versus running benefits.

This week’s topics include omega-3 levels and mortality, duloxetine for chemotherapy induced nerve pain, costs of dementia, and statin discontinuation.

This week’s topics include off pump coronary artery bypass surgery, under the tongue immunotherapy, vitamin D and pregnancy outcomes, and chelation therapy after heart attack.

This week's topics include using DNA to track metastatic breast cancer, radiation dangers to the heart following cancer treatment, atherosclerosis in mummies, and inappropriate screening colonoscopy.

This week’s topics include a lack of benefit in sildenafil and heart failure, pertussis uptick, MRI and back pain, and family members presence during CPR.

This week’s topics include endovascular treatment of stroke, Internet searches and drug side effects, HIV infection and heart attack risk, and a new drug resistant gut bug.

This week’s topics include synthetic marijuana, new anticlotting agents, recommendations on vitamin D, and HIV and liver damage.

This week’s topics include robotic gyn surgery, telomere length and respiratory infection, volume resuscitation with starch, and a new device for GERD.

This week’s topics include the dangers of calcium supplements for women, folic acid and autism, consumer pricing of hip surgery, and H.pylori treatment in Latin America.