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This week’s topics include knee and hip replacement and heart attacks, new HIV management guidelines, HIV and Immigrants, and HIV and blood vessel inflammation.

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This week’s topics include the dangers of eating disorders, watchful waiting in prostate cancer, trans fat regulation, and treating egg allergies.

The role of cranberry juice in preventing urinary tract infections, whether dogs and cats help keep infants healthy, preventing HIV transmission in some at risk people, and alcohol consumption and rheumatoid arthritis.

This week’s topics include keeping physicians up to date, osteoporosis guidelines for men, obesity screening, and counseling to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Clot busters and blood thinners, liver injury due to medical supplements, a common blood pressure medication and sprue, and assessing thyroid nodules

This week’s topics include better cholesterol markers, the walk test, alcoholism and obesity surgery, and kidney disease as equivalent to heart attack.

This week’s topics include risks of hormonal contraception, stress testing after cardiac surgery, statins, and insulin and fish oil and diabetes.

This week’s topics include basal cell cancer treatment, screening for intimate partner violence, aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events, and multidrug resistant TB.

This week’s topics include the dangers of mail order poultry, updated hormone therapy review in women, kidney disease and tight blood sugar control in those with diabetes, and thyroid dysfunction and heart disease.

This week’s topics include the benefits of flexible sigmoidoscopy, dangers of calcium supplements, diabetic foot ulcers, and PSA screening.

This week’s topics include stress testing after heart procedures, coffee and mortality, air pollution and markers of inflammation, and laxative-free colonoscopy.

This week’s topics include the benefits of probiotics, Millennium villages in Africa, fruits for fruit juice, and infections related cancers worldwide.

Topics include aspirin versus Coumadin in people with congestive heart failure, the problem of babies born to women who use drugs while pregnant, managing type 2 diabetes in adolescents, and mammography indications.