Mammogram Makeover, Predicting Health Patterns, 50 Years of the Pill, and More
Description
In Tonic, Dr. Norman Swan leads a team of reporters who cover all aspects of health, from lifestyle to complementary medicines to the most recent medical discoveries. Topics covered in this episode include: *Mammogram Makeover-How a New Method Could Pick Up Four Times the Number of Cancers: Many women have dense breast tissue, which makes them more susceptible to getting breast cancer, though most women don't know this. As mammograms are less likely to pick up breast cancer in women with dense breast tissue, Associate Professor Deborah Rhodes and her team at the Mayo Clinic have come up with a new screening method for such cases, which is finding four times the cancer than traditional mammograms. *Keeping an Eye on Earth's Health-How NASA Uses Satellite Technology to Predict Health Patterns: NASA is using satellite imagery to predict changing patterns in the environment that could signal climate factors negatively influencing our health.
Runtime
28 min
Series
Subjects
- Physical fitness (424)
- Diseases (446)
- Preventive health services (62)
- Diagnosis (238)
- Self-care, Health (487)
- Breast (53)
- Epidemiology (150)
- Medicine, Preventive (350)
- Oral contraceptives (3)
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Date of Publication
[2013], c2012
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Films on Demand
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