Dementia, Type 1 Diabetes, and Private Equity

This week's topics include alcohol and dementia, treating type 1 diabetes, outcomes when private equity takes over hospitals, and aspirin in CRC.

 Program notes:

0:40 Private equity takeover of hospitals

1:40 Reduced salaries or staffing

2:40 Patients likely to cost system

3:30 Use of anti thymocyte globulin to slow down T1D in youth

4:30 Diagnosed within 9 weeks prior

5:30 Serum sickness in 82% of highest dose group

6:30 Incidence increasing by 2% per year over 20 years

7:00 Aspirin in CRC

8:00 1100 patients with mutation

9:00 Can this mutation be acquired?

9:15 Alcohol and dementia

10:15 Confounding factors relative to alcohol use

11:15 Is there a safe level of consumption?

12:40 End