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What do you think of these proposed changes in who should be taking an aspirin every day as a preventive measure? they're saying if you're over 60, if you've had a history of a stroke or heart attack take the aspirin but don't just take it preventively if you haven't. >> thanks for having me back. i think back to medical school when i first learned about prevention of heart attacks and strokes with aspirin. it became dogma but over the last 20 years the evidence has accumulated that for a lot of people the risks clearly outweigh the benefits. and so elizabeth's report really got it right. basi...

That even all these months later, even now that we have a new president it remains one of the mysteries about the initial response to the covid pandemic in this country. with that we, is just why was genuinely bad but also why it was specifically weird in the way that it was. you may also remember how obsessed president trump was with the drug hydroxychloroquine. he would get up by covid briefing what a miracle hydroxychloroquine was. he talked about it like it was a cure or like it was the thing that could prevent you from getting covid. he recommended that people not only get it to treat the...

Afterward, i mean within decades afterward was thyroid cancer. think of it like this. some of these radioactive particles could be radioactive iodine. if they go into your body, one of the places they love to go is your thyroid gland. taking potasium iodine in the face of one of these exposures saturates your thyroid gland with a stable salt and prevents that radioactive iodine from getting in. it can be effective. key is to know when to take it. not everyone should take it preventively. it should be taken in the face of some sort of exposure so that you can really diminish the impact. the com...