Hosts Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Jeremy Shere, PhD, Kathy Miller, MD, and Steve Bogdewic, PhD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Interview: Bob Martin, senior officer, Pew Environmental Group;
Executive director, Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
How we raise livestock is having an impact on our health.
In this flu season, we’re getting lots of advice to avoid crowded places, because of the possibility of disease spreading quickly from pers...
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Oregano Healing
Did you know that oregano is widely touted as an all purpose remedy?
Widely touted, that is, by herbal medicine specialists. According to much anecdotal evidence, wild oregano and oregano oils are ...
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Interview: Edward Kravitz, PhD, professor of neurobiology, Harvard University
Let’s take a break from human medicine and talk about bugs for a few minutes.
We're talking fruit flies. More precisely, we're interested in what female fruit flies do after they’re done mating.
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Interview: Nathan Wolf, PhD, microbiologist and visiting professor at Stanford University
Malaria has plagued people for thousands of years. And we have no way of preventing it via vaccine. But that may soon change. Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe believes he’s solved the mystery of where malari...
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Showerhead Germs
Not to get too intimate or anything. But say you've just come home from a long, hard day at work, and you're ready for a long, hot, relaxing shower.
So you turn on the water, disrobe, and get in. A...
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Interview: Trisha Suppes, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stanford University
A study in a recent
Journal of the American Medical Association warned psychiatrists that children and teens who take medications for conditions such as bipolar disorder and autism tend to put ...
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Interview: Marie Savard, MD, contributor to ABC's Good Morning America
Not long ago, Barbara Lewis spoke with Dr. Marie Savard, a contributor to ABC’s Good Morning America, about another tool used by mental health professionals.
It’s called the Holmes-Rahe Life Stress...
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