Hosts Barbara Lewis and David Crabb, MD talk to physicians and researchers about:
Sound Ethics: Obama's Health-Related Policy Agenda
Interview: Eric Meslin, PhD
Director, IU Center for Bioethics
With a new team in Washington comes a host of new policies. Obviously, health care reform is on the docket.
But there are plenty of other health-related issues that either have already changed or may be about to.
So we thought we'd start out...
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Healing With Blood Plasma
It's odd but true. Some sports medicine doctors heal injuries using doses of the patient’s own blood plasma.
The treatment involves injecting a plasma solution containing blood platelet cells at the site of the patient’s injury. The idea is that...
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Hypothermia for Heart Attack Patients
Interview: Tim Ellender, MD
Emergency medicine and critical care
Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis
If you’re unlucky to have a heart attack any time soon, there’s an increasing chance that, as part of your treatment, doctors in the hospital emergency room will put you on ice.
Well, not exactly ice, but they’ll cool you down, nonetheless.
A...
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Pelvic Pain: A Difficult Diagnosis
Interview: Lee Learman, MD,PhD
Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Director, National Center of Excellence in Women's Health
IU School of Medicine
Because there are so many possible causes for pelvic pain, and because there are no medications developed exclusively for that condition, we don't hear about it much.
But we hear about it today as Barbara Lewis chats with Indiana University...
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Redheads Require More Anesthesia
Redheads are an odd breed. Because so few people have red hair, all sorts of strange myths and superstitions have sprung up around redheads. Ancient Egyptians believed red to be such an unlucky color that they burned red-headed girls alive. In the...
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Study: Why Some Memories Persist
Interview: Jon Hamilton, reporter
National Public Radio
A new study appears to explain why people with Alzheimer's disease often remember events from the distant past — but not things that happened recently.
The research, published in
The Journal of Neuroscience, looked at a structure deep in...
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Book: The Spectrum, by Dean Ornish
Interview: Dr. Dean Ornish, MD
Author of
The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight and Gain Health
Founder and president, The Preventive Medicine Research Institute
Professor of medicine, UC San Francisco
Finally this week, a book that explores the notion that our health is largely a result of the choices we make -- in what we eat and how active we are.
Its author is Dr. Dean Ornish, professor of medicine at the University of California, San...
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