Hosts Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Ora Pescovitz, MD, and Steve Bogdewic, PhD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
ICU Patients Get Up and Moving
Interview: Naeem Ali, MD
Heart and lung specialist
Ohio State University College of Medicine
Spending time in a hospital's intensive care unit can have devastating and long-term consequences for patients.
Even after being released, some patients have been found to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, hallucinations, or lose...
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Did You Know?
Daylight Savings and Heart Attacks
I’m Jeremy Shere.
Did you know that clocks springing ahead one hour ahead when we transition into daylight saving time is linked to an increase in heart attacks?
That could be due to the hour of sleep lost when we move clocks ahead, according...
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Radiation Advisory for CT Scans
Interview: Thomas Gerber, MD, PhD
Associate professor of medicine and radiology
The Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, Florida
CT scans are often used by doctors to monitor heart health in patients with troubling symptoms.
But did you know that one CT scan carries the radiation dose equivalent to 600 X-rays?
That’s why the American Heart Association is recommending...
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Overeating Can Impair Body Function
Interview: Patricia Neighmond, reporter
National Public Radio
If you’re still having trouble working off those extra holiday pounds, turns out there is a biological reason for it.
The problem, some doctors and researchers say, is that overeating causes biological changes in the body that can lead more food...
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Checkup
On a Diet? Bet on It
Losing weight has become almost a national obsession and more and more, instead of going on trendy diets that don’t work in the long run, people are trying something called diet betting, where you pay to enter an office weight loss pool or bet real...
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Self Sabotage: A Psychologist’s View
Interview: Edward Hirt, PhD
Psychologist
Indiana University
We’re all prone to make excuses when we perform poorly on a test or fail to complete a task on time.
Sometimes, people go one step further and they sabotage themselves, in order have a built-in excuse in the case of failure.
Indiana University...
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Exercise Can Elevate Your Mood
Interview: Jack Raglin, PhD
Professor of kinesiology
Indiana University, Bloomington
And finally this week:
Feeling grumpy?
A little blue?
Go for a jog!
Light exercise like jogging can boost your mood, inducing feelings of calm and heightened energy, according to recent studies.
Today
Sound Medicine's resident...
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