Hosts Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Jeremy Shere, PhD, and Kathy Miller, MD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Health Reform Update
Interview: Aaron Carroll, MD
Director, Indiana University Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research
Jeff Korsma, Director of Health Policy at the Mayo Clinic
We begin today with where we've spent a lot of time in past months on the intersection of health care and politics.
A new survey by researchers at Indiana University has found that when you give people under age 65 options for which kind of...
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Did You Know?
Lawn Mower Accidents
Did you know that more than 200,000 people are injured in lawnmower accidents every year?
Mowing your lawn on a hot summer day is one of life's simple pleasures. But it's also dangerous. Especially for kids. According to a report from the U.S....
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Doc Chat: Treating Alcoholism with Drugs
Interview: David Crabb, MD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Chairman, Department of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
One of the nation's top authorities on alcoholism, Dr. Mark Willenbring, is predicting that we're not too far from the time when that condition will be treated fairly easily, with common medication and a trip to your primary care physician.
Today...
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Checkup
Dynamic Stretches Before Exercise
It's always interesting to come across medical research that cuts across the grain of what we think know to be true.
Like, for example, the benefits of stretching before exercise. We're all taught that before running or playing basketball or...
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Unemployment is a Health Risk
Interview: Kate Strully, PhD
Sociologist
State University of New York in Albany
Another group facing health challenges during this recession: folks who lose their job.
And what's even worse: a new study finds that being laid off can actually make you sick, and those findings were independent of whether a person lost health...
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Book: Caring for Our Parents
Interview: Howard Gleckman
Author, Caring for Our Parents
Senior associate researcher, The Urban Institute
A huge part of our health care system is tied up in taking care of the aging population, which continues to grow.
Author Howard Gleckman's new book
Caring for Our Parents, combines his professional work with his personal experiences. The...
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