Hosts Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Jeremy Shere, PhD, and Kathy Miller, MD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Health Care Reform: Comparing House and Senate Versions
Interview: Aaron Carroll, MD, MS, associate professor of pediatrics
Director, Center of Health Policy and Professionalism Research
Indiana University School of Medicine
The health care reform process is heading into what may be the home stretch. As we record this program mid-week, the House and Senate are finalizing debate rules, and plan to spend the next week or so hashing over two different phone-book-sized...
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Did You Know?
Chewing Gum Aids in C-Section Recovery
Did you know that chewing gum can help women recover from a Caesarian section? Jeremy Shere has more.
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Safety of Gardasil Vaccine
Interview: Marcia Shew, MD, PhD
Clinical associate professor of pediatrics
IU School of Medicine
It’s been about 18 months since the vaccine Gardasil has been on the market. The drug is designed to protect millions of girls and women against cervical cancer by preventing the human papilloma virus (HPV).
Today Barbara Lewis is joined by Dr....
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Energy Drinks Don't Work
Interview: Brendan O'Neil, Everest Academy, Clarkston, MI
Most of the people we interview on
Sound Medicine have either an MD or PhD after their names, but not our next guest.
Brendan O’Neil is twelve and a student at Everest Academy in Clarkston, Michigan.
He's already published his first...
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Checkup
Birth Order & Personality
Does it matter whether you're the firstborn, a middle child, or somewhere lower on the birth order totem pole? Jeremy Shere investigates.
When talking about birth order, you'll hear stereotypes and drama.
Child number one is successful, maybe...
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Satellite Imaging to Predict Disease
Interview: Timothy Ford, PhD, vice president for research and dean of graduate studies,
University of New England
Now, how satellites are being used to detect climate change, and by extension how public health experts are using them to predict future disease outbreaks.
Sound Medicine's Dr. Kathy Miller speaks with Dr. Tim Ford of the University of New...
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