Hosts Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Jeremy Shere, PhD, Kathy Miller, MD, and Steve Bogdewic, PhD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Livestock & Antibiotic Resistance in Humans
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 person to person.
Crowded livestock operations can...
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Did You Know?
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 good for treating everything from earaches to...
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Fruit Fly Pheromones
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.
There’s a serious reason we’re talking about...
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Origins of Malaria
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 malaria originated -- a discovery that could lead to a...
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Checkup
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. And it feels great. There's just one thing: the...
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Treating Bipolar Disorder
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 on a substantial, and worrisome, amount of...
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Life Stress Inventory
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 Inventory, a list -- created in the 1960s -- of...
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