Hosts Barbara Lewis, Jeremy Shere, PhD, Kathy Miller, MD, and Steve Bogdewic, PhD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Research Predicts Diabetes Increase
Interview: Elbert Huang, MD, assistant professor of medicine, University of Chicago
The medical equivalent of a tidal wave is heading toward the U.S. in the form of a flood of new cases of diabetes. A new study projects that American diabetes rates will double over the next quarter century.
There’s a good news/bad news aspect to...
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Did You Know?
Sleep and Memory
Did you know that hearing certain sounds while you sleep could improve your memory?
A few years ago, scientists discovered that being exposed to particular smells during sleep helps the brain retain new memories. So they they wondered if sounds...
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Dreams and Proto-Consciousness
Interview: J. Allan Hobson, MD, Professor of psychiatry, emeritus, Harvard Medical School
There’s a new theory that suggests dreaming is a sort of warm-up exercise for the brain -- preparing it for the sights and sounds of the next day.
J. Allan Hobson is a psychiatrist and sleep researcher at Harvard. He tells
Sound Medicine’s...
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Medical Students and Needlesticks
By all accounts, medical school is a slog. Really long hours, a lotta grunt work. Tons of pressure to perform on no sleep.
But what I was really surprised to learn is that one of the worst things about medical training is getting stuck by...
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Short History of Women in Medicine
Interview: Lucy King, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry emerita, IU School of Medicine.
Nationwide, 49-percent of medical students are now women.
Obviously, that’s an enormous shift from a century ago, when there were few women doctors, and those women who did attend medical school were often limited to treating only women and...
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Grace Notes
A Posture of Prayer
As I gazed at her expression, there was no doubt: Over those past few days lying in the hospital bed, she had come to know the truth: she would not recover.
Her mother, husband, and others were scattered about the room. Her son sat on the bed...
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