Hosts Barbara Lewis, Jeremy Shere, PhD, Kathy Miller, MD, and Steve Bogdewic, PhD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Goshen Cancer Doc Makes the Time 100
Interview: Doug Schwartzentruber, MD, medical director, Goshen Center for Cancer Care, Goshen, Indiana
We begin this week with a quiz: What do Lady Gaga, Barack Obama and our first guest have in common?
The answer is: They were all named to this year’s Time 100, a list of the world’s 100 most influential and important people.
Dr. Doug...
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Grapes and Heart Disease
Did you know that eating grapes may lower your risk for heart disease?
That's according to a recent study our of the University of Michigan.
The researchers found that eating grapes lowers blood pressure, helps the heart work more efficiently,...
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A Federal Patients Bill of Rights
Interview: Aaron Carroll, MD, MS, associate professor of Pediatrics, associate director for research, Children’s Health Services Research Program, IU School of Medicine
Most of the provisions in the health care reform bill passed in the spring will take several years to kick in.
But a few of them take effect this year.
So over the next few months, we’re going to look at those elements, one at a time, with Sound...
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Doc Chat: Removing the Other Breast
Interview: Kathy Miller, MD, breast cancer specialist, IU School of Medicine
It’s not uncommon for women who’ve had cancer in one breast to give serious consideration to removing the other one as a preventive measure.
Barbara Lewis asks Sound Medicine’s breast cancer expert, Dr. Kathy Miller, how often a woman with breast...
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Personalized Medicine Helps Determine Breast Cancer Treatments
Interview: David Flockhart, MD/Phd, director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Bryan Schneider, MD, assistant professor of Medicine & Medical and Molecular Genetics
Time now for another in our series with Dr. David Flockhart, in which he acts as our extremely patient guide through some of the trickier aspects of medicine.
Dr. Flockhart is a pharmacogeneticist and expert on drug interactions. He and his...
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Checkup
Hand Bacteria in the Crime Lab?
What's the best way to catch a crook?
That's the question behind all those CSI cop shows.
And the answer used to be fingerprints. Then, a few decades ago, DNA matching stole the spotlight.
And now, scientists have found that the bacteria...
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Brain Banks Profit Research
Interview: Maree Webster, PhD, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Somewhere, inside the various folds and creases of our brains, are clues to all sorts of neurological disorders from depression to schizophrenia.
Researchers who are trying to unlock those secrets often turn to one of the major repositories of...
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Essay: Eric Metcalf on Giving Blood
Interview: Eric Metcalf, science writer and essayist
Eric Metcalf's essay originally aired on February 10, 2010.
I don't do a whole lot to make the world a better place. The thing is, if you pitch in to make the world a better place one time, then the world will have your phone number, and then it...
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