Hosts Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Jeremy Shere, PhD, and Kathy Miller, MD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Radiation from Cell Phones
Interview: Nneka Leiba, MPH, environmental health researcher, Environmental Working Group, Washington, D.C.
One out of five U.S. households now uses a cell phone instead of a land line.
And while the FCC, the FDA, the American Cancer Society, and the National Cancer Institute have ALL found NO link between cell phone use and cancer -- still, the...
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Safety of Triclosan, a Common Antimicrobial
Interview: Douglas Throckmorton, MD, Deputy Director for Regulatory Programs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
The FDA has announced it’s going to review an antibacterial chemical known as triclosan, an an antibacterial agent that is found in everything from soaps to cosmetics to toothpaste to toys. Triclosan stops the growth of
bacteria, fungus, and...
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Did You Know?
Fewer Mistakes on Caffeine
Did you know that caffeine can help you make fewer mistakes on the job?
It's a safe bet that many nurses, truck drivers, and others doing shift work use caffeine to stay alert at night.
A new report lends scientific credence to the...
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Robot Avatars & Medical Ethics
Interview: Karl MacDorman, adjunct associate professor of engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Purdue University
Okay, we’re going to make a leap now, between medical ethics -- and avatars, be they blue, or some other color.
We were intrigued by a new study that looks at how humans relate to the computer-generated beings called avatars -- and how this might...
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Are You Still Contagious?
It may be summer, but here in the
Sound Medicine studio, there’s a nasty cold going around.
Which made us wonder: when does a person with a cold stop being contagious?
Sound Medicine’s Dr. Aaron Carroll is both our resident...
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Checkup
Fascinating Telomeres
Here is
Sound Medicine's Eric Metcalf, with this week's
Checkup:
I have a secret to share: Although I write about medical issues every day, I'm a little baffled by genetics. Those chromosomes and genes and single-nucleotide...
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Infant Deaths and Bed Sharing
Interview: Lorna Benson, reporter
Minnesota Public Radio
It has long been thought that healthy babies who die suddenly and unexpectedly during sleep are victims of a mysterious condition called SIDS -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
But what researchers in Minnesota and around the country are beginning...
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Grace Notes
Grace Notes: They Knew Him by Our Love
We are sitting in the glass-enclosed area near the entrance to the medical intensive care unit. His wife of nearly fifty years sits to my left; the occasional sob disturbs her stillness. "I am trying to be brave but it’s hard, so hard," she repeats....
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