Hosts Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Jeremy Shere, PhD, and Kathy Miller, MD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Routine CT Scans for Smokers
Interview: Christine D. Berg, MD
Chief, early detection research group
National Cancer Institute
We begin today talking about lung cancer and new findings that allow doctors to catch it earlier and treat it more successfully.
The National Cancer Institute led a study of more than 53,000 current and former heavy smokers. The research showed...
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Obesity and Lost Productivity
I’m Jeremy Shere.
It’s well known that illness linked to rampant obesity drives up health care costs. But did you know that obesity also drives down productivity at work to the tune of more than $73 billion per year?
That’s partly due to the...
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Later Classes, More Alert Teens
Interview: Judith Owens, MD, MPH,
Director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic, Hasbro Children’s Hospital
Professor of pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University
Quite a few school systems around the country are experimenting with a later start-time for high schoolers, based on research that shows that they really do learn better when they can sleep in a bit longer.
Our next guest found that delaying...
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Hearing Loss in Teens
Interview: Gary C. Curhan, MD, ScD, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology
Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health
One in five teens has some form of hearing loss and the problem is worsening. Hearing loss in teens increased from 15% to 19.5% from 1994 to 2006.
The culprit: Personal listening devices.
Associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical...
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Checkup
Electronic Cigarettes, Harmless?
For the past two years, a handful of new companies have been aggressively marketing e-cigarettes -- battery powered gizmos that replace the nasty smoke in tobacco cigarettes with a burst of vaporized nicotine.
Maybe you’ve seen an ad for...
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Book: The Power of Rest
Interview: Matthew Edlund, MD
Director, Center for Circadian Medicine, Sarasota
Author,
The Power of Rest Earlier, we talked about the benefits to teenagers of getting a good night’s rest. But that’s really just as true for the rest of us, too.
In his new book, The Power of Rest: Why Sleep Alone Is Not Enough, Matthew Edlund, MD, suggests that sleep...
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Book: Healthy Child, Whole Child
Interview: Stuart Ditchek, MD, pediatrician
Author,
Healthy Child, Whole Child Finally this week, Sound Medicine Host Barbara Lewis chats with pediatrician and author Stuart Ditchek about his book, Healthy Child, Whole Child: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine to Keep Your Kids Healthy.
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