Hosts Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Eric Meslin, PhD, Jeremy Shere, PhD, Kathy Miller, MD, and Steve Bogdewic, PhD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Beta Amyloid & Alzheimer's Disease
Interview: Randall Bateman, MD, assistant professor of neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
We begin this week with a new theory for what causes Alzheimer’s disease.
If you’ve been following this disease, you’re probably familiar with idea that Alzheimer’s occurs when a protein known as "beta amyloid" clumps up in the brain, makes...
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Teens Consume Too Much Salt
I’m Jeremy Shere.
Eating too much salt can be a problem for adults with high blood pressure. But did you know that teens can suffer from eating lots of salt too?
The typical American teenager eats about 9 grams of salt per day. That’s twice...
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Health Insurance That Doesn't Cover Pregnancy
Women who buy individual health insurance policies, as opposed to getting coverage through a group policy from a job, are often stunned to find out that their plan doesn’t cover the cost of having a baby.
A study conducted for the National...
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Social Class & Patients' Evaluations of Physicians
Interview: Clemens Hong, MD, MPH, instructor in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Evaluating doctors based on the quality of the care they provide has become a common practice.
But physician rankings and pay based on quality of care can be skewed by patients’ socioeconomic status and health insurance coverage, or lack...
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Checkup
The High Cost of Smoking
If you’re a smoker, or used to be one, you know quitting is not easy. And it can also be expensive. Between the nicotine gum, patches and even laser therapy, you can run up quite a tab trying to kick the habit.
But not quitting is even more...
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Sound Ethics
Book: The Good Doctors
Until the late 1960s, African American doctors were not permitted to belong to county medical associations.
And since it was those local associations that granted hospital privileges, African American physicians often were not permitted to admit...
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