Hosts Barbara Lewis, Jeremy Shere, PhD, Kathy Miller, MD, and Steve Bogdewic, PhD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Hospital Noise
Interview: Sandy Roob,
Sound Medicine field reporter
You might think that hospital food is the biggest complaint for hospital patients.
But in fact, hospital noise gets more criticism.
Sound Medicine reporter Sandy Roob visited Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis to take a look at -- or should we...
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New Labels for Sunscreen
Interview: Reynold Tan, PhD
Interdisciplinary Scientist
Office of Nonprescription Products, Division of Nonprescription Regulation
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration has taken steps to clarify the language on sunscreen labels to give consumers a better understanding of which products will protect your skin from both types of ultraviolet radiation: UVA and UVB.
Barbara Lewis...
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Blueberries For Strong Bones
I’m Jeremy Shere.
Blueberries are delicious. And they’re full of healthful antioxidants. But did you know that blueberries may also help build strong bones?
That appears to be the case in rats, at least.
Researchers at the Arkansas...
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New Research on Hemophilia
Interview: Amy Shapiro, MD, pediatric hematologist
Co-medical director at the Indiana Hemophilia & Thrombosis Center
We turn now to hemophilia…a blood disease that’s very old…and yet still not entirely understood beyond the basics: it is a bleeding disorder in which blood either clots very slowly or doesn’t clot at all.
Sound Medicine’s Kathy Miller spoke with...
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Checkup
Doctors Consult Watson
Remember Watson, the IMB supercomputer that beat the world’s very best Jeopardy players at their own game?
Now, having conquered game shows, Watson has his sights set on a higher calling: medicine.
"The interest in Watson is that Watson can...
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Book: Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds
Interview: Ronald Glasser, MD
Author Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds On this program and elsewhere, you've heard how wartime injuries from earlier wars, including the Vietnam war, differ from those suffered by troops in the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Our next guest served as an Army doctor in Vietnam...
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