Hosts Barbara Lewis, Jeremy Shere, PhD, and Steve Bogdewic, PhD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Promising Spinal Cord Injury Research
Interview: Susan Harkema, PhD, research director
Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center
Louisville, KY
If there’s a Holy Grail in spinal cord research, it's the goal of getting paralyzed patients back up and walking.
Our first guest has published research that explains how she used an electrical stimulator implanted in the back of a paralyzed...
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Personal Freedom & Happiness
I’m Jeremy Shere.
Money alone is not the key to happiness. But did you know that what is central to being happy is freedom and personal autonomy?
That’s according to a recent study by researchers at Victoria University of Wellington in New...
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Asking Patients About Guns
Interview: Rachel Vreeman, MD
Assistant professor of pediatrics
Children's Health Services Research Program
IU School of Medicine
A group of pediatricians and medical societies have filed suit in Florida to prevent a new law from taking effect.
The proposed measure would make it illegal for pediatricians to ask parents if they have a gun in their home.
Pediatrician...
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Too Many Drug Label Warnings
Interview: John Duke, MD
Investigator, Regenstrief Institute
Assistant professor of medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
And now to those drug warning labels, the ones printed in what printers call "mice type."
The average drug label contains 70 different side effects, while more commonly prescribed drugs average around 100 side effects.
After studying thousands...
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Gory Cigarette Labels: Will They Work?
Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health. That’s one of the warnings printed, by federal law, on all cigarette packages in the United States. But soon, as part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of...
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A Physician Faces Anorexia
Interview: Suzanne Dooley-Hash, MD
Emergency medicine physician
University of Michigan Hospital
Anorexia is often thought of as a problem for teenaged girls.
But our next guest will tell you that for her, at least, maintaining a healthy weight and a healthy relationship with eating is a lifelong struggle.
Dr. Suzanne Dooley-Hash went...
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