Hosts Anne Ryder, Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Eric Metcalf, Jeremy Shere, PhD, Kathy Miller, MD, Steve Bogdewic, PhD, and Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Do heart attack victims experience symptoms of PTSD?
Interview: Donald Edmondson, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia.
Donald Edmondson, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, discovered that as many as 1 in 8 people experience clinically significant PTSD symptoms after a heart attack. Edmondson shares with “Sound...
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How can exercise expedite stroke recovery?
In the 6 months following a stroke, exercise can improve memory, language, thinking, and judgment by up to 50 percent.
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What prompted new recommendations for pap smears?
Interview: Michelle Berlin, M.D., M.P.H., Indiana’s Health Grade Primary Author of Making the Grade on Women’s Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card; Director of the National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health at Oregon Health & Sciences University.
For decades, teenage girls and women were urged to have a pap smear annually. The U.S Preventive Task Force and American Cancer Society have revised their recommendations, advising women wait until age 21 for a pap smear and that women age 21 to 65...
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How do Darwinian principles explain the resilience of cancer cells?
Interview: Kathy Miller, M.D.
Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., recently published a paper that concluded that cancer cells become resistant to targeted chemotherapies because they can quickly evolve to fit their environments through the Darwinian...
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Checkup
What does the CDC have to say about the impending zombie uprising?
Find out why the Centers for Disease Control created a comic book designed to help people survive a zombie infestation in this weeks checkup segment with Eric Metcalf.
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How do long years on the job affect a police officer’s physical and mental health?
Interview: John Violanti, Ph.D., former state trooper; currently a research professor at the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the State University of New York – Buffalo.
Before John Violanti, Ph.D., research professor at the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the State University of New York-Buffalo, transitioned to the academic world, he was a police officer for 23 years, leading him to study the...
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How can you and your doctor make the right choices together?
Interview: Peter Ubel, M.D., Professor of business administration and medicine, professor of public policy, at Duke University.
Physicians and their patients may hold very different beliefs about maintaining quality of life or treatments that prolong life. Peter Ubel, M.D., professor of public policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, urges patients...
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