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May 8, 2008: 679 What Expert Patients Can Teach Us
Everyone needs health care at some point, and in today’s complex health-care system, patients are at risk for errors. Some people with chronic illnesses who have logged a lot of time in hospitals have thought hard about how patients can...
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May 3, 2008: 678 Urinary Tract Issues
Urinary tract infections are the leading cause of emergency room visits and hospital admissions for American women. As any woman who has experienced one can attest, they are exceedingly painful. How are they best treated? Is there any way to...
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April 24, 2008: 677 Health Care Hitman--Peter Rost
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most profitable, both in America and around the world. But recently in the US, fines for malfeasance have stained its image.We speak with Dr. Peter Rost, who worked inside the pharmaceutical industry for...
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April 17, 2008: 676 Health News Update
Medical errors and adverse events are much too common, especially when it come to pediatric patients. Is there a way to protect children in the hospital?Traumatic brain injury affects more than 1,000,000 people in the United States each year, not...
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April 12, 2008: 675 Exercise and the Brain
Exercise is essential for keeping the heart and circulatory system healthy. It helps, too, to moderate blood sugar and control metabolism. Now, animal research suggests that physical fitness also benefits the brain.Guest: John Ratey, MD, is an associate clinical professor...
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April 5, 2008: 674 Advances in Headache Treatment
The very medicines many people take to relieve pain may actually be causing their headaches. A vicious cycle of pain relievers is behind too many cases of chronic headache. How can you break out of this insidious cycle? Guest: Joel...
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March 29, 2008: 673 Health News Update
Israelis love their cell phones and have used them heavily for a long time. New research suggests a link with salivary gland cancer.Placebos work surprisingly well for many symptoms, including pain. But do pricey placebos work better than cheap ones?Explore...
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March 22, 2008: 629 Cognitive Therapy for Weight Control (Archive)
Dr. Aaron Beck made a revolutionary change in psychology when he developed cognitive therapy. His daughter and colleague, Dr. Judith Beck, has found a way to apply these principles to weight control. Learn how the Beck Solution can train the...
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March 15, 2008: 672 Vitamin D
The New York Times recently suggested that vitamin D may become the nutrient of the decade. The CDC estimates that more than half the American population gets too little vitamin D. A study published this month in the American Journal...
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March 8, 2008: 671 Hormone Disruption, Part 2
Bisphenol A is an estrogen mimic, found in some of the plastics we use in our everyday lives. How much of a problem is this endocrine disrupter? Are there other compounds that should concern us?Biologists suggest that some natural experiments...
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March 1, 2008: 670 Sex Hormone Disruption
A common compound found in the lining of cans, plastic water bottles and even baby bottles can mimic the hormone estrogen. Environmental contamination is widespread and most Americans have measurable levels of the compound, bisphenol A, in our bodies. Will...
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February 23, 2008: 669 UltraLongevity
Living a long time is appealing, but only if the extra years can be healthy ones. Dr. Mark Liponis, medical director of the Canyon Ranch Resorts, says paying attention to the immune system can make a big difference. We discuss...
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February 16, 2008: 668 Men's Health
As men get older, they become more likely to experience symptoms of prostate enlargement. This is a common phenomenon that isn’t necessarily dangerous, but it can be inconvenient to have urine flow slow or to be unable to empty the...
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February 9, 2008: 667 Dealing with Depression
Depression is debilitating and surprisingly common. Scientists have found that 5 percent of the people in a large survey reported symptoms of depression during the previous year. Nearly 13 percent of Americans experience depression at some point during their lives.The...
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February 2, 2008: 666 Health News Update
A lot of people are suffering with winter colds at this time of year. Questions have been raised about the safety and efficacy of over-the-counter cold medicines for young children, and possibly even for the rest of us. Are there...
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January 26, 2008: 665 Healthy Skin
The skin is the largest organ in the body. And when something goes wrong with the skin, it is often very visible. This means skin problems can have psychological complications.Dr. Amy Wechsler is both a dermatologist and a psychiatrist. She...
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January 19, 2008: 664 Dietary Supplements
Vitamin and mineral supplements are popular, but do they make sense? Many people have been told that taking vitamins just results in expensive urine. Find out which vitamins really make a difference—you may be surprised.Dr. Tieraona Low Dog is one...
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January 12, 2008: 663 Dealing with ADD
Millions of American kids have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, with or without hyperactivity. This can make for challenges in the classroom, and even at home or with friends.People with ADD are often prescribed stimulant medications to help them...
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January 5, 2008: 662 Health News Update
The Food and Drug Administration is charged with ensuring the safety of our medications, but over the past several months it has endured mounting criticism. We discuss the criticism, morale at the agency, and what needs to be done with...
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December 29, 2007: 614 Health News Update
Vitamin E has been very controversial. A number of studies have shown that supplements don’t protect people from heart attacks or cancers. But a new study shows people who get plenty of vitamin E from foods are less likely to...
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December 22, 2007: 661 Apitherapy and Acupuncture
Apitherapy, particularly the use of bee venom, has a history that stretches back thousands of years. It may sound flaky, but some medical doctors are reporting excellent results for the relief of pain from arthritis, tennis elbow or even post-herpetic...
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December 15, 2007: 660 Health News Update
Diverticulitis accounts for 130,000 hospitalizations each year but many people don’t understand this common condition. Danny Jacobs, MD, MPH, is Chairman of Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. He explains how to diagnose and treat diverticular disease.Experts have told...
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December 8, 2007: 659 Health Care in America
Health care has been hotly debated in the last few years, and many people have theories about what is wrong and how to fix it. Some 47 million people have no health insurance, but even those who think they are...
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December 1, 2007: 658 Children's Health
A majority of drugs that doctors prescribe for kids have never been tested in children. Even over-the-counter cough and cold remedies that used to be marketed to parents for sniffly tots are no longer considered effective or even safe for...
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November 24, 2007: 634 The Art of Diagnosis (Archive)
Solving medical mysteries has been turned into entertainment on TV’s popular series “House.” Dr. Gregory House may be a curmudgeon, but somehow he manages to unravel the disparate threads of a patient’s story just in time to save a life,...
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November 17, 2007: 657 Indoor Air Pollution
Air pollution increases the risk of breathing problems, which is why many cities alert citizens when ozone is high. But how safe is the air inside your home? Better insulation may mean that people are exposed to more indoor air...
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November 10, 2007: 656 Health News Update
There have been conflicting headlines lately about vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, and whether it can ward off cancer. Dr. Joan Lappe, a scientist who did a placebo-controlled trial in postmenopausal women, found it could help. How much vitamin D...
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November 3, 2007: 655 Overtreated?
We usually assume that the primary problem with health care in the U.S. is that so many people don’t have good access to it. But while many Americans suffer because of lack of medical care, others undergo unnecessary procedures or...
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October 27, 2007: 654 Health News Update
Wellbutrin XL is a once-a-day antidepressant that has become quite popular. Some patients have found that a generic substitute does not work in quite the same way. An investigation by ConsumerLab.com showed a striking difference in the way the two...
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October 20, 2007: 627 Probiotics for Health
We host huge numbers of bacteria in our bodies—so many, in fact, that there are more bacterial cells than human cells in each of us. What are those bacteria doing there, and what happens when our personal ecological systems get...
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