Medicine

Guests: Angus Deaton, Anne Case, David Folkenflik For most western countries, mortality rates have been in declin ...

Guests: Liz Evans, Priya Mammen, Devin Reaves Prescription painkillers and heroin are killing hundreds of people ...

Vera Rubin. Zora Neale Hurston. Eugenie Clark. On this episode, we celebrate women who forged a path for generations of female scientists ...

Guest: Joselin Linder Joselin Linder carries ...

Thomas Starzl, whose death at age 90 was in the news last week, was the most driven man I've ever met.

I spend a lot of time in the place no one wants to be — the cancer center. Every two weeks I’m there with my husband. He is the p ...

For four years now, the pediatric wing at Einstein Medical Center in North Philadelphia has blocked off Thursday mornings to meet with re ...

Guests: Robert Field, Timothy Jost House Republicans tried more than 60 times to repeal and replace the Affordabl ...

When it comes to investing in our health, not all issues are treated equally. This idea seems all the more relevant as we await the fate ...

Let’s explore the most complex computer system on Earth: the brain. On this episode, we’ll examine this wondrous organ — wh ...

Research suggests that bird brains are small but mighty, so don’t judge a brain by its size. Don’t judge a brain by it ...

About four years ago, Jeremy Hoffman, who was 30 at the time, told his wife Rebecca about some weird symptoms he was having — he felt a ...

For years, people have been frustrated with the slow pace of innovation in diabetes care.  About one million Americans have Type 1 d ...

Guest: Michael Lemonick Lonnie Sue Johnson, a successful artist, a talented musician, and an amateur pilot, contr ...

On July 17, 2014 Kurt Hinrichs, of Gladstone, Missouri, went to bed early. When his wife joined him, she woke him with her snoring. That ...