Medicine
Domestic violence, guns, and coercive control
Guests: Susan Sorenson, Renee Norris-Jones, Jeannine Lisitski, Krista Dahl-Campbell Guns are used in roughly half ...
Air Date: November 7, 2016
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Radio Times in Review: soldiers at war
Guests: David Morris, Eric Fair, Mary Roach On today’s edition of Radio Times in Review; we’re going to talk ...
Air Date: November 4, 2016
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Charles Duhigg on motivation and why some people get so much done
Hour 2 Guest: Charles Duhigg [From the Radio Times archives] In this hou ...
Air Date: November 3, 2016
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Direct-to-consumer drug advertising on TV a growth industry
The pharmaceutical industry spends more than $2 billion a year advertising direct-to-consumer drugs on TV, an increase of 30 percent over ...
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James Buchanan, “Worst. President. Ever;” election stress
Guests: Robert Strauss, Lynn Bufka James Buchanan is considered among the worst presidents in our nation’s hist ...
Air Date: October 19, 2016
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Guests: Casey Schwartz, Alan Schwarz, Mikaela Gilbert-Lurie Abuse of prescription drugs like Adderall and Concerta continues to ri ...
Air Date: October 17, 2016
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Fact or cartoon fiction: Can the ‘double conk’ cure amnesia?
Mary Spiers runs the website neuropsyfi.com, which is devoted to how brain science is depicted i ...
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Is there a limit to the human lifespan?
Guests: Jay Olshansky, David Sinclair One hundred and fifteen years – that’s about as old as we can hope to g ...
Air Date: October 11, 2016
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Guests: Duncan Haldane, Mark Peplow, Ravi Amaravadi The Nobel Prizes in ...
Air Date: October 10, 2016
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Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer Bill Lyon & Alzheimer’s disease
Guest: Bill Lyon Three years ago, retired Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer ...
Air Date: October 4, 2016
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Tackling the high cost of child care and the presidential candidates’ plans
Guests: Linda Houser, Corey Shdaimah As any working parent knows, child care costs a lot and finding good quality ...
Air Date: September 19, 2016
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“I Contain Multitudes” – on microbes and our microbiome; Hiring undocumented immigrants
Guests: Ed Yong, Javier Garcia Hernandez For centuries humankind has been waging a war against microbes – the bacteria, viruses, ...
Air Date: August 25, 2016
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Psychoanalyzing the candidates
Guests: Nassir Ghaemi, Dan McAdams Psychiatrists and psychologists, and the public at large, have been weighing i ...
Air Date: August 21, 2016
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Guests: Robert Field, Joel Zinberg, Elizabeth Brown In this hour of Radio Times, we’ll get some updates on the ...
Air Date: August 16, 2016
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Diagnosing poison ivy is easy. Getting my insurance company to pay for the generic steroid cream to cure it? Not so much. Getting ...
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