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Medicine

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Radio Times

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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Radio Times

“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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ACA update

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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The politics of poison ivy

Diagnosing poison ivy is easy. Getting my insurance company to pay for the generic steroid cream to cure it? Not so much. Getting ...

9 years ago

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Radio Times

Human-Animal hybrids; then Trump’s ‘jokes’

Guests: Monika Piotrowska, Sean Wu, Jody Avirgan Part lion, part goat, and part snake, the mythological and feroc ...

Air Date: August 11, 2016

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Radio Times

Doping & The Olympics

Guests: Dennis Cardone, Mark Johnson, Eugen Dimant There’s a renewed discussion about doping at the Olympic Gam ...

Air Date: August 10, 2016

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Radio Times

Radio Times in Review: Immunotherapy, White Trash, Henrietta Lacks

Guests: David Porter, Lynn Schuchter, Nancy Isenberg, Rebecca Skloot On today’s edition of Radio Times in Revie ...

Air Date: August 5, 2016

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Radio Times

News Roundup: Zika update, Millennial promiscuity, and NJ’s proposed gas tax

Guests: Donald McNeil Jr., Jean Twenge, Ryan Hutchins The CDC warned pregnant women and their partners not to tra ...

Air Date: August 3, 2016

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DNC
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Planning for the DNC, What to Expect, Ed Rendell’s Role at the convention, & more

Guests: Julia Terruso, Holly Otterbein, Mayor Jim Kenney, Governor Ed Rendell Radio Times is broadcasting live th ...

Air Date: July 25, 2016

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Health

Hungary for discount dentistry? The European nation feeds the world’s growing appetite for medical tourism

If Bela Batorfi has his way, Hungary may soon be synonymous with complex dental procedures in the way that France is known for baguettes ...

9 years ago

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Radio Times

Christopher Phillips on ‘The Philosophy of Childing’

Guest: Christopher Phillips What are you going to be when you grow up? That’s a question that’s put to every ...

Air Date: July 11, 2016

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Radio Times

Radio Times in Review: “The Elder Boom,” writer Elie Wiesel, traveling with the Fulani

Guests: Ai-Jen Poo, Elie Wiesel, Anna Badkhen Coming up on today’s edition of Radio Times in Review: we’ll he ...

Air Date: July 8, 2016

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Radio Times

The new chemical safety law

Guests: Richard Dennison, Joseph Braun A bill overhauling the way we regulate chemicals was signed into law last ...

Air Date: July 6, 2016

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Reaction to the Supreme Court decisions

Guests: Theodore Ruger, Lisa McElroy As usual, the Supreme Court waited until the final days of its term to annou ...

Air Date: June 27, 2016

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