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Sound Medicine 08-07-2011 This week, latent tuberculosis; Vermont's single payer healthcare; healthcare lessons from the Clinton era; and two books: Pause Points and Surgeon Stories. Also, why olive oil is so healthful, and why fat-substitutes can make you fatter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-31-11 This week, a show devoted to AIDS. First, a historical overview with AIDS discoverer Dr. Jay Levy. Other topics covered include living with AIDS; a treatment that prevents AIDS transmission; AIDS complacency; adopting HIV children; and the humor of living HIV positive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-24-11 This week, progress in repairing spinal cord injuries; pediatricians asking about guns; too many warnings on drug labels; and a physician with anorexia discusses "recovery" from eating disorders. Also, what really makes people happy. And a look at the gruesome photos slated for American cigarettes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-17-11 This week, breakthroughs in cancer research, mood disorders during pregnancy, how to become a "morning person," and the authors of the book, "Don't Cross Your Eyes." Also, why we sleep so well in a hammock. And why teens make bad decisions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-10-11 This week: hospital noise, new rules for sunscreen labels, binge drinking and the brain, genome editing for hemophilia, and the author of the book Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-03-11 This Fourth of July week: American medical history. Segments include a Civil War nurse's diary, vaccines in colonial America, the development of medical insulin, and the history of osteopathy in the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 06-26-11 This week: stubborn fat cells, incipient heart disease in middle schoolers, NASA's heart research, teaching empathy to medical students, and an interview with a physician-poet. Also, why exercise is good for your knees, and young adults with high blood pressure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 06-19-11 This week, rare conditions: two types of tumors that cause severe health problems and acute pancreatitis. Also, an interview with the author of "The Man in Room 9 Says He's God." Also, why sitting is bad for you. And how MRI might diagnose autism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 06-12-11 Two stories on young adults with autism; new research on treatment for ischemic heart failure; atrial fibrillation on the rise; and an interview with the author of the book, Self Compassion. Also, why happy memories are good for you; and the danger of morning heart attacks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 06-05-11 This week, how musician-injuries resemble sports injuries; controversy over price-hike of the drug Makena; author of the book, My Beautiful Leukemia; and heart disease in ancient Egyptians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 06-05-11 Rebroadcast of Barbara Lewis's special interview with Rebecca Skloot, author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." With commentary by IU bioethicist Eric Meslin, PhD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 05-22-11 This week: how the environment affects human health. Experts discuss pollution-induced asthma in children and contagious diseases indirectly caused by global warming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 05-15-11 Dislocated circadian rhythms affect humans’ sleep and overall health; the direct-pay model for medical care; how cavities can be contagious; and another Grace Notes essay from IU oncologist Larry Cripe. Plus, perceptions of organic food. And the study of chronic itch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 05-08-11 A drug for alcohol-abuse may help children with fragile X autism; how drugs for alcoholism work; how anesthesia works in the brain; and two adoptive mothers describe their experiences in our Patient Listening series. Also, how having kids makes parents unhealthy and how meditation works as a pain reliever. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 05-01-11 This week, HPV vaccine for boys and men; a blood test that detects cancer early; a profile of IU cancer researcher George Sledge; aerobic exercise improves memory; and another Grace Notes essay by IU oncologist Dr. Larry Cripe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 04-24-11 This week, gastric bypass surgery helps control diabetes; renowned breast cancer oncologist objects to the new mammography guidelines; how hope affects cancer patients; the book, YOU, Raising Your Child; and a final essay in our "Feeling Good" series. Also, a link between loss of sleep and weight gain; and the problem with gunky wind instruments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 04-27-11 This week, child-safety expert Marilyn Bull, MD, will discuss the new AAP recommendations for kids in car seats. Also, an argument for more Medicare spending; a recall list for medical devices; vaccines in colonial America; and a lesson in epigenetics for pregnant women. Plus, an essay recommending a "slow" approach to a healthy lifestyle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 04-10-11 This week, low-temperature heart surgery; new resuscitation tools for EMTs; risks for cycling professionals; learn about sports concussion; and an essay with advice for slow eating. Also, an iPhone app for learning anatomy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 04-03-11 This week, Dr. Aaron Carroll discusses essential health benefits for the new healthcare law; health effects of radiation in Japan; less sedation for ICU patients; psoriatic arthritis; and the stretch or not-to-stretch debate for runners. Also, essayist Alix Litwack on spring cleaning your diet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 03-27-11 This week: new, non-surgical best-practices for breast cancer; antibiotics for ear infections; young weightlifters taking human growth hormone; and the author of The Panic Virus. Also, diagnoses via fingernails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 3-20-11 This week on Sound Medicine, Indiana University researchers who study babies with cochlear implants discuss how children learn language skills. Also this week: temper tantrum advice, treatable pancreatic cancer, and the problem with really white teeth. Plus, a special Sound Ethics segment on synthetic biology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 03-13-11 This week on Sound Medicine, the USDA’s proposed new guidelines for healthier school lunches; diagnosing food allergies in kids; alleviating post-partum depression; dealing with infertility; and a classical pianist who has arthritis. Also, new research on the causes of bullying. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 03-06-11 This week, acetaminophen toxicity; an experimental drug for melanoma; a national sperm registry; and the book, The Country Doctor Revisited. Also, why it's a bad idea to sleep with your pet. And why it's a good idea to eat more fiber. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 02-27-11 This week: medical student honor body donors; at-home genetic tests don't scare their users; and how public health may benefit from personal genetic information. Plus, two renowned female physicians and their books: Something to Prove, by Yvonne Thornton, MD, and Whitehouse Doctor, by Connie Mariano, MD. And "exploding head syndrome" -- not as bad as it sounds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 02-20-11 The problems with the shingles vaccine; exploding chromosomes that cause cancer; end-of-life counseling for Medicare patients; and the author of Dying to Live: Embracing the Journey. Also, is 3D bad for your eyes? And why the Mediterranean diet is good for the brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 02-13-11 This week: tracking adverse reactions to vaccines; pediatrician Rachel Vreeman on parents' fever phobia; a primer on stuttering; and mental strength training for athletes. Also, a genetic link between obesity and alcoholism. And the dirty fighting fitness techniques of Krav Maga, a type of martial art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 02-06-11 A new look at the beta amyloid build-up in Alzheimer's patients; health insurance that doesn't cover pregnancy; social class affects patients' evaluations of doctors; and a Sound Ethics interview with the author of The Good Doctors. Also, teens' high salt intake. And the high cost of smoking cigarettes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 01-30-11 The vaccine-autism connection debunked; abandoned prescriptions; Dr. Arnold Levine discusses the primary cause of all cancers; the rise of tuberculosis in Haiti; and the author of the book, Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Also, why we yawn. And the uses of imaginary eating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 01-23-11 New Medicare rules; new tonsillectomy guidelines; pancreas transplantation for severe diabetes; the teen brain on marijuana; and the book: Brain Rules for Babies. Also, why so-called smart-baby videos don't work. And how second-hand smoke affects kids' mental health. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 01-16-11 This week: advice for exercising while sick; Dartmouth research on end-of-life care; why self-diagnosis on the Internet is a bad idea; and an interview with the co-author of the book Breakthrough, the history of the discovery of medical insulin. Also, why you should research health concerns when preparing to travel overseas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 01-09-11 This week, find out how much vitamin D and calcium you really need; how studying pregnancy could help cancer research; acupuncture for shingles pain; and in our Patient Listening series, the healing power of music. Also, a New Year's diet resolution -- for your pet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 01-02-11 Stories in medical history this week: the eradication of smallpox; the Epidemic Intelligence Agency; 19th century surgeon William Stewart Halsted; 19th century novelist Upton Sinclair on healthcare reform; and the dark story of CIA brainwashing: MKULTRA. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 12-26-10 Top stories in medicine for 2010; Eric Metcalf on giving blood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 12-19-10 Rethinking the PSA prostate screening test; prospective new food-safety regulations; FDA-approved "fat zapper" devices; child-behavior advice from the author of The Self Aware Parent; and another Grace Notes essay from Dr. Larry Cripe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 12-12-10 All about autism: one family tells the story of their autistic son, whose symptoms dramatically improved with a dairy-free diet; promising research on autism intervention techniques; a visit to a classroom for autistic students; and training teachers to work with autistic children. Also, mild electric shock boosts math abilities; and tips for safe sledding this winter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 12-05-10 Accountable care organizations; raising awareness for spinal muscular atrophy; p53, the guardian angel gene; and violating medical ethics in 1940's Guatemala. Also, beet juice to stave off dementia, and doing CPR without mouth-to-mouth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 11-28-10 This week, routine CT scans for early lung cancer detection; unusual way to improve student learning; increase in hearing loss in teens; and authors of the books, The Power of Rest and Healthy Child, Whole Child. Also, the safety of electronic cigarettes, and how obesity lowers workplace productivity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 11-21-10 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 14, 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 11-07-10 The downside of multitasking; drug chats for teens; alcohol screening for medical residents; author of the book, Clutch; and robotic dogs as companions. Also, feeling wakeful during a sleep study. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 10-31-10 This week, a new autism drug; concussion treatment; obesity linked to certain cancers; heavy metals in protein drinks; a new type of anatomy text for medical students; and a second-year medical student ponders her relationship to her patients. Also, the dubious health benefites of acai berry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 10-24-10 This week, how a "green" hospital works; an update on the national health care reform lawsuits; inflammatory breast cancer; the drop in cancer mortality; and an interview with the author of Hardwiring Excellence. Also, a junk food diet that proves a point. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 10-17-10 This week, two sides of the debate over the FDA's pending decision to approve Avastin for late-stage breast cancer; coaching for tantrum-prone doctors; photos that tell patient stories; and a physician's essay called "When a Doctor Meets the Soul." Also, why bedbugs are invading, in this week's Checkup feature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 10-10-10 This week, the benefits of palliative care; slowing the progress of macular degeneration; bogus anti-aging claims; a history of osteopathic medicine; and a positive approach for kicking the tobacco habit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 10-03-10 This week, two stories about health outreach taking place in African American barber shops and hair salons; also this season's universal flu shot; the end of the swine flu pandemic; and an installation of the Patient Listening series. In addition, SM's Did You Know feature covers a small study that showed hallucinogenic mushrooms improved anxiety in late-stage cancer patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 09-26-10 This week, multi-organ transplants; an accurate test for Alzheimer's disease; acupuncture for cancer pain; and the second part of our interview with the author of The Youth Pill. Also, Dr. Larry Cripe's latest Grace Notes essay. And how asymmetric organs know how grow left -- or right. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 09-19-10 This week, the return of whooping cough; must-have vaccinations; early onset puberty in girls; treatments for hot flashes in menopausal women; and the author of The Youth Pill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 09-12-10 This week, a prediction for the 2010 healthcare bill in the face of midterm elections; physicians in Haiti; measuring radiation exposure from common medical tests; and an interview with a Charlottesville pediatrician who makes housecalls. Also, are human personalities fixed? And, how naps help us learn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 09-05-10 This week, a new device that prevents stroke during heart surgery. Also, discover how newborns learn; how vigorous exercise improves grades for college students; and how an IU biology professor mentored high school students -- who won an award for their project on limb regeneration. Also, find out why kids with head lice should not be sent home from school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-29-10 This week the theme is patient safety. First, medical simulations benefit medical students and their future patients; next, what the healthcare industry can learn from the airline industry; also, how medical professionals can coordinate to provide safer care. In the Checkup this week, get the scoop on those phantom cellphone vibrations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-22-10 Topics include individualized education plans for autistic kids; a nutrition plan for a healthier heart; tips for longevity; and a physician-historian’s glimpse at a time when the stethoscope was cutting-edge technology. Also find out how scientists measure calories in food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-15-10 Keeping young athletes hydrated during hot weather is the top story this week. Also, uninsured patients have higher death rates; budget cuts to county health departments; and helping third-world newborns breathe. And, Barbara Lewis talks to an optometrist about the safety of "anime eyes" contact lenses. In the Sound Medicine Checkup, stroking a rat’s whisker can prevent a stroke in the animal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-08-10 This week on Sound Medicine, a vaccine for breast cancer; warning labels for foods that choke children; surprisingly unhealthy foods; and the story of the little-know federal agency, the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Also, why pregnant women shouldn’t wear high heels. And sugar-water appears to ease vaccination pain in infants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-01-10 This week, mandates for free preventive health services; improving patient care at cancer centers; depression during pregnancy; medications during pregnancy; and encouraging doctors to report medical errors. Also, the healthiest type of rice. And one instance in which marriage does not increase life expectancy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-25-10 This week, cell phone radiation and cancer; the safety of triclosan, a common antibacterial chemical; how robot avatars help medical ethicists; colds and contagion; SIDS and co-sleeping with babies; and another Grace Notes essay from Dr. Larry Cripe. Also, the importance telomeres. And how caffeine can reduce mistakes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 7-18-10 This week, teaching healthcare costs in medical school; a new way to treat diabetes-induced blindness; a virus that causes prostate cancer; and a book about a doctor who treats chronic drug addicts. Also, where you reside affects how much you exercise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-11-10 This week, a roundup of recent breakthroughs in cancer research; a study that claims new medical residents are prone to deadly errors; defining value in healthcare delivery; and a biography of the 19th century surgical genius William Stewart. Also, hot peppers for weight loss; and postpartum depression in men. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-04-10 This week we re-broadcast some recent favorite stories: a study that claims computerizing hospitals does not save money; new NFL rules for concussions; exercises to prevent ACL injuries in young athletes; high-impact sports for bone health; and an interview with a clinical geneticist, whose primary job is to deliver bad news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 06-27-10 This week, an idea for retail healthcare; an update on healthcare reform legislation; new treatments for pediatric leukemia; the book, The Other Side of Sadness; and another Grace Notes essay by Dr. Larry Cripe. Also, daycare and IQ, and why you should wear sunscreen when you're driving. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 06-20-10 This week, at-home care for the elderly; a recent study showing that caregivers are less healthy than their peers; depression may increase incidents of inflammatory disease; and one doctor's experiences in Haiti. Also, why folks over 50 are happier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 06-13-10 This week, overworked and underpaid primary care docs, the integrative medicine debate, old dogs provide clues to human longevity, and a new technique for brainwave monitoring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 06-06-10 This week, an Indiana cancer doc makes the Time 100; the feds' patient bill of rights; the pros and cons of a double mastectomy; personalized medicine for breast cancer patients; portrait of the Brain Collection brain bank; and how hand bacteria helps finger criminals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 05-30-10 This week, stories from two Iraqi war veterans -- an amputee-turned-triathlete and a battlefield surgeon. Also, a breast imaging specialist objects to the federal mammogram guidelines; a physician with lupus seeks to raise awareness of the disease; and two clinical pharmacologists discuss how personalized medicine comes into play when determining if Plavix will be effective for a heart patient. Our "Checkup" considers the ill-effects of mouth breathing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 05-23-10 This week, a decline in premature births; how to reduce sodium in our diets; peripheral arterial disease (PAD); medicating mentally ill children; also, high-tech band aids, and why triathlons are riskier than marathons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 05-16-10 Vaccine refusals and measles outbreaks; the book, Smallpox, the Death of a Disease; a new formal DSM category for autism disorders; a book on hospital management called High Performance Health Care; and a couple who's child died of cancer now coaches medical professionals on effectively communicating the realities of death and dying to parents of terminally ill children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 05-09-10 This week, a newly discovered gene disorder in the Amish community, physicians and social media, and what it's like to grow up with, and grow old with, a disabled sibling. Also, the rising number of births to mothers over 40; and the dangers of third-hand smoke. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 05-02-10 We devote most of the hour to a conversation with author Rebecca Skloot, who tells the story of Henrietta Lacks -- a true tale of medical research that combines science, medical history, with race, politics and bioethics. Also this week, the importance of culturing cells in three dimensions; and the story of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 04-25-10 This week on Sound Medicine: lessons learned from the year's confusing flu season; legislation to improve school lunches; how salamanders regrow limbs; women marathoners and air pollution; and a new way to conduct hospital rounds. Also, can Botox inhibit emotions? And no more smoking on submarines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 04-18-10 This week, a cure for sickle cell anemia; safe breast enlargement with fat injections; aspirin to prevent breast cancer recurrence; and end-of-life care for terminally ill children. Also, myths about eyes and eyesight. And, do grandparents make their grandchildren fat? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 04-11-10 The watchword this week: patient safety. Learn methods hospitals use to improve patient safety and ways research advocates protect patients involved in clinical trials; also, indoor tanning beds cause skin cancer. In addition, the problem of sodium in our diets and how kung-fu breathing techniques help asthmatic children. Finally, a visit from former co-host Dr. Ora Pescovitz, who discusses the past and future of medicine and health care. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 04-04-10 To celebrate Sound Medicine's tenth year on public radio, we invited our faculty hosts for a panel discussion about the past 10 years in medicine. They discuss advances in medical science and disappointments with promised improvements. At the end of the show, they offer their predictions about the next ten years of medicine and medical science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 03-28-10 This week, the future effects of the new health care law; long-term benefits of sports for girls; benefits of moderate exercise; and in our Patient Listening series, medical students start a scholarship for a fellow student. Also, low-birth weight babies in the USA. And, can you be bored to death? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 03-21-10 This week, a soda tax for reducing the obesity rate; ways to reduce teen obesity; an Indianapolis teen loses 100 pounds; the science of food addition; author of the book Genetic Rounds; and another Grace Notes essay from Dr. Larry Cripe. Plus, the hazards of pipe and cigar smoke and the hazards of inactivity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 03-14-10 This week, why many elderly hospital patients receive poor care; the safety of soy-based foods for breast cancer patients; and the book, Whirlwinds and Small Voices: Sustaining Commitment to Work with Special-Needs Children. Also the universality of basic human emotions, and a link between ambidexterity and ADHD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 03-07-10 On Sound Medicine this week: an update on healthcare legislation; confusion over the new mammogram guidelines; bone-strengthening drugs that may reduce breast cancer risk; how taking niacin increases good cholesterol; and an interview with Wright State University medical students who produce a radio show. Also, why eating blueberries and running barefoot are good for you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 02-14-10 This week, part two of our series on biobanking human tissue; a low-acid diet to prevent osteoporosis; more natural approaches to hormone replacement therapy; and an interview with the author of "Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History and the Wonder of Childbirth." Also, a theory about food cravings and common household chemicals that may affect human fertility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 02-21-10 This week, cold and exercise-induced asthma in Olympic athletes; how hospital checklists reduce medical errors; and a child psychiatrist discusses how her mother's suicide affected her. Also, the effectiveness of hand sanitizers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 02-28-10 On Sound Medicine this week, advice about when to introduce infants to solid food; the under-diagnosis of celiac disease; chlamydia reinfections in teen girls; and why people have problems with destination memory. Also, the science of beauty. And some musings on blood donation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 02-07-10 This week, we hear about ethical issues involved with banking human tissue, especially tissue from pediatric patients; also, how antioxidant supplements reduce the benefit of exercise; why kids need more vitamin D; and about ways to prevent ACL injuries in young athletes. In this week's Checkup feature, the safety of alcoholic energy drinks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 01-31-10 This week, Tanya Froelich on links between prenatal smoking and lead exposure to childhood ADHD; Aaron Carroll on the demise of the healthcare reform bill; Robert Gold discusses his book, The Forensic Pharmacist; Also, in our Patient Listening series, Rich Frankel meets a lung cancer survivor who explains why he kept his diagnosis a secret. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 01-24-10 Sound Medicine this week: trauma surgery in Haiti; a vaccine for melanoma; treating dogs with brain cancer; the book, Brain: The Complete Mind; and a Grace Notes essay on the perils of prayer. Also, why pregnant women get morning sickness. And the hidden dangers of the intensive care unit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 01-17-10 This week on Sound Medicine: Computer models predict a large increase in type 2 diabetes cases; dreams as the pre-cursor to human consciousness; a short history of women in medicine; and another Grace Notes essay on the topic of prayer in medicine. Also, needlesticks in medical students and how sleep can be a memory aid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 01-10-10 In Sound Medicine this week: Why many women at risk for cancer refuse the anti-cancer drug tamoxifen; how acidity in soft drinks damages teeth; high-impact sports strengthen bones in seniors. Also, an update on healthcare legislation and the latest "Grace Notes" essay by Dr. Larry Cripe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 01-03-10 This week on Sound Medicine: IU bioethicist Eric Meslin explains why Darwin's Origin of Species still matters; also, hear reprised interviews with authors of these books: Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?; A Short History of Medicine; and A Brain Wider Than the Sky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 12-27-09 In this week's show: how much fat your exercise really burns; how prescription drugs get into our drinking water; how doctors communicate with decision-making "surrogates"; and hear a medical student tell about his first experience with a dying patient. Plus the Sound Medicine Checkup and Did You Know features. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 12-20-09 Topics this week: research that shows high technology does not cut expenses or improve outcomes for hospitals and doctors' offices; how emergency care workers employ electronic medical records; author of the book Sugarless Plum, a biography of a diabetic ballet dancer; and author of the book Declarations of Dinosaur, about practicing family medicine. We also have another Grace Notes essay by Dr. Larry Cripe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 12-13-09 This week's show includes an update on healthcare reform; a German model for American Medicare; new rules in the NFL for treating concussions; and hear an Indiana University cancer doc relate life experiences that include the anxiety and sadness of treating terminally ill cancer patients. In addition, learn how both antioxidants and sports mouth guards can be harmful to users. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 12-06-09 Topics this week: budget cuts threaten a community's water fluoridation program; efforts to improve mental health services for veterans; the difficulties of recruiting volunteers for cancer clinical trials; and the ethics of predictive medical testing. Also, a musical cure for tinnitis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 11-29-09 Topics: New guidelines for mammograms and Pap tests; Healthcare for immigrants; malpractice reform and healthcare costs; also, we debut Dr. Rich Frankel's new "Patient Listening" series, which this week hears from a wounded Iraq war veteran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 11-22-09 On Sound Medicine this week: marketing smokeless nicotine products; reforming the physician's fee-for-service pay structure; the dog flu and its vaccine; and the book, Smallpox, the Death of a Disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 11-15-09 Topics this week on Sound Medicine include antibiotic-resistance from livestock; the origins of malaria; a fruit-fly pheromone that could lead to better insect control; treating bipolar disorder; and Dr. Marie Savard on the importance of reducing life-stress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 11-08-09 This week on Sound Medicine, Dr. Aaron Carroll compares the latest House and Senate HC reform bills; Dr. Marcia Shew discusses Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine; 12-year old researcher Brendan O'Neil discovers energy drinks don't work; and Dr. Tim Ford discusses the use of satellite imaging for predicting disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 11-01-09 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 10-25-09 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 10-18-09 This week on Sound Medicine, two breast cancer experts discuss PARP (Poly ADP-ribose polymerase) inhibitors and how these drugs show promise for treating breast cancer. Also, learn how smoking marijuana may correlate with testicular cancer; hear 2009 Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn discuss her research in telomeres; hear first-hand what it's like to live with AIDS as a chronic condition; and details about a study that claims just thinking about money affects how people experience pain an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 10-11-09 This week on Sound Medicine topics include the Human Toxome Project; why college athletes are vulnerable to H1N1; similarities among individuals hospitalized with H1N1; why primary care physicians suffer burnout; and humorist Eric Metcalf offers up his favorite home remedies -- and a prediction for the merican health care system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 10-04-09 This week, a special edition of Sound Medicine. We air the health-care reform debate that took place on the IU School of Medicine campus, on Sept. 11, 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 09-27-09 This week, Sound Medicine topics include: Dr. Malaz Boustani on common drugs that can cause cognitive impairment in older adults; Alison Gopnik, PhD, on her book "The Philosophical Baby," which looks at how babies perceive the world; and Dr. Aaron Carroll provides an update on health-care reform legislation. Also, Dr. Joe O'Neil on the Indiana law prohibiting teens from cellphoning while driving. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 09-20-09 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 09-13-09 This week on Sound Medicine, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIAID discusses swine flu vaccine clinical trials in children; Dr. Daniel Jernigan of the CDC explains this year's extended flu season; Dr. Ron Ackerman discusses the economics of preventive care; reporter Sandy Roob visits a student-run health clinic in Indianapolis; and sociologist Nina Bambina discusses the advantages of online social networking for seniors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 09-08-09 This week Sound Medicine presents a best-of show. Topics include federal stimulus funds for health clinics; the rise drug abuse among baby boomers; and interviews with John Medina, author of Brain Rules; Paul Roberts, author of The End of Food; and John LaPuma, MD, aka Chef MD, author of Chef MD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 01-04-09 Topics for this week include: Better Stretching Exercises; Chef MD on Colds and Flu; Smoking: Advice for Quitting; Good Health is Beautiful; Checkup: Happy People Watch Less TV; Did You Know?: Eating Breakfast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 12-21-08 Topics for this week include: Holiday Medical Myths Debunked; Did You Know?: Women's Heart Attacks Are More Deadly; Immune System Secrets; Hand Bacteria; Doc Chat: Cancers that Disappear; and Teen Pregnancies and TV. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 01-18-09 Topics this week include "house parties" for discussing health care reform; expert analysis of future health care reform; a psychologist with schizophrenia; Oliver Sacks on musical hallucinations; deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's patients; and why we fear dentists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 03-15-09 Topics for this week include: ICU Patients Get Up and Moving; CT Scans; Gut Reaction: Overeating Can Impair Body Function; Checkup: Diet Betting; Self Sabotage: A Psychologist’s View; Exercise and Moods Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-30-09 This week on Sound Medicine: High school athletes and heat stroke; drug companies and healthcare reform; and a young film maker discusses his experience with teen depression. Dr. Larry Cripe reads a Grace Notes essay. Also, non-head hair transplants and popcorn's health properties. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-23-09 This week on Sound Medicine: MRSA staph infections from household pets; health insurance reform ideas; and an interview with the authors of Don't Swallow Your Gum, Drs. Aaron Carroll and Rachel Vreeman. Jeremy Shere covers sleeping-baby safety and pain-relief from swearing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-16-09 This week on Sound Medicine: The latest on the healthcare reform debate; treating alcoholism with drugs; unemployment as a health risk; and an interview with Howard Gleckman, author of Caring for Our Parents. Jeremy Shere covers lawnmower safety and stretching before exercise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-09-09 This week Sound Medicine visits Camp Medical Detective, where minority youths learn about medical professions. Other topics include Indiana University's Medical Service Learning programs; eating disorders; cross-training the mind; and we hear another essay in Dr. Larry Cripe's Grace Notes series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-02-09 This week, it is a Sound Ethics extravaganza. Host Barbara Lewis and IU bioethicist Eric Meslin revisit the following topics: the ethics of prescribing placebos; "Octomom" and IVF regulation; the "conscience rule" for medical professionals; exceptions to informed consent in medical research; and a terrific resource for evaluating accuracy in health news stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-09-09 This week Sound Medicine visits Camp Medical Detective, where minority youths learn about medical professions. Other topics include Indiana University's Medical Service Learning programs; eating disorders; cross-training the mind; and we hear another essay in Dr. Larry Cripe's Grace Notes series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 08-02-09 This week, it is a Sound Ethics extravaganza. Host Barbara Lewis and IU bioethicist Eric Meslin revisit the following topics: the ethics of prescribing placebos; "Octomom" and IVF regulation; the "conscience rule" for medical professionals; exceptions to informed consent in medical research; and a terrific resource for evaluating accuracy in health news stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-26-09 Topics this week include a CDC forecast for the fall 2009 flu season; vaccine requirements and recommendations for school kids, the latest research in colonoscopy, a day in the life of a sex-ed teacher; and an interview with Dr. David Kessler, author of "The End of Overeating." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-19-09 Topics this week include a report on the new anti-tobacco legislation; a discussion about the public health impact of the anti-tobacco laws; heart tissue regeneration; and, in the second in our series on evidence based medicine, Dr. David Newman explains why doctors regularly recommend treatments that are NOT proven effective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-12-09 Topics this week include acupuncture research -- with toothpicks; evidence-based medicine; and compassion fatigue in health care professions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 07-05-09 Topics this week include brown fat, cell phones and teen drivers, FDA Zicam warning, and a Sound Ethics chat with the author of The Future of Bioethics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine 06-28-09 Topics this week include an update on health reform, whooping cough vaccine refusals, complete life cancer care, and Larry Cripe's Grace Notes essay, "Sara's Pin." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 06-21-09 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 06-14-09 Topics this week include: Don't Mix Plavix and Heartburn pills, Did You Know?: XTreme Eating, Misused Booster Seats, Book: Early Intervention and Autism, Checkup: Climate Change and Health, Participating in a Clinical Trial Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 06-07-09 Topics this week: A Cure for the Peanut Allergy, Importance of Childhood Play, Did You Know?: More Exercise for Pregnant Women, Impulsivity Triggers Alcoholism, Checkup: Brains Prefer Pictures, Sound Ethics: Maintaining Privacy with Electronic Medical Records Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 5-10-2009 Topics for this week: Swine Flu Update, Watching Swine for H1N1 Infection, Did You Know?: 2009 Air Pollution Report, Irradiating Food for Safety, International Adoptees with Drug-Resistant TB, Checkup: Caffeine in Sports, Book: The Soul of Medicine, Tales from the Bedside, Happy? Experiences vs. Stuff, Sing When You Wash Hands Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 04-19-09 Topics for this week include: Federal Stimulus Funding for Health Clinics; Public Health Insurance: A Good Idea; Did You Know?: Sports Drinks May Harm Teeth; Book: Healthcare: Guaranteed; Temperature Shifts Cause Migraines; Checkup: Recession Healthcare Toolkit; Book: Forgetting: When to Worry, What to Do; Grace Notes: Dying Pretty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 03-22-09 Topics this week include work rules for medical residents; changes in federal policy on embryonic stem cell research; the human-cold genome; the benefits of palliative care; and the Grace Notes essay "Giving Up," by Dr. Larry Cripe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 03-08-09 Topics for this week include: Bariatric Surgery and Brittle Bones; Transfats that Occur Naturally; Book: Adolescents with Cancer; Why Teens Smoke; Not all Seniors Should Cut Calories; Book: The World is Fat; Check up: How Colors Affect Us; Did you know?: Anger and Heart Problems Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 03-01-09 Topics for this week include: Brain Study Indicates Why Some Memories Persist; Dean Ornish, The Spectrum; Sound Ethics: Obama's Health-Related Policy Agenda; Did You Know?: Healing With Blood Plasma; Hypothermia for Heart Attack Patients; Pelvic Pain: A Difficult Diagnosis; Checkup: Redheads Require More Anesthesia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 02-15-09 Topics for this week include: Health IT and the Fed Stimulus Bill; Did You Know?: Eating Red; Pancreatic Cancer Surgery; Contact Lenses and Infections; Checkup: Avoid Winter Sports Injuries; Doc Chat: Light Drinking During Pregnancy; Book: The End of Food Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 02-08-09 Topics for this week include: Flu Season Update and Prevention; Did You Know?: Computerized Hospitals Have Fewer Patient Deaths; Awake During Brain Surgery; Sound Ethics: Detecting Bias in Medical Reporting; Checkup: Teen Abstinence Pledges; Myths About Prenatal Genetic Testing; Book: Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 02-01-09 Topics for this week include: Book: Testosterone for Life; Did You Know?: No to Favorite Foods; Electronic Medical Records in Mental Health; Pain; Checkup: Pre-birth Maternity Leave; Sound Ethics: Medical Health Reporting Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 01-25-09 Topics this week include alternative medicine for treating post-traumatic stress disorder; myths about flu shots and other vaccines; new approaches for anxiety disorders; and what physicians pay for vaccines. Also, the link between heavy caffeine-use and hallucinations. And in this week's Checkup, find out if you're a web cyberchondriac. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 12-28-09 Topics for this week: Rock Steady Boxing; Distracted Drivers; Electronic Medical Records; The "Power Stretch" Machine; Stuttering; Water Births; Drum to Stay Fit; and Alligator Blood for Health. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 12-14-08 Topics for this week include: Statin Drugs for Everyone?; Repairing Implantable Heart Devices; Did You Know?: Too Much Salt; ADHD and Children's Motor Skills; Checkup: DNA Ancestry Tests; Doc Chat: Financial Psychologists; Helping Kids Cope with Stress Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 12-07-08 Topics for this week include: Medicare Scams Alert; Update on Gulf War Illness; Did You Know?: A Decline in Cancer Diagnoses; Failure of an Anti-Drug Campaign; Acupuncture for Cancer Symptoms;Checkup: Preventing a Flu Epidemic; Sound Ethics: Prescribing Placebos Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 11-30-08 Topics for this week include: Kids with Arthritis; Fighting Drug-Resistant TB; Did You Know: Hardy Frozen Embryos; Cold Remedies for Kids; How to Prevent a Sinus Infection; Book: Loneliness; STD E-Cards Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 11-23-08 Topics for this week include: Polio Eradication; Did You Know?: Waist Fat and Early Death; Doc Chat: Deadly Baby Bottles?; Diabetes and Birth Defects; In Defense of the Donut; Checkup: Row Your Way to Health; The Dreaming Brain Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 11-16-08 Topics for this week include: Too Many Premature Births in Indiana; Did You Know?: Smoking and Food Insecurity; Telling Cancer Stories; Early Screening for Prostate Cancer; Checkup: Stress Test for Astronauts; Book: Early Intervention and Autism; PBS Dreamtime preview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 11-09-08 Topics for this week include: Kids Spread Flu; Doc Chat: More Vitamin D for Kids; Acid Reflux in Kids; Checkup: Interpreting Hospital Report Cards; AMA Apologizes to African-American Physicians; Did You Know?: Secrets to Thriving in Old Age Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 11-02-08 Topics for this week include: Trends in the Business of Medicine; Did You Know?: Can Sleep Boost Your Grades?; Retail Health Care; Checkup: Hip Hop for Stroke; Sound Ethics: Biobanks for Medical Research Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 10-26-08 Topics for this week include: Health Care Proposals in the Presidential Race; Did You Know?: Contaminated Bottled Water; Healthy Breast Tissue Bank; Checkup: Halloween Candy Binging; Book: End of Life Handbook Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 10-12-08 Topics for this week include: Not If, But When -- Preparing for Pandemic, part 3 of 3; Did You Know?: Caffeine in Energy Drinks; Heart Failure in Children; Checkup: Why Do We Sleep?; New Safety Checklist for Surgery; Ruth Messinger, World Health Leader Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 10-19-08 Topics for this week include: Wrist-to-Heart Angioplasty; Did You Know?: Exotic Pets, Bad for Kids; Researching Undiagnosed Diseases; Meditation for High Blood Pressure; Checkup: Mozart for Blood Pressure; Book: What Helped Get Me Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 06-08-08 Topics for this week include: New Prostate Cancer Study; Us TOO Prostate Cancer Support; Childhood Obesity Rates Leveling; What is Heparin?; Life After Lasik; How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex; Wellness Coaching Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 06-01-08 Topics this week include: Studying Centenarians;Participants in the Centenarian Study; Aspirin for Controlling Blood Pressure; Neurobiology of Taste; Young Brains on Alcohol; Smiling Voices; Dark History of Electroshock Therapy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 05-25-08 Topics for this week include: Boxing Therapy for Parkinson's; Pollution and Blood Clots; When Patient Involvement Doesn't Improve Outcomes; "Treating the Numbers" Doesn't Always Make Sense; Warm Hands and Sleep; Jill Bolte Taylor on Brain Tissue Donation; Slow Medicine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 05-18-08 Topics for this week include: Rand Report on Veterans with Mental Trauma; Are Breast Fed Kids Smarter?; Distracted Teen Drivers; Teen GPS Study; Interpreting Non-Verbal Cues; Melanoma and Stem Cells; Physician-Teacher Burnout Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 05-11-08 Topics for this week include: Patient Activism Driving Health Industry Change; Many Ambivalent About the HPV Vaccine; Do Video Games Maker You Smarter?; Electronic Medical Records for the Uninsured; Doctor Visits -- Online; Marriage and Blood Pressure; Book: "Your Symptoms Are Real" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 05-04-08 Topics for this week include: Healthcare Attitudes Affect Elections; Mother's Diet and Baby Gender; How Anesthesia Works; Short Sleepers; Computer Vision Syndrome; Sound Ethics: Essential Medicines for Low-Income Countries Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 04-27-08 Topics for this week include: Genetic Counseling for Cancer; Breast Cancer Screening; Big Brains and Dementia; Diabulimia; Book: Hungry -- Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin; Lung Cancer and Second-Hand Smoke; The Optimistic Brain Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 04-20-08 Topics for this week include: New Recommendations for Colonoscopy; Breast Cancer Facts; Alligator Blood for Health; Indiana's Medically Underinsured Children; Young Adults with Special Needs; Wii Games for Physical Therapy; Book: Good Calories, Bad Calories; Benefits of a Family Dinner Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 04-13-08 Topics for this week include: Electroshock Therapy for Depression; Pot Belly Problem; Depression and Pregnancy; Pre-natal Care in Alaska; Video Games for Exercise?; PBS Television: The Truth About Cancer; Statins and Memory Loss; Sound Portrait: Aqua Therapist Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 04-06-08 Next Year's Flu Vaccine; Sound Ethics: Medicines in the Developing World; Another Risk for Premature Babies; Artificial Sweeteners Lead to Weight Gain; The Choking Game; Lifesharers for Organ Donation; Live to be 100 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 03-30-08 Topics for this week include: Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports; Essay: Extreme Fighting; Health Quiz: Baby Boomers and Alzheimers; Mind Workouts for Early-Stage Alzheimers; IU's Healthy Aging Brain Center; Checkup: Probiotics for Health?; Slowing Vision-Loss for Baby Boomers; Cosmetic Dentistry for a Youthful Smile Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 02-17-08 Topics for this week include: Human Guinea Pigs; Do Smokers Sleep Less?; Doctors Don't Report Medical Errors Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: 02-10-08 Topics for this week include: Lead in Consumer Goods; Lead Testing Kits; Documentary - Baghdad Hospital - Inside the Red Zone; Another Danger from Cold Meds; Pain and Injury in Combat Veterans; Restaurant Portions; Care for Low-Income Seniors; The Exam Table and Disabled Patients Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: February 3, 2008 Topics this week include: Statin Drugs: What Now?; Caffeine and Miscarriage; Problem with Donated Blood; Supreme Court Rejects Appeal for Non-Approved Drugs; Morgellons Disease Controversy; Return to Psychedelic Drugs; Medical Errors by Trainee Doctors; New Leader for Nursing's Honor Society Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: January 27, 2008 Topics for this week include: Multidisciplinary Research and Obesity; Diabetes Conference for Patients; Can Pregnancy Damage the Spine?; Surprising Longevity of Common Vaccines; Obesity and Cancer Risks; The Flu Mist Vaccine; Book: Any Day With Hair is a Good Hair Day Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: January 20, 2008 Topics for this week include: Tips for Sinus Sufferers; Pneumonia Shots; Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe; A Sceptical Look at Energy Drinks; How Healthy is Milk?; Compulsive Hoarders; Book: The Lobotomist Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: December 30, 2007 Topics this week include: Adopting Frozen Embryos; New Kidney Donation Guidelines; Experimental Drugs for the Dying; Guilt; Phase IV Clinical Trials Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: December 23, 2007 Topics for this week include: Okay to Be Overweight?; Hygiene and Allergies; Christmas Coronaries; Eldest Sibling IQ; Omega-3 Fatty Acids; Consumer Genetic Testing; Medical Myths Debunked Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: December 16, 2007 Topics this week include: The Appendix, Useful After All; Second-Hand Smoke; Behind-the-Counter Drugs; Vaccinations at the Pharmacy; Pedometers and Exercise; Internist-to-Specialist Communications; Essay: Metcalf on Moderation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: December 9, 2007 Topics for this week include: Sex Education in Indiana; Condom-Use Study; Acoustic Trauma; Cross-Protective Effects of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine; Dementia in Indiana; Take Care of Your Eyes; The Hippocratic Oath Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: December 2, 2007 Topics for this week include: Door-to-Door HIV Treatment; DNA Analysis for Health?; Families With AIDS in Kenya; Healthy Holiday Cooking; Medical Tourism Boom Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: November 25, 2007 Topics this week include: Midwifery for Prenatal Care; Sleep and Obesity; Pain Charts Are Ineffective; Nicotine for Pain; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Maintaining Friendships Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: November 18, 2007 Topics for this week include: Transplant Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis; Virtual Colonoscopy; TV Watching and Blood Pressure; A New Way to Combat Bacteria; Cleaning Fresh Produce; Checkup: Wash Your Hands; Book: Like I'm SO Fat! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: November 11, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: October 21, 2007 Topics for this week include: Swimming for Seniors; Mysterious Human Heart: Cardiac Genetics; What Use is the Appendix?; Fading Stigma of Mental Illness; Mental Health on College Campuses; Learning From Storytelling; Lessons Learned: the 1918 Flu Epidemic Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: October 14, 2007 Topics this week include: Fall Allergies and Children; The Mysterious Human Heart; Diabetes and Women; Women's Knee Replacements; Cervical Artificial Disc; Asthma and Allergies; Lucid Dreams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: October 7, 2007 Topics for this week include: ADHD and Food Additives; Treatments for ADHD; Second-Hand Smoke and Learning; Tobacco-Funded Research; High-Intensity Ultrasound; PBS: Mysterious Human Heart Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: September 30, 2007 Topics this week include: Home Remedies for the Common Cold; Eating Disorder Prevention; Chronic-Disease Management; Eight Years a Frozen Embryo; Mold Linked to Depression; When Docs are Too Chatty Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: September 23, 2007 Topics this week include: Patient Navigator Services; Pregnant Smokers; Alli, the OTC Diet Pill; Corneal Transplant Research; How We Choose Mates; Ginseng for Fatigue; Hispanic Folk Remedies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: September 16, 2007 Topics for this week include: What S-CHIP Means for Hoosiers; National S-CHIP Prospects; Bad Popcorn; Diagnosing Pancreatic Cancer; Anti-Drinking Cure; Binge Drinking; A Head for Learning Languages?; Sunscreen Ratings; Alzheimer's Research News Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: September 9, 2007 Topics for this week's show include: The Mercy Foundation; Obesity, a Virus?; Medical Residents' Work Week; Allergen-Free Peanuts; Impending Rise in Alzheimer's Cases; Meet a Home-Health Aid Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: September 2, 2007 Topics this week include: Diet Soda Makes You Fat; Breast Cancer and Diet; Health Quiz: Hidden Trans Fats; Sound Ethics: Hot Topics; Defiant Youngsters; Provenge: Vaccine Treatment for Prostate Cancer; Flaxseed and Prostate Tumors; Going Gluten Free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: August 19, 2007 Topics for this week include: Marketing Cigarettes to Women; Swimming and Dehydration; Camel #9 Cigarettes; Your Brain -- on Cigarettes; Preventing Dehydration; The Itching Gene; Getting Serious About Ticks; Deep Fried at the Fair Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: August 5, 2007 Topics for this week include: Ethics in Pediatric Research; Diet Soda or Regular?; Chatty Doctors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: July 29, 2007 Topics for this week's show include: Ovarian Cancer Early Warning Signs; Turtles as Pets?; Measles Virus as a Cure; An Essay on Advance Directives; Elevator Injuries; Cattle and Antibiotic Resistance in Humans; Camp Calcium. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: July 22, 2007 This week's topics include: # Infant Mortality in Mississippi; Women and Healthcare Access; Health Quiz: Are Organic Foods Healthier?; Doc Chat: Breast Cancer and African Americans; The "Chemo Fog"; Checkup: Checkup: What is Obese?; IU Medical Students in Honduras; Cochlear Implant Summer Camp Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: July 8, 2007 Topics for this week's show: Extreme Drug Resistant Tuberculosis; Essay: TB in Africa; Morgellon's Disease; A Smoker's Gene?; Checkup: When Anger Helps; Sleep and Memory; Health Quiz: Echinacea for Colds? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: July 1, 2007 Topics for this week include: Fireworks Injuries; Sealing Kids Teeth; Health Quiz: Being Fat AND Skinny; Doc Chat: Meningitis Vaccine; LASIK Eye Surgery; LASIK for Aging Eyes; Checkup: Fast Food and Fatty Liver Disease; Book: When Illness Goes Public. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: June 24, 2007 Topics for this week include: Medical Care with a Guarantee; Health Quiz: Odd Blood; Little League Pitching Injuries; College Sports Injuries; Checkup: Awake, During Brain Surgery; Supressing Menstruation; Medical ID Chips Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: June 10, 2007 Topics for the week of June 10, 2007: Weekend Heart Attacks; Emergency Heart Care at St. Francis Hospital; Health Quiz: Drinking Too Much Water?; Web Cams in Hospitals; Colon Cancer and African Americans; Checkup: Out-of-Body Experiences; Book: The Hormone Decision. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: June 3, 2007 Topics for the week of June 3, 2007: the medical ethics of phase IV clinical trials; fibromyalgia, the multi-tasking myth, red meat and breast cancer, and a mothers? milk bank in Indiana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: May 20, 2007 Topics for the week of May 20, 2007: new Indiana laws that empower pharmacists and physician assistants; the book Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness; teaching kids the science of calories; negative health-effects of commuting; cola drinks and bone loss in women; and a study that provides a surprising look at what Americans drink. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: May 13, 2007 Topics for the week of May 13, 2007: childhood obesity and early puberty in girls; the Cancer Prevention 3 study; how depression and cardiovascular health are related; Indy?s Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School; and an interview with Ira Flatow, host of NPR?s Science Friday radio show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Medicine: May 6, 2007 Topics for the week of May 6, 2007: the stigma of childhood mental illness; a national program for adopting frozen embryos; the ethics of embryo adoption; and a discussion of the new book, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 15, 2007: Overweight at the Workplace These days, employers may well be concerned about employees' weight... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 15, 2007: Vegetable Colors (Health Quiz) It is true; vegetable color does matter... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 15, 2007: What Doctors Wear (Checkup) According to Richard Fisher, a professor at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, New Jersey, that's because we've been trained to see doctors that way... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 15, 2007: Cell Phones in Hospitals Should cell phones be allowed in hospitals? Recent research provides a surprising answer... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 15, 2007: Neuroplasticity of the Brain Author Sharon Begley went to an annual "neuroplasticity" gathering attended by the Dalai Lama, a group of Buddhist monks, and some of the world's leading neuroscientists... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 15, 2007: Binge Eating According to the first national census of eating disorders, binge eating is the nation's most common eating problem... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1, 2007: Medical Students and Depression We've noticed that on the ABC hit series, "Grey's Anatomy," the lead character, Meredith, talks a lot about the stress she is under... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1, 2007: Sound Ethics: Eugenics On April 12, the Indiana State Library will host a public symposium on one of the dark chapters of Indiana history: The eugenics movement... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1, 2007: Healthiest Juice (Health Quiz) According to scientists at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, when it comes to health, you can?t do better than grape juice... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1, 2007: Bacteria on the Skin (Checkup) Did you know that the vast majority of cells in the human body are microbial cells? Listen in with Jeremy and find out how this state-of-affairs is actually a good thing... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1, 2007: Fatty Livers in Children Here's a common health problem that you may not have heard about: It's called fatty liver disease... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1, 2007: Head Lice Here's a well-known health problem that affects lots of children, but really isn't so serious... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 1, 2007: Simulation Technology in Physician Training Perhaps you've heard the slogan "watch one, do one, teach one... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22, 2007: New Kidney Donation Guidelines The United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) is working on a new set of guidelines that would give donated kidneys to the person who would benefit the most... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22, 2007: Organ Donors: "Life Sharers" An organization called "Life Sharers" attempts to remedy the organ donation shortage... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22, 2007: How Hollywood Spins Organ Donation Purdue professor Susan Morgan, PhD, studies Hollywood's impact on organ-donation awareness... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22, 2007: Doc Chat: MRI for Breast Cancer? The American Cancer Society says that as many as 1... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22, 2007: Latino Health Radio Indianapolis boasts Preguntale al Pediatra, a Spanish-language radio-call-in show that answers questions about kids' health... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22, 2007: Translators in the ER The emergency room is another place where it pays to be bilingual... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22, 2007: Laughter and Blood Flow (Health Quiz) In this week's Health Quiz, we ask if laughter can help our arteries work more efficiently... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 22, 2007: Health Food Labels (Checkup) In this week's Checkup, Jeremy Shere discovers that some health foods aren't as wholesome as their packaging might lead you to believe... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 18, 2007: Medical-Error Report Card Indiana's health reporting system took an important step forward this month with the release of the state's first ever report from the new Medical Error Reporting System... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 18, 2007: Hospital-Acquired Infections The hospital-acquired infection is one of the 27 medical errors Indiana is tracking... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 18, 2007: Obesity and Early Puberty in Girls We've known for some time that girls in the United States are entering puberty at an earlier age than they did 30 years ago... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11, 2007: HPV Vaccine Controversy In 2006, the vaccine called Gardasil was approved by the FDA to protect against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is spread through sexual contact... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11, 2007: HPV Vaccine Now, let's find out more about the HPV vaccine itself, a vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11, 2007: Doc Chat: Not Following Doctor's Orders When your doctor scribbles out a prescription or issues a treatment recommendation, there's usually the assumption that you'll do as you are told: take your pills, stay off your sore knee for a week, or even have that surgery... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11, 2007: Essay: A Struggle with Doctor's Orders Sound Medicine contributor Eric Metcalf has a story about his own difficulties with medical "compliance... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11, 2007: New Treatments for Diabetes On March 27, the American Diabetes Association will sponsor its annual one-day call to action for people to find out if they are at risk for diabetes... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11, 2007: Embalmed Alaskans Finally, we hear about an odd law in Alaska -- one that requires that bodies be embalmed before they are shipped to the lower 48 states... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11, 2007: Another genetic disorder? (Health Quiz) So did researchers recently find a gene linked to autism, schizophrenia, sleep apnea, or restless leg syndrome? The answer is autism... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 11, 2007: Epstein-Barr Virus (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 4, 2007: Women's Heart Health The American Heart Association has issued new guidelines including the suggestion that some women take daily aspirin to reduce their risk of stroke... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 4, 2007: Citizens' Health Care Working Group Health care is emerging as a key domestic policy issue for the 2008 presidential race... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 4, 2007: National Autism Study The Centers for Disease Control has recently awarded $5... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 25, 2007: Mothers and Children: the Future of AIDS/HIV in Kenya Barbara Lewis relates ways AIDS is transmitted from mother to child and transmission can be prevented... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 4, 2007: Preschool for Autistic Kids In December, President Bush signed the landmark Combating Autism Act of 2006... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 25, 2007: Solving the Mystery of Pain On a recent episode of "Gray's Anatomy," doctors puzzled over a young patient who could feel no pain... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 4, 2007: Sound Ethics: Experimental drugs for the dying The FDA and a federal court are both grappling with the same issue right now: whether patients with a terminal illness should have access to experimental drugs before they've gone through the entire FDA approval process... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 25, 2007: New Hope for Muscle Diseases Here's another unusual story that's getting a lot of attention in the medical research world... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 4, 2007: Fish and IQ (Health Quiz) The topic is fish, and the question is whether pregnant women who eat lots of it are more likely to have kids that are coordinated, good at math, have higher IQs, or are good swimmers... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 25, 2007: Schizophrenics and Chronic Illness Next, we look at new research on schizophrenia... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 4, 2007: Jeremy Shere defines the term: Asperger Syndrome (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 25, 2007: Advocacy for Mental Health Dr... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 25, 2007: More Danger for Firefighters (Medical Mystery) Fire fighters face danger every day on the job... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 25, 2007: Disassociative Identity Disorder (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 18, 2007: Weight-Loss Surgery for Teens One of the ripple effects from the increase in childhood obesity became clear this month:A study published in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine found that the number of U... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 18, 2007: Bullying Study It is tempting to think of bullying as a social problem -- and to encourage a child who is who's being bullied either to walk away or to fight back... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 18, 2007: Kids Who Sleep Less (Health Quiz) The question: what may happen if kids don't get enough sleep... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 18, 2007: Weight-Loss Hypnosis (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 18, 2007: Guinea Worm Disease (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 18, 2007: Diet versus Exercise (Health Quiz) If you?re bent on losing weight, what's the best plan: eating less, exercising more, or doing both? The answer is -- well, let's put it this way: according to researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you use up more calories than you take in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 11, 2007: Intense Light Therapy Finally, the worst of the wintertime darkness is over now, and every day is lasting a little longer... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 11, 2007: How Cold for Frostbite? (Medical Mystery) It's been downright cold these past few weeks... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 11, 2007: Broken Heart Syndrome (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 11, 2007: Faster Care for Heart Attack Patients As you are getting ready for Valentine's Day, don't forget that it's time to think about your real heart... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 11, 2007: Check Your Own Cholesterol Barbara Lewis interviews entrepreneur Bob Huffstodt, who demonstrates a device his company invented that lets people test their cholesterol -- at home... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 11, 2007: Heart Health and Alcohol Consumption Let's continue our discussion about heart disease... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 11, 2007: AIDS and Hunger in Kenya In Kenya, 1... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 4, 2007: HIV/AIDS in Kenya: Stigma and Silence It might be termed 'one of the world's worst-kept secrets:' the HIV/AIDS epidemic that is crippling the nation of Kenya--even though people with the virus would rather NOT talk about it... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 4, 2007: Postpartum Bloodloss in Developing Countries Here's another story from Africa -- this one about a problem faced by many women in developing countries: severe blood loss, and death, following childbirth... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 4, 2007: Preconception care Women who believe they may be pregnant are urged to get pre-natal care as soon as possible... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 4, 2007: Sound Ethics: Selecting for Genetic Defects For this month's conversation about medical ethics, we start with a definition... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 4, 2007: Bigger Football Players (Medical Mystery) Before you jump to conclusions about steroids, consider that nutrition science and weight training technology have also grown by leaps and bounds... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 4, 2007: Losing Your Voice (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 18, 2007: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Kenya In Kenya, the unemployment rate fluctuates between 30 to 40 percent... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 18, 2007: HIV and Malaria in Africa The HIV/AIDS epidemic affects nearly all of Africa... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 18, 2007: Kids and Smoking During the current legislative session, the Indiana General Assembly is debating an increase in the tax on cigarettes by up to a dollar per pack... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 18, 2007: Helping Kids Manage Diabetes Recently, Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis received a ten-million dollar grant from the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 28, 2007: Doc Chat: Cancer Statistics Dr... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 28, 2007: Smallpox Virus Research Even though small pox has been eradicated, the virus is still the subject of intensive study around the world including in the labs of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 28, 2007: India's Drug Patent Law Sound Medicine contributor Shia Levitt reports on India's controversial drug patent law... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 28, 2007: Research on Memory Exercises It's called "use it or lose it" -- the belief that exercising your brain will keep your memory and thinking skills sharp as you age, and maybe even ward off dementia and Alzheimer's... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 28, 2007: Memory Skills Study We speak with Frederick Unverzagt, PhD, neuropsychologist, associate professor of psychiatry at the Indiana School of Medicine... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 28, 2007: Book: Stroke of Insight Jill Bolte Taylor, Phd, a neuroanatomist at Indiana University, Bloomington, had a major stroke and discusses it in her fascinating book, "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 28, 2007: Pilates and Parkinsons (Medical Mystery) You may associate the exercise trend pilates with movie stars and personal trainers... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 28, 2007: Aneurysm (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 31, 2006: Implantable ID Chips In October 2004, the FDA approved the first implantable identification chip to be used in human patients... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 31, 2006: Of Doctors and Daughters A mother-daughter pair join Sound Medicine to talk about how they feel about doctor visits... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 31, 2006: Essay: Doctor, Doctor Science writer Eric Metcalf must have eaten some VERY spicy food recently because he's been hearing voices... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 31, 2006: Chemistry of Love (Medical Mystery) Being in love is like ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 31, 2006: Antioxidant (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 31, 2006: Chef Ann Cooper The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that here in the U... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 31, 2006: Cell Phone Drivers Barbara Lewis and Dr... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24, 2006: Medical Mystery Shoppers This segment originally aired October 1, 2006... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24, 2006: Doc Chat: A Lesson in Quality Control This segment originally aired on September 24, 2006... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24, 2006: Doctors Who Run Late This segment originally aired March 12, 2006... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24, 2006: Relationship-Centered Care This segment originally aired August 21, 2005... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24, 2006: Grading Doctors This segment originally aired July 17, 2006Lately we have heard and read about the high incidence of medical errors that are occurring in U... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24, 2006: Medical Advice from Mom This segment originally aired Febuary 19, 2006... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24, 2006: Eating Before Exercise (Medical Mystery) To eat, or not to eat before early morning exercise... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24, 2006: Sweet Tooth (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 7, 2007: Sleep Problems for Shift Workers A quarter of the U... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 7, 2007: History of Sleep Studies Over 70 million Americans have trouble sleeping... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 7, 2007: Antidepressants and Suicide Over the last several years, concerns have been raised about the use antidepressant drugs and the risk of suicide in children... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 7, 2007: Food Supply Safety In recent weeks, the news has been full of stories about food contamination making hundreds of people sick... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 7, 2007: Sound Ethics: Predictive Health Research What is predictive health research and what are the bioethical questions surrounding this type of clinical trial?Dr... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 7, 2007: Sitting Up Straight? (Medical Mystery) Sitting up straight is supposed to convey alertness and proper bearing, or something like that... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 7, 2007: Obstructive Sleep Apnea (medical definition) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 19, 2006: Produce Safety This Thanksgiving, we might well ask if it is safe to serve fresh spinach to our families... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 19, 2006: Cause for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Medical Mystery) Until recently, doctors knew that putting an infant to sleep on its belly could raise the risk for sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 19, 2006: NICU Reunion Every fall, the staff of the Riley NICU invite former patients and their families to the annual reunion picnic... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website