Radio Health Journal
Each week, Radio Health Journal breaks down important news in medicine, science and technology with the help of world-renowned experts. Our three weekly segments will help guide you to a happier, healthier life – with some fun facts to share at dinner parties. Can magic mushrooms cure your depression? Have we outrun natural selection?
Hosted by Elizabeth Westfield, Greg Johnson and Maayan Voss de Bettancourt and produced by Kristen Farrah and Amirah Zaveri. New shows posted each Sunday by 5 a.m. EST. Subscribe, listen, and rate. If you’re looking for older episodes, you can find our entire segment catalog on our website radiohealthjournal.org. Also, check out the latest on Facebook and Instagram @radiohealthjournal and on X @RadioHealthJrnl.
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Cancer Suppression: Lessons from Pachyderms
DNA mutations happen all the time in the body, but the immune system usually detects and deals with them. When the system fails, cancer results. Yet some animals, such as elephants, almost never get cancer, and scientists have learned that the...
16 min
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Rethinking Dementia
Dementia has a much wider range than most people think, and people with dementia are usually functional for years. An expert discusses the course of the disease and how life can still be positive for years before it reaches the late, debilitating...
12 min
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Medical Notes: Week of May 12, 2019
Medical Notes for the week of May 12, 2019 including: A major tactic deployed by police called "Pro-active Policing" may be backfiring. Then, preschoolers are just as bad as adults at resisting large portions of food and finally, a study showing that...
1 min
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Medical Notes: Week of May 5, 2019
Medical Notes for the week of May 5, 2019 including: A new cure for infants with Bubble Boys Disease. Then, a study in the American Journal of Public Health shows that depression, suicide, drug use, and alcohol abuse are rising for people in their...
1 min
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High Drug Prices Lead to Drug Misuse
, Associate Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine has learned that 1 in 4 people have trouble filling their prescription. According to Dusetzina, people with chronic conditions, like cancer, have a greater risk of...
17 min
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Brain Aneurysm Through the Eyes of a Survivor (...
Brain aneurysms—bulging in a brain blood vessel, like an inflated balloon—affect 1 in 50 people and are generally without symptoms until they burst. This occurs in about 30,000 people per year in the US, accounting for 3-5 percent of all new strokes.
11 min
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Cancer Treatment and Sex
10 min
958
Shortening the Course of Antibiotics
Since the introduction of antibiotics doctors have prescribed courses of treatment that typically ran longer than necessary but bacterial resistance is forcing a reevaluation.
17 min
959
The Decrease in Hearing Loss
11 min
960
Medical Notes 16-51
1 min
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Medical Notes 16-49
1 min
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How Income Affects Life Expectancy
17 min
963
High Risk Organ Donors
18 min
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Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome is often misdiagnosed and remains difficult to treat. However, children often outgrow the disorder as it transitions into migraine headaches.
8 min
965
Stoned Driving
16 min
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Inflammation and Depression
18 min
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Medical Notes 16-41
1 min
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Presenteeism
Experts discuss the huge cost of presenteeism on the economy and the accommodations that could save businesses billions of dollars.
17 min
969
Navigating the Digestive System
Most people have little idea what goes on in the digestive system. A science writer explains everything she found during an exhaustive investigation.
14 min
970
The Powerful Influence of Friends (2016 version)
An expert discusses the many ways friends determine our destinies.
13 min
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Autism and Prodigies
Experts discuss links between prodigies and some people with autism and their implications for autism treatment.
13 min
972
The Future of Little People
Experts, all little people themselves, discuss major causes of dwarfism and the prospect of treatments that could one day make little people much more rare.
13 min
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Exoskeletons: Enabling Paraplegics To Walk Again
14 min
974
Penicillin Allergy? Probably Not
17 min
975
Brain Injury and Homelessness
12 min