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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Plagues and Dreaded Diseases
Plagues can wipe out entire populations and create fear and great mystery in how they spread. An author who has explored plagues and dangerous diseases explains.
10 min
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Putting the Brakes on Environmental Regulation
Experts on each side of the climate change debate discuss pros and cons of EPA cuts.
16 min
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Difficult Patients
Patients used to accept doctors’ orders without question. Today, more are challenging their doctors’ opinions. However, even those who do it politely are likely to be labeled “difficult.”
16 min
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Rudeness
Studies show a rudeness epidemic in the US, and that people are profoundly affected when they experience or even witness it occurring to someone else.
14 min
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Medical Notes: Week of March 19, 2017
A look at the top medical headlines for the week of March 19, 2017, including: Mental health treatment linked to stroke, waking up early to stay healthy, and the benefits of working from home.
1 min
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Crippling Anxiety
Anxiety is normal, but too much can be crippling. An author and anxiety sufferer discusses the nature of crippling anxiety and what people can do about it.
12 min
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Medical Notes: Week of March 12, 2017
A look at the top medical headlines for the week of March 12, 2017, including: The increase in drug overdose deaths, vitamin D to ward off infections, and drug prices.
1 min
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Tone Deafness
Many people sing badly and think they’re tone deaf, but a surprisingly low proportion of them truly can’t tell one note from another.
17 min
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Hangovers
As St. Patrick’s Day approaches an expert discusses why hangovers occur and what might work to prevent them and recover from them.
13 min
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Medical Notes: Week of March 5, 2017
Medical Notes this week: Opioid addicts and amnesia, traffics link to domestic violence, driving and concussion recovery, and the affects of strict discipline
1 min
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Remaking the FDA
Some FDA commissioner candidates have proposed radical reform. Experts discuss what reform might look like and what the FDA needs to better succeed.
16 min
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Misconstrued Body Basics
Many people have questions about their bodies that seem so silly, they never bring them up with their doctors.
10 min
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Medical Notes: Week of February 26, 2017
A look at the top medical headlines for the week of February 26, 2017, including: Pregnancy and baby aspirin, obesity and education, toxic snow.
1 min
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Eye Transplants: A Future Reality
Doctors are taking what they’ve learned in hand transplants, especially in nerve regeneration, and applying it to eye transplant development.
10 min
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Can Primary Care Doctors End the Opioid Epidemic
Primary care doctors can treat opioid addiction in their offices using drug substitution therapy potentially erasing the stigma of getting treatment.
17 min
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Antibiotics and Farm Animals
Experts discuss new federal rules regarding the use of antibiotics in food animals, where the majority of US antibiotics are consumed.
16 min
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Peanut Allergies and Kids
New studies show rather than keeping kids away from peanuts to protect them, parents should give most infants peanuts from an early age.
16 min
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Music for the Dying and Grieving
Music thanatology is a specialized practice of playing harp music for the dying. A practitioner of the art explains how there is also science to it as well.
10 min
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NFL Team Doctors: In Whose Interest?
Injured NFL players are treated by doctors employed by teams, but a Harvard study claims there is an inherent conflict of interest in that arrangement, which might mean putting players on the field before they’re recovered. One of the study’s...
11 min
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The Psychology of Online Dating
A psychologist explains research showing most users take the wrong approach when seeking a good match online, and how to better their odds of finding true love.
14 min
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Public Hospitals
Public hospitals have a poor reputation, but in some fields, especially trauma, they are often among the best hospitals in the US.
11 min
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Poor Health and Prison
Researchers have found that poor health and disabilities can be factors leading to prison. An expert discusses the life cycles that can make this occur. Learn more at:
11 min
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Eating Disorders in Adults
Over the last decade, the number of women over age 30 seeking treatment for anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder has skyrocketed.
15 min
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Dupuytren Disease and Disabled Hands
11 min
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Medical Notes: Week of January 1, 2017
Medical Notes this week: Health and female physicians, Aspirin's link to lower pancreatic cancer risk, New Year's resolutions
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