In Good Health
Each week, In Good Health, from the creators of 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 ingoodhealthpodcast.org. Also, check out the latest on FB, IG, X, and YouTube @ingoodhealthpod.
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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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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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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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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
1 min
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Reengineering the ICU
Hospital intensive care units appear to be a model of high tech, but systems engineers say ICU’s are actually models of inefficiency.
15 min
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Reversing the Shortage in Primary Care Doctors
The shortage in primary care doctors is getting worse. We talk to Dr. Elizabeth Baxley about how to keep medical students in primary care.
10 min
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Medical Notes 16-52
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Beat Deafness
Some people simply have no rhythm. A small percentage may be "beat deaf," the rhythmic equivalent of tone deafness.
11 min
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Meeting the Needs of Twice Exceptional (2e) Stu...
Many people assume “2e,” or “twice exceptional” students don’t need any help because they’re so talented. But many gifted children are so bored in school they become disruptive and do poorly, so they’re not identified and their need for...
16 min
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Healthcare Under Trump: What to Expect
Experts discuss what kind of healthcare reform to expect from the incoming Trump Administration.
19 min
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Affluenza
Rich people receive deference that the rest of us don’t, but how much can they get away with? Some young criminals have escaped jail by claiming “affluenza:” their wealthy parents instilled no moral compass, so they believed they could do...
10 min
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God and Genome
Advancements in genetic science are often clouded in ethical controversy. Experts discuss a new platform where scientists and public can debate it, and from which education can be disseminated. Learn more at:
11 min