Dr. Shaili Jain joins us to talk about how PTSD affects many aspects of sufferers’ lives – and about cutting-edge research that’s providing hope.
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A Doctor On The Difference Between Health And Healthcare
Dr. Sandro Galea talks about how we should rethink our understanding of what it means to be healthy – and how that shift will guide our approach to healthcare.
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She Knew She’d Get Cancer, So Here’s What She Did
Kim Horner talks about how she and other women make a drastic choice to fight a disease they don’t even have.
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Electronic Health Records: The $36 Billion Dollar Fiasco?
Fred Schulte joins us to talk about how healthcare record keeping has become less efficient. His story, “Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong,” written with Erika Fry, is a join investigation between Forbes and Kaiser Health News.
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Robot M.D.
Cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol joins us to talk about how A.I. could free human doctors up for the personal interactions that actually lead to healing. His new book is called “Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.”
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Reproductive Care: The Third Rail Of Health Policy
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg joins us to talk about how the Supreme Court shifting right could lead to the overturn of Roe V. Wade – and about how state legislatures have worked to neutralize the law ever since the court’s 1973 decision.
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The Price Of Uncontrolled Diabetes
Sophie Novack joins us to talk about how diabetes hits poor communities in Texas and elsewhere particularly hard, which she writes about for the Texas Observer.
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The Pros And Cons Of Being Super Smart
Columbia psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about if smarter people are also more content, the subject of his essay in Scientific American.
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You’re Not Who You Think: The Secrets Of Ancient DNA
Harvard genetics professor David Reich joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how studying our ancestor’s DNA has opened the door to understanding how humans have evolved.
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Let Them Eat Dirt!
New York Times reporter Matt Richtel joins us to talk about our complicated immune system, which is capable of both healing the body and turning on it. His new book is called “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System.”
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The Life – And Afterlife – Of Our Bones
Brian Switek joins us to talk about the many ways bones have assumed identities outside our bodies, which he writes about in “Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone.”
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The Upside Of Processed, Packaged Food
UT-Austin food scholar Robyn Metcalfe joins us for an around-the-world tour of the global food supply chain, which she writes about in “Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating.”
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