Rachana Pradhan, health care reporter for Kaiser Health News, joins us to talk about how doctors are now petitioning Congress to make sure they get paid – and about how insurance companies are defending their billing practices.
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The Science of Friendship
Science writer Lydia Denworth joins us to talk about the role close-knit communities play in our mental and physical health.
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Is Solitary Confinement Torture?
Texas Observer staff writer Michael Barajas joins us to talk about solitary confinement.
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger – Here’s Why
Ian Robertson, T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Scientist and co-Leader of The BrainHealth Project, talks to us about how adversity can steer us toward success.
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Casualities in the War on Science? Children.
Genna Reed, lead science and policy analyst in the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, joins us to talk about a new report that details how federal government policies are backsliding when it comes to child well-being.
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What You Need to Know About Coronavirus
Dr. Seema Yasmin joins us to talk about what we know – and are still learning – about the coronavirus.
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It’s Not What You Eat But When
Dr. Satchin Panda joins us to talk about why when you eat can be as important as what you eat.
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What Ebola Meant For Dallas’ African Immigrants
Kevin J.A. Thomas, associate professor of sociology at Penn State University, joins us to talk about the panic and aftermath of the Ebola crisis — and how the disease affected one population disproportionately.
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Battlefield Medicine Needs To Change Right Now
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood joins us to talk about current experiments and crucial advances taking place in battlefield medicine that could push the chances of survival well beyond a one-hour window.
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A More Nuanced Approach To Pain Management
Science writer Yudhijit Bhattacharjee joins us to talk about how researchers are developing a more nuanced understanding of pain and how that’s informing treatment.
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Strategies For Keeping Those New Year’s Resolutions
ABC News’ Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton joins us to talk about taking a realistic approach to health in mind and body without upending your life.
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How Our Brains Keep Us Safe
Scott Grafton, chair of the neuroscience department at the University of California – Santa Barbara, joins us to discuss the science of how we move without thinking.
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