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When The People We Elect Don’t Talk, This Is What We Get

June 2, 2020 Current Events, Health, Politics

Journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about the unique challenges of addressing the coronavirus – and about the urgency for local, state and federal governments to figure out ways to coordinate their plans.

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Poor And Pregnant In Texas? You Might Want To Move

June 1, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Health, Race/Identity

ProPublica reporter Nina Martin joins us to talk about the critical links between maternal mortality and Medicaid and why limited to no access means pregnant and new mothers are dying at an alarming rate.

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In Search Of A Fuller Breath

May 28, 2020 Health

Science writer James Nestor joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how clues on better breathing can be found not in research labs, but in choir rooms, smoggy streets and even centuries-old practices.

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In An Italian ER, A Doctor Soldiers On

May 18, 2020 Current Events, Global Issues, Health, Science and Technology

Filmmaker Sasha Achilli joins us to tell the story of one ER doctor in Nothern Italy and her battle to save a daily swarm of incoming patients inside a besieged hospital.

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Teaching Doctors To See Patients As People

May 14, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Health

Dr. Saul J. Weiner, professor of medicine, pediatrics, and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, joins us to talk about practicing medicine that goes beyond medical charts.

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One Woman’s Quest To Tame Her Depression

May 11, 2020 Current Events, Health

Anna Mehler Paperny she joins us to talk about investigating the complex world of depression treatment in order to save herself.

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Fear Is Natural–But It Can Be Controlled

May 7, 2020 Current Events, Health, Science and Technology

Eva Holland, correspondent for Outside magazine, joins us to talk about her own battle with fear and the methods she employed to overcome it.

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Losing Charge: The U.S. Is Trailing In The Race For A Better Battery

May 6, 2020 Health, Science and Technology

ProPublica reporter Lydia DePillis joins us to talk about how we’ve been shut-out of the production of one of the most important components of our modern world — and how that’s currently impacting healthcare.

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What Does It Mean To Be Asian-American?

April 30, 2020 Current Events, Health, Race/Identity

Cathy Park Hong, poetry editor of the New Republic and a professor at Rutgers-Newark University, joins us to talk about the stereotypes, suspicions, successes and fears wrapped up in her identity.

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The Rise Of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

April 29, 2020 Health, Science and Technology

Muhammad H. Zaman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University, joins us to talk about antibiotic-resistant superbugs and why he’s worried we could face yet another public health threat.

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When Every Day Is Groundhog Day

April 28, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Health, Science and Technology

Shayla Love, a senior staff writer at Vice, joins us to talk about the psychology of why we’re all a little disoriented since our 9-to-5 routine disappeared.

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How To Live Better As We Live Longer

April 27, 2020 Health, Science and Technology

Daniel Levitin is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University, and he joins us to talk about what he calls human life’s two stages: “healthspan” and “diseasespan,” and explain how brain science can promote the former.

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