Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal joins us to talk about the feasibility of single-payer health care.
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Have This Talk Before It’s Too Late
Michael Hebb joins us to talk about why it’s important to engage with friends and loved ones about death.
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When The Brain Rebels
Kurt Eichenwald joins us to talk about epilepsy and how he’s learned to navigate it.
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A Rape Survivor On Justice And Mercy
Lacy Johnson joins us to talk about how she considers her rapist in terms of justice, vengeance and retribution.
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The Evolution Of Empathy
Susan Lanzoni joins us to talk about how we’ve wrestled with the intersection of our own experience and the realities of others.
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Gaslighting: The Abuse Is Real
Stephanie Moulton Sarkis joins us to talk about how we can spot patterns of lies, distractions and distortions of the truth.
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Why We Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Heather Havrilesky makes the case for embracing our imperfections.
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Cardiologists Get Heart Disease, Too
Dr. Sandeep Jauhar joins us to talk about life as a cardiologist who suffers from heart disease – and about the pioneering doctors who are improving heart health.
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Got Facts? What You Didn’t Know About Milk
Mark Kurlansky joins us to talk about our complicated history with milk.
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A New Face, A New Beginning
Joanna Connors joins us to talk about the 21-year-old patient at the Cleveland Clinic who became the youngest ever recipient of a full-face transplant.
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Is The First Alzheimer’s Survivor Living Among Us?
University of Virginia neuroscientist Jonathan Kipnis joins guest host John McCaa to talk about how researchers are learning that the immune system and the nervous system actually work more closely together than previously thought.
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One Man’s Crusade To Cure HIV
Dr. Seema Yasmin joins us to talk about Dr. Joseph Lange’s research into how HIV is transferred from mother to child.
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