This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility of using technology to predict when child abuses might happen with Dyann Daley, executive director of the Center for Prevention of Child Maltreatment, and David Sanders, chair of the Presidential Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how scientists are studying how our thoughts, feelings and faiths contribute to our well-being with Erik Vance. His story “The Healing Power of Faith” appears in the December issue of National Geographic magazine.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how Medicare will be funded going forward – and about how it relates to the Affordable Care Act – with health journalist Trudy Lieberman. Her story “Is Medicare on Its Last Legs” appears in the current issue of Harper’s magazine.
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This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility of growing replacement human organs inside cows, pigs and other animals – and we’ll talk about the ethics of the practice – with Christine Gorman, senior editor for health, human biology and medicine at Scientific American.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how we can tame our e-mail habits with Jocelyn K. Glei, who writes about the topic in “Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get Real Work Done.”
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This hour, we’ll talk with actress Mariel Hemingway about overcoming “The Hemingway Curse,” and we’ll learn more about how people with alcoholism, depression and other conditions are treated with Dr. Harold Urschel, chief medical strategist for Enterhealth.
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This hour, we’ll talk about consent, the many forms of sexual harassment and assault and what people should do if they feel they’ve been assaulted with a panel of local experts.
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When Sarah Gray was given the devastating news that one of the twin sons she was carrying wasn’t going to live, she decided to donate his organ’s to medical research. This hour, we’ll talk with her about that experience, which she writes about in “A Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Story of One Boy’s Gift to Medical Science.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about how exposure to some germs is actually good for a child’s health with Brett Finlay, a microbiologist specializing in bacterial infections at the University of British Columbia.
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This hour, we’ll talk about why ADHD diagnoses are on the rise – and if there’s cause for concern – with Alan Schwarz, author of “ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic.”
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The cure for most of our everyday maladies can be found at the drugstore. The trick is deciding which medicine is right for you.
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This hour, we’ll talk with Robert Hoge about coming to terms with his appearance, which he writes about in his memoir, “Ugly.”
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