David Hoffman investigates the spread of salmonella through poultry for Frontline.
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Reconsidering ADHD Treatment
We’ll talk about emphasizes therapy over medication for treating ADHD with family therapist Marilyn Wedge, author of A Disease Called Childhood: Why ADHD Became an American Epidemic.
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The Future of Pediatric Cancer Treatments
Immunotherapy and genetic sequencing are two of the more promising treatments for pediatric cancer currently in development. This hour, we’ll talk about how these treatments might be helping kids in the coming years with Ted Laetsch of UT Southwestern Medical School.
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No ‘Guts’ About It: Microbiology Explained
Tiny entities influence your entire life, from your weight to your allergies to your acne. These entities are microscopic bacteria that live in your gut. This hour, we’ll talk about how to care for these microbes with Rob Knight, author of “Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes.”
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The Happiness Habit
If happiness was easy, we’d all walk around every day with smiles on our faces. This hour, we’ll talk about the exercises you can use to train your brain for resilience with Dr. Amit Sood, author of “The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness: A Four-Step Plan for Resilient Living”.
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The Science Of Sleep
Forty two percent of Americans say they get fewer than the seven recommended hours of shut-eye per night. This hour, we’ll talk about ZZZZ’s with Dr. James Maas, retired Cornell psychology professor and author of “Sleep for Success: Everything You Need to Know But Were Too Tired to Ask.”
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The Femur Of The Future
This hour, we’ll talk about advances in growing bone tissue for patients needing bone repair, with researcher Nina Tandon.
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Paying Mind To Mental Health
This hour, we’ll talk about how we can improve access to mental health services with Tom Luce, President and CEO of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute.
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Weighty Issues
We’ll talk about our national obsession with thinness with the author of “Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight – and What We Can Do About It.”
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What Would Darwin Say?
Modern medicine and biotechnology reduce the force of natural selection, and conditions that used to kill us are now being passed on to new generations. This hour, we’ll talk about how we can alter humanity’s future with Juan Enriquez, co-author of “Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth.”
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Raising Children With Invisible Disabilities
This hour, we’ll talk with Linda M. Blum, author of “Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids With Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality” about the realities of caring for these children.
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A Future Without Cancer
The comprehensive PBS series “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies” covers the history of the disease. This hour, we’ll talk with the film’s director, Barak Goodman, about the past, present and future of cancer.
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