PET Scans for Early Cancer
Not exactly high tech!
Episodes
Second Opinion
An examination of medical ethics and the practitioners who define them. Sign up to receive the Second Opinion topics in newsletter form at kcrw.com/newsletters .
Episodes
A Return of an Old Plague
A result of a changing climate...
Stopping CPR
What is easy to start can be far more difficult to stop.
Does Greed Know No Limits?
Drug prices with no caps...
The Power of Words
Changing the goals in emergency medicine...
A Half-Baked Pie
Why tease us with punch lines we can’t understand?
There's a Great Deal of Meaning in a Name
Change does not come easily....
An Insider's Look at Breast Cancer Care
A perspective from Dr. Susan Love...
Again We Find More Is Not Better
What good can come of new medical evidence?
Are We Serious about Longer Working Hours?
It seems as if this is not in anyone's best interest.
Mental Health Is Just Not the Same
The mental health parity law is just not working.
Antibiotic Overuse
Doctors and patients can’t seem to get this right
Happy Birthday Medicare
We've come a long way.
A Disease with No Cause
Chronic kidney disease in rice farmers...
Two Health Systems That Co-exist
Ayurvedic Medicine and its new sibling “western medicine”...
TB in Elephants
Disease spread from humans to animals.
Culture and Gender in Sri Lanka
How do you change long held beliefs?
Animal: Human Conflict
We're all from the same family...
Where Do They Get These FDA Advisory Committees?
Recommendations to approve two drugs that are not ready for prime time.
On the Ground in Nepal
We need to proceed with care.
Medico-voluntourism
Sometime our help isn't really help.
One Health – New Evidence on the Environment – Body Link
It turns out air pollution impacts far more than our lungs.
Use of Placebos in Africa
Is deception ok when it helps the patient?
Trade Agreements and Tobacco Products
What are our global priorities?
How Did Evolution Provide for the Human-Dog Bond?
The biology of bonding.
How Do We Tell if Your Doctor Is Up to Date?
Something is amiss in how we re-certify doctors.
Is Government's Job to Protect Kids or Business?
It is clear why one in three kids is overweight.
More on Hepatitis C
It's expensive, but does it work?
Why We Don’t Tip the Doctor
An important cultural “no-no”...
Making Assumptions about Mental Illness
There is no easy way to screen so we need to rely on trust.