Topics for this week include: Brain Study Indicates Why Some Memories Persist; Dean Ornish, The Spectrum; Sound Ethics: Obama’s Health-Related Policy Agenda; Did You Know?: Healing With Blood Plasma; Hypothermia for Heart Attack Patients; Pelvic Pain: A Difficult Diagnosis; Checkup: Redheads Require More Anesthesia
Topics for this week include: ICU Patients Get Up and Moving; CT Scans; Gut Reaction: Overeating Can Impair Body Function; Checkup: Diet Betting; Self Sabotage: A PsychologistÂ’s View; Exercise and Moods
Topics for this week include: The Prostate Screening Conundrum; Did You Know?: Love Handles and Breathing Difficulties; Myelin Breakdown and Brain Decline; The Night Shift and Breast Cancer; Checkup: HIV Vaccine?; Dance for Fitness; Combining Dance and Science — Ferocious Beauty: Genome
Topics this week include work rules for medical residents; changes in federal policy on embryonic stem cell research; the human-cold genome; the benefits of palliative care; and the Grace Notes essay “Giving Up,” by Dr. Larry Cripe.
Topics for this week include: One-Time Flu Vaccine; Did You Know?: Preventing Child Abuse; Maintain Your Own Medical Records; Anesthesia and Learning Disabilities; Doc Chat: Lidocaine Side Effects; Checkup: Reversible Dementia; Global Childhood Diabetes; Book: A Short History of Medicine
Topics for this week include: Federal Stimulus Funding for Health Clinics; Public Health Insurance: A Good Idea; Did You Know?: Sports Drinks May Harm Teeth; Book: Healthcare: Guaranteed; Temperature Shifts Cause Migraines; Checkup: Recession Healthcare Toolkit; Book: Forgetting: When to Worry, What to Do; Grace Notes: Dying Pretty
Topics for this week include: Rise in Drug Abuse Among Baby Boomers; Why Boomers Abuse Drugs; Did You Know?: Hot Tea and Esophageal Cancer; Fat Cells Are Different in Obese Individuals; Statins Don’t Protect Against Alzheimer’s; Checkup: Romantic Love Lasts; Thyroid Conditions and the “Oprah-Effect”; An Opera Singer’s “Next 100 Pounds”
Topics for this week include: Bedbugs on the Rise; Did You Know — More Education Means Better Health; Swine Flu Vaccine; No Benefit from Multivitamins; Checkup: Healthy Menu, Unhealthy Choices; Book: Cleveland Clinic Guide to Arthritis; Grace Notes: Amazing Grace
Topics this week: High-Fructose Corn Syrup, a Villain?; Did You Know? — The Mediterranean Diet is Good for the Eyes; Swine Flu and International Law; Training Medical Students to Spot Melanoma; Checkup: The Scrub Club for Clean Hands; and the book Book: Brain Rules
