MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'Sound Medicine' source. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:36:07 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5662941&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F020512_7.mp3 And finally today, osteoporosis is the most common health problem women face today. In fact, one in five women will die within a year of breaking a hip. The good news: There are things women can do to bolster their bones. Host Barbara Lewis interviews bone health expert Diane Schneider, MD, who discusses her new book The Complete Book of Bone Health. Dr. Schneider started a non-profit orga.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5662941 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5662941 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5662940&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F020512_6.mp3 The latest dieting craze is the Dukan Diet, named for French doctor Pierre Dukan. Kate Middleton reportedly used it to drop a few dress sizes before her wedding to Prince William. Barbara Lewis asks Sound Medicine's new regular contributor, Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, her opinion of this high-protein diet. Dr. Rohr-Kirchgraber is on faculty at the IU School of Medicine, and she serves as.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5662940 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5662940 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5662939&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F020512_5.mp3 If you have an infant, or spend time around newborns, you know that they're not always the life of the party. Most of the time, very young babies are just sort of there, cute little lumps crying and making weird sounds. But just because it might not seem like there's much going on with infants doesn't mean there's nobody home. Because, according to cognitive scientist Kristy vanMarle, there's a.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5662939 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5662939 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5662938&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F020512_4.mp3 A new strategy for treating liver cancer involves radiation, microscopic beads and an isotope known as Y-90. To learn how Y-90 microsphere radioembolization attacks liver tumors, Sound Medicine's Steve Bogdewic, PhD, meets with Indiana University liver cancer specialists Mary Maluccio, MD, and Matthew Johnson, MD. Drs. Maluccio and Johnson are on faculty at the IU School of Medicine and are re.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5662938 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5662938 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5662937&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F020512_3.mp3 To discover a patient's chance for developing breast cancer, one criterion physicians look for is a family history of breast cancer. In this week's doc chat, IU breast cancer specialist Kathy Miller, MD, explains new research from Stanford that -- contradicting an earlier study -- suggests family history might not be so useful in assessing a woman's risk of developing cancer, after all. The ne.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5662937 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5662937 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5662936&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F020512_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. Eating fried foods is generally considered a bad idea if you're concerned about heart health. But did you know that that may depend on the type of oil used for frying? According to a recent study by researchers at the Autonomous University of Madrid, foods fried in olive oil appear to have no ill effects on the heart. Over the course of an 11-year study they followed more t.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5662936 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5662936 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5662935&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F020512_1.mp3 Recently, two teams studying the H5N1 influenza virus discovered how to produce a version of the highly pathogenic avian flu, which is easily transmissible in mammals. The researchers have agreed to suspend their research for 60 days to allow discussion of how the findings should be reported. IU bioethicist Eric Meslin, PhD, discusses the moratorium and how it may affect the research. Dr.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5662935 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:00:01 +0100 5662935 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5641778&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012912_7.mp3 Not everyone agrees that the brain can perform more than one cognitive task at a time, including Sound Medicine's own Dr. Steve Bogdewic, a psychologist. In a chat with Barbara Lewis, Bogdewic says he thinks even the term "multitasking" is a myth. Dr. Bogdewic is a regular contributor to Sound Medicine. He is also executive associate dean for faculty affairs and professional development at.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5641778 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5641778 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5641777&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012912_6.mp3 For most parents, multitasking is the norm. But is this a good thing? Our guest Barbara Schneider, PhD, says it depends whether you're a mom or a dad. Professor Schneider has been examining differences between multitasking parents, and her recently published study found that mothers not only multitask more, they are more likely than fathers to find it burdensome. The study was published in t.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5641777 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5641777 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5641776&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012912_5.mp3 The statistics are easy to see: One out of three kids in America is now overweight or obese. But a new study finds that this issue may not be getting enough discussion in pediatricians' offices. Researchers looked at a decade's worth of national surveys on nearly 5,000 kids. All were at least a little overweight. "What we found is that most parents of overweight and obese children reported neve.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5641776 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5641776 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5641775&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012912_4.mp3 So much attention has been focused on the cosmetic uses of botulinum toxin, usually known by its trade name, Botox, that it's easy to forget about the drug's serious medical uses. For example, the FDA recently approved Botox for preventing chronic migraines. Sound Medicine's David Crabb, MD, sat down with Indiana University neurologist Jay Bhatt, MD, to learn how it works. Dr. Bhatt is.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5641775 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5641775 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5641774&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012912_3.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. It's not uncommon for older brains to start slowing down a bit. Once we hit our late 60s, names, dates, and other details may not come to mind as easily as they once did. But did you know that our brains may already be over the hill as early as age 45? Over the past decade, European scientists studied the mental functioning of more than 7000 British Civil government empl.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5641774 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5641774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5641773&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012912_2.mp3 A slow economy affects families in multiple ways. Gustavo Carlo, PhD, of the University of Missouri, studies how financial uncertainty affects family relationships. Dr. Carlo explains that parents with financial problems are prone to depression, making them less effective parents. Carlo is the Millsap Professor of Diversity at the University of Missouri Department of Human Development and .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5641773 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5641773 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5641772&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012912_1.mp3 For the past 20 years, an unusual clinic in Baltimore has been providing comprehensive care to uninsured patients -- without government funding. The Shepherd's Clinic relies on medical professionals to volunteer their services and depends on patients to pay a voluntary fee of an hour's wage. Sound Medicine reporter Scott Goldberg meets with Shepherd's Clinic founder Jack VandenHengel and i.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5641772 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:00:01 +0100 5641772 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5641781&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012212_7.mp3 Due in part to the success of cancer research -- and other modern medical advances -- terminally ill patients now live longer than they once did. Psychologist and grief expert Barbara Okun believes that this has led us to a new model of grieving, as families often have months or years of taking care of a sick loved one. Ms. Okun joins Barbara Lewis to discuss a book she co-authored, Saying G.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5641781 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5641781 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5641780&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012212_6.mp3 Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon signed into law the National Cancer Act, declaring what he called at the time, a "war on cancer." Four decades later, the nation's oncologists have been taking stock of their successes and failures. On the show today, Sound Medicine's Steve Bogdewic, PhD, speaks with one of the leaders in the war on cancer, Richard Schilsky, MD, professor of medicine .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5641780 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5641780 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5641779&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012212_5.mp3 This is Jeremy Shere. So I have two ten-year-old boys, twins, and, no surprise, they're really into video games. Some of the games, like the wildly popular war game "Call of Duty," are pretty violent. See what I mean? And I worry sometimes that all that blasting away with video game guns and tanks and whatnot is, I dunno, harming their tender, impressionable psyches. But is it really? I spok.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5641779 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5641779 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5623441&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012212_4.mp3 Recent Dutch research suggests that a very low calorie diet, 500 calories a day, can help obese people with diabetes by eliminating the need for insulin and improving heart function. Barbara Lewis asks Sound Medicine's own David Crabb, MD, for his take on this surprising finding, and what it might mean for diabetics in general..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5623441 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5623441 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5623440&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012212_3.mp3 At the end of 2011, two prestigious scientific journals, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, both retracted papers on a reported an association between a mouse leukemia virus called XMRV and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. UC San Francisco virus expert Jay Levy, MD, the man who first discovered XMRV back in the 1970s, was one of the early skeptics. Today on Sound Medicine.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5623440 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5623440 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5623439&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012212_2.mp3 Nicotine patches are a good way to quit smoking. But did you know they may also help improve memory loss in older adults? According to a recent study, people with memory problems on the spectrum between normal aging and dementia -- known as mild cognitive impairment -- benefit from small, regular doses of nicotine. Of 74 older adults with mild memory loss tested, those treated with nicotine.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5623439 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5623439 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5623438&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F012212_1.mp3 The Affordable Care Act has turned into both a political punching bag on the campaign trail, and a Supreme Court case in Washington. Our health policy analyst, Dr. Aaron Carroll, has an update on where things stand. Aaron Carroll directs the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research at the IU School of Medicine..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5623438 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:00:01 +0100 5623438 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602270&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F011512_6.mp3 I'm Barbara Lewis, and I don't mind telling you that I have what might be characterized as a middle-aged brain. Can't help it. So when I heard that journalist Barbara Strauch was out with a new book on the topic, I knew I had to speak with her. Ms. Strauch is health and medical science editor for the New York Times, and she's just published The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain. In the book .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602270 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5602270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602269&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F011512_5.mp3 Since the dawn of time, or at least for a long while, moms have told kids to wash their hands. It's something most of us get in the habit of doing and carry on into adulthood. And surely some people -- namely, doctors -- would heed this basic tenet of proper hygiene most of all, right? "Well, the literature suggests that doctors are not very good at washing their hands." That's David Hoffman.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602269 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5602269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602268&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F011512_4.mp3 Our next guest believes it is time for cancer survivors to receive the same sort of rehabilitation that has been available for heart attack and stroke patients for decades. Sound Medicine's Dr. David Crabb talks with Julie Silver, MD, about cancer rehabilitation. Silver, an expert in the field and a cancer survivor herself, explains why cancer rehab is so important and how it works. Dr. Sil.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602268 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5602268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602267&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F011512_3.mp3 People who have had lymph nodes removed, as a treatment for breast cancer or other reasons, can develop a painful swelling condition known as lymphedema. To make things worse, it often begins after a treatment for the underlying disease is complete, just when a patient is expecting to feel better. Barbara Lewis chats with Barbara Feltman, an Indianapolis-based physical therapist who speciali.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602267 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5602267 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602266&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F011512_2.mp3 You may have noticed that more parents are having twins these days. But did you know that twin births in the United States have more than doubled over the past 30 years? Older moms are driving the trend. For women in their mid to late 30's, twin birth have increased 100% since the 1980s. For moms 40 and over, twin births rose by a whopping 200%, according to the CDC. And even younger moms in th.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602266 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5602266 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5602265&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F011512_1.mp3 We begin today with the wrenching decision that a lot of baby boomers are having to make these days: which nursing home will provide safe and dignified care for an elderly loved one. Among Americans who are 80 or older, one in five is either in a nursing home, or will wind up in one, sooner or later. And for many, the reason will be due to dementia. Which is why researchers from the IU Schoo.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5602265 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:00:01 +0100 5602265 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5575053&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F010812_6.mp3 And finally this week, a unique yoga class features something called an Earth Harp, a large stringed instrument that sends sound vibrations through the room and through the body. Are the Earth Harp's vibrations healing, as some instructors believe? It's unclear. Sound Medicine Reporter Sandy Roob investigates. For yoga lovers who missed a chance to practice with the earth harp, instructor A.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5575053 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5575053 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5575052&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F010812_5.mp3 One thing that's even harder than losing weight is keeping it off. Our next guest found out why. Pennsylvania State researcher Chris Sciamanna, MD, led a study that found what's in your mind is as important as what's on your plate. Dr. Sciamanna explains that weight maintenance involves significantly different thought processes. He explains the difference between successful weight loss and .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5575052 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5575052 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5575051&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F010812_4.mp3 You may have heard that getting more exercise helps you sleep better. But Is it true? To find out, exercise science researcher Paul Loprinzi, of Bellarmine University, looked at the exercise habits and sleep patterns of more than 2600 adults, ranging in age from 18 to 85. "Overall we found that those who engaged in 150 minutes of moderate physical activity per week or 75 minutes of vigorous int.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5575051 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5575051 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5575050&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F010812_3.mp3 We've heard some of the medical questions surrounding the issue of performing a uterus transplant. Now, Sound Medicine's resident bioethicist, Dr. Eric Meslin, will chat with Dr. Giuseppe Del Priore about the ethical questions inherent to this unusual procedure. Both Meslin and Del Priore are part of a larger task force preparing for making this surgery available. Giuseppe del Priore, M.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5575050 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5575050 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5575049&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F010812_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. Unless you're driving, texting is a great way to communicate. But did you know that too much texting and other digital device noodling can cause what's know as text neck? It might sound made up, but text neck has been well-documented by orthopedic doctors and chiropractors treating scores of patients whose endless hunching over smart phones and tablets has led to painful st.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5575049 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 5575049 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5575048&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F010812_1.mp3 We begin today on the front edge of medicine, where doctors and ethicists are grappling with the hows and whys of a procedure that has only been done a few times -- ever. It's a uterus transplant: the procedure to temporarily implant a uterus into a woman, so that she can have a baby. One of the doctors leading the preparation for a successful uterus transplant is Giuseppe Del Priore, MD, MP.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5575048 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:00:01 +0100 5575048 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5555639&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F010112_1.mp3 This segment originally aired on Oct. 2, 2011. One of the first courses in medical school is gross anatomy, a lab class in which students dissect a human cadaver. Students attending their first two years of med school on the IU-Northwest campus in Gary, Indiana, however, develop a unique relationship with the body they're given. It's more than a learning tool; it's their first patient. This .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5555639 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5555639 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5541350&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F122511_7.mp3 This segment originally aired Oct. 2, 2011. Today we've been featuring conversations with two researchers who've studied the characteristics and actions that transform competent physicians into true healers. In our final conversation with David Schenck, PhD, and Larry Churchill, PhD, the authors talk with Barbara Lewis about the ways exceptional doctors create successful therapeutic partners.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5541350 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5541350 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5541349&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F122511_6.mp3 This segment originally aired on Sept. 25, 2011. We continue with our series of conversations with Drs. David Schenk and Larry Churchill, discussing their new book, Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work. In this segment, the authors explain why one of the most powerful things a doctor can do is assign a name to what's wrong with their patients..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5541349 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5541349 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5541348&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F122511_5.mp3 ICD codes have been in the news lately. What's that, you say? This is the "International Classification of Diseases," a shorthand system that lets doctors categorize what's wrong with you. There is a code for a broken bone, another for a headache, and so on. However, the number of codes is set to absolutely balloon, covering just about anything bad that could ever happen to you. Some say this poin.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5541348 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5541348 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5541347&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F122511_4.mp3 This segment originally aired on Sept. 18, 2011. Dr. David Schenck, co-author of the book Healers, explains how he came to understand the difference between "healing" and "curing." Schenck is on faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5541347 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5541347 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5541346&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F122511_3.mp3 This segment originally aired Sept. 11, 2011. What makes a good healer? This week's guests set out to find answers. Authors David Schenck, PhD, and Larry Churchill, PhD, both on faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, wanted to discover what differentiates a good physician from a great one. For their new book, Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work, Schenck and Churchill inte.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5541346 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5541346 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5541345&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F122511_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. For thousands of years, practitioners of the ancient Chinese martial art tai chi have touted its healthful benefits. But did you know that there's growing clinical evidence of the benefits of tai chi, too? For example, a study by researchers at Tufts Medical Center found that tai chi benefited patients with fibromyalgia -- a condition where people experience long-lasting, b.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5541345 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5541345 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5541344&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F122511_1.mp3 This week we'll spend the hour looking at the part of healing and medicine that has less to do with pharmaceuticals or procedures and more to do with how patients are treated: as people, with beliefs and feelings, and dignity. We begin with a recent study of how people's religious beliefs affect their levels of worry. Our guest, David Rosmarin, PhD, of the Harvard Medical School, led a study th.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5541344 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5541344 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5518948&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121811_6.mp3 Sound Medicine's resident bioethicist is back this week with a conversation about the modern conflict between science and politics. IU bioethicist Eric Meslin, PhD, sits down with bioethicist and author Jonathan Moreno, PhD, to discuss Dr. Moreno's new book, The Body Politic, the Battle over Science in America. Moreno's work explores the notion of biopolitics and the interesting clashes between.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5518948 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5518948 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5518947&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121811_5.mp3 For many years, pediatrician and NYU researcher Dr. Michael Weitzman has studied how parents' well-being affects their children's behavior. And like many pediatric researchers, he's especially noted that depression in mothers has a big impact on kids' behavior and mental health. But what about depressed dads? Dr. Weitzman: "It's never occurred to me or to anybody else to look at depression in f.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5518947 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5518947 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5518946&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121811_4.mp3 Robots are nothing new to the operating room, but they're relatively new in at least one area. A recent study by Barbara Lewis's next guest finds that a new, minimally invasive robotic surgery is particularly effective for removing certain types of cancerous kidney tumors. IU School of Medicine urologist and researcher Ronald Boris discusses the "robotic partial nephrectomy," which preserve.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5518946 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5518946 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5518945&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121811_3.mp3 If you suffer from migraines, you might worry that a hard workout could trigger a headache. But did you know that exercise may help ward off migraines? A recent Swedish study looked at more than 90 migraine sufferers, and after several months researchers found that those who exercised for 40 minutes three times a week experienced fewer overall headaches -- similar to study participants who did .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5518945 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5518945 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5518944&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121811_2.mp3 While Dr. Vreeman was in the studio this week, Sound Medicine's Dr. Kathy Miller also asked her about a new study of flu shots for children with egg allergies. Many parents wonder if it's safe for their child to receive flu shots if he or she is allergic to eggs. Traditionally, the flu vaccine contains traces of egg. Dr. Vreeman explains recent research that concludes even children with sever.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5518944 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5518944 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5518943&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121811_1.mp3 We were intrigued recently by a story in the news and on the internet, and especially on Facebook, about chickenpox parties, and even chickenpox lollipops -- tricks parents are using to avoid having their children vaccinated Sound Medicine's Dr. Kathy Miller asks pediatrician Rachel Vreeman about the wisdom of avoiding vaccinations by infecting your kids. Rachel Vreeman is assistant professo.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5518943 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5518943 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499545&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121111_6.mp3 And finally this week: a mother and daughter share what they've learned -- the hard way -- about kidney disease. When Victoria Hulet needed a kidney transplant due to a hereditary disorder called Alport's Disease, her daughter Jennifer volunteered to be a donor. As the two became immersed in the transplant process, they discovered there was very little patient friendly material available. .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499545 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499545 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499544&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121111_5.mp3 Sound Medicine's Nora Hiatt talks with author Jon Reiner about his recently published memoir, The Man Who Couldn't Eat about his battle with Crohn's disease and his enforced three-month-long fast while recuperating from intestinal surgery. New York-based Reiner's Esquire article on the topic won the 2010 James Beard Foundation Award for Magazine Feature Writing. Crohn's disease is a chronic.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499544 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499544 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499543&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121111_4.mp3 When you're shopping for food, do you check nutrition labels? A lot of the time you probably do. But how carefully do we actually parse all those numbers and percentages? To find out, Dan Graham, a research associate at the University of Minnesota who studies diet and physical activity, did an experiment where he studied around 200 people in a sort of simulated shopping scenario, using compute.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499543 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499543 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499542&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121111_3.mp3 For many women who've had a mastectomy due to breast cancer, reconstructive surgery used to mean getting a silicone implant. Now, there's a technique that's becoming more common. It involves using a woman's own tissue, from the area just below the belly button, where there's often a little extra fat. In fact, you could think of this as a combined tummy tuck and breast reconstruction, all in .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499542 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499542 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499541&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121111_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. It's easy to pick up germs from just about any surface. But did you know that some surfaces are way more germ ridden than others? Now, if you're a germaphobe, you may want not want to hear this. But according to a study done by the hygiene products and services company Kimberly-Clark Professional, some of the things we touch the most every day -- things like gas pump and ma.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499541 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5499541 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5499540&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F121111_1.mp3 We begin today with a follow-up to a very famous psychological study. You've probably heard about it: Preschool children sit at a table and in the middle of the table are some marshmallows. The test was to see which children gave in to the temptation to grab a marshmallow and which children were able to resist the urge, were able to delay gratification. Our first guest today tracked down som.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5499540 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5499540 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5472445&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F120411_3.mp3 Like most vegetables, broccoli is pretty nutritious. But did you know that a new variety of so-called super broccoli may help cut your risk for heart disease? The broccoli you typically buy at the grocery store contains glucoraphanin -- a nutrient thought to reduce the type of cholesterol that can lead to heart disease. Over the past 14 years, British scientists have been hard at work creati.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5472445 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5472445 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5472444&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F120411_2.mp3 Recently we reported on an effort to mandate the placement of gory photographs on cigarette packages. It turns out that we won't be seeing those new graphic cigarette packages after all. A federal judge has found that the nine images approved by the FDA last summer go beyond illustrating the health risks of smoking and enter the realm of free speech violation. IU addictions expert Andrew .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5472444 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5472444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5472443&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F120411_1.mp3 Here comes the cold season, with its sniffles and coughs and stuffy heads. So what do you reach for, when you get that day-before-a-cold feeling? Our first guest has been studying zinc for years now and was delighted when a new review of medical research confirmed his findings that zinc -- taken in the first day of a cold -- really can shorten and lessen the severity of symptoms by a day or .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5472443 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5472443 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5452787&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F112711_1.mp3 A thorough grasp of human anatomy is one of the most important lessons of medical school, and it relies on people deciding to donate their bodies upon death to medical education. On this week's Sound Medicine show, we explore that generous gift and the lesson it teaches tomorrow's doctors. Tune in to find out how a body donor becomes a medical student's first patient. We hear from a medical st.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5452787 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5452787 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5435722&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F112011_3.mp3 Follow Sound Medicine on Facebook and Twitter. Did you Know is presented by Wishard Health Services, becoming Eskenazi Health in 2014..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5435722 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5435722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5435721&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F112011_2.mp3 More, now, on some of the newest research to wipe out malaria. In the world's first large field trial, several thousand young children who got three doses of an experimental malaria vaccine had about 55% less risk of getting the disease over a year than those who got a control vaccine for other infectious diseases. And in California, two researchers are working to "tame" the malaria parasite.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5435721 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5435721 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5435720&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F112011_1.mp3 Two very different stories today, both from the continent of Africa. Later, we'll speak with a witness in a chilling and remarkable trial of a doctor accused of helping create tools of chemical and biological warfare during South Africa's anti-apartheid era in the early 1980s. But first a report on the campaign to wipe out malaria. Our story comes from a college freshman who is already an in.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5435720 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5435720 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5403672&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F111311_7.mp3 And finally this week, an intriguing suggestion for improving the national diet and lowering the obesity rate: bring back home ec class! Sound Medicine's Dr. David Crabb explored this idea with Helen Veit, PhD, an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. In a recent opinion piece in The New York Times, Dr. Veit argued that the old-fashioned home economics class -- once a.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5403672 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5403672 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5403671&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F111311_6.mp3 When it comes to prostate cancer, there's a long history of conflicting advice. Most recently, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that healthy men don't necessarily need regular PSA blood tests. So, what should men do? Recently, IU urologist Michael Koch appeared on the show to speak out against this recommendation. For another professional view, Sound Medicine's Kathy Mille.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5403671 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5403671 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5403670&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F111311_5.mp3 It's hard to think of two creatures more different than people and moose. Moose, at least male moose, have big, wing-like antlers. People do not. Moose are herbivores, meaning that they eat only plants. Humans eat mostly junk food. Despite their salad-only diet, moose can weigh as much as 1400 pounds, while even the most grossly obese among us struggle to achieve such corpulence. The list goes on..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5403670 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5403670 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5403669&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F111311_4.mp3 The National Institutes of Health is getting ready to overhaul the rules that regulate research involving human subjects. It's a real juggling act to ensure sure peoples' private health information isn't made public without their consent and to provide enough details to researchers. Barbara Lewis sits down with the director of the IU Center for Bioethics, Eric Meslin, PhD, to get a better s.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5403669 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5403669 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5403668&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F111311_3.mp3 About a third of patients in line to get a kidney transplant have a quirk in their immune system that makes it ready to attack the new organ. It's called being "pre-sensitized," and it can develop because of an earlier failed transplant, or maybe a blood transfusion, or even a pregnancy. Pre-sensitized patients are likely to reject the transplanted organ. IU Health physician Tim Taber dire.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5403668 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5403668 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5403667&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F111311_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. Dogs are great companions. But did you know that they're also great workout partners? According to many fitness experts and dozens of studies, dog owners walk more, walk faster, and are generally more active that people who don't have dogs. A recent study found that dogs motivate more than half of the walks that their owners take each week. Dogs are also a major reason w.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5403667 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0100 5403667 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5403666&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F111311_1.mp3 Messages about healthy eating and exercise are everywhere these days: on TV, radio, magazines, and newspapers. Now, healthy living messages are showing up in church bulletins, as well. In Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has teamed up with African American churches to find ways to bring down the obesity level among parishioners. Independent producer Scott Go.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5403666 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5403666 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414814&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F110611_7.mp3 Anita Diamant is an author and journalist who covers women's issues and Judaism; she's best known for her 1997 novel, The Red Tent. She joins Barbara Lewis to discuss her current work: an exploration of how historical views of the female body have both shaped -- and limited -- women's views of themselves. On Sunday, November 13, Diamant will be speaking in Indianapolis at the Spirit and Pla.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414814 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414813&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F110611_6.mp3 For the past twenty years, just about every public health organization, from the World Health Organization and Unicef to the American Academy of Pediatrics have been urging new mothers to breast feed their babies. Even so, according to the Centers for Disease Control, just 15% of mothers in the U.S. breastfed exclusively in 2008, and fewer than half of all U.S. mothers breastfed at all that yea.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414813 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414813 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414812&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F110611_5.mp3 Until about 15 years ago, scientists more or less assumed that adults' brains were fixed: they didn't change, they didn't grow, they didn't evolve. But then it was discovered that in some areas of the brain, like the hippocampus, new brain cells are being born all the time. To figure out why the brain makes these baby cells, and what they do, neuroscientist Geoff Murphy, at the University of Michi.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414812 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414812 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414811&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F110611_4.mp3 The cold season is upon us, which gives our next guest more inspiration, if he needs it to complete his research. Todd Rider is a senior staff scientist in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Chemical, Biological, and Nanoscale Technologies Group. He speaks with Sound Medicine's Dr. David Crabb about a new drug he's working on that targets the cold virus -- and other diseases such as polio and deng.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414811 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414810&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F110611_3.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. Foods containing a lot of fat have gotten a bad rep in the past few years. But did you know that a "fat food tax" in Denmark is making things even more difficult for fatty foods? The tax stamps a surcharge on foods with more than 2.3 percent saturated fat. Before the tax went into effect last month, high-fat food loving Danes raided grocery stores to stock up on butter, mil.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414810 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414810 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5394004&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F110611_2.mp3 More now on the healthcare reform law, also known as the Affordable Care Act. Even though it takes effect in 2014, health insurance companies aren't waiting to adjust how they interact with doctors and policy-holders. One major insurer, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, recently rolled out its Practice Consultant program. The goal is to smooth out some of the more common wrinkles that occur.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5394004 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5394004 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5394003&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F110611_1.mp3 The new healthcare reform law suffered a setback recently when the Obama administration announced it was scrapping the long-term insurance plan that was designed to help people with chronic illnesses or severe disabilities to be cared for at home when possible. It was called the CLASS Act, which stood for "Community Living Assistance Services and Support." But Sound Medicine's healthcare pol.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5394003 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5394003 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414820&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F103011_6.mp3 One of the first courses in medical school is gross anatomy, a lab class in which students dissect a human cadaver. Students attending their first two years of med school on the IU-Northwest campus in Gary, Indiana, however, develop a unique relationship with the body they're given. It's more than a learning tool; it's their first patient. This week, Sound Medicine previews its live recording s.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414820 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414820 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414819&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F103011_5.mp3 Time now for this week's Sound Medicine Checkup. You may have heard of the recent study that found lower testosterone levels among new dads. Sound Medicine's somewhat concerned contributor Eric Metcalf takes a closer look. --------------- So this study followed 600 guys, and it found that not only were the guys with high testosterone more likely to have a partner and a kid four years later, .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414819 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414819 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414818&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F103011_4.mp3 One of the challenges of diagnosing brain cancer, a brain tumor, is that its symptoms mimic other diseases. IU Health physician Stephanie Wagner, MD, is one of only two neuro-oncologists in Indiana. This week Sound Medicine's Kathy Miller, MD, talks with Dr. Wagner about brain tumors and brain surgery. Dr. Wagner is co-medical director of the IU Simon Cancer Center's neuro-oncology program.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414818 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414818 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414817&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F103011_3.mp3 It's been common practice for cancer patients to avoid physical activity during and after treatment. But this notion is now passe. Epidemiologist and chronic disease expert Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, recently published a review of studies looking at whether exercise was safe for cancer patients. On this week's show Dr. Schmitz explains how exercise is actually beneficial for recovering cancer .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414817 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414817 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414816&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F103011_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. Caffeine has all sorts of health benefits. But did you know that caffeinated coffee may help ward off depression in women? A recently published study found that women who drink two to three cups of caffeinated coffee a day are 15% less likely to become depressed than women who drink fewer cups. Women who drank even more coffee, four cups or more, had an even lower risk for .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414816 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414816 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5414815&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F103011_1.mp3 Choosing to deliver a baby even a week or two early can have serious consequences for the newborn's health. For example, an early birth can necessitate a baby spend extra time in the hospital, a cost everyone pays. Alan Fleischman, MD, will talk with Barbara Lewis about a new March of Dimes campaign called "Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait." It promotes full-term pregnancies. Dr. Fleisch.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5414815 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5414815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5341453&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F102311_6.mp3 Lastly this week, plastic surgeon and blogger Tony Youn will chat with Dr. Kathy Miller about his newly published memoir about medical school and physician training, In Stitches. The book is Youn's amusing take on his struggles to become a doctor. He talks about growing up a geeky, family pressure to be a doctor, and the high stress of medical school..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5341453 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5341453 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5341452&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F102311_5.mp3 Nursing home resident Pat Studebaker had an unusual item on her bucket list: she wanted to watch an open heart surgery. Recently, Indianapolis-based heart surgeon Marc Gerdisch granted her wish. Dr. Gerdisch and Mrs. Studebaker will discuss her experience in the operating room, where she got a close-up view of a valve replacement operation. Dr. Marc Gerdisch is chief of cardiothoracic surgery .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5341452 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5341452 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5341451&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F102311_4.mp3 As you've probably heard, getting enough exercise is really important. But if you tried to follow all the guidelines and recommendations for cardio and building muscle and heart health and all the rest, you'd end up having to exercise several hours a day. Which is pretty much impossible for most people. "So we've also made a recommendation that just doing some exercise, as much as you're able t.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5341451 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5341451 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5341450&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F102311_3.mp3 The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil prevents cervical cancer, but controversy surrounds the drug, particularly over recommendations to provide the vaccine to adolescent girls. As a result, it is unclear how women aged 18 to 21 are making decisions about the vaccine. To explore the issue, Indiana University marketing professors Dena Cox, PhD, and Tony Cox, PhD, are conducting a nati.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5341450 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5341450 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5341449&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F102311_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. Getting more exercise is a plus any way you slice it. But did you know that moderate intensity exercise is especially beneficial for middle aged women? Researchers at Penn State studied the effects of intense or moderate exercise on more than 250 women between the ages of 40 and 60. Women who did moderate exercise were twice as likely to report feeling happier and energized.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5341449 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5341449 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5341448&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F102311_1.mp3 Recently a U.S. government health panel recommended healthy men not receive a common prostate cancer screening test, the prostate-specific antigen or PSA test. The panel concluded that the PSA test doesn't save lives and can lead to treatments with serious side effects such as impotence and incontinence. Indiana University professor of urology Mike Koch strongly disagrees with the recommendati.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5341448 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5341448 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5328372&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F101611_5.mp3 Whether you're outgoing or shy, an optimist or a pessimist -- whatever your personality type, it's something that's more or less there, hard-wired right from the beginning. That's what most psychologists believe, anyway. But Katherine MacLean, a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has found that personality may actually be a little more be flexible, especially unde.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5328372 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5328372 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5328371&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F101611_4.mp3 Before Theresa Brown became a nurse, she earned her PhD in English and taught writing at Tufts University. But at mid-life, she opted for a radical career change. In her new book, Critical Care, Brown talks about her first year as an oncology nurse. As she explains to Sound Medicine's Steve Bogdewic, PhD, Brown felt she needed more day-to-day human contact than she was finding in academia. .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5328371 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5328371 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5328370&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F101611_3.mp3 Brien Smith, MD, puts a twist on the old saying: "teach what you know." Instead, he treats what he knows. Smith has epilepsy, and he also is a neurologist specializing in treating this condition. He chats with Barbara Lewis about his diagnosis and why it spurred him to treat others with the same condition. Dr. Brien Smith is Chief of Neurology at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids. He's also.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5328370 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5328370 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5328369&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F101611_2.mp3 We all know that smoking is bad in about a million different ways. But did you know that kids whose parents smoke may miss more school than kids with non-smoking parents? Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital looked at more than 3,000 families and found that kids in smoking household missed at least one extra day of school per year. The same kids also had more ear infections and chest c.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5328369 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5328369 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5328368&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F101611_1.mp3 We begin with a new way to look at the consequences of the mercury that is emitted from coal fired power plants. As our first guest will explain, you don't have to look very far away. Gabriel Filipelli, PhD, is the senior author of a new study of mercury published in a recent edition of the journal Water, Air & Soil Pollution. The study reports that measurable amounts of the mercury emitted .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5328368 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5328368 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5300311&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F100911_6.mp3 Alisia Munoz, MD, may well wish the world did not need her medical specialty. Dr. Munoz treats inner-city homeless residents. She joins Sound Medicine's Steve Bogdewic, PhD, to discuss what makes her work so challenging and yet rewarding. Dr. Munoz is the medical director for HealthNet's Homeless Initiative Program, based in Indianapolis. ..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5300311 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5300311 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5300310&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F100911_5.mp3 Unless you don't watch any TV, in which case good for you, you've probably come across those Arby's fast food commercials -- the one's where this guys sings the roast beef chain's new slogan. Now, Arby's roast beef may or may not be your idea of good anything, but you have to admit, the commercial gets one thing right: fast food, all junk food really, is good mood food. We eat the stuff not bec.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5300310 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5300310 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5300309&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F100911_4.mp3 What if there was a drug that allowed alcoholics to drink in moderation? Nalmefene, a Danish drug developed in the 1970's, does just that. By curbing the craving for drink, the drug's purpose is to get people to drink less, not to enforce abstinence. In this doc chat, Sound Medicine co-host and alcoholism researcher David Crabb, MD, will discuss nalmefene, how works and how effective it is.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5300309 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5300309 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5300308&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F100911_3.mp3 Peter Duong, PhD, runs the rural health program at the IU School of Medicine's Terre Haute campus. Dr. Duong talks with Barbara Lewis about challenges of rural life when it comes to healthcare and access to healthcare. And he discusses how Indiana University's program prepares young doctors to care for this population. Dr. Peter Yoong also is director of the IU School of Medicine's Terre Hau.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5300308 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5300308 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5300307&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F100911_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. Eating less and working out are good ways to lose weight. But did you know that having a busy social life could be an even better way to slim down? That's according to researchers at Ohio State University, who've observed the effect in mice. They found that mice who lived among other mice and had lots of toys and room to play lost nearly half of their abdominal fat, compare.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5300307 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5300307 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5300306&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F100911_1.mp3 As doctors born during the Baby Boom are beginning to retire, the need for more primary care physicians and specialists is being felt more than ever in small towns around the country. This week we look at two strategies for encouraging doctors to set up their practices in rural communities. First, to Colorado, where medical students at Colorado University spend a week shadowing doctors pract.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5300306 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5300306 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5279430&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F100211_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. The ongoing recession has a toll on many Americans. But did you know that it may be linked to an uptick in child abuse? Researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh found that from 2004 to 2007, the rate of kids showing up at hospitals with abusive head injuries was just below 9 per year per 100,000 children. Since 2008, though, when the recession began, that number has.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5279430 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5279430 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5279429&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F100211_1.mp3 The football season is well underway now, but there's still one unresolved issue: When and how professional football players will be tested for performance enhancing drugs, including anabolic steroids and human growth hormone. Earlier in the year, the NFL announced that same-day testing would begin this season. But when we spoke recently with Gary Wadler, MD, about the new testing protocols, he.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5279429 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5279429 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5255491&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F092511_4.mp3 Soon after a baby is born, her heel is pricked for a tiny blood sample, which is routinely tested for dozens, even hundreds of diseases. Now, some doctors are questioning the sense of screening for diseases that have no cure or even treatment. Barbara Lewis is joined by Alan Fleischman, MD, a bioethicist as well as senior vice president and medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation, .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5255491 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5255491 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5255490&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F092511_3.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. Eating red meat is known to raise cholesterol levels and the risk for high blood pressure. But did you know that eating red meat is also associated with type 2 diabetes? Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that processed meat is particularly bad when it comes to raising the risk for diabetes. They claim that just one serving of hot dog, sausage, or.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5255490 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5255490 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5255489&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F092511_2.mp3 Pam Wible, MD, is on a mission to create an ideal healing environment: a healthcare facility with a human, patient-centered focus. In her chat with Sound Medicine's Dr. Steve Bogdewic, Dr. Wible explains why she she's focused her medical career on creating a hospital where patients and doctors are happy, comfortable, and at home..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5255489 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5255489 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5255488&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F092511_1.mp3 This country has had its share of natural and man-made disasters in the past few months, from the floods after Hurricane Irene on the East Coast, to the collapse of the stage at the Indiana State Fair that killed seven and injured many more. It's during disasters like those that cities or regions show how well they're equipped to handle medical crises. In Indiana, a public-private partnersh.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5255488 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5255488 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5230477&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091811_7.mp3 And finally this week, we continue our series on the new book, Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work, by Drs. David Schenck and Larry Churchill. They conducted detailed interviews with more than 50 physicians recommended for their exemplary skills in dealing with patients. Today, Dr. David Schenck explains how he learned the distinction between healing and curing. Dr. David Schenck co.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5230477 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5230477 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5230476&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091811_6.mp3 Here's some great news. Now there's scientific evidence that massage does more than just feel good. In his research, Daniel Cherkin, PhD, found that massage worked as well or better than traditional medical treatments. Dr. Cherkin discusses his findings with Sound Medicine's Steve Bodgewic, PhD. Cherkin is a senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute in Seattle..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5230476 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5230476 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5230475&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091811_5.mp3 If you have kids, or had kids, or have been a kid -- I'm just trying to include everyone here -- then you know that schools are hot spots for disease. Flu bugs, stomach viruses, all sorts of nasty things tend to sweep through schools like, well, like something really fast. But why is that? It's not like kids are literally coughing on each other or sneezing in each other's faces. At least I hope.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5230475 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5230475 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5230474&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091811_4.mp3 It is a basic puzzle: Why do some people become addicted to alcohol or drugs, while others are able to use them in moderation, or just occasionally, without developing a dependence? For this Doc Chat session, Barbara Lewis poses the question to Sound Medicine's Dr. David Crabb, who has studied addictions for years. Dr. David Crabb chairs the Department of Medicine at the IU School of Medicin.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5230474 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5230474 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5230473&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091811_3.mp3 Fiber is good for your health in all sorts of ways. But did you know that fiber may help prevent breast cancer? Chinese researchers analyzed 10 studies that looked at women's diets over several years to see how, if at all, diet affects breast cancer rates. Among the women who got breast cancer, those who ate the most fiber were 11% less likely to have tumors than those who ate the least fiber. .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5230473 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5230473 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5230472&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091811_2.mp3 The health reform law also includes a number of pilot and experimental programs aimed at reducing medical costs. For example: using computer software to order hospital prescriptions, to reduce the chance of human errors. According to researcher and anesthesiologist Karen Nanji, MD, MPH, however, software makes as many errors as people do. Dr. Nanji chats with Sound Medicine's Kathy Miller, M.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5230472 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5230472 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5230471&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091811_1.mp3 The Affordable Care Act, also known as the healthcare reform law of 2011, is a step closer to a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, probably in June 2012. In August, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law's mandate for individual insurance coverage unconstitutional. This week, Sound Medicine healthcare policy analyst Aaron Carroll, MD, explains the individual mandate and why the.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5230471 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5230471 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5215991&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091111_6.mp3 And finally this week: we begin a new four-part series, looking at one of both the most basic and mysterious questions in medicine: What makes a good healer? Authors David Schenck, PhD, and Larry Churchill, PhD, are on faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. For their new book, Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work, they interviewed more than 50 medical practitioners who've been.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5215991 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5215991 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5215990&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091111_5.mp3 Now that college students are back on campus, parents may be wondering how much time their kids spend studying and how much time they spend on Facebook. Our next guest believes that social media applications like Facebook can actually harm college students' self-esteem. Sherry Turkle, PhD, directs the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She explains the anxiety and unhappiness engendered .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5215990 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5215990 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5215989&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091111_4.mp3 Anyone who's lived in a big city knows that urban life can be stressful. In fact, it can literally drive you crazy. City dwellers are more likely to suffer from anxiety, depression, and other psychological problems than people who live in less bustling places. To find out what city living actually does to the brain, McGill University psychologist Jens Pruessner looked at the brains of three dif.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5215989 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5215989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5215988&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091111_3.mp3 Our next guest has an idea he believes could help both doctors as individuals and the healthcare system in general. In a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times, Dr. Peter Bach of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center proposed that we should do away with tuition for medical school. Today he explains his idea to Sound Medicine's Dr. Kathy Miller. Dr. Peter Bach is an attending physic.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5215988 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5215988 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5215987&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091111_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. You probably don't count how many times you chew each mouthful of food. But did you know that taking more time to chew could help you better control your weight? Chinese researchers tested this hypothesis by serving breakfast to 30 young men -- some obese, some of normal weight -- and dividing the participants into two groups: one that would chew each bite 15 times, and ano.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5215987 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5215987 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5215986&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F091111_1.mp3 We begin this week with a bit of encouraging news for people dealing with the skin cancer melanoma. In the past few months, the FDA has approved two new drugs for the treatment of metastatic melanoma -- the kind that spreads beyond the original site on the skin. They are the first medications that have been shown to reduce tumors in patients with that particularly tough form of cancer. Ba.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5215986 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5215986 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5215992&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F090411_2.mp3 This segment originally aired December 12, 2010. Recently, the Kennedy Krieger Institute released a study involving very young children diagnosed with autism. Rebecca Landa, PhD, is a leading authority on early detection and intervention for autism. Her study of two-year-olds was the first of its kind funded by the National Institutes of Health. In her research, she was looking for an alt.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5215992 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5215992 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5194301&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F090411_7.mp3 Barbara Lewis talks with Kathy Oehler, an autism consultant for a suburban Indianapolis school system, about important things parents should know about educational services for their autistic child. Oehler provide insights and tips for parents who are preparing to enroll their autistic child in kindergarten and elementary school..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5194301 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5194301 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5194300&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F090411_6.mp3 The "HANDS in Autism" program is part of the Indianapolis-based Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center. HANDS stands for Helping Answer Needs by Developing Specialists in Autism. Today, Sound Medicine's Dr. David Crabb chats with program director, Naomi Sweazy, PhD, to learn how the HANDS program trains teachers and other public school personnel to work effectively with autistic children..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5194300 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5194300 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5194299&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F090411_5.mp3 Sound Medicine reporter Sandy Roob visits a model classroom in Indianapolis that is dedicated to teaching autistic kids. The classroom-project is a collaborative effort between the Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center, affiliated with Riley Hospital, and the city's public school district. The children benefit from the physician-and-educator teams, and the project serves as a training gr.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5194299 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5194299 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5194298&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F090411_4.mp3 This segment originally aired November 21, 2010. Anyone who's been a parent is well acquainted with this sound. That, of course, is baby talk, or baby babble. But beyond being extremely cute -- what are babies doing when they babble? "During babbling and even in the periods of vocalization the precede what we call canonical babbling, the baby produces sounds that indicate that they're bui.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5194298 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5194298 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5194297&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F090411_3.mp3 This segment originally aired December 12, 2010. Around 20% of people have problems with math. But did you know that mild electrical stimulation to the brain may help improve math skills? Working with a group of 15 student volunteers, researchers at Oxford University used electrodes to send a mild electrical current into the brains of the students. They specifically targeted the parietal lob.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5194297 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5194297 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5194296&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F090511_2.mp3 This segment originally aired December 12, 2010. Recently, the Kennedy Krieger Institute released a study involving very young children diagnosed with autism. Rebecca Landa, PhD, is a leading authority on early detection and intervention for autism. Her study of two-year-olds was the first of its kind funded by the National Institutes of Health. In her research, she was looking for an alt.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5194296 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5194296 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5194295&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F090411_1.mp3 This segment originally aired December 12, 2010. Laura and Mike Williamson tell the story of their son, Pip, who was diagnosed with autism about five years ago. The Williamson's explain the difficulties they faced when Pip was a baby. And they recall the emotional time of Pip's diagnosis. In time, the Williamson's learned that dairy products could be contributing to Pip's symptoms, so the.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5194295 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5194295 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5173239&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082811_6.mp3 And finally this week: a new approach to the problem of "food deserts," city neighborhoods where it's hard to find high-quality fresh produce. In Indianapolis, the solution is showing up on street corners downtown: a food truck selling fruits and vegetables. Sound Medicine's Colleen Iudice caught up with the "Garden on the Go" food truck, a partnership between IU Health and Green B.E.A.N. de.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5173239 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5173239 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5173238&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082811_5.mp3 The brain is a creature of habit. If you respond a certain way to stimuli, your brain develops a habit of triggering cravings and thoughts. The new book, You Are Not Your Brain, takes that idea and runs with it. Dr. Rebecca Gladding is co-author of the book, and she believes people have more control over their thoughts and reactions than they realize. Rebecca Gladding, MD, is an instru.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5173238 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5173238 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5173237&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082811_4.mp3 If you've been online recently, you've probably seen this pop-up ad. It's a fake but real-looking news website, with a fake reporter promoting the miraculous benefits of a specific berry. I'm not going to tell you which berry. I hate these ads. The FTC recently announced it was cracking down on 10 companies that were using these fake news sites. If you'd like to protect yourself from the next 1.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5173237 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5173237 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5173236&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082811_3.mp3 Our next guest is doing front-line research in stem cells with the goal of using them to reverse blindness. Jason Meyer, PhD, is assistant professor of biology at the in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. In his lab, he's working on ways to develop the light-sensing cells in the eye's retina. He recently published a paper about his work. He explain.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5173236 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5173236 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5173235&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082811_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. Some parents fear that having a pet in the house may raise the risk of their kids becoming allergic to cats or dogs. But did you know that keeping a pet may do just the opposite? Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit have followed a group of children from birth until age 18. The researchers studied participants' blood samples and found that those who'd lived with an.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5173235 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5173235 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5173234&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082811_1.mp3 This year, the nation's teaching hospitals instituted new rules that limit the number of consecutive hours that first year medical residents may work without sleep. Our first guest, a Harvard sleep expert, says the rules do not go far enough, and anyway, they aren't being implemented consistently. The bottom line, says Christopher Landrigan, MD, MPH, is twofold: patient safety and the high c.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5173234 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5173234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5152626&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082111_7.mp3 A new long-term study has begun testing an idea that intuitively makes sense: that stressful life events can affect your health. Today Barbara Lewis speaks with the study's lead investigator Dr. Linda Delunas, a professor of nursing at Indiana University Northwest. Dr. Delunas explains that the goal is to gather enough data to be able to predict the health outcomes in people who experience a.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5152626 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5152626 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5152625&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082111_6.mp3 Americans eat more than 20 million hot dogs at major league ball parks every year. This past July 4, we scarfed down something like 150 million hot dogs. Clearly, eating hot dogs is an American national pastime. But according to Susan Levin, director of nutrition education at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, it's also a national nightmare. "In terms of diet choices, process.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5152625 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5152625 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5152624&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082111_5.mp3 If you want to "live long and prosper," our next guest has ideas about which personality traits will serve you best. Psychologist Howard Friedman's new book, The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study, reports results from an 80-year-long study examining personality traits most common in people who live a long time. Dr. Friedma.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5152624 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5152624 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5152623&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082111_4.mp3 The FDA announced that starting next year, it will require cigarette packages to display graphic pictures and no-nonsense slogans. The decision was based on the assumption that photographs of rotting teeth or blackened lungs will convince a smoker not to light up. Or at the very least, they might deter a non-smoker from starting. Will it work? Barbara Lewis asks Andy Chambers, MD, an Indiana.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5152623 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5152623 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5152622&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082111_3.mp3 Big, chubby babies are cute. But did you know that babies who are too big are at risk for becoming obese later on? That's according to a report from the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers there say that around 10 percent of infants under two are overweight, while an alarming 20% between the ages of 2 and 5 are heavy. And other studies have shown that the eating and lifestyle habits that .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5152622 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5152622 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5152621&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082111_2.mp3 Last week on this program, we spoke with cardiologist Marc Gerdisch, MD, about why heart murmurs need to be diagnosed and taken seriously. But as is often the case in conducting interviews, our conversation touched on other interesting topics. Today we hear Dr. Gerdisch discuss two recent developments he's particularly excited about. Cardiologist Marc Gerdisch is chief of cardiothoracic s.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5152621 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5152621 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5152620&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F082111_1.mp3 Three decades of research show that there is a link between depression and heart disease. And our first guest is exploring the implications of this link. With a grant from the American Heart Association, IUPUI psychologist Jesse Stewart, PhD, is examining whether treating depression early may lower the risk of heart problems down the road. Dr. Jesse Stewart is an assistant professor of psych.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5152620 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5152620 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5129225&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F081411_7.mp3 Earlier this summer, in the wake of the Osama bin Laden killing, there were reports in the British paper The Guardian that the CIA organized a fake vaccination program in several Pakistani towns around where bin Laden was believed to be living -- in hopes of gathering DNA from some of his relatives. That DNA would then be used to confirm his identity, after the raid in early May. Now, report.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5129225 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5129225 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5129224&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F081411_6.mp3 Every now and again a sports star, usually a basketball player, will get an eye injury and start wearing something some kind of protective gear. Back in the day, Kareem Abdul Jabbar famously wore goggles. More recently, New York Knicks superstar Amare Stoudemire has taken to wearing wrap-around glasses. And yet somehow, wearing protective eye gear as a preventive measure while playing sports ha.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5129224 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5129224 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5129223&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F081411_5.mp3 Two recent studies claim that drinking coffee is protective against breast and prostate cancer. Are these reports too good to be true? Sound Medicine host Barbara Lewis asks our favorite breast cancer specialist, Dr. Kathy Miller, for her opinion on these findings..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5129223 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5129223 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5129222&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F081411_4.mp3 A heart murmur may sound benign. After all, how serious is something called a "murmur?" Sound Medicine's Kathy Miller, MD, talks with a cardiologist who says those murmurs should taken seriously because they can lead to other, more serious, heart problems. Mark Gerdisch, MD, practices at the St. Francis Heart Center in Indianapolis. Dr. Gerdisch specializes in heart valve surgery..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5129222 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5129222 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5129221&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F081411_3.mp3 Getting a good night's sleep is important for well-being. But did you know that getting too little sleep can muck up your marriage? According to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, women who have trouble falling asleep tend to have more negative interactions with their husbands the following day. Men, though, don't seem to suffer from a lack of sleep in the same way. Whether guys fa.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5129221 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5129221 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5129220&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F081411_2.mp3 Now, another eye problem: In the next decade, an estimated 3.4 million Americans will have glaucoma, partly due to the aging of the population, and partly due to better diagnosis. Here's one way to think about glaucoma. "The optic nerve is the cable that connects the eye to the brain. In glaucoma, the optic nerve is damaged." Dr. Robert Weinreb, a glaucoma expert, chairs the Department of.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5129220 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5129220 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5129219&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F081411_1.mp3 By this point in the summer, you've probably lost or broken several pairs of sunglasses. Barbara Lewis asks Indianapolis-based ophthalmologist Chris Browning if it's important to wear sunglasses. He says it definitely is. The Indiana Optometric Association has five tips to prevent eye damage from the sun. Wear protective eyewear any time the eyes are exposed to UV rays, even on cloudy d.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5129219 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5129219 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5105458&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F080711_2.mp3 I'm Jeremy Shere. It's well known that a Mediterranean diet is healthful. But did you know that olive oil, especially, may be extra good for the heart? According to a recent French study, seniors who regularly use olive oil in cooking and as salad dressing had a 41% lower risk of stroke compared to seniors who don't consume olive oil. What makes olive oil so beneficial? It may do good .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5105458 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5105458 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5105457&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F080711_1.mp3 We begin today with an encouraging lead in treating one form of tuberculosis. "Latent TB" is the form of tuberculosis infection that, for the time being, at least, is held in check by the body's immune system. The problem is: if the immune system is weakened, say by malnutrition or HIV, that latent infection can blow up into an active and dangerous situation. Our first guest is working on.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5105457 Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:00:01 +0100 5105457 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084254&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F073111_6.mp3 Over the past 30 years, American attitudes toward HIV and AIDS have changed dramatically. More HIV positive people can disclose their status without the shame and stigma. As more people with HIV live longer lives, some of the fear associated with the disease has started to fade. But here's the tricky part -- a healthy fear of HIV may not be a bad a thing to have. As Sound Medicine reporter Shia.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084254 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084254 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084253&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F073111_5.mp3 To help steer us toward the lighter side of a disease that used to be known as a death sentence, I asked River Huston to be our guide. She became a motivational speaker after her diagnosis of HIV and a bleeding disorder in the early 1990s. RH: It's really hard dating, but I think it's so important to disclose. When I moved to the country, it got really tough. These guys didn't know anything! I .... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084253 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084253 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084252&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F073111_4.mp3 Sound Medicine reporter Colleen Iudice explores a surprising trend: couples seeking to adopt HIV-infected children. Iudice talks with parents who've adopted children from Haiti and sub-Saharan Africa, and she meets with clinicians who treat these special needs kids -- many of whom are remarkably healthy..... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084252 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084252 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5084251&cid=s_31021_46_f&fid=31021&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.podtrac.com%2Fpts%2Fredirect.mp3%3Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fsoundmedicine.iu.edu%2Fsegments%2F073111_3.mp3 Pioneering AIDS/HIV researcher Jay Levy, MD, co-discovered the AIDS virus in the early 1980's. Today Dr. Levy chats with Sound Medicine's Kathy Miller, MD, about the history of the disease and about milestones in its treatment and prevention. Dr. Levy is professor of medicine at UC San Francisco and head of the Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research there. For more information abou.... (Source: Sound Medicine) Sound Medicine news http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5084251 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 5084251