Radio Health Journal

Experts discuss the most common reasons for secret-keeping and the consequences that may result. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In response to "factory medicine" some doctors are moving to a "concierge medicine" practice where patients receive more personal care for higher fees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An author and journalist who has donated twice with vastly different results discusses the technology and what to look out for when approaching egg donation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Experts discuss why this effect occurs and how it can be broken by technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thyroid disease affects millions of Americans, many of whom have not been diagnosed. Experts discuss symptoms, causes, and treatments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Experts discuss the Zika virus, how it's transmitted, its spread to the US, the severe birth defect it has been linked to and how to protect yourself from it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Funding of clinical trials has dramatically shifted so that today, trials paid for by pharmaceutical and device makers outnumber publicly funded trials 6-to-1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American healthcare is the most expensive in the world. An expert author details some of the causes and possible solutions now being established. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stuttering has been blamed even fairly recently on parenting, but new research has several new findings including a much more successful way to treat stuttering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Party snacks are prime territory for contamination. A scientist discusses the myth of the five second rule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A surprisingly high percentage of people who've been treated in the ICU later suffer from PTSD. Experts discuss why this occurs and what's being done to treat and prevent it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Low-level systemic inflammation is being tied to many disorders including heart disease. Experts discuss how inflammation can be combatted through diet and supplementation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An expert and author discuss the political forces creating unusual unanimity behind breast feeding, and the truth of health claims on the benefits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists have developed the technology to edit single genes, which could eliminate some inherited diseases. However, doctors don't know how "germline editing" would affect other genes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hip and knee replacements are common, now doctors say ankle replacements have become technically good enough to make fusion obsolete for arthritis patients in pain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A noted expert discusses how the US might regulate potentially toxic chemicals better, and how tougher regulation in other countries could help keep Americans safer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Experts discuss different conditions affected by weather, why pain responds to weather changes and possible remedies to some of these maladies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A novelist discusses her observations from years on the hospital floor with her sick child as the basis for her book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Only about a fifth of people who could use hearing aids have them. An audiologist, hearing aid manufacturer, and hearing aid user discuss why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The holidays are like no other time in your local hospital's emergency department. Experts discuss, among other things, why more heart attacks occur and how to prevent them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices