Radio Health Journal

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) may produce cognitive and personality changes months later. An expert explains these injuries and how to prevent some of the consequences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Experts discuss why foreigners are especially at risk of being intimidated into forced labor in the US and how they might be rescued. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Experts discuss readiness of pediatricians to treat mental illness in children and adolescents and efforts to be sure they're prepared. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Experts discuss causes and remedies for seasonal affective disorder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Infertility is often due to poor egg quality, or chromosomal damage. A new procedure seeks to replace mitochondria in old eggs with fresher mitocohndria to improve egg quality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A nationally known rehab specialist discusses using prehabilitation techniques for newly diagnosed cancer patients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Experts discuss reasons for food insecurity, outcomes, and a variety of inventive solutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Controversy has broken out over the doctor's traditional white lab coat and necktie. Experts discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A pharmacist advises what should be in your medicine cabinet and how to keep those medicines safe and effective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists have found that the psychology of innocent people is a major reason for false confessions. Experts discuss why this occurs and how to prevent it from happening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One year ago, we visited Greg O'Brien, a journalist attempting to document his own decline into early onset Alzheimer's disease. He discusses the how the disease has progressed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The body uses extra calories to stay warm in cold conditions, creating heath through thermogenesis. Recently scientists discovered one of the mechanisms the body uses for this - brown fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Studies estimate that about five percent of diagnoses are wrong, leading treatment down the wrong road. Experts discuss why misdiagnoses occur and how they might be prevented. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People who use drugs, even those who are not addicted, are often destructively enabled by families. An expert explains what families have to do to break through their own denial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Experts explain how a device called DADSS - Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety- can test whether a person is drunk as he attempts to start his car and debate some of the issues surrounding its possible rollout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

30 million Americans wear contact lenses, but today's high tech lenses are vastly superior to those of a few decades ago. Even so, most contact wearers don't maintain their lenses correctly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As many as five percent of people diagnosed with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's diseases may in reality have a treatable disorder caused by "water on the brain." An expert and patient discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Children who suffer multiple traumas such as loss of a parent and physical abuse are much more likely to experience cancer, heart disease and autoimmune diseases as adults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Only about a third of research subjects in clinical studies are women. Experts discuss why such an imbalance occurs, its results, and how the problem is being addressed. Learn more at: radiohealthjournal.org/gender-diversity-in-basic-research/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A well-known psychotherapist describes what therapists are thinking while the patient is talking and how these thoughts guide treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices