Teaching Doctors to Listen (2018)
Experts discuss how to help doctors better listen to their patients when diagnosing their illness in order to improve care plans and decrease healthcare costs.
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Hospitals and Housing
Experts discuss their “housing first” approach that does not require people to get off addictions before they get an apartment and how it is helping to reduce healthcare costs.
Stem Cells and COPD
Lung diseases such as COPD are difficult to treat, but a new method taking a patient’s own stem cells, concentrating them, and reinfusing them is showing success. An expert explains.
Drunkorexia
Studies show that a large proportion of college students are at least occasionally “drunkorexic,” avoiding food when they know they’ll be drinking later in order to get a better buzz or to keep from gaining weight.
Big Data and Healthcare (2018)
Big data is changing the world, but it’s been slow in coming to healthcare. An expert in healthcare IT explains how that’s changing and what it could mean to treatment.
Overdoing School Lockdown Drills
A noted expert discusses how schools may be making lockdown drills too realistic, how they affect students, where they go wrong, and what they should do to be more effective.
The Mystery of Anesthesia
Anesthesia is a bedrock of medical practice, yet doctors admit we don’t know exactly how it works. An expert discusses anesthesia’s back story and recent improvements.
Misunderstanding Autism
Experts explain common misunderstandings about autism, how they affect treatment of people with autism, and how institutions might change their approach to improve treatment.
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
Experts describe cyclic vomiting syndrome, and how the syndrome is often misdiagnosed and remains difficult to treat.
ADHD and Sleep Disorders (2018)
Experts discuss new research showing that most people with ADHD have a disordered body clock and how fixing the body clock could lessen the impact of both ADHD and other health problems.
A Real-Life Star Trek Tricorder
The developer of DxtER, a real-life version of the Star Trek Tricorder, discusses what the device is, how it could be used, and the scrutiny it is facing from the FDA to go on the market.
Dashing Old Stuttering Myths (2018)
New research has several findings about stuttering including a structural deficiency in the brain's wiring, an inability to perceive rhythms, and a successful way to treat stuttering.
