Medical Notes: Week of May 14, 2017
A look at important medical, health and science headlines for the week of May 14, 2017.
Medical Notes: Week of May 7, 2017
A look at important medical, health and science headlines for the week of May 7.
Medical Notes: Week of March 5, 2017
Opioid addicts and amnesia, traffics link to domestic violence, driving and concussion recovery, and the effects of strict discipline.
Amnesia: Waking Up in the Future (2016)
An expert discusses why doctors believe it occurs, and a woman to whom it happened recounts her experience.
ICU PTSD
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.
The Traumatized Brain
Traumatic brain injuries, even mild ones, may produce cognitive and personality changes months later. An expert explains these injuries and how to prevent some of the consequences.
One More Year Inside Alzheimer’s
One year ago, we visited Greg O'Brien, a journalist attempting to document his own decline into early onset Alzheimer's disease. Now he discusses the past year and the difficulties he's meeting as his disease progresses.
Photographic Memory
Some people who remember things extremely well may claim they have a "photographic memory," but some experts say such a thing doesn't really exist. Experts discuss how memory works.
Radio Health Journal Honored Tonight at the Lisagor Award Ceremony
Our own Reed Pence and Sean Waldron have been nominated for a Peter Lisagor Award in Broadcast Radio: Best Feature Reporting. Presented by the Chicago Headline Club, the award honors the best work done by Chicago-area journalists in 2014. The nomination is for our story "Alzheimer's From Inside" in which journalist Greg O'Brien provides a detailed look at …
False Memory
We explore the concept of false memory, particularly in the context of sexual abuse allegations, and discuss how, less than half a century ago, sexual abuse and incest were taboo topics, with experts believing they were rare.
