Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Experts explain how better prevention efforts for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder could greatly reduce a wide variety of social problems.
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The Haitian Cholera Coverup
Experts discuss how a cholera epidemic in Haiti is linked to UN peacekeeping groups and lessons for future disaster recovery.
Doctors’ Obesity Bias (2016)
Studies show that medical professionals are as biased as the rest of us against people who are overweight, resulting in lectures, misdiagnoses, and patients who start avoiding the doctor. Experts explain the problem, results, and what might be done about it.
Drinking Water Safety
Experts explain the danger of lead, especially to children, and other chemicals that may be in drinking water.
Child Heart Arrhythmias
Children and adolescents seldom have “heart attacks,” but they sometimes have heart arrhythmias which can look like the same thing, and be just as deadly.
Fighting Your Insurer
A new field of advocates are helping people navigate the insurance system, assisting with denials and delays. Three experts discuss how to fight your insurer and win.
The Salt Bomb
Experts discuss why salt is such a health problem and what the federal government is doing to push food processors toward reducing salt content in our diets.
Drowning on Land
When a child is pulled out of the water and revived they may face life-threatening peril hours or days later as the body reacts.
Uncertainty in Medicine (2016)
Diagnostic tests are often less certain in their results than people think, making patients sometimes doubt doctors' competence.
Kids’ Kidney Stones
Experts discuss why the risk of kidney stones in kids is rising, why doctors still sometimes miss the diagnosis, and how kidney stones are treated in children.
Doctor Suicide (2016)
Experts discuss the coverup of doctor suicides, the reasons behind depression in doctors, and why doctors who are depressed are less likely than normal to get help.
Big Data in Medicine (2016)
When doctors can take advantage of massive amounts of data on patient outcomes, lives will be saved. We look at one of the first efforts, an attempt to associate dangerous drug interactions.
