Radio Health Journal
The latest in health, science, technology, and the intersection of medicine and public policy.
Psychologist Dr. Frank Putnam continues to detail the physical and mental impact of childhood sexual abuse. He also discusses his personal experience uncovering a child trafficking ring led by a coworker at the National Institutes of Health.
Childhood sexual abuse can leave deep, lasting scars on the minds and bodies of victims. Dr. Frank Putnam was one of the first to prove that this abuse affects a person’s biology through the Female Growth and Development Study. He discusses the generational cycles of abuse and how we can end those patterns.
Child abuse is a sobering reality often perpetrated by trusted individuals rather than strangers. To successfully exploit a child, predators rely on a specific playbook to gain access, trust, and secrecy. Our expert this week explains how parents can help dismantle these opportunities without needing to resort to overprotective parenting styles.
Our experts discuss their time in high demand, high control groups and how they were able to heal from these experiences.
Our experts discuss where the line is being drawn between being a bad parent and playing an active role in murder.
Experts are predicting at least five major storms this year, and communities need to be prepared to focus on more than just rebuilding.
Dr. Jonathan Yahalom, a psychologist, explains how MST symptoms feed into the lack of research and what his own studies show on how to treat male survivors.
Experts explain what the statistics point to as the underlying cause of mass violence.
Dr. Patti Feuereisen explains how to support victims of sexual abuse and why starting the conversation is necessary.
Suzanne Gordon’s new book “Our Veterans” explores the question: have we failed our service members?
A new questionnaire can determine the risk of car accidents in elderly drivers. Then, industrialization is bad for breast milk. Then, does spanking increase the likelihood of experiencing physical abuse? And finally, can scientists use plants to study psychiatric disorders?
While stay-at-home orders were great for slowing the spread of Covid, they essentially trapped victims with their abusers. As numbers of domestic violence reports rose, women’s shelters were overwhelmed with people in need of safe housing.
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