| Date |
Show
Title |
Description |
| Sept. 1 |
Medicinal
Plants Roundup |
Scientists
are finding out more and more plant compounds that fight disease. |
| Aug. 31 |
Brain
Workout |
A listener
asks: Do you get dumber when you exercise? |
| Aug. 25 |
MedTech
Roundup |
Highway
surveillance cameras are not just for giving tickets anymore.
Now they're helping car accident victims. |
| Aug. 24 |
Obesity
Vaccine |
Scientists
are developing a vaccine to curb our expanding waistlines. |
| Aug. 23 |
WTC
Lungs |
The 9/11
disaster has had lasting effects on rescuers' lungs. |
| Aug. 18 |
Home
Genetics Roundup |
A
government report says genetic tests offered for home use
are often not reliable. |
| Aug. 16 |
Aging
Test |
Your organs
age at different rates. But how do you know how old they are?
|
| Aug. 11 |
Stress
Eating Roundup |
A type
of hamster overeats when stressed, just like many of us. |
| Aug. 4 |
Fiber
Roundup |
A whole
new way of seeing looks a lot like a Star Trek episode. |
| Aug. 3 |
Pregnancy
Sickness |
Mothers-to-be
take heart: Morning sickness may have a good reason for existing. |
| July 26
|
Apple
Protection |
Do
apples really help keep the doctors away? |
| July 24 |
Feeling
Machine |
A
new computer game addresses teenage girls' emotional needs. |
| July 19 |
Sniper
Detector |
Robots
that mimic human hearing could be useful on and off the battlefield. |
| July 18 |
Retinal
Implants |
A new technique
for making replacement retinas could sit better in the body. |
| July 13 |
Drool
Stress Test |
If the
blood-curdling cry's not enough to tell you that your baby's
stressed out, you might want to check the tyke's drool. |
| July 7 |
Food
Security Roundup |
In
many societies, being overweight is a sign of affluence. But
in the United States, it's more common for poor people to be
overweight. Why? |
| July 3 |
Love
Hormone |
A hormone
seems to take the edge off of marital spats. |
| June 29 |
Anti-Cancer
Gum |
A new type
of gum could help prevent some cancers. |
| June 28 |
Elderly
BMI |
New research
shows that people should perhaps get plumper with age. |
| June 23 |
Anger
Roundup |
Lots of
people get angry over little things. And now a study shows that
lots of people act on that rage, too. |
| June 22 |
Alcohol
and Colds |
We answer
this listener's question: Can a shot of alcohol stop a cold
in its tracks? |
| June 16 |
Psych
Roundup |
Scientists
have finally come up with an explanation for how Ritalin works. |
| June 15 |
Pregnancy
Stress |
If being
pregnant in today's fast-paced world is enough to stress you
out, take heart. It may be a good thing. |
| June 12 |
Music
and Parkinson's |
An experimental
treatment for Parkinson's symptoms doesn't even require a prescription. |
| June 9 |
Kissing
Roundup |
We've all
heard that laughter is the best medicine. But it turns out that
kissing may give it some competition. |
| June 7 |
Pandemic
No-Shows |
Preparing
for a flu pandemic takes more than just stockpiling vaccines.
A major factor is keeping critical human resources on the job. |
| May 31 |
Brain
Dread |
A new study
looks at that sinking feeling we call dread. |
| May 30 |
Fermenter |
What do
beer and vaccines have in common? |
| May 29 |
Testosterone
and MS |
The "male
hormone" may hold a key for treating one chronic brain
disease. |
| May 23 |
Testosterone
Tradeoff |
Extra testosterone
gives male birds a leg up in the mating game -- at a big price. |
| May 19 |
Avian
Flu Roundup |
Scientists
are also preparing for a possible flu pandemic. We report on
a hopeful new finding concerning avian flu. |
| May 18 |
Hearing
Glasses |
An innovative
new hearing aid is embedded in an unlikely place. |
| May 16 |
Flu
Preparedness |
Should
you prepare for a pandemic flu? And how? |
| May 15 |
No
Pointing |
We report
on a rare condition that makes people "pointless." |
| May 11 |
Cells
Alive |
You probably
have heard that hair is made up of dead cells. But are living
cells really "alive?" |
| May 10 |
Teen
Migraines |
Kids will
fake all sorts of illnesses to get out of school and family
activities. But sometimes their symptoms are real. |
| May 9 |
Cells
in Reverse |
Despite
the popularity of anti-wrinkle creams, face lifts, and viagra,
nobody's found a way to truly reverse the aging process. But
recently scientists turned back the clock on a much smaller
scale. |
| May 4 |
Fat
Laser |
In the
Star Wars movies, laser light sabres could vaporize an entire
person. Now, in real life, scientists are using a similar principle
to decimate fat cells. |
| May 1 |
Sleep
Emailing |
Sleep doctors
consider sleeping pills to be an option of last resort. Here's
one case study that's a striking example of what can go wrong. |
| April 27 |
Calcium
and Stroke |
Everyone
knows that calcium helps build and maintain strong and healthy
bones. But it also has positive effects on the brain. |
| April 21 |
Healthy
Fat Roundup |
If some
scientists have their way, bacon could soon be in the health
food aisle. |
| April 17 |
Super
Memory |
We hear
a lot about patients who lose their memory, either due to an
accident or a disease like Alzheimer's. But what about people
with an abnormally good memory? |
| April 13 |
Anthrax
Detector |
Anthrax
infections must be treated quickly, but current tests can take
days to make an accurate diagnosis. Now a faster test may be
on the horizon. |
| April 11 |
Obesity
and Pain |
Obese people
face a heightened risk for all kinds of other conditions, like
diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Now, new research suggests
they may also be more susceptible to pain. |
| April 7 |
EcoDisease
Roundup |
Epidemics
don't just happen randomly. They arise from complex ecological
factors. Here Science Update explains the interplay between
robins and West Nile Virus. |
| April 5 |
Depression
Scar |
The use
of antidepressants has skyrocketed in the past two decades.
But are they really curing depression, or simply masking it?
|
| March 31 |
Medical
Light Roundup |
Scientists
are now looking to lasers to help kill harmful bacteria. |
| March 30 |
Language
Technology |
Autism,
Down's syndrome, and cerebral palsy make it hard to communicate
through speech. But new technologies are helping kids with these
conditions find their voices. |
| March 23 |
Marital
Heartache |
We all
know that stress is bad for your heart, and stress in your marriage
is one of the worst kinds. But recent research suggests that
men and women react to marital stress differently -- at least
in their arteries. |
| March 20 |
Speech
Bias |
New research
shows that babies are born with a love of speech. |
| March 17 |
Dino
Doc Roundup |
Some diseases
that humans suffer from today, like cancer and gout, can also
be seen in animals all the way back to dinosaurs. But do doctors
belong in the same room as fossilized bones? One medical school
says yes. |
| March 15 |
Dirty
Bacteria |
More and
more disease-causing germs are becoming resistant to antibiotics.
To learn more about the problem, some scientists may literally
have to do some digging. |
| March 14 |
Autism
and IQ |
There's
a lot of talk about an autism epidemic these days. But what
if autism isn't a disease at all? |
| March 10 |
Microbe
Roundup |
It's uncanny
how quickly germs come up with counter-defenses against every
drug that researchers develop. Here we report on two new efforts
to gain the upper hand. |
| March 2 |
Obesity
Virus |
It's well
known that washing your hands will help you avoid catching colds.
But could it also keep you from getting fat? |
| Feb. 17 |
Deprived
Children |
Many countries
place orphaned and abandoned children into institutions, where
they may get food and shelter but little love. A new study is
looking into how this type of environment damages children --
and what we can do to heal them. |
| Feb. 13 |
Cocoa
Chemical |
While a
box of Valentine's Day chocolates won't do much for your sweetie's
health, a new study has identified a heart-healthy chemical
in some kinds of raw cocoa. |
| Feb. 10 |
Healthy
Laughs Roundup |
They say
laughter is the best medicine, and now scientists have proven
them right. |
| Feb. 8 |
Killer
Fats |
By now,
almost everyone has heard that it's good to avoid saturated
fats. But scientists are still figuring out exactly how they
wreak havoc on the body. |
| Feb. 6 |
Cancer-Sniffing
Dogs |
Dogs are
routinely used to sniff out everything from illegal drugs to
explosives. But new research shows that they can also smell
cancer. |
| Feb. 3 |
Cancer
Cells Roundup |
Learning
how healthy cells work is an important step to preventing diseases
like cancer and AIDS. |
| Jan. 24 |
Rewarding
Faces |
Looking
at attractive people stimulates the brain's reward centers.
Now new research shows the reward depends on sexual orientation.
|
| Jan. 20 |
Medical
Roundup |
Scientists
have found an explosive new way to pack several weeks' worth
of vaccines into a single shot. |
| Jan. 18 |
Disease
and Diversity |
It's well
known that inbred animals are more likely to inherit genetic
diseases. But did you know that they are also more susceptible
to infectious diseases? |
| Jan. 17 |
Cloning
Sickness |
Many cloned
animals have unusual health problems. One listener asked what
goes wrong. |
| Jan. 13 |
Vaccine
Roundup |
In an unusual
twist, a bioengineered tobacco plant could save lives in the
case of a bioterrorist attack. |
| Jan. 12 |
Epigenome
Project |
Many genetic
diseases don't kick in unless triggered. Now scientists are
looking for those triggers in the chemicals attached to our
DNA. |
| Jan. 9 |
Addiction
Blocker |
A promising
chemical may counteract the brain changes that go hand-in-hand
with addiction. |
| Jan. 5 |
Noise
and Hearts |
A new study
shows that even a little noise could have a big effect on heart
health. |
| Jan. 4 |
Body
Image |
People
with anorexia and other eating disorders can become dangerously
thin but still feel overweight. New research may point to a
cause. |
