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Radio Health Journal AURN
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- Health & Fitness
Each week, Radio Health Journal breaks down important news in medicine, science and technology with the help of world-renowned experts. Our three weekly segments will help guide you to a happier, healthier life – with some fun facts to share at dinner parties. Can magic mushrooms cure your depression? Have we outrun natural selection?
Hosted by Elizabeth Westfield, Greg Johnson and Shel Lustig and produced by Kristen Farrah and Amirah Zaveri. New shows posted each Sunday by 5 a.m. EST. Subscribe, listen, and rate. If you’re looking for older episodes, you can find our entire segment catalog on our website radiohealthjournal.org. Also, check out the latest on Facebook and Instagram @radiohealthjournal and on X @RadioHealthJrnl.
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Medical Notes: Curing Your Diabetes, The Cicada Invasion, And How Coal Trains Are Ruining Communities
Why the coal industry needs a new transportation model. Can you cure your diabetes? The cicada invasion may be worse than expected.
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Sick And Desperate: How Gofundme Exposes America’s Failing Health System
Medical crowdfunding allows strangers to donate to someone’s kidney surgery or next insulin purchase. It’s a great opportunity for a community to lift each other up, but should people have to resort to asking strangers for money for their health issues? Our expert explains why crowdfunding isn’t filling the gap left by America’s broken healthcare system.
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Climate Change Will Cause Forced Migration – Are You Vulnerable?
Climate change affects everything from economics and environment to global policy and crime levels. Recent reports on the drastic weather changes may make it seem irreversible, but nothing’s set in stone. Our experts discuss what the future will look like if we’re able to make the necessary changes – and if we’re not.
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Medical Notes: The Foolproof Way To Remember Names, Increasing Diversity In Stem Programs, And What’s Causing The Rise Of Measles
Should you be worried about measles? If you’re bad with names, we may have found the solution. How to increase diversity in stem programs.
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The Nursing Home Shortage Is Going To Leave Many Of Us Without Care
The ongoing nursing home shortage was only made worse by the pandemic – and still hasn’t recovered. In fact, Dr. Michael Barnett, associate professor of health policy and management, doesn’t think it can unless industry-wide changes are made. He offers different solutions and advice on how to prepare for when it affects you.
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‘They’d Rather Go Back To Combat’: Men Facing Their Military Sexual Trauma
One in fifty male veterans report having experienced military sexual trauma (MST), but not much research has been done around the best treatment to help these men heal. 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.
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