Aug 31, 2022
Unprecedented heat waves drove temperatures to historic highs this summer across the U.S. and Europe. Ollie Jay, PhD, professor and director of the Heat and Health Research Incubator at the University of Sydney in Australia, talks about what our bodies might be facing as temperatures rise and offers suggestions for how...
Aug 25, 2022
Some 7.5 million people in the US have psoriasis, but white people are diagnosed twice as much as people of color. Could skin tone be a barrier to diagnosis -- and treatment? Alisha Bridges discusses the emotional impact of life with this chronic condition, as well as barriers to treatment she encountered. We also talk...
Aug 18, 2022
In the U.S., Black women are nearly three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. Why is this, and what would help save their lives? We speak with Tonya Lewis Lee, co-director and co-producer of the new Hulu documentary Aftershock, about these issues, the women lost to maternal...
Aug 4, 2022
What happens in the brain when we experience addiction? Do some people just have more of an addictive personality than others? We talk with Bret S. Stetka, MD, Medscape's Neurology and Psychiatry editorial director, about different chemical messengers, neurotransmitter networks, our brains' complex reward systems, and...