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Breaking Down The Most Effective (And Ineffective) Treatments For ADHD | Primal Wounds: How To Break Harmful Cycles For Healthier Relationships
Saison 25 · Épisode 36
lundi 8 septembre 2025 • Durée 26:27
Breaking Down The Most Effective (And Ineffective) Treatments For ADHD
Synopsis: Every case of ADHD requires a unique treatment plan because no one child is the same. However, there are many options and not much research on how they all work independently and together. Our experts this week break down what research shows to be the most effective options and the surprising results for what doesn’t work.
Primal Wounds: How To Break Harmful Cycles For Healthier Relationships
Synopsis: Some psychotherapists theorize that our strongest emotional reactions often stem from childhood “primal wounds.” They can make us feel inadequate, powerless, or undeserving. While these triggers can create harmful cycles if ignored, our expert explains how they can act as protective mechanisms that can be our biggest strengths to improve relationships and turn vulnerabilities into personal superpowers.
Medical Notes: AI Can Diagnose Your Parkinson’s Disease, How Bacteria Can Lower Your Medical Bills, And The Dangers Of Dehydration
Some diseases are tough to self-diagnose, but AI is here to help. Does bacteria get a bad rap? Have you had enough water today? Probably not – and that’s a big problem.
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Primal Wounds: How To Break Harmful Cycles For Healthier Relationships
Saison 25 · Épisode 36
dimanche 7 septembre 2025 • Durée 09:56
Some psychotherapists theorize that our strongest emotional reactions often stem from childhood “primal wounds.” They can make us feel inadequate, powerless, or undeserving. While these triggers can create harmful cycles if ignored, our expert explains how they can act as protective mechanisms that can be our biggest strengths to improve relationships and turn vulnerabilities into personal superpowers.
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Facing Dementia: Early Detection And Advancements In Treatment
Saison 25 · Épisode 34
dimanche 24 août 2025 • Durée 13:51
Dementia can be a scary diagnosis. And though it’s an umbrella term for many conditions, identifying the specific cause is crucial for effective treatment. While most cases aren’t curable, our expert explains how advances like new blood tests, medications, and lifestyle changes can make a noticeable difference.
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Digital Therapy: Mental Health Apps May Be Selling Your Personal Data
Saison 25 · Épisode 6
dimanche 9 février 2025 • Durée 08:45
As mental health becomes a bigger topic of conversation in society, it makes sense that an entire digital industry has been built around it. Online therapy has become the new normal for many Americans, but such a saturated market means that consumers can’t trust every product. Dr. Stephanie Collier explains the value of digital therapy programs and reveals how to choose the safest, most effective option.
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Medical Notes: Week of May 5, 2019
Saison 19 · Épisode 18
dimanche 5 mai 2019 • Durée 02:59
Medical Notes for the week of May 5, 2019 including: A new cure for infants with Bubble Boys Disease. Then, a study in the American Journal of Public Health shows that depression, suicide, drug use, and alcohol abuse are rising for people in their late 30's, and finally, does smiling make you happier?
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High Drug Prices Lead to Drug Misuse
Saison 19 · Épisode 18
dimanche 5 mai 2019 • Durée 19:02
Dr. Stacie Dusetzina, Associate Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine has learned that 1 in 4 people have trouble filling their prescription. According to Dusetzina, people with chronic conditions, like cancer, have a greater risk of running into financial obstacles. One cancer patient is taking a stand against the financial burden of disease.
Millions of Americans cannot afford the medications they’ve been prescribed. Many skip doses, split pills, trade pills with friends and family, or don’t fill prescriptions at all as a result––with sometimes even fatal consequences. Dr. Stacie Dusetzina, Associate Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine has learned that 1 in 4 people have trouble filling their prescription. According to Dusetzina, people with chronic conditions, like cancer, have a greater risk of running into financial obstacles. One cancer patient is taking a stand against the financial burden of disease.
David Mitchell, a 68-year-old living with multiple myeloma is the founder of Patients for Affordable Drugs. The two drugs that make Mitchell’s rare form of cancer treatable cost $325,000 a year. For Mitchell, the only reason his drugs are affordable are thanks to insurance and the fact that his drugs are infused rather than pills. Mitchell is seemingly luck with his insurance and form of treatment. A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that up to 30% of prescriptions are never filled, with cost likely a contributing factor.
Some people can’t afford $50 a month for treatment, Dusetzina says, and the price can hinder people from taking the full prescription. Dusetzina believes, splitting up drug doses may be worse than taking none at all. Cutting medication could lead to drug resistance––an outcome potentially worse than taking no drug at all. In particular, Dusetzina says that patients who are rationing insulin are threatening their own lives to a sometimes fatal extent.
And it is not just the illness but also the stress that comes from the price of the drugs that can make someone worse, according to Mitchell. A solution the CDC has begun to work on to combat the pricing out drug dilemma would involve a system where a physician takes a patient’s insurance card and in real time knows the cost of the drug they are about to prescribe. This would be extremely beneficial for financial drug adjustment. According to the CDC, 60% of those who are uninsured have not asked their pharmacist or physician if there are cheaper treatment options––options that could be just as life-saving as the drugs themselves.
Guests:
David Mitchell, cancer patient, founder and President, Patients for Affordable Drugs
Dr. Stacie Dusetzina, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University
Links for more information:
Patients for Affordable Drugs – Our Team
Stacie B. Dusetzina, Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Brain Aneurysm Through the Eyes of a Survivor (2019)
Saison 19 · Épisode 18
dimanche 5 mai 2019 • Durée 13:20
One in every 50 Americans has a chance of experiencing the type of headache that no amount of medicine can dull. One with a 40% fatality rate. Typically non-symptomatic and often undiagnosed, brain aneurysms are bulging blood vessels in the brain (picture an expanding water balloon). 30,000 people per year have the misfortune of not recognizing their brain aneurysm until it ruptures and produces searing pain. A pain that prompted brain aneurysm survivor Janet Sutherland-Madden to call her mother one March afternoon to say what she believed to be her final goodbye.
What started as one of her daily headaches ended up bringing her dangerously close to death. Soon after Sutherland-Madden dialed 911, paramedics found her seizing on the kitchen floor and recognized that she was displaying the symptoms of a ruptured brain aneurysm. Amazingly, these paramedics had recently undergone training on how to identify brain aneurysms––a fact Sutherland-Madden recognizes as a true miracle.
Statistically, a brain aneurysm ruptures every 18 minutes, and ruptures have been found to occur twice as often in the African American community compared to Caucasians. Sutherland-Madden discusses these statistics and other truths in her new book Nose Over Toes––a product of her new-found mission to disseminate knowledge and raise awareness about aneurysms.
Learn more at: radiohealthjournal.org/brain-aneurysm-through-the-eyes-of-a-survivor/
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Amnesia: Waking up in the future
Saison 16 · Épisode 25
jeudi 2 mai 2019 • Durée 19:43
It's rare for people to lose their memory of past events. An expert discusses why doctors believe it occurs, and a woman to whom it happened recounts her experience.
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Correcting Color Blindness
Saison 15 · Épisode 15
jeudi 2 mai 2019 • Durée 14:07
Color blindness (or color vision deficiency) affects up to eight percent of men. Until recently, doctors could do nothing to treat it. Now high-tech glasses can make colors come alive for many people with the most common form of color blindness.Experts explain color blindness and the glasses that can treat it.
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Enhancing Food Safety
Saison 16 · Épisode 24
jeudi 2 mai 2019 • Durée 14:38
An expert discusses why food contamination scares are becoming more common, what producers are doing to protect us, and what we can do in our own kitchens to make foods safer.
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