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Segments by Date Fresh Air Archive: Interviews with Terry Gross

WEBIt's called "Beau Is Afraid." And it tells the darkly comic story of a man named Beau, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who's just trying to get home to visit his mother. …

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A Doctor Confronts Medical Errors — And Flaws In The System …

WEBDr. Danielle Ofri's new book, When We Do Harm, explores health care system flaws that foster mistakes — many of which are committed by caring, …

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How poverty and racism 'weather' the body, accelerating aging …

WEBPublic Health researcher Arline Geronimus makes the case that marginalized people suffer nearly constant stress from living with poverty and …

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How U.S. Health Care Became Big Business Fresh Air Archive

WEBJournalist and former physician Elisabeth Rosenthal on how American healthcare became big business, dysfunctional, and difficult for patients to navigate. …

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Understanding the mental health crisis afflicting American teens

WEBDAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. Last December, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a special advisory …

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A Doctor's View of Medical Testing at Holmesburg Prison

WEBAlexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. For several years, …

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Edward S. Golub Fresh Air Archive: Interviews with Terry Gross

WEBBiologist Edward Golub's book "The Limits of Medicine," explores the history of medical advances and argues that medicine's new goal should be to extend health, …

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Dr. Andrew Weil Discusses Working With the Body in Medicine.

WEBDr. Andrew Weil. He is one of the world's leading authorities on health, healing and medicine. His latest book Spontaneous Healing (Knopf) explores how to …

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Robert G Sharrar Fresh Air Archive: Interviews with Terry Gross

WEBDr. Robert Sharrar is an epidemiologist monitoring the spread of AIDS in Philadelphia as the Director of the Division of Disease Control at the Philadelphia Department of Health. …

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Susanna Kaysen Discusses her Time Spent in a Mental Hospital.

WEBAuthor Susanna Kaysen. At age eighteen, she was hospitalized in Boston's McLean Psychiatric Hospital. Her two years there, from 1967-1969 and experiences of …

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Cheap, Legal And Everywhere: How Food Companies Get Us …

WEBInvestigative journalist Michael Moss's 2013 book, Salt Sugar Fat, explored food companies' aggressive marketing of those products and their impact on our health. …

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This safety-net hospital doctor treats mostly uninsured and

WEBMany of Ricardo Nuila's patients at Houston's Ben Taub Hospital are dealing with serious illnesses as a result of not being able to access basic preventive care. His …

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Aging Offers Women 'Enormous Possibilities For Growth,' Says …

WEBAlexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. For several years, …

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Elyn Saks: A Scholar's Memoir of Schizophrenia

WEBIn The Center Cannot Hold, lawyer and psychiatry professor Elyn R. Saks chronicles her own struggle with schizophrenia. The battle began with early symptoms at …

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How Systemic Racism Continues To Determine Black Health And …

WEBThere is a 30-year gap in the life expectancies of Black and white Chicagoans depending on their ZIP code. Journalist Linda Villarosa says the disparity in …

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Terry Gross Fresh Air Archive: Interviews with Terry Gross

WEBTerry Gross is the host and an executive producer of Fresh Air, the daily program of interviews and reviews. It is produced at WHYY in Philadelphia, where Gross …

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Navajo Surgeon Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord. Fresh Air Archive: …

WEBDr. Lori Arviso Alvord is the first Navajo woman surgeon. She is the author of the new book "The Scalpel and the Silver Bear." (Bantam) In her practice, she combines …

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ACT UP Fights for Better AIDS Care

WEBYesterday President Bush voiced his opposition to federally funded needle exchange programs to stop the spread of AIDS. Today Terry talks with activist Rod …

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Remembering Esther Rome Fresh Air Archive: Interviews with …

WEBRome cofounded the Boston's Women's Health Collective, which published the book that became women's bible for healthcare, Our Bodies Ourselves. She talked with Terry in …

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