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Radio Health Journal has provided listeners with award-winning coverage of issues in health since 1992. Here are some recent topics:
2008 Radio Health Journal program topics

Date

Pgm # Topics
05-18 08-20 Creating personal health records; Sadness and spending; A Healthier World: Pregnancy and seatbelts
05-11 08-19 Hand hygiene in restaurant kitchens; How does our name affect us? A Healthier World: Who's living longer and who's not
05-04 08-18 Head lice; Children's food allergies; A Healthier World: An alarm about public sanitation
04-27 08-17 Workplace injuries; Sleeping two in a bed; A Healthier World: Preparing for travel
04-20 08-16 Will your employer drop your group health plan? Food chemicals; A Healthier World: Smoking and pregnancy
04-13 08-15 Bullying: a victim's prescription; Sickle cell pain; A Healthier World: Consequences of sleep loss
04-06 08-14 Internet date matching: can you really find your true love? Bad celebrity behavior: how to keep kids from being influenced: A Healthier World: Analyzing hair to find cancer
03-30 08-13 American birth rates vs. the rest of the world; Should baseball allow steroids and HGH? A Healthier World: Why the widowed die sooner
03-23 08-12 Auditing health insurance dependents; Is there French in our healthcare future? A Healthier World: The need for refugee healthcare
03-16 08-11 A critical time for gambling addicts; Dogs and health; A Healthier World: The importance of CPR
03-09 08-10 The new PE for body and mind; Hangover remedies; A Healthier World: The science of why we itch
03-02 08-09 Agoraphobia; Why we dream; A Healthier World: Pedometers for weight loss
02-24 08-08 Dismissive doctors; Kids and cold medication; A Healthier World: Coffee and miscarriage
02-17 08-07 Hospice and Alzheimer's Disease; Asthma treatment; A Healthier World: Uncovering medical mistakes
02-10 08-06 Health insurance subrogation; Hypnosis; A Healthier World: Chocolate and brittle bones
02-03 08-05 Sports Injuries: do athletes come back too soon? "Friends with benefits"; A Healthier World: Hostility and heart disease
01-27 08-04 Sports nutrition labeling; What coughs tell us; A Healthier World: Winter safety precautions
01-20 08-03 Improving outcomes of foster care; The psychology of Mars mission; A Healthier World: Red meat's cancer connection
01-13 08-02 "Behind the counter" drugs; Medical leeches and maggots: overcoming the "ick factor"; A Healthier World: Skiing injuries increasing worldwide
01-06 08-01 Caregiver discrimination; Smoking and the workplace; A Healthier World: Children's burn injuries.
2007 Radio Health Journal program topics
Date Pgm # Topics
12-30 07-52 Deadly MRSA infections; Limb lengthening
12-23 07-51 Hearing aids; Environmental progress
12-16 07-50 Are the risks of overweight overstated? The "misguided" war on cancer
12-09 07-49 Adoption health records; Do the holidays age us?
12-02 07-48 Acupuncture: how does it work? Preventing preemies
11-25 07-47 Technology for aging; Music and the brain
11-18 07-46 Commuting stress; Life on dialysis
11-11 07-45 Body part and tissue donation; Smart helmets
11-04 07-44 Lead in children; Doctor's dress code
10-28 07-43 Is lethal injection unconstitutionally cruel? Advances in radiation for breast cancer
10-21 07-42 Good and bad teens; Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
10-14 07-41 Dwindling burn centers; The science of laughter
10-07 07-40 Negotiating hospital bills; Reasons for eating
09-30 07-39 Selective mutism; Designer smells
09-23 07-38 Police and the mentally ill; Scar-free surgery
09-16 07-37 Baby dumping; "You give me your organ, Ill give you mine"
09-09 07-36 Imported food safety; What is it about alcohol?
09-02 07-35 Cold for heart attacks and exercise endurance; Pet death and grief
08-26 07-34 Pregnancy loss; The "Five Second Rule"
08-19 07-33 Acquaintance rape on campus; Roots of the health insurance crisis
08-12 07-32 Hospitals and noise; Can we teach wellness by adjusting attitudes?
08-05 07-31 Planning for the elderly boom; A novel treatment for multiple sclerosis
07-29 07-30 Veganism and infants; Health myths and truths
07-22 07-29 The bugs inside us; Hyperbaric oxygen for autism
07-15 07-28 Barrett's esophagus; Memory loss in middle age
07-08 07-27 Adoption medicine; A heart bridge for children
07-01 07-26 School BMI Testing; The elusive perfect office temperature
06-24 07-25 Adolescent medicine; The marketing of cigarettes
06-17 07-24 Apologies and malpractice; "Dangerous Childhood"
06-10 07-23 Psychopaths; The pain and pleasure of spending money
06-03 07-22 Hunger in America; Herb/drug interaction
05-27 07-21 "Misattributed paternity"; Hypoallergenic cats
05-20 07-20 School alcohol testing; America's hang-up with breastfeeding
05-13 07-19 Technology addiction; How doctors think
05-06 07-18 "Manorexia:" eating disorders in men; Crohn's disease
04-29 07-17 Pediatric brain tumors; Cosmetic foot surgery
04-22 07-16 Age and kidney transplants; Nuclear power and the environment
04-15 07-15 Mammography rates dropping: what does it mean? Iraq War medicine
04-08 07-14 Cloned meat and milk: will it fly? Cancer patient navigators
04-01 07-13 Increasing violence among girls; Trichotillomania
03-25 07-12 Social host laws for underage drinking; Eldercare: avoiding stress by avoiding guilt
03-18 07-11 Health insurance and government -- part two; Telemedicine in the internet age
03-11 07-10 Health insurance and governmenet -- part one; Circumcision: a tough decision
03-04 07-09 "Smart Drugs" on campus; Teaching children with autism
02-25 07-08 Sex education for seniors; Food and relationships
02-18 07-07 Wound care--not all doctors can do it; Research abuse against African Americans
02-11 07-06 The danger of transfats; Intermittent explosive disorder
02-04 07-05 Revising zero tolerance; Body language in sports
01-28 07-04 Urban sprawl and public health; Breast cancers husbands
01-21 07-03 Sick days; Revisiting America's uninsured
01-14 07-02 Medically impaired drivers; Dying to be thin
01-07 07-01 Short kids in a tall world; Social skills for learning disabled children
 
 

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