A video game designed to heal
Story by Clark Boyd, The World. Use audio player above to listen to full report.For the past few months, researchers at Roessingh Rehabilitation Center in the Dutch town of Enschede, have been testing...
View ArticleParents of morbidly obese children under fire
Story from The Takeway. Use audio player above to listen to full report.An article published Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association says the state should intervene in cases of...
View ArticleIt's still sexy to smoke in Russia
Story by Jessica Golloher, The World. Use audio player above to listen to full report.Elena Zlatoustovskaya sits in a popular Moscow restaurant. She looks cool, sleek and sexy holding an ultra-slim...
View ArticleAIDS fighting drugs could prevent HIV
Story from The Takeaway. Use audio player above to listen to full report.Two new studies released on Wednesday show that taking a daily pill designed to fight AIDS can actually prevent an uninfected...
View ArticleBig pharma's role in mental illness
Story from The Takeaway. Listen to audio above for full report.For almost 40 years, conventional wisdom has been that mental illness is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. "Serotonin" is a...
View ArticleFraudulent stem cell claims worry scientists
Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio above for full report.While few doubt the promise of stem cells in the treatment of a host of diseases and conditions, false claims are cropping up that stem...
View ArticleResearch finds healthy lifestyle reduces risk of Alzheimer's
Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio above for full report.About 33.9 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease according to a recent study in the Lancet Neurology, which also predicts the...
View ArticleWhat gets buried: the impact of compulsive hoarding on children
Story from Here and Now. Use audio player above to listen to full report.Television programs like A&E’s "Hoarders" and Discovery Channel's "Hoarding: Buried Alive" have thrown the reality of...
View ArticleIncrease in C-Sections worldwide troubles health experts
Story by Chantal Anderson, PRI's The World. Use audio player above to listen to full report.In the United States, Caesarean sections have long been common, but rates are now rising fast in many less...
View ArticleStudy finds home births increase by 20 percent
Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio above for full report.A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that home births increased by 20 percent between 2004 and...
View ArticleSalmonella outbreak leads to largest meat recall in U.S. history.
Story from The Takeaway. Listen to audio above for full report.One person has died and at least 76 are ill after being exposed to a salmonella outbreak traced back to a Cargill meat production plant in...
View ArticleGenetically tailored virus may cure leukemia
Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio above for full report.Two leukemia patients are now cancer-free a year after they began a new treatment. The secret? A virus designed to attack cancer cells.The...
View ArticleMore access to healthy foods for low-income Americans
Story by Jessica Ilyse Smith, Living on Earth. Listen to audio above for full report.A record number of Americans are now receiving federal food aid. Forty-six million people a month -- half are kids....
View ArticleBreath test detects diabetes, cancer and other diseases
Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio for full report.Dr. Peter Mazzone, Pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic, is developing a breath test that he calls an "electronic nose." It sits on a cart,...
View ArticleHow fast food rewires our brains
Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio above for full report.Why do McDonald's, Starbucks and other chain restaurants offer huge dollops of whipped cream to consumers at no extra cost, but at more...
View ArticleNew food safety law's impact on Indian street food
Story by Elliot Hannon, PRI's The World. Listen to audio above for full report.At a small corner stall in the Old Delhi neighborhood of the Indian capital, a satellite dish sized pan sizzles with...
View ArticleOvertreatment of malaria in Africa raises concerns
Story by Jill Braden Balderas, PRI's The World. Listen to audio for full report.Prescribing malaria medication to patients who don’t need it wastes precious resources in countries like Uganda, which...
View ArticleForm of chronic, mild depresson often goes untreated
Story from Here and Now. Listen to audio for full report.A disorder called dysthymia is a mild, chronic depression that could last for decades. An estimated five percent of people have it, but most who...
View Article'Contagion': How real life could imitate art
Story from The Takeaway. Listen to audio for full report.Storming the box office this past weekend was Steven Soderbergh's thriller "Contagion," a suspense film following the worldwide spread of a...
View ArticleWIFI causes headaches, chronic pain for some
Story by The Takeaway. Listen to audio for full report.For some Americans, WIFI is more than just an annoyance -- it's a source of health problems. Electromagnetic hypersensitivity is a term for a...
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