The Health Show

OxyContin is a powerful pain medication first introduced in 1995. Since then it’s been a godsend to people suffering from trauma, ...

In the 1990s, the US Food and Drug Administration claimed it had the authority to regulate tobacco as a drug. In 2000, the Supreme Court ...

Just a couple of weeks ago President Obama made history by nominating Judge Sonia Maria Sotomayor as the next associate justice to the ...

The term “power couple” could have been invented for Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn. The pair have been mainstays on Washington DC scene ...

Here’s a tip for anyone looking into producing a program about health...if you want to get some nasty hate mail, do a show about Lyme ...

Okay, a quick show of hands...how many of you are looking forward to spending your senior years in a nursing home? Even if I could see you ...

Lately there has been a lot of talk about health insurance and what to do for the millions of Americans that are uninsured. But there is ...

A H1-N1. That’s the official name for the virus that everyone is calling the Swine Flu. The first outbreaks of the flu came from a rural ...

Ever since the first rumblings of the Bird Flu early in the decade, health and government officials have been gearing up for a possible flu ...

You may or may not have noticed, but the economy has taken a bit of a tumble lately. Okay, so this isn’t exactly Marketplace...but with ...

The headlines spread like lightning around the world...actress Natasha Richardson dies after what seemed to be a minor fall on a ski slope, ...

Spring is finally starting to show its face in most of the country...and its bringing something we could probably do without: ticks. And ...

Arthritis of the knee...it’s almost painful just to say the words. For years the best chance for permanent pain relief was a total knee ...