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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113870280 IRA FLATOW, host: You're listening to SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR News. I am Ira Flatow. Up next, the latest on a mysterious […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15848564 FARAI CHIDEYA, host: You've heard of reality TV, but how about reality medicine? This year, the National Institute of Child Health and […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10442364 IRA FLATOW, host: You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. And now for something else, another scientific […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5353492 MICHEL MARTIN, host: A new study by the Centers for Disease Control on prevention on male prisoners in Georgia challenges some of […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5315150 IRA FLATOW, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY. I am Ira Flatow. A little bit later in the hour […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5315333 ALEX CHADWICK, host: This is DAY TO DAY from NPR News. A clinical study on the power of prayer. This is a […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5299790 IRA FLATOW, host: You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Up next, some intriguing and controversial news […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5239949 LYNN NEARY, host: Well, most people do expect science to give clear-cut answers to problems, and they think that if you test […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5194224 ALEX CHADWICK, host: This is DAY TO DAY. Now a story that never ends, that of the American Civil War. There's a […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5178418 ED GORDON, host: Dr. Gadson is just one of many physicians working hard to help African Americans stop smoking. You can add […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4989790 IRA FLATOW, host: You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. We're talking this hour about the flu, about […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4755907 JOE PALCA, host: From NPR News, this is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Joe Palca. Up next, a progress report on […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4696065 FARAI CHIDEYA, host: This is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya. How are African-American women confronting eating disorders, obesity and pop culture […]

NEAL CONAN, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. Over four and a half million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's, a dreaded disease that slowly eats […]

MADELEINE BRAND, host: The Food and Drug Administration is about to make a decision that could affect the health of millions of Americans. It's deciding whether to pull a class […]

IRA FLATOW, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. And for the rest of the hour, we're going to be talking about some interesting new research […]

TAVIS SMILEY, host: In your health segment today, the diagnosis on a new medication marketed specifically to African-Americans. A recent report suggests that a pill, known as BiDil, may just [...]

ALEX CHADWICK, host: Malaria kills more than one million people a year, mostly children and mostly in Africa. Some malaria researchers didn't think it would be possible to create a […]

JOE PALCA, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR News. And I'm Joe Palca sitting in for Ira Flatow. Later in the hour, we'll take a look […]

IRA FLATOW, host: You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. And for the rest of the hour, a look at Alzheimer's disease. The death of President […]

JOE PALCA, host: From NPR News, this is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Joe Palca. For the rest of this hour, a smallpox preparation update. In December of 2002, […]

IRA FLATOW, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. My doctor told me not to go into medicine. He has a son who is also a […]

NEAL CONAN, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. It happened in 1980, but it was truly a millennial achievement. Public health officials announced the […]

PAUL RAEBURN, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR News, and I'm Paul Raeburn sitting in for Ira Flatow. Later this hour, we'll speak to Robert Horvitz, […]

IRA FLATOW, host: You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. And for the rest of the hour, we're going to turn to a disease that former […]

NEAL CONAN, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. This is the second in our monthlong series on women's health. We started last week with […]

NEAL CONAN, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. When it comes to women's health, there is no shortage of advice. Unidentified Woman #1: Ladies, […]

IRA FLATOW, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. We often picture doctors scurrying quickly from office to office or through the hallways of hospitals from […]

IRA FLATOW, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I am Ira Flatow. Later in the hour, we'll talk with a computer forensics expert about searching for electronic evidence […]

IRA FLATOW, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I am Ira Flatow. There are a few hot button words in the world of medical research, words like Mengele […]

IRA FLATOW, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION/SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Many of us know someone with Alzheimer's disease; perhaps a parent, relative or friend. And we're all […]

IRA FLATOW, host: We're going to switch gears now and talk about a major health problem, something all of us over 50 have thought about in the middle of one […]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113650222 RENEE MONTAGNE, host: We have news, now, of a scientific breakthrough about a disease that affects over a million people in the [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10239452 MICHELE NORRIS, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris. ANDREA SEABROOK, host: And I'm Andrea Seabrook. Scientists [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7815086 STEVE INSKEEP, host: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. There's a category of illnesses in the developing world called [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5462419 ROBERT SIEGEL, host: In 2004, Merck0x20& Company pulled its painkiller Vioxx from the market. The drug was causing heart problems, strokes and [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5339022 MICHELE NORRIS, host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Michele Norris. His patients in Alabama know him simply as [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5302923 RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Scientists are reporting a new way to lower cholesterol, and it's particularly exciting because the new approach uses a [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5285721 RENEE MONTAGNE, host: We're going to add one more voice to the conversation you just heard between Joshua and Sarah Littman. It's [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5260387 MICHELE NORRIS, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel. Every [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5219917 MICHELLE NORRIS, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michelle Norris. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel. Soon [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5183596 MELISSA BLOCK, host: Many women may have heat disease that standard tests won't detect, which means they may be sent home by [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4974288 MELISSA BLOCK, host: Researchers say pneumonia can be prevented in older adults not just by making sure adults get immunized but also [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4855599 STEVE INSKEEP, host: Drug treatments for people with schizophrenia do not work as well as some doctors had thought or as well [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4813386 RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Heroin withdrawal is painful. Some medications help ease patients through the experience, and one method claims to be relatively [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675938 MELISSA BLOCK, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. MICHELE NORRIS, host: And I'm Michele Norris. Anyone [...]

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4634270 MELISSA BLOCK, host: San Francisco was the front-runner, and today it won the heated competition for California's new stem-cell research institute. Besides [...]

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Today, a panel of menopause experts convened by the National Institutes of Health recommended more research into alternatives to hormone replacement therapy. That treatment lost favor just [...]

ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Today, a panel of menopause experts convened by the National Institutes of Health recommended more research into alternatives to hormone replacement therapy. That treatment lost favor just [...]

RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Last fall, California voters approved an embryonic stem cell measure and backed it with billions of dollars of taxpayer money. It was an attempt to compensate for [...]