Prozac versus placebo. New studies say that for many people antidepressants may not work much better than sugar pills. We’ll hear the debate.

The Swine Flu vaccine rolls out. We’ll look at vaccination questions and where the flu is now.

Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and former Vermont Governor and DNC Chairman Howard Dean, both doctors, take up the health care debate.

A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder about African genocide, global health, and his new book “Strength in What Remains.”

The health care debate gets hotter and hotter as the president pulls out the stops. We’ll look at the fight in Washington and what’s coming for American health care.

The federal government is pushing to transition our health records online. We’ll look at the benefits and challenges of such a move.

Tiny babies. Big challenges. We’ll go inside the world of neonatal medicine where miracles and tragedies happen every day.

The last episode airs, and we look at the long grip of the hospital drama on the American imagination.

Does the test designed to detect prostate cancer save lives? Two new studies raise big questions.

Stem cell researchers are making up for lost time, and looking forward to big medical breakthroughs. We’ll talk with two top scientists on the leading edge of stem cell research.

A new look at frontier medicine, and the wildest tonics of the old Wild West.

We’ll look at the evidence on popular treatments, from acupuncture to aromatherapy, and whether they’re effective.

Dr. Thomas Graboys talks about his own Parkinson’s disease.

For a long time in life, Alzheimer’s seems like somebody else’s problem. An issue for the unfortunate old. A misty, separate continent of life.
And then, it can hit you. Your own parents, needing help. Losing their grip. Your own odds of following them into Alzheimer’s — higher than you’d ever wish.
One in 10 people get [...]

There are headaches, and then there are migraines — gut-wrenching, brain-throbbing assaults to the head. They’re hard for most people to imagine, but for 30 million Americans, they’re a fact of life.
Once dismissed as psychosomatic, ‘in your head’ disorders, migraines are now gaining top billing as a disease and a public health issue. And if [...]

When Dr. Jerome Groopman was making his rounds as a young hospital resident, he misdiagnosed a patient’s chest pain. She died.
Now, three decades on, Groopman is one of the country’s most respected and widely-read physicians. He is also a Harvard med school professor and a writer for the New Yorker.
Now he’s writing about how doctors [...]

For decades, breast cancer was seen as an affliction of affluent women in the industrialized West. And heaven knows it is that. In the U.S., one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
But the world’s most lethal form of cancer for women is not bound by borders these days. From South America to [...]