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New Hampshire to Hold H1N1 Vaccine Clinics
By Elaine Grant on Monday, November 23, 2009.New Hampshire public health officials are scheduling swine flu vaccination clinics around the state starting this week.
But the clinics are limited to certain groups of at-risk people.
NHPR’s Elaine Grant has more.
NH Short on H1N1 Vaccine
By Elaine Grant on Monday, November 23, 2009.Like every other state, New Hampshire has a shortage of H1N1 vaccine.
Public health officials are trying to conserve doses for those at highest risk.
NHPR’s Elaine Grant has the details.
The People's Republic of Health Care
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, November 23, 2009.During his first official visit to China last week, President Obama said that the U.S. and China are not altogether dissimilar. Obama then returned to a country duking it out over health care reform, a conundrum that China knows all too well.
China is the world’s largest Communist country with 1.4 billion people who get head colds, and risk heart disease and cancer. The Chinese government has a standing commitment to providing health care for its citizens, a pledge now strained by China’s economic boom. While millions of Chinese have a better standard of living than they did five years ago, quality of medical care can’t keep up, leaving millions in need.
In addition, Chinese doctors are treated and paid like public servants, leading to a dangerous shortage of physicians in a country that’s quickly evolving into a world superpower.
Steven Mufson is a member of the Washington Post Foreign Service and he wrote about China’s deteriorating health care system for The Washington Post, and joins us with mre.
The Washington Post: In China, too, a health-care system in disarray
(Photo by lanchongzi via Flickr/Creative Commons)
New Challenges for Body Image
By Laura Knoy on Friday, November 20, 2009.For decades many Americans have struggled with how their bodies look, even to the point of danger. But in 2009, new challenges have come up, like cyber-anorexia clubs, the rise of eating disorders in men and boys and the tension between the "big is beautiful" movement versus America’s war against obesity.
Guest
- Barbara Jago, director of the Communication Arts program and associate professor of communication arts at UNH Manchester; she teaches about gender and body issues
- Suzanne Sonneborn, nutrition educator at the University of New Hampshire and coauthor of the cookbook Good Eats: Quick and Easy Food for Busy College Students
We'll also hear from
- Cass Mercer, senior at the University of New Hampshire majoring in women's studies, and director of a UNH production called "The Mind-Body Dialogues"
Moosewood for the new Millennium
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 19, 2009.
Mollie Katzen is a legend in my kitchen. The Moosewood Cookbook and the Enchanted Broccoli Forest were the first cookbooks I owned. Their hand drawn illustrations and folksy writing guided me through Moussaka and Swedish Cabbage Soup from college and on through adulthood.
My copies are now splattered with sauces and split at the bindings. But like many people, I find myself cooking the stuff I know over and over again, and I don't find myself in the kitchen as often as I used to. So I'm thrilled that Mollie has a new book and a new imperative: to "Get Cooking!"
She'll be visiting with University of New Hampshire students enrolled in the eco-gastronomy program this weekend, and signing copies of Get Cooking at River Run Bookstore in Portsmouth on Saturday.
Gourmet Dinner: Simply Southern with Mollie Katzen
The New York Times: Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch
Photo: Brady Carlson, NHPR
Your Skull in Resin
By Jen Nathan on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
When a surgeon steps into the operating room, what lies under a patient’s skin is a bit of a mystery. Medical modeling is helping tunlock the unknown with 3-D models based on a patient’s actual anatomy.
Surgeons can hold these models in their hands in pre-op and use them to plan and rehearse surgery, all of which can save precious time in the operating room. Word of Mouth’s Jen Nathan visited one of North Carolina’s top manufacturers to find out more.
(Photo courtesy Anatomics)
Scoring Corporations on Climate Change
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
Every time we go to the store, we face a myriad of decisions. Single or two-ply? Earth-friendly or generic? Organic or eco-safe? It’s not easy to discern the most environmentally friendly products and companies from those in green-friendly packaging.
ClimateCounts is working to change that. Every year, the Manchester-based non-profit releases a scorecard of Fortune 500 companies, like Levi Strauss and Microsoft, and ranks their climate change efforts. Everything from a company’s green house gas emissions to its engagement in public policy discussions get a mark on the scorecard.
As part of our next green thing series, Wood Turner, ClimateCount’s Executive Director, is with us in the studio to roll out this year’s scores for a Word of Mouth exclusive. We also spoke with Michael Kobori, VP for Social and Environmental Sustainability at Levi Strauss and Microsoft’s Director of Environmental Sustainability, Steve Lippman.
(Photo courtesy Jim via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
HHS Commissioner Provides "Sobering Numbers" to North Country
By Chris Jensen on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.North Country healthcare providers met recently with Nicholas Toumpas, head of the state’s Department of Health and Human Services .
They got some bad news, a pleasant surprise, and a plea for innovation.
NHPR correspondent Chris Jensen has the story.
LSD as Therapy
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
In the fall of 1965, Harvard professor Timothy Leary embarked on the Harvard Psilocybin Project in the hopes of finding new ways to reform convicted criminals, treat alcoholism, and help the population at large.
Leary’s project was shut down, but decades later, hallucinogens retained their mystique in popular culture. Benicio del Toro espoused the benefits of LSD to client Hunter S. Thompson, played by Johnny Depp, in the 1998 cult favorite Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Your attorney probably won’t recommend a dose of whatever’s in that brown bottle, but your doctor might. The medical and psychological community is studying hallucinogenics with renewed interest. The journal Neurology recently reported that LSD can be more effective than migraine medication for treating cluster headaches, and a study from the University of Arizona found that psychedelic mushrooms can offer temporary relief from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Arran Frood has been investigating the mental health community’s acceptance of hallucinogens for the Telegraph UK and joins us on the line now from England with more on the mental health community’s renewed interest in hallucinogenic drugs.
Telegraph UK: Can mind-altering drugs have mental health benefits?
Nature News: Ecstasy could augment the benefits of psychotherapy
Nature News: Illegal drug shows promise in treating trauma symptoms
The Independent: LSD Cured My Headache
(Photo courtesy Mod as Hell via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
Docs Who Rock
By Jen Nathan on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.These funk meisters are more than guitar heroes. They’re also soon-to-be doctors and orthodontists from Philadelphia’s most prestigious medical schools. The band Freaks of Nurture pick up their guitars, horns, and electric bass when they’re not learning how to perform surgery or treat hypertension.
Sadly, there was no winner at this year’s Med School Battle of the Bands. The Aerosmith and Black Eyed Peas covers were too compelling to pick just one stand-out band.
