Health

The DirtBag on Beneficial Insects

Airs at: Sun, 04/13/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Dirtbag
Host Glen Andresen discusses food for beneficial insects including pollen, nectar...and aphids! Read more

Our Daily Meds - Melody Petersen

Airs at: Sun, 04/13/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Healthwatch
Dr. David Naimon (DrNaimon.com) interviews Melody Petersen, (New York Times) the author of Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. Read more

Do Doctors Want National Health Insurance?

Airs at: Sun, 04/06/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
 An estimated 47 million Americans lack health insurance coverage while another 50 million are underinsured.A new survey released yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a leading medical journal, shows a majority of American doctors are for establishing national heat... Read more

Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms - Joan Liebman-Smith

Airs at: Sun, 04/06/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Healthwatch
Dr. David Naimon hosts. His guest is is veteran medical journalist Joan Liebmann-Smith, the author of Body Signs: From Warnings Signs to False Alarms.  How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective. (Random House) Read more

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Airs at: Sun, 03/30/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Healthwatch
Host Dr. David Naimon talks with journalist Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Pollan's advice to "Eat food, not much, and mostly plants" is not quite as easy as it sounds, since most of what you find at today's g... Read more

interview with my mother!

Airs at: Tue, 03/04/2008 at 4:00pm
musings on healing  and womanhood with the lady who gave birth to me...  Read more

Using Wood Chips in the Garden

Airs at: Sun, 03/09/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  The Dirtbag
Host Glen Andresen busts myths about using wood chips in the garden. Read more

Will Healthcare ever be affordable?

Airs at: Sun, 03/09/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Healthwatch
Martha Odom Hosts. Today, her guest is Dr. Don McCanne, former president and current Senior Policy Fellow at Physicians for a National Health Program (www.pnhp.org). They’ll discuss the crisis in affordable health care and how to fix it. Dr. McCanne will speak in Portland... Read more

Pharmacists on Healthcare, Drugs and More

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2008 at 4:00pm
Abe Proctor and Joe Uris interview Don West and Mark Ruska, pharmacists from the Lloyd Center Pharmacy about  compounding prescriptions, the FDA, "big Pharma," the Board of Pharmacy and pharmaceuticals in our society. Read more

Health Disparities in Minority Populations

Airs at: Sun, 03/02/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Healthwatch
Today's guests are Graham Haramein, Co-chair of the Diversity and Quality Team and Manager of HIV Care Services at the Multnomah County Health Department, and Shad Alexander, a therapist at the Quest Center for Integrative Health (www.projectquest.org). Dr. David Naimon ho... Read more