Health & Medicine

In the new book, Second Life: Having A Child In The Digital Age, Hess writes about how technology shapes every aspect of parenting — from our online identities to the pressures of sharing our lives in real-time.

ADHD has been considered a medical disorder, treatable with drugs like Ritalin, but New York Times Magazine writer Paul Tough says recent studies question that assumption and treatment options.

After 11 seasons playing Dr. John Carter on the hit medical show ER, actor Noah Wyle thought he was done with hospital scrubs. Then COVID-19 happened. Suddenly, Wyle began receiving letters from first responders, thanking him — and ER — for inspiring them to enter the field of medicine. He's now starring in and executive producing the Max series The Pitt.

New Yorker writer Sarah Stillman found dozens of cases of people with mental illness arrested for minor crimes and of deprived medication and healthcare. They died from malnutrition and dehydration.

J&J recently lost a bid to settle lawsuits that claimed its talc powder products, including baby powder, caused cancer. Author Gardiner Harris says the company's defense "is beginning to crumble."

Nunez's 2018 novel won the National Book Award. It's now a film, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, about a woman who inherits a dog after her friend's suicide. Originally broadcast in 2019.

Today, we're going to be talking about the importance of vaccines amid the growing avian bird flu and measles spread with pediatrician and infectious disease expert Dr. Adam Ratner. Twenty-five years ago, measles was declared eliminated in the United States. It was a long-fought win for pediatricians and researchers and those who work in infectious diseases. Today, however, measles is back. And Dr. Ratner says the resurgence points to a larger, more significant problem for public health.

Author Brittany Newell, who loves to write about the secret worlds of others, the things people do, she says, that make their lives more bearable. Her newest novel, "Soft Core," takes the reader into San Francisco's underworld of dive bars, strip clubs and BDSM dungeons, where tech bros, executives and outcasts live out their fantasies.

In 2019, Sarah Wildman's daughter, Orli, was just 10 when she was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare form a liver cancer. Over the next few years, Wildman chronicled Orli's illness for The New York Times, where she is a staff writer and editor for the Opinion section.

Actor and director Jesse Eisenberg discusses his new film, A Real Pain. It follows a man and his cousin on a Jewish heritage tour in Poland.

In her new book, "The Inner Clock: Living In Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms," Peeples gets into the latest science around our circadian rhythms and their importance in our overall health, even beyond the hours of sleep we get each night.

Caroline Crampton is the author of the new book "A Body Made Of Glass: A Cultural History Of Hypochondria."

In Price's novel, a Harlem apartment building collapses, upending the lives of its residents, including a photographer, a funeral director and a 42-year-old man who feels he has little to live for.

Journalist Annie Lowrey suffers from primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), a degenerative liver disease in which the body mistakenly attacks cells lining the bile ducts, causing them to inflame. The result is a severe itch that doesn't respond to antihistamines or steroids. Lowrey writes about living with PBC in the Atlantic article, "Why People Itch and How to Stop It."

The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. She writes about pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood in a new book of essays, Lifeform. Originally broadcast March 12, 2024.

Actor Saoirse Ronan is starring in two new films: Blitz and The Outrun. She joins Ann Marie Baldonado to discuss the movies and her experience as a child actor.

Riley Keough discusses From Here to the Great Unknown, her mother Lisa Marie Presley's memoir, which Riley co-authored. Lisa Marie Presley died in 2023. She was Elvis' only child.

In The Substance, Moore plays an aging actress who uses a black-market drug to create a younger version of herself. She says the film examines the pressures middle-aged women face to remain youthful.

Dr. Ala Stanford is the founder of the Philadelphia-based Center for Health Equity and the Black Doctors Consortium. Her new memoir is called "Take Care Of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, And A Surgeon's Fight For Health Justice."

Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the author of the new book "Gray Matters: A Biography Of Brain Surgery." He's an attending neurological surgeon and a professor of neurological surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine.