Medicine & Health

Tonya Mosley interviews Dr. MARY FARIBA AFSARI, a board-certified ob-gyn who walked away from a traditional practice, bought a 31-foot RV, and turned it into one of the country's only mobile gynecology clinics. Her book, Labor: One Woman’s Work, recounts her decision to leave traditional practice to reach communities most abandoned by our current healthcare system.

In Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy, Mary Roach chronicles both the history of body part replacement (including prosthetic noses that date back to the 1500s), as well as more recent medical breakthroughs.

ProPublica health care reporter David Armstrong has multiple myeloma. He says a single pill of his prescription costs the company just 25 cents to make — but costs him about the same as a new iPhone.

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.

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.

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

Bailey Williams, has written a new book that gives a vivid and at times brutal look at being a woman in the Marine Corps while struggling with disordered eating.

Historian Mary Ziegler talks about the legal battles shaping reproductive rights across the U.S. — including the scope of abortion access and the fate of invitro-fertilization.

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.