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A heartbreaking account of a medical miracle: how one woman’s cells – taken without her knowledge – have saved countless lives. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story of race, class, injustice and exploitation. ‘No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating...

THE LIFE MEDICAL explores the lives and work of medical professionals across the country. Hosted by brain surgeon Dr. Peter Zahos, the series brings listeners inside the lives of doctors and medical staff working round the clock to heal the sick. Through intimate audio journals, interviews, and live medical recordings in the OR, ER and ICU, the audience is taken inside the real struggles and life-saving successes of those working in the medical arts.

Flight for Life is the heart-stopping account of one of the most gripping rescue missions in African history, told by a doctor involved in saving the lives of Nigerian workers who became victims of a tragic American chemical company explosion. Dr. Stewart and his colleague moved mountains and cut red tape to fly patients to one of the premiere burn centers in the United States.

As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, 'old' has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we’ve made old age into a disease.

Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. She’s gone from size AA to DDD and everything between, from puberty to motherhood, enhancement to cancer, and beyond. And she’s not alone - these are classic life stages for women today. At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob’s Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman’s body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women’s liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman.

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Who are you? It’s the most fundamental of human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to view them from the comfort of an air-conditioned motorcoach? Our personalities are endlessly fascinating—not just to ourselves but also to our spouses, our...

In Beyond the Scrubs: Life Stories of Medical Providers, we dive deep into the lives of medical providers and explore the personal stories that go beyond their scrubs.

As a black doctor working on the frontline of the NHS, Matt Hutchinson hears these words all too often. In this book, he offers a compelling glimpse into the unvarnished reality of working in healthcare as an ethnic minority. Tracing his journey from medical school through to working at some of the country's most chaotic hospitals, Matt uncovers how the true backbone of the NHS is the diverse community of immigrant healthcare workers who work tirelessly to keep the show on the road.

The story of Jamie Bérubé’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American life Published in 1996, Life as We Know It introduced Jamie Bérubé to the world as a sweet, bright, gregarious little boy who loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. When he is asked in his...

Joanna Moncrieff is a British psychiatrist and academic. She is Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London and a leading figure in the Critical Psychiatry Network. Her books The Myth of the Chemical Cure, The Bitterest Pills and Chemically Imbalanced are central texts in the critical psychiatry movement. Joanna exposes a medical myth that has misled millions of people into taking powerful psychotropic drugs unnecessarily. She discusses the dangerous side-effects associated with this family of drugs and the equally dangerous medicines being explored by ...

A heroic doctor’s unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. ‘A brilliant insight into the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of humanitarian emergencies.’ Jon Snow, Channel 4 News This is a story of tireless hard work and astonishing bravery. Tony...

Balancing the nutritional needs of a child with Autism is of paramount importance. Correcting the child's diet can significantly change their behavioral health for the better and improve their quality of life into adulthood. Monica Price is a business leader, broadcaster, writer and a go-to health and wellbeing expert, working with BBC, ITV, Sky News, GB News, TalkTV, Times Radio and many other national television and radio stations across the UK. She has over 20 years' experience in the health and wellbeing industry. She is regular health contributor for Great British Life magazines, ...

Kathleen O’Hara, is an author and international psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience helping families and individuals face the complex challenges of life in the 21st century. She is a trusted adviser to clients requiring exceptional care and tailored solutions to complex counselling and crisis issues. This includes: Relationship (to self and others), trauma, self-esteem, confidence, communications, divorce anxiety, depression, illness, addiction, and crisis management, caused by a sudden event that has catastrophic consequences. She works with family businesses globally a well as...

Laughter & Psychology Dr Brian Kaplan, MD is a medically qualified doctor with a long-standing interest in holistic medicine. A pioneer in integrating warm hearted comedy and reverse psychology into therapy and coaching, he uses humour as a powerful tool for emotional insight, healing, and personal transformation. This podcast discusses laughter and psychology. Examining the benefits associated with changes to the human body during laughter and how this affects our overall mental and physical health. https://drkaplan.co.uk/

Monica Price is a business leader, broadcaster, writer and a go-to health and wellbeing expert, working with BBC, ITV, Sky News, GB News, TalkTV, Times Radio and many other national television and radio stations across the UK. She is a regular health contributor for Great British Life magazines, ABC Early Years magazines, and more recently Desert Health USA, where she has a regular nutritional column for the readers offering her expertise in health and nutrition.

Brought to you by Penguin. By the end of this century, living beyond 100 will be the rule rather than the exception. What medical breakthroughs and new technologies will make this possible? In this brilliantly wide-ranging, one-stop guide WIRED journalist James Temperton outlines the medical...

APA's Medical Mind Podcast covers the latest in psychiatric medicine and emerging trends in the field of mental health care. APA members and other health care professionals provide insight into the intersection between mind, brain and body. The Medical Mind is the home for all of APA's podcast content, and features new series and as well as highlights from AJP Audio, Finding our Voice, Psychiatric Services from Pages to Practice, and more. DISCLAIMER: This podcast is subject to the Terms of Use at www.psychiatry.org. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual ...

Physician Interviews and Stories. Emergency Physician Dr. Paris Lovett chats with other doctors about their lives and their work in medicine. Storytelling and discussion for a general audience, plus special episodes for medical students.

Dr Brian Kaplan MD qualified as an orthodox medical doctor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. In 1982 he came to England to study homeopathy at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. After completing a comprehensive training in homeopathy (exclusively for medical doctors) he became a member of the Faculty of Homeopathy in 1983 and a Fellow in 2002.