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The Healthland Podcast: Killer Cantaloupe, Bullying, and Friend Networks
This week on the podcast, we discuss how to avoid listeria infection from fruit, the best ways to prevent bullying and new research on how people in more diverse environments end up having blander groups of friends. Click the …
The Healthland Podcast: “The Sibling Effect”
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The Healthland Podcast: Cervical Cancer, Blood-Donation Rules, and Testosterone
This week we discuss cervical cancer, IUDs and the politicized debate over HPV vaccination. We also talk about whether gay men should be allowed to donate blood and why fathering a child depletes testosterone. Listen to this …
The Healthland Podcast: We Debate the Long-Term Health Effects of 9/11
This week we talk about the lasting physical and mental-health effects of Sept. 11, 2001 — not just for New Yorkers but everyone who lived through the attacks. Click the play button below to listen immediately, or you can …
The Healthland Podcast: Civil Rights for the Ugly? Also: Vitamin Excess and Sunscreen in a Pill
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The Healthland Podcast: Dictators, Corporal Punishment and Supermoms
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The Healthland Podcast: How Exercise and TV Affect Life Expectancy. Also: The Divorce Stigma
The Healthland Podcast: Customizing Your Baby, Masturbation, and the Vaccine Wars
Welcome back! This week we debate the ethics of a blood test that can reveal your baby’s sex at just seven weeks of pregnancy. Also: a big new study on how masturbation affects sexual development. Finally, science editor Jeffrey …
The Healthland Podcast: Borderline Personality Disorder, Colon Health and Child Sexuality
This week we discuss the news that an NFL player suffers from the poorly understood psychiatric illness called borderline personality disorder. Also, should you have your colon cleaned? And we talk about the controversy over …
The Healthland Podcast: Menu Calorie Counts, the New Happy Meals, and Polygamy
Welcome again to the podcast, which is now available on iTunes! Click subscribe—it’s free, and you will get this podcast every week on your mobile device. This week we discuss why restaurant calorie counts may not work, why …
The Healthland Podcast: Restaurant Calories, Nutraceuticals, and Sexting
This week on the podcast, we discuss three topics: How restaurant chains may mislead you when writing their menus; whether nutraceuticals work; and new data on the perils of sexting. To hear the podcast, click this play button:
The Healthland Podcast: Superobese Kids, Parents on Facebook and Betty Ford’s Mixed Legacy
This week on the podcast, Healthland editor Sora Song asks whether child obesity is child abuse. TIME editor-at-large Belinda Luscombe reports that adults are less savvy on Facebook than teens. And TIME senior writer John Cloud …