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East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s Dr. Trede and Ms. Shapiro, a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Discuss the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey Findings in Light of Their Clinical Care (May 17th)
In February the CDC released its latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey findings. Somewhat needless to say the data is discouraging. For example, in 202…
3 years ago
Ms. Kelly Willis Discusses the IPCC's "Last Warning" Report and the Upcoming COP 28 Meeting (April 18th)
This past March 20th the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its fourth and last sixth assessment cycle (AR6) …
3 years, 1 month ago
280th Interview: Mr. Clark Reed, the EPA's Energy Star National Program Manager, Explains the Energy Star Program (March 24th)
In June 2021 I argued in STAT News that HHS require healthcare providers to publicly disclose their GHG emissions that in turn would help enable the …
3 years, 2 months ago
Oxford Professor Neta Crawford Discusses Her Just-Published, "The Pentagon, Climate Change and War" (March 22nd)
The US government is frequently defined generally as an army with an insurance company. Regarding the latter, podcast listeners are well aware feder…
3 years, 2 months ago
Dr. Eric Reinhart Remembers Paul Farmer (March 13th)
Dr. Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away on February 21, 2022. He was 62. Trained as physician and medical anthropologist, Dr. Farmer was known mo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Stanford's Mark Jacobson Discusses His Latest, "No Miracles Needed, How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air" (March 6th)
Listeners may recall two years ago this past month I interviewed Professor Jacobson regarding his text “100% Clean Renewable Energy and Storage for E…
3 years, 3 months ago
Prof. Julianne Holt-Lunstad Discusses Social Isolation and Loneliness (February 15th)
Since suicides serve as a proxy measure for social isolation and loneliness (SIL), last week the CDC reported after declines in 2019 and 2020, suicid…
3 years, 3 months ago
Prof. Toshihiro Higuchi Discusses His Work, "Political Fallout, Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis" (February 8th)
The word Anthropocene has been used over the past 20 years to define the modern era during which time man has come to shape the environment. This re…
3 years, 3 months ago
275th Interview: John Abraham Discusses the Continued Rapid Increase in Ocean Heat Content (January 23rd)
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(Listeners may recall Professor Abraham discussed 2021 ocean warming last year on January 18.)
As a possible reminder, oceans, that cover 71…
3 years, 4 months ago
Attorney Ms. Jayne Conroy Discusses Prosecuting Healthcare Fraud in Part Via Use of Criminal Statutes (January 19th)
US healthcare fraud remains pervasive. For example, this past November Pro Publica and The New Yorker published, “How the Visionary Hospice Movement…
3 years, 4 months ago