This Week on Sound Medicine

Tune in at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, to Sound Medicine, the weekly radio program co-produced by IUSM and WFYI Public Radio (90.1 FM) in Indianapolis. The program is hosted by Barb Lewis. Co-hosts of this week’s program are David Crabb, MD, Ora Pescovitz, MD, and Stephen Bogdewic, PhD.

Guests will include David Dunn, MD, who will discuss FDA concerns about some ADHD medications, including Strattera,which may cause suicidal thoughts in children and adolescents. Dr. Dunn is the training program director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine and he directs the Riley Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic.

Ann Lagges, PhD, will discuss the physical and emotional challenges surrounding childhood obesity. Dr. Lagges is an Indiana University School of Medicine clinical psychologist counseling children and their families on the issues relating to childhood obesity.

Medical ethics, politics and the “morning-after” pill will be discussed by Eric Meslin, PhD, director of the IU Center for Bioethics, when he makes his monthly appearance on Sound Medicine.

This week, Jeremy Shere defines “jugular.” Shere is a regular contributor to Sound Medicine. Archived editions of Sound Medicine, as well as other helpful health information, can be found at http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/index.html.

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