This Week on Sound Medicine...Sep 17

Tune in at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, 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 Barbara Lewis. Co-hosts of this week’s program are Stephen Bogdewic, PhD, and Ora Pecovitz, MD.

Guests will include, Ilam Wittstein , MD , a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who coined the term "broken heart syndrome" and will discuss the phenomenon of heart failure after a emotional event.

Samuel Mann, MD, of Weill Medical College of Cornell University, will discuss his new study that questions the relationship between job stress and high blood pressure.

Janet DiPietro, PhD, professor at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, talks about her recently published study on how stress affects fetal development.

Anne Cunningham, PhD, professor of cognition and development at University of California at Berkeley, shares her work on reading volume and its contribution to children and adults.

Field reporter Shia Levitt talks with Naomi Miller of the National Library of Medicine and Gary Schwitzer, SJMC, director of the health journalism program at the University of Minnesota about making sense of medical information.

Archived editions of Sound Medicine, as well as other helpful health information, can be found at soundmedicine.iu.edu/

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