Medicine

May 21, 2013

May 20, 2013

On The Lines Between Us, we talk with Trina Morris of the Recovery Network-University Psychological Center and Carl Lejuez of University of Maryland, College Park about the stigma of drug addiction.

Then, inmates from the Maryland Correctional Training Facility in Hagerstown perform The 'N' Word, as part of the Direct Responses Alleviate Misdirected Aggression (D.R.A.M.A.) program.  Tom Hall discusses the play with play director Bashi Rose and D.R.A.M.A's Mike Perry.

April 26, 2013

More than 17,000 people in Baltimore are addicted to an illegal substance.  That’s about 3.3 percent of the population—higher than the national average.  

April 3, 2013

Maryland is negotiating the biggest changes in its health system in four decades, even bigger than the changes facing other states, because Maryland is the only state with authority to set hospital charges that are paid by all insurers, and by uninsured patients.

Web Extra: Carmela Coyle on the growth rate of hospital costs

Web Extra: What would the change mean for Maryland hospital patients?

Web Extra: What is at stake financially with the change?

Web Extra: What would the Maryland Hospital Association have liked to see proposed that wasn't?

March 26, 2013

March 19, 2013

Many of us may think of post-traumatic stress disorder as happening to soldiers, or survivors of sexual assault. But, a new study from Johns Hopkins finds that symptoms also occur among patients in Intensive Care Units. We talk about how it can be prevented with the study's leader, psychiatrist Joseph Bienvenu.

Then, the play “Mud Blue Sky” has its world premiere at Center Stage tomorrow. Tom Hall talks with the playwright Marisa Wegrzyn and director Susanna Gellert.

February 6, 2013

Almost two-thirds of adults over the age of 70 suffer from significant hearing loss. A new study from Johns Hopkins found that hearing loss can lead to decline in how well your brain functions.

The U.S. has a shortage of primary-care physicians and few new med-school graduates plan careers in general internal medicine, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The shortage deprives 60 million Americans of adequate care, according to the National Association of Community Health Centers. A third study, in the Annals of Family Medicine, estimates that 52,000 new primary-care doctors will be needed by 2025 just to keep up with population growth and the expansion of Obamacare. A look at the PCP shortage with Dr.