“Sound Medicine Radio Hour” and similar random podcasts

Every week rely on authoritative reporting and insightful interviews illuminating the latest medical research and health-related headlines heard on public radio. Your host Barbara Lewis provides in-depth, accurate and actionable information. You’ll find field reports, stories, in-studio newsmakers, personal essays, and quirky information about health and medicine you can’t find anywhere else. In this final episode of the Sound Medicine Radio Hour: We tailor glasses to your eyes and blood transfusions to your blood type, so why isn’t more of medicine specific to the patient receiving treatment? We hear from Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute on how the new Precision Medicine Initiative plans to use the power of genetic sequencing to develop innovative treatments for cancer and other diseases. We check in with the director of a VA hospital to learn what progress has been made in the past year, and we learn about how a study on breast cancer in dogs can help human women. We’ll also hear about a program in Dallas that brings music to palliative care patients, and hear a final essay from palliative oncologist Larry Cripe.