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Nov 27, 2019

Aaron Carroll talks to Dr. David Haas about gestational diabetes. You may know that women can develop diabetes during pregnancy, and may know that their blood sugar and insulin return to normal shortly after giving birth. What you may not know is that this condition is associated with a host of negative...


Nov 1, 2019

We talk a lot about different areas of health research, and how that research may lead to treatments. Today we're talking about research into healthcare itself, and how systems can be improved to deliver better outcomes and better healthcare. Our guest today is Dr. Peter Embi, MD, who is president and CEO of the...


Oct 2, 2019

Aaron talks to Dr. Tatiana Foroud about her career and her current work in genetics and genomics. Her work spans from the early days of searching for DNA markers for rare disorders to today's search for genetic causes and potential treatments around Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Foroud's career relates a story about how the...


Jun 19, 2019

This month Aaron is talking to Dr. Tom McAllister, the Albert Eugene Sterne Professor and Chairman, Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. He specializes in studying brain injuries and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and he'll tell about brain injuries, their treatment, and some of the...


May 3, 2019

This month we’re talking with Dan Skovronsky, President of Lilly Research Laboratories and Chief Scientific Officer for Eli Lilly and Company. He walks us through his career that has taken him from the pharmaceutical startup world to his current position at Eli Lilly. He gives us a peek into the drug discovery and...