Diverticulitis accounts for 130,000 hospitalizations each year but many people don’t understand this common condition. Danny Jacobs, MD, MPH, is Chairman of Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. He explains how to diagnose and treat diverticular disease.
Experts have told us that cough and cold remedies don’t work for kids, and may pose unexpected hazards. We talk with the Baltimore Commissioner of Health, pediatrician Joshua Sharfstein, MD, about his petition to the FDA asking the agency to crack down on kid’s cold medicines.
Dr. Charles Gerba is the guru of germs. He has cultured bacteria, fungi and viruses from some unexpected places in our environment. He will tell us how to decontaminate our desks and avoid colds this winter?
Guests: Danny Jacobs, MD, MPH, Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. Author of article on Diverticulitis (Clinical Practice) in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nov. 15, 2007. (Photo is of Dr. Danny Jacobs)
Joshua Sharfstein, MD, Pediatrician and Commissioner of Health for Baltimore, MD. Author of Perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine, Dec. 6, 2007.
Charles Gerba, PhD, Professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.
Listen to a free podcast of our December 15 program, 660 Health News Update
