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Dr. Kerry Forrestal
Actual Factual Medicine
Wednesdays at noon

Dr. Kerry Forrestal, emergency physician, takes on topics from cancer to suicide and examines societal issues and healthcare specifics with medical insider insights.

  • Three health issues are making headlines. On Actual Factual Medicine, Dr. Kerry Forrestal explains what you should know about Cyclospora, measles, and hepatitis B and C.
  • Is ivermectin really the miracle drug some claim it is? On Actual Factual Medicine, Dr. Kerry Forrestal separates evidence from misinformation and explains what listeners should actually know.
  • Dr. Forrestal puts on his emergency medicine scrubs to tell us what is accurate - and not - on the hit HBO TV series, 'The Pitt'
  • Dr. Forrestal reviews the decision by RFK Jr. to change the vaccination schedule. Examining the elimination of just one - Hepatitis B - he compares how it will result in $300 million more in health care costs.
  • Autism has been in the news, as Autism Spectrum Disorder, with Director of Health and Human Services Director Robert Kennedy Jr. supporting debunked theories that Autism is caussed by vaccines.
  • When it comes to fighting the onslaught of microplastics, Dr. Forrestal recommends ways to approach personal actions, scientific advances, and government policy.
  • The human body attacks foreign objects, so microplastics rear-up the immune system and cause inflammation. And that can cause problems.
  • Nearly invisible, increasingly prevalent microplastics are part of the toxic mix. Part 1 explores how they get into our bodies.
  • Cuts to Medicade are felt by people paying for regular insurance plans, and threaten hospitals and nursing homes.