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.
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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.
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When it comes to fighting the onslaught of microplastics, Dr. Forrestal recommends ways to approach personal actions, scientific advances, and government policy.
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The human body attacks foreign objects, so microplastics rear-up the immune system and cause inflammation. And that can cause problems.
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Nearly invisible, increasingly prevalent microplastics are part of the toxic mix. Part 1 explores how they get into our bodies.
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Cuts to Medicade are felt by people paying for regular insurance plans, and threaten hospitals and nursing homes.
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With emergency department victims in mind, Dr. Kerry Forrestal talks about Americans addicted to drugs or alcohol, and our society's judgmental responses to recovering addicts.
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Dr. Kerry Forrestal tells how measles, once diminished, is now on the rise, and advises what works and what bogus treatments stand in the way of real medicine.
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Dr. Forrestal explores the con artists' claims that promise to "remove" vaccines from your body, and why anybody would want to.
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Parents whose infant dies suddenly - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - often carry regret and guilt, feeling they must have missed an opportunity to save their child. In truth, Dr. Forrestal explains, the range of prevention is one thing, but rescuing a dying infant is nearly impossilbe.
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As more legislators across the US pass laws and restrictions, the very act of practicing medicine can land doctors and other health care providers in jail. Dr. Kerry Forrestal explains.