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Prescription drug users in some urban neighborhoods are living in pharmacy deserts,

limiting access to vital medicines. Dima Mazen Qato, PharmD, MPH, PhD, Hygeia Centennial Chair and Director for the Program on Medicines and Public Health at the USC School of Pharmacy, explains the reasons behind the problem, and why it is growing.

Parks and green spaces not only add beauty to cities and towns. We’ll talk with Roy Remme, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar with the Natural Capital Project, who led a study at Stanford University that found that parks, trails, and open green spaces can also have significant health benefits.

Traffic deaths in the U.S. have remained nearly unchanged for many years. A new report offers a safer blueprint for a "Safe System" apparch to road design that could save thousands of lives each year, according to Jeffrey Michael, EdD, Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Leon S. Robertson Faculty Development Chair in Injury Prevention at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

A surprising study from Ireland found that the physical condition of homeless people in their twenties, thirties and forties is similar to 70 and 80 year olds in the general population. We'll talk with Professor Julie Broderick, BSc, MSc, PhD, from Trinity College Dublin/the University of Dublin, to explore the possible reasons behind it and what can be done to help the homeless.

3. Bill Westrom, consumer finance expert, co-author of “Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free”

The typical American carries thousands of dollars of credit card debt, personal loans, car loans and student loans. Bill Westrom, consumer finance expert, and co-author of "Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free", outlines several easy strategies to save money and retire debt as quickly as possible,

3. Bill Westrom, consumer finance expert, co-author of “Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free”

The typical American carries thousands of dollars of credit card debt, personal loans, car loans and student loans. Bill Westrom, consumer finance expert, and co-author of "Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free", outlines several easy strategies to save money and retire debt as quickly as possible,

Growing companies are always on the lookout for talented people to hire. Jeff Korzenik, author of "Untapped Talent: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community", says there's a massive pool of productive job seekers being overlooked by businesses. Who these people are may surprise you.

Many patients seek a second opinion before treatment for a complex medical condition.

Thomas Beckman, MD, Fellow in Advanced General Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, led a study at Mayo that found that only 12 percent of second opinions confirm that the original diagnosis was complete and correct. He explains what illnesses should merit the pursuit of a second opinion.

More than 70,000 American lives were lost to drug overdoses in 2019, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the problem grew even worse during the pandemic. Daniel Hartung, Pharm.D., M.P.H., Professor in the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy, led a study that found that 20% of pharmacies refuse to dispense a key medication, buprenorphine, to treat the addiction. He explains possible reasons behind the problem, and why the availability of this drug is so important in the battle against the opioid epidemic.

You've heard of clinical hypnotherapy, but what is it? Steve G. Jones, EdD, clinical hypnotherapist, President of the American Alliance of Hypnotists, author of 22 books on hypnotherapy,

explains the most common misconceptions about clinical hypnotherapy. He also outlines the problems that hypnotherapy can solve, and how self-hypnosis may be useful.