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A new study finds that scientists may be able to detect dementia sooner and faster

Health & Medicine

Dementia is a catch-all term for certain diseases affecting the memory of tens of millions of people. A new study finds that it might be possible now to detect dementia early and within minutes. The World’s host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Charles Marshall, the lead researcher for the study.

Young boy entering building from sidewalk

‘They didn’t explore the world,’ says physician who cared for toddlers separated from their parents at the border

Immigration

Sound Portrait: Plastic Surgeons

Arts, Culture & Media

Plastic Surgeons

Arts, Culture & Media

Photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg Goes Inside the Human Body

Arts, Culture & Media

Clown Care Unit

Arts, Culture & Media

At the Babies and Children’s Hospital in upper Manhattan, you’ll hear the normal medical beeps and buzzes, doctors rushing around to their young patients. Some days you’ll also hear laughter — which means the Big Apple Circus has sent out their Clown Care Unit. Produced by Sara Paul.

Blood for Art

Arts, Culture & Media

The art market is flooded with money. And that concerns an artists’ collective in San Francisco called Quorum. When they brought their etchings, paintings, and mixed-media to a big international art fair, every piece was priced the same: a single pint of blood, collected on-site by a local blood bank. You call it morbid — […]

Why You Should Be Watching “The Knick”

Arts, Culture & Media

Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick is a delightfully bloody show about turn-of-the-century medicine. His New York is punctuated by bright whites, making 1900 feel futuristic.

Reconstructing Viruses

Arts, Culture & Media

Why do scientists want to recreate viral monsters like the 1918 Spanish flu? And if they do, should they be allowed to publish the instructions?

Two male and one female internationally trained doctors are listening to a presentation.

Highly trained and educated, some foreign-born doctors still can’t practice medicine in the US

Education

There are tens of thousands of foreign-trained doctors who could help alleviate the US’ shortage. But many of them are not allowed to work here.

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