June 16, 2009

This Week on Sound Medicine

INDIANAPOLIS — This weekend, June 20 and 21, Sound Medicine host Barbara Lewis and her guests will discuss breast cancer medications, birth control pills and "positivity."

David Flockhart, M.D., Ph.D., director of clinical pharmacology at Indiana University School of Medicine, will explain the concerns of the Food and Drug Administration about the use of tamoxifen, a popular breast cancer medication, in combination with some antidepressants.

Steven Riechman, Ph.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of health and kinesiology at Texas A&M University, will discuss his recent study which found that women who take birth control pills have more difficulty developing muscle mass.

Barbara Frederickson, Ph.D., a psychology professor and researcher at the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina, will discuss her book, Positivity, which offers practical tools that will help decrease negative feelings.

In this week’s Sound Medicine “Checkup,” Jeremy Shere, Ph.D., will explore regular and irregular heartbeats.

Archived editions of Sound Medicine as well as other helpful information can be found at http://www.soundmedicine.iu.edu.

Sound Medicine is underwritten by Clarian Health, IU Medical Group and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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WBSB (Anderson), WFIU (Bloomington, Columbus, Kokomo, Terre Haute), WNDY (Crawfordsville), WVPE (Elkhart/South Bend), WNIN (Evansville), WBOI (Fort Wayne), WBNI (Fort Wayne), WFCI (Franklin), WBSH (Hagerstown/New Castle), WFYI (Indianapolis), WBSW (Marion), WBST (Muncie), WBSJ (Portland), and WLPR, (Lake County).

The show also airs on these out-of state public radio stations:
KRCC (Colorado Springs, CO), KEDM (Monroe, LA), WCNY (Syracuse, NY), WYSO (Yellow Springs, OH), KWGS (Tulsa, OK), KSKA (Anchorage, Seward, Prudhoe Bay, Gridwood, and Unalaska, AK), KMHA (Four Bears, ND), and KLMS (Carlsbad, NM).

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Michelle Benberry
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mbenberr@iupui.edu