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  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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Hear from an eating disorder specialist, and two people - including one who is in recovery - talking about their lives with anorexia.

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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There have been fewer than 50 full face transplant recipients in the world. And up until 2019, there had been zero done for African-Americans. Toda...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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On this episode of Audacious, meet three people who have persistent genital arousal disorder, including one woman who has around 100 orgasms a day.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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On this episode of Audacious, why do pathological liars do what they do? Hear from two people who have spent years reconciling their relationship w...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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On this episode of Audacious: What if you've always felt as though one of your healthy limbs doesn't belong? Meet one man who found relief after ha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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On this episode of Audacious, meet two people who have struggled with Pica, an disorder where people eat objects, including rocks, magnets, screws,...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a man who was born colorblind but can now hear colors thanks to an antenna implanted into his skull. And a chore...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a man with hyperacusis - extreme sensitivity to sound, and a woman with hyperhidrosis - unpredictable, controlla...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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On this episode of Audacious, hear how two people's lives were changed after getting hit by lightning. And an expert will talk about ways to avoid ...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Kenley Byrd, who is one of fewer than 100 people ever known to have had Foreign Accent Syndrome.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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On this episode of Audacious, what if you found out that your sperm donor was not the man your parents chose... But their fertility doctor? Two wom...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
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OCD often goes misdiagnosed and misunderstood … and if left untreated, can impact platonic, intimate and familial relationships in challenging ways.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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Between the ages of 40 and 70, more than half of all people with penises will deal with some form of erectile dysfunction. While that experience ca...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
Caption: Future City
A Moonlight Serenade with celebrations of Apollo Astronaut Frank Borman and First Lady Roselynn Carter featuring music from Telephones And Rubber B...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:43
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It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
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"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 48:57
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In this live panel conversation recorded on November 16, 2022 at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center, Emily sits down with playwright Jake Broder, actor...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 34:49
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Natural disasters and severe weather

  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 09:38
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The primary cause of environmental degradation is human disturbance.

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 04:37
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Over the last nine episodes, we’ve listened to dozens upon dozens of clinicians tell their stories about shame. For this last episode of Shame in M...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2022
  • Length: 34:26
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According to medical culture, a clinician should “fix” illness, not have one – especially not a mental illness. But in reality, mental illness is i...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 32:20
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At work, we often feel pressured to present a curated version of ourselves, which fits into a certain standard. But what are the side effects of hi...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 32:26
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1 in 10 physicians will get sued at some point in their career – but physicians rarely discuss this, much less prepare for it. How do we bring liti...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 40:56