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Is Preventive Medicine Actually Overtreatment? (NPR)

2/14/2011
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Dr. H. Gilbert Welch joined host Ira Flatow on NPR’s Science Friday program. They discussed the issue of over-treatment of many diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, which is the subject of Dr. Welch’s new book, Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick In Pursuit of Health. Dr. Welch is a professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and director of the Center for Medicine and the Media at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

Listen to or read a transcript the program, which aired on 02/11/11.

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The CRAFT Institute Presents ‘Echoes Of Us: Now And Forever’

7/01/2022
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The African-American Shakespeare Company and the CRAFT Institute, which is run by theater professor Monica White Ndounou, will present what she calls “a series of monologues that capture the essence and vitality of who we are as Black people.”
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