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Families USA’s Frederick Isasi discusses efforts to improve medical bill transparency as well as the state of health care in the U.S.

The Mayo Clinic is consistently ranked as one of the top hospitals in America. Brothers William and Charlie Mayo founded the clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1889. Matt Dacy and Renee Ziemer talked about…

Dickinson College professor Jim Hoefler taught a class about end of life care and perceptions of death in the United States since the 1800s. He explored how changes in medical practices and…

Retired infectious disease specialist Dr. Jon Willen talked about Charles Leale, the first doctor to treat the mortally wounded Abraham Lincoln after actor John Wilkes Booth shot him while he…

Dr. Eric Topol talked about his book, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Revolutionize Health Care--And Make It More Humane, in which he explored the integration of artificial…

Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and evolutionary sociobiologist Thomas Patterson talked about their book, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A…

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel talked about his book, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives, in which he explored the…

Kaiser Health News' Fred Schulte talked about proposed federal regulations regarding electronic medical records.

We toured the U.S. Army Medical Department Museum at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio to see several advances made by Army medics in the past 200 years. Director George Wunderlich showed us…

Located in the Plummer Building at the Mayo Clinic, the History of Medicine library houses numerous volumes of medical texts on topics such as cardiology and immunology. Library Coordinator Hilary Lane gave…

Dr. W. Bruce Fye, a retired cardiologist who has collected medical history books for decades, showed some of his rarest finds, which are housed at the Mayo Clinic. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles…

The Mayo Clinic is a world-renowned medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota. In her book, The Women of Mayo, author Virginia Wright-Peterson recounted the founding of the Mayo practice and the role women…

U.S. Army Medical Department Museum director George Wunderlich shared stories of army medics in times of war. He talked about a nurse killed in Vietnam, a World War II dentist who…

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), testified before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee regarding President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request…

Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and John Barrasso (R-WY) debated Medicare and other topics related to health care.

Rutgers University history professor Janet Golden talked about the impact infants had on 20th century developments in medicine, social welfare and consumer culture. The Kansas City Public…

MIT Technology Review’s Antonio Regalado discussed his recent piece about “hyper-personalized” medicine and the inequality about who can afford it. This program is part of a “Washington…

Midwives have been helping women give birth throughout American history, but over the past 100 years their legal standing and relationship with the medical community has been complicated by…

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins testified before the Senate Health Committee about ongoing science and research at NIH. He was joined by four of his colleagues who…

Paul Offit discussed the risks of getting medical advice from everyone other than a doctor.