Episode 22 Medicine

The team that created the portable MRI: Clarissa Cooley, Jason Stockmann and Larry Wald. (Photo courtesy of the Martinos Center)

Join us in Boston for a show on Medicine. Side effects include extra kidneys, Lyme disease, hairlessness, cardiac arrest and magical mucus. Our panelists are:

Bapu Jena, Harvard economist, physician and professor, who knows something about Viagra and STDs.

Christine Hurley, Boston comedian, who lost about 30 pounds for each of her kids.

Evan Allen, head athletic trainer for the New England Revolution, who has a very brief history in soccer.

Our real-time fact-checker is Carey Goldberg, editor of WBUR‘s health blog CommonHealth.