Patt Morrison for Wednesday, 11/04/09

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:19

OPEN

 

 

1:21 – 1:39

Why is hunger so young in America?

According to a recent study published in the “Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine” 49% of all U.S. children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point in childhood.  While it might be easy to point to the current recession as the main culprit of food stamps, the study finds children’s use of food stamps consistent over a 30-year period.  In a nation as rich and prosperous as the U.S. how do so many kids and families need assistance to buy basic food supplies?

 

Guests:

Mark Rank, Professor of Social Welfare at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the study “Estimating the Risk of Food Stamp Use and Impoverishment During Childhood”

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UNCOMFIRMED

Marqueece Harris, president & CEO of the Community Coalition

 

 

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

Do you have the One Shoe Blues?

Hugely popular children’s author Sandra Boynton has a new book out. So what you say? Well, for starters she teamed up with B.B. King! And it comes with a DVD Boynton directs herself.  What’s it about you ask? Losing a shoe, of course!

 

Guest

Sandra Boynton, author, One Shoe Blues

SHE CALLS US

 

2:06 – 2:19

OPEN

 

2:21 – 2:39

Does the FDA drop the ball on drug warning labels?
Drug companies write their own drug labels and submit the results of their clinical studies to the FDA.  It’s then up to the FDA to review it and ensure that the most critical information makes it on to the drug label. But sometimes facts about side effects and effectiveness are left out and as a result clinicians aren't always getting the prescribing information they need.  Is it a result of incomplete or badly organized information submitted by the drug companies or is the FDA's review process to blame?

Dr. Steven Woloshin, associate professor of medicine & of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School;  Author of “Lost in Transmission-FDA Drug Information That Never Reaches Clinicians

He is working with the FDA to improve their review process

 

2:41 – 2:58:30

Barry Levison’s Poliwood and its liberal elites

What role should media and celebrity play in modern-day politics? That’s the question driving Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson’s documentary about the most significant presidential campaign of the 21^st century. Following high-profile, politically active celebrities and powerful political figures, Poliwood offers a behind-the-scenes look at the influence Hollywood wields over today's political process and the thin line between politician and actor, news and entertainment, policy and tabloid.

 

Guests:

Barry Levinson, Academy Award-winning director of Rain Man, Bugsy and most recently, Poliwood

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Jonathan Serviss

Producer, Patt Morrison Program

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