Dr. Scott Segal

As Congress debates cuts to Medicaid (the health insurance program for the poor and disabled) in order to deliver a tax cut to the wealthy, it risks a cascade of negative effects on…

What can we expect if RFK Jr. becomes health secretary? Will Trump take action on Dreamers? Plus, KCRW analyzes how progressives influenced the Democratic mandate.

Writer and psychologist Andrew Solomon shares his research about the impact of social media on the escalating youth suicide crisis.

This week, Kenneth Miller , writer and author of Mapping the Dark; The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked The Mysteries of Sleep, offers a practical approach for insomniacs.

By collecting health data across large populations of people, we can identify patterns that help us all.

Hopefully, we’ve learned many lessons, but there is still lots to be learned.

The cleanup is underway in Altadena and Pacific Palisades, and local organizations are educating immigrant day laborers on how to stay safe.

The risks are rising, and state and government officials are not taking this seriously.

This week, cognitive scientist and professor of psychology at Yale University Lori Santos explains that negative emotions are very much part of the human experience and essential to…