Cell Phones & Cancer (Starts 1:00) A $25 million study reports cell phone radiation boosted brain cancer in rats . . . and rats exposed to radiation lived longer. Frank Barnes, CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, explains these paradoxical findings and implications for people. (Related stories — 2011 Cell Phone Radiation and 2014 An Electric Silent Spring)
Narcotics Prolong Chronic Pain (Starts 11:35) CU-Boulder neuroscientist Peter Grace explains his team’s new findings about how and why morphine can prolong chronic pain. Rats with induced nerve pain received morphine for 5 days; their pain lasted nearly three months — twice as long as the nerve pain for rats that got no morphine. This is one of the first studies to test long-term effects of treating chronic pain with opioid painkillers. (Related story: KGNU call-in show on the opioid addiction epidemic)
Host/Producer/Executive Producer: Shelley Schlender
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