Our panel of health experts discusses the biggest health headlines of the month, including:
- How the President’s medical team prepares for emergency situations like the recent shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
- President Trump signs an executive order to expand access to psychedelic drugs like psilocybin and ibogaine for the treatment of mental health disorders.
- Emergency room visits for tick bites have nearly doubled since last year.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces new federal initiatives aimed at reducing reliance on widely prescribed antidepressants.
- Emerging research suggests many patients thought to be in a vegetative state may actually be hearing and understanding what's happening around them, a phenomenon called "covert consciousness."
- An outbreak of hantavirus aboard a cruise ship has left at least three people dead and several others ill.
Guests:
- Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, retired Navy doctor and former White House physician to the president of the United States.
- Dr. Tina Ardon, practicing family physician at Mayo Clinic in Florida
- Dr. Joseph Drazkowski, neurologist at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Arizona