HIV Outbreak in LA’s Porn Industry; Senator John McCain; Should I Be Tested For Cancer?
HIV Outbreak in LA’s Porn Industry
Last week two LA porn actors tested HIV positive, causing a panic in the adult film industry. Performers have been rushing to get tested, and some production companies stopped all filming until the full extent of the outbreak is realized. Larry Mantle talks with adult film producer Jill Kelly and Sharon Mitchell, former adult performer and founder of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation.
Senator John McCain
U.S. Senator John McCain joins Larry Mantle to talk about his new book Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life (Random House).
Should I Be Tested For Cancer?
Cancer screening tests are becoming more sensitive, affordable and accessible to more people than ever before. Mammograms, PSAs, Pap smears, colonoscopies, MRIs, to name a few, are impressive in their increased ability to detect more and more cancers earlier. But is there a downside to all this testing? Can these test findings actually do more harm than good? And what about the embarrassing number of false positives resulting from these tests? Larry Mantle explores these questions with Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. He is the author of the new book entitled Should I Be Tested For Cancer? Maybe Not and Here’s Why (University of California Press).