I'll be making my "What's on Kushibo's iPod" posts a regular feature, but one of the things I'd like to do is split up into categories the noteworthy podcasts I think are worth a listen (mostly from PBS's Newshour, the single best program for getting a thought-provoking, informative, and objective perspective on a wide breadth of political, social, and health-related issues of the day).

So I will sometimes combine these posts with the occasional Public Health Reader (a subject near and dear to my heart), as in this post. Some of these are about stuff important to me or my views, such as the first one, which I believe underscores my own opinion — widely derided as xenophobic or "anti-teacher" by many in the K-blogosphere — that all people in South Korea (i.e., foreign nationals of all visa types as well as all ROK nationals) should be tested for HIV, with the former group being tested before they enter the country.

• Study: Early Treatment 'Extremely Impressive' in Preventing HIV Spread

• New FDA Guidelines Help Consumers Spot Sunscreen Effectiveness

• A Media Post Mortem on "Death Panels"

• Web Sickness (cyber-induced hypochondria)

• Catholic Church Looks to Lead Conversation on Combating HIV/AIDS

• Are Nurse Practitioners the Solution to Shortage of Primary-Care Doctors?

• Study: 'Good' Cholesterol-Boosting Drug Fails to Reduce Heart Attacks, Strokes

• New Promise Shown in Treatments for Melanoma, Breast Cancer

• AIDS at 30: Who's at Greatest Risk of Infection Now?

• Certain Antibiotics Spur Widening Reports of Severe Side Effects

• Chefs Cook Up Ideas for Healthy School Lunches

• Neurosurgeon: 'Your Cell Phone Is Not Necessarily a Safe Device'

• Denver Hospital Sets the Bar for Patient Safety

• Colorado Clinic Helps Diabetics Avoid Problems With 1-Stop Coordinated Care

• Is Technology Wiring Teens to Have Better Brains?

• Whooping Cough Returns to California After Decades of Decline

• Ukraine Struggles to Curb HIV Epidemic Amid Drug Shortages, Political Hurdles

• Minds, Machines Merge to Offer New Hope for Overcoming Impairments

• Study: Food Allergies in Children Becoming More Common, Severe

• Autism's Causes: How Close Are We to Solving the Puzzle?

• Autism Now: How Should We Address Deepening 'National Health Emergency'?

The last two are from an excellent series on autism put together by one of their main reporters, whose grandson has autism.

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