NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
January 20, 2010
Grand Illusion
Why do we pretend that an
insurance mandate will help the health care crisis?
January 15, 2010
Book Review: The
Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
December 21, 2009
Cooking the Books
The statistical games behind
"off-label" prescription drug use
Stress Less When Struggling With a Child's Cold
March 9, 2008
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The New York Times Magazine
December 20, 2009
The Last Decision
A new approach to organ donation doesn't
require waiting until the donor's brain death. Instead, it poses a difficult
question: When does death start?
Hear Dr. Sanghavi discuss this article with Patt Morrison of Southern California Public Radio
(KPCC)
Sunday Book Review
November 29, 2009
Battling the Skeptics
Reviewing Michael Specter's Denialism
November 18, 2009
My Own Private
Screening
What watching ESPN could teach us
about mammograms
November 9, 2009
Do We Have a Winner?
How to reform the broken medical
malpractice system
September 28, 2009
Talk to the Invisible
Hand
If a former American president
can't be a good health care consumer, can anybody else?
September 2, 2009
The Fix Is In
The hidden public-private cartel
that sets health care prices
August 14, 2009
Color Bind
How to fix racial disparities in
medical care
July 22, 2009
Nobody's Normal
Anymore
Should we blame overdiagnosis for
rising health costs?
July 15, 2009
Opinion
Will New Surgeon General Make a Difference?
June 23, 2009
Bringing Down the
House
The sobering lessons of health
reform
in Massachusetts
May 29, 2009
Sweet Justice
Why Judge Sotomayor's diabetes
shouldn't be ignored
June 2009
Pain-Relief Secrets
Whether your child is
getting a shot or having
surgery, there are ways
to protect her
May 13, 2009
When the Lights Go Out
What can reality TV teach us
about clinical drug trials?
GUEST BLOG POST
April 9, 2009
Well: Screening Babies for Broken Hearts
A simple method to check babies for heart defects
can save lives, but most hospitals don’t do it
OP/ED
March 18, 2009
A Crash Course to Help At-Risk
Toddlers
How a child veering from the path of normal development was steadied
March 11, 2009
Drug Dealing
Who should decide when a medication is safe?
February 13, 2009
Pregnant Pause
Who should pay for in vitro fertilization?
February 3, 2009
Dying to Play
Why don't we prevent more sudden deaths in
athletes?
SCIENCE TIMES
December 9, 2008
Plenty of
Guidelines, But Where's the Evidence
How reliable are national recommendations
for children's medical care?
October 10, 2008
Womb Raider
Do future health problems begin during
gestation?
August 26, 2008
Quicker Liquor
Should we lower the legal drinking age?
SCIENCE TIMES
July 7-8, 2008
Consults: Treating Children for High Cholesterol
Why treating children for high cholesterol
often makes little sense
Hear Dr.
Sanghavi's discussion with the New York Times' Tara Parker-Pope
Hear Dr. Sanghavi debate this issue with Dr. Jatinder Bhatia of the American Academy of Pediatrics
June 10, 2008
Old Drugs, New Tricks
Why big health advances rarely involve new
medicines
May 27, 2008
The High Price of a
Medical Miracle
Can we cut health costs without hurting
anyone? 
May 2008
Three Vitamins that Could Save Your Baby's Life
Surprising vitamin facts many parents' don't
know
April 15, 2008
Natural Disasters
Why do we focus on the least important
causes of cancer?
March 12, 2008
Training Daze
Why do doctors fixate on diagnosis, not
treatment?
March 2008
Don't Fly Blind With Your Child's Vision
How to prevent nearsightedness in kids
How can you help your child's cold?
BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE (cover story)
When
Science Meets the Soul
Maria and Jose Azevedo had to choose:
allow their baby to die a preventable death or save him while acting
against their religion.
February 2008
The Scoop About Your Toddler's Poop
Getting flummoxed by a son's toileting 
January-February 2008
Somewhere Between a Boy and
a Girl
What happens when a child's sex isn't clear?
SCIENCE TIMES
December 4, 2007
A
Growing Debate Over Folic Acid in Flour
AA baffling situation for experts seeking to
prevent birth defects
OP/ED
October 30, 2007
Leaving Kids Out in the Cold
The push to ban kids' cold medicines
October 23, 2007
Pill Popping
Debunking the power of the placebo effect
OP/ED
October 2, 2007
Detecting Doping in Sports
A smarter way to test athletes for steroids
August 21, 2007
Getting the Lead
Out
If only it was as easy as recalling the
Mattel toys
July 17, 2007
Wrong Number
Is it cost effective to treat the world's
poor?
OP/ED
July 3, 2007
Helping My Father Die
What's comfort care to one person can seem like euthanasia
to another
May 8, 2007
Plumber's Butt?
The right and wrong way to think about
heart attacks
Hear
a podcast of this essay from Slate.com
April 10-11, 2007
Debating
How Doctors Think
Dr. Sanghavi and Dr. Jerome Groopman of The New
Yorker debate how to improve medical care
OP/ED
March 30, 2007
Keeping Cancer Real
With cancer, is there such a thing as false hope?
March 16, 2007
Baby Gap
The surprising truth about America's infant
mortality rate
SCIENCE TIMES
December 5, 2006
Wanting Babies
Like Themselves, Some Parents Choose Genetic Defects
The latest tactic to preserve identity in a globalized
society
November 28, 2006
Screen Alert
Why would promising cancer screening tests
get more study, not immediate action?
SCIENCE TIMES
October 17, 2006
Preschool
Puberty, and a Search for Causes
Early puberty often occurs in outbreaks, like
epidemics of the flu
Hear
Dr. Sanghavi discuss this article
September 25, 2006
Treat
me?
The crucial health state you've never heard
of
September 2006
The
Exercise Experiment
A pediatric cardiologist thought his pre-schooler got enough exercise,
until he measured
archives
BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE OP/ED
Plan B is Almost Here. Time for Our Next Move.
Will the morning-after pill lead to lower abortion rates?
BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE (cover story)
The
Mother Lode of Pain
Why do some women still embrace a drug-free delivery?
Read a transcript of
a web chat with Dr. Sanghavi about this article
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Help when red tape snarls a patient
Sometimes a phone call to someone who cares can safe a child's life
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Fainting spell shows medicine's uncertainties
What happens when your doctor can't be sure about your diagnosis?
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Peanut allergy epidemic may be overstated
Peanut allergies can be dangerous, but are hard to diagnose accurately
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Young patient kept his focus on living every
day
At the end of his life, one teenager made a list
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Car seats a must for the young
When making car seat laws, most states don't follow the best science
BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE (cover story)
The Secret Truth
Despite the evidence, many parents blame vaccines for
causing autism in their children. Why?
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Rickets sheds light on how racial disparities
happen
How good intentions still can result in medical discrimination
HEALTH/SCIENCE
"Newborn screening" benefits
not so clear
What can happen when technology outpaces medical knowledge
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Teens should abstain from sex, not sex
ed
Why are we ignoring the most promising way to reduce teen pregnancy?
HEALTH/SCIENCE
When in doubt, think like a doctor
How parents should make important medical decisions
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Teenagers need help to form better sleep
habits
How sleep (or lack thereof) affects the health and school performance of
teenagers
BOSTON GLOBE MAGAZINE (cover story)
Baby Steps
Contrary to popular belief, medicine advances in small steps instead of
giant leaps--
as one famiy's experience with a radical heart procedure in the womb shows.
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Kids with asthma could breathe easier
Why kids with asthma suffer a great deal more than needed
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Time to calm down about Ritalin
Contrary to what many people think, the increased use of Ritalin is a good
thing
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Bleary parents crave colic cure
Every few years, a new "cure" for colic comes along.
HEALTH/SCIENCE
How one doctor learned to accept parents
in the ER
Should parents be allowed to watch resuscitations and other procedures?
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Cord-blood banking only makes sense it
it's a shared effort
Why privately banking your newborn's cord blood makes little sense
January 4, 2005
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Honesty is the best policy in educating youth
about steroids
Why haven't steroid abuse rates changed in over ten years?
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Immunize your children against health dangers
of TV
How the FCC misses the point about what's harmful about media
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Warning: Yucky parasites are closer than
you think
How a simple dare caused a teenage girl's lungs to fill up with worms
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Doctors must prescribe without all the facts
Was the Vioxx scandal really the result of negligence? Probably not.
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Though widely used, corporal punishment
is an unproven treatment for misbehavior
The scientific case against spanking
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Fetal test brings jump in Caesareans but
little benefit
How a seriously flawed test became widely used
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Aggressive care not always best
for dying children
Why do many children die so painfully?
HEALTH/SCIENCE
A mainstream doctor finds a
place for alternative medicine
When should pediatricians take alternative medicine seriously?
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Lead may be even more dangerous than we thought
How children have been betrayed by the politics of science
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Health care system leaves mentally
ill kids behind
The fascinating case of a child whom we thought had a heart problem, but
didn't
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Doctors don't always get ear infections
right
Should antibiotics be used for ear infections in children?
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Doctors can't do much to help kids' weight
What can be done to help obese children today?
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Sure breast is best, but is it worth
it?
How far should women go to breast-feed?
HEALTH/SCIENCE
FDA muffed chance to prevent birth
defects
How the FDA could help prevent America’s most common birth defect
OP/ED
Prevention, not abortion
Why the morning after pill should be available over-the-counter
HEALTH/SCIENCE
Flu: a shot worth taking
The real reason children need the flu vaccine
TELEVISION
& RADIO
(SELECTED)
February 6-7, 2010
Sanjay Gupta, MD (CNN)
CNN's Sanjay Gupta speaks with Dr. Sanghavi and Jonathan Cohn of the New
Republic in a two part segment about national health reform (8 mins)
Click Here for Part 1 /
Click Here for Part 2
February 3, 2010
The Today Show (NBC)
Today's
Matt Lauer speaks with Dr. Sanghavi about sudden infant death syndrome
and also about teen sex education (click here to see)
January 29, 2010
The Today Show (NBC)
Today's
Matt Lauer speaks with Dr. Sanghavi about staying healthy in the winter (click here to see)
August 17, 2009
New England Cable News (NECN): Broadside
Dr.
Sanghavi talks about the end-of-life conversation (click here to see)
July 3, 2008
The Today Show (NBC)
The hazards of hot cars (click here to see)
March 2008
iVillage.com Video Series with Dr. Sanghavi
Is it OK to Take
My Newborn Outside? (click here)
What Happens At
The First Check Up (click here)
How Do I Care for
My Baby's Umbilical Cord? (click here)
My Baby Regularly
Vomits: Is This Normal? (click here)
March 2008
Parents TV/Comcast on Demand
Vaccine Truths
Dr. Sanghavi
dispels common misconceptions about vaccines (click here to see)
March 7, 2008
The Today Show (NBC)
Today's
Meredith Vieira speaks with Dr. Sanghavi about preventing food allergies
in babies (click here to see)
See related article by Dr. Sanghavi
from
iVillage.com
February 2008
Parents TV/Comcast on Demand
Dr. Sanghavi
explains about fever and infections in infants (click here to see)
October 10, 2007
The Today Show (NBC)
Today's Ann Curry speaks with Dr. Sanghavi about cold and flu prevention
in kids (click here to see)
September 19,
2007
The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti:
Children and Lead
In a feature-length live
interview, Dr. Sanghavi
discussed the politics and science of lead poisoning in children.
August 15, 2007
The Today Show (NBC)
Today's Maria Menounos speaks with Dr. Sanghavi about back
to school
medical prep (click here to see)
See related article by Dr. Sanghavi at
iVillage.com
August 15,
2007
All Things Considered,
The Downside of Hope
Dr. Sanghavi
talks about how a particular human emotion made him act irrationally
in the face of his father's impending death.
Read a longer version of the story here
August 6,
2007
All Things Considered,
Are Infants Who Sleep in Parents Bed at Risk?
So, is co-sleeping
safe? To help clarify the issue, Dr. Sanghavi talks with
Michele Norris.
October 25, 2006
The Today Show (NBC)
Childhood
obesity (click here to see)
August 17, 2006
The Today Show (NBC)
Today's Lester Holt speaks with Dr. Sanghavi about infant nutrition
and obesity (click here to see)
July
12, 2006
All
Things Considered
Juggling
Lives
Commentator Darshak Sanghavi is
a pediatric cardiologist. He has seen firsthand how a heart transplant
can miraculously save a child's life. But he'll never forget the first
time he watched how this second chance came from another child's tragedy.
April
5, 2005
All
Things Considered
On
Keeping Bad Medical News from a Child Patient
Darshak Sanghavi is a pediatrician
and first-generation American who values honesty. But he remembers
a time when he was torn between his conscience and his family culture,
which was steeped in old country traditions.
September
14, 2004
All
Things Considered
When
a Doctor's Patient Is His Father
Dr. Darshak Sanghavi, a physician
and writer, has often treated critical illness in children. But when
a serious disease strikes his own father, he gets caught between being
a son and a physician. He talks about how the doctor's way of dealing
with illness -- while sometimes helpful -- also has its limitations,
especially when dealing with loved ones.
August
24, 2004
All
Things Considered,
A
Son's First Breath
Commentator Darshak Sanghavi is
a pediatrician and author of A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour
of the Body. He remembers the birth of his son a little over a month
ago.
December
30, 2003
All
Things Considered,
Big Kids, Little Strollers
NPR's Michele Norris talks with
Dr. Darshak Sanghavi, author of A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's
Tour of the Body, about the trend toward keeping kids in baby strollers
past their toddler years. Dr. Sanghavi says it is important for children
to get out and feel the freedom of self-movement. But he understands
parents' need to restrain a child from running wild in certain environments.
December
9, 2003
NPR On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Flu
Fears (click to listen)
March
4, 2003
All
Things Considered,
Book: "A Map of the Child"
NPR's Michele Norris talks with pediatrician Darshak
Sanghavi about his book, A Map of The Child. It's part guide to the major organs
of the body, and part memoir about his experience treating children.