NYC Median Incomes; Statin Calculator; Death Penalty; Bread and Puppet

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 19, 2013

There seems to be a flaw in the calculator used by doctors to assess treatment options to lower cholesterol. Kim Allan Williams, vice president of the American College of Cardiology, discusses the tool that seems to be overestimating risk. Plus: New York Law School professor Robert Blecker talks about his new book The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice Among the Worst of the Worst; movement in the NYC median income numbers; hurdles to employment for those coming out of prison; and the 50th anniversary of Bread and Puppet.

WNYC Homepage - Top Stories

Manhattan's 42nd Street to be bus-only on World Cup match days

NYS Finally Has a Budget

A Russian Phrasebook for Surviving Authoritarianism

The Essential Sonny Rollins

YOU ARE ONLINE