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The Unger Report: Cupping and Health Care

By Brian Unger,
Madeleine Brand
Published July 12, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Day to Day cracked correspondent Brian Unger talks to NPR's Madeleine Brand about the strange round bruise marks seen recently on actress Gwyneth Paltrow's back, and how the practice of "cupping" relates to the debate over health care in this country.

Copyright 2004 NPR
Brian Unger
Brian Unger’s satirical reports on culture and politics can currently be heard regularly on NPR.
Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is the host of NPR’s newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).