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Tiny Changes Can Have a Big Impact

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH®, Adam and guest co-host Dr. Stephen Hooper talk with Dr. Antoine Bailliard—professor in UNC Allied Health’s division of occupational science and occupational therapy—about how tiny changes can have a big impact on mental illness and homelessness.Dr. Antoine Bailliard

You can catch the episode on:

97.9 FM The Hill

  • Saturday, November 3 at 9 a.m.
  • Sunday, November 4 at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Monday, November 5 at 6 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.3 FM

  • Sunday, November 4 at 7 a.m.

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Re-air: Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade

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Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy welcome Gary Chapman, Ph.D., counselor, pastor and author of the best-selling book The 5 Love Languages. On the show, Chapman will discuss the new book he co-authored, Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade: The 5 Love Languages and the Alzheimer’s Journey.

Please tune in! The show will air:

WCHL 97.9 FM

  • Saturday, May 27, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Sunday, May 28, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Monday, May 29, at 6 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.3 FM

  • Sunday, May 28, at 7 a.m.

 
 

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Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade

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Gary Chapman
Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy welcome Gary Chapman, Ph.D., counselor, pastor and author of the best-selling book The 5 Love Languages. On the show, Chapman will discuss the new book he co-authored, Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade: The 5 Love Languages and the Alzheimer’s Journey.

Please tune in! The show will air:

WCHL 97.9 FM

  • Saturday, March 4, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Sunday, March 5, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Monday, March 6, at 6 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.3 FM

  • Sunday, March 5, at 7 a.m.

 
 

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The Balance of Care and Coverage with Dr. Ed Anselm

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Ed Anselm, Medical Director at Health Republic Insurance of New Jersey and Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai about The Balance of Care and Coverage.

Please tune in! The show will air:Dr. Ed Anselm

WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, April 2nd at 9 a.m.
• Sunday, April 3rd at 9 a.m.
• Monday, April 4th at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7 FM
• Sunday, April 3rd at 7 a.m.

 

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Hypertension Cure & Control with Dr. Anthony Viera

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VieraSpecial guest host, Dr. Keyona Gullett, Resident Physician at UNC Family Medicine, will join Cristy to talk with Dr. Anthony Viera, Associate Professor at UNC Family Medicine and Program Director of UNC Family Medicine’s Hypertension Research Program, about Hypertension Cure & Control.

Please tune in! This show will air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, April 12th at 9am
• Sunday, April 13th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, April 14th at 6pm and 10pm
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, April 13th at 7am

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Pulmonary Hypertension with Dr. James Ford (YOUR HEALTH Radio July 2015)

Can Storytelling Lower Your Blood Pressure? (YOUR HEALTH Radio February 2011)

The President, Obamacare, and Your Health: Thoughts of a Family Medicine Leader with Dr. Sam Weir

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Sam WeirThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Sam Weir, Associate Professor of UNC Family Medicine , about The President, Obamacare, and Your Health: Thoughts of a Family Medicine Leader.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Additional Commentary: The Affordable Care Act and Your Health

Sherry HayThe consequences of being uninsured are paramount. Individuals often enter care late, and care is not coordinated.  The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a blueprint for reforming our healthcare system, the biggest in decades. The law is extensive in breadth and scope, e.g. expanding preventive services available to individuals covered by Medicare, offering individuals financial assistance to make healthcare more affordable through the insurance marketplaces, to changing how services are reimbursed. These changes align with the three key issues that face our healthcare system today as outlined by Dr. Sam Weir in his recent interview on Your Health Radio. Those issues, as he states, include access, quality, and cost of healthcare.

It is clear to me that many of the 1.5 million uninsured people in North Carolina need help in understanding the ACA and what the insurance marketplace could mean for them. I have been participating in a variety of community events over the past six months to answer questions about the ACA and then to help people navigate the new marketplace.  For example, here at UNC Family Medicine, we identified our uninsured households sending them information about the ACA as well as offering them assistance through trained counselors on our staff.  People have come with earnest questions and hope of gaining insurance, many for the very first time.  We have had success in a variety of ways from successfully helping people chose a plan, to answering questions about Medicare, to enrolling people into Medicaid.

At the center of it all, Dr. Weir notes that these changes can establish for people a relationship with a primary care team at a patient centered medical home. I couldn’t agree more and believe all Americans deserve access to high quality, low cost healthcare.  I feel better knowing we have this blueprint for change, and leaders like Dr. Weir who not only know the issues but are apart of the solutions.

Sherry Hay, MPA, is the Director of Community Health Initiatives and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Paul Grundy and the Patient Centered Medical Home (YOUR HEALTH Radio July 2010)

Physician-Assisted Suicide with Dr. Don Boudreau & Dr. Margaret Somerville

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be joined by Dr. Don Boudreau, Director of the Office of Curriculum Development at McGill University & Dr. Margaret Somerville, Founding Director of the McGill Center for Medicine, Ethics & Law, to talk about their clinical discussion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine, Physician-Assisted Suicide.

Please tune in! This show will air:
• Saturday, August 10th at 9am
• Sunday, August 11th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, August 12th at 6pm and 10pm

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Show Topics:

  • Research that Matters (min 0-10): ADHD medication & grades, accepting help & age, soy & prostate cancer, aging & disability
  • Conversations with Dr. Don Boudreau & Margaret Sommerville about Physician-Assisted Suicide (min 10-30)
  • House Calls (min 30-40): hand-foot and mouth disease, diabetes & alcohol, sleep deprivation, delayed muscle soreness

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The Internet & Your Health, Safety, Security & Your Privacy with Neil Berman

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH®, we’ll be joined by Helper-in-Chief at TheONbutton Computer and Technology Services, Neil Berman, about the internet & your health, safety, security & your privacy.

Please tune in! This show will air:
• Saturday, August 25th at 9am
• Sunday, August 26th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, August 27th at 6pm and 10pm

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ADHD drugs may be safer then originally thought

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Attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity (ADHD) are unarguably one of our countries most important medical diagnoses, affective millions of children and adults.  Over 2.5 million of youth ages 4-17 take some type of medication for ADHD.  Previously, people have worried that ADHD drugs have potential negative side effects on the heart, but new research may prove that elevated heart risks do not have meaningful adverse clinical effects with the drugs.

A study done by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and co-authors from HealthCore Inc. showed that children/teens who ADHD medicines are not at any higher risk for heart problems then children/teens who don’t use the medicines.  The researchers even went on to say that if the medicine is having positive effects on the child, that the benefit of the drug on the child outweighs any uncertain risks.

The study looked at over 241,000 patients from 5 states (California, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio) and from a HealthCore Research Database. The patients were ages 3-17 and on ADHD medications. They then compared patients who take ADHD medications with those who don’t, and looked specifically at heart attack, sudden death and stroke.  Of the children/teens that were on ADHD medicine, only 28 had died but of the children/teens who weren’t on medicine, 607 had died. No relationship existed between being on the drug and having an adverse outcome.

This study does not rule out a rare adverse affect, but it should reassure most parents that ADHD medications can safely benefit youth without raising heart risks to dangerous levels.

Does my child need supplemental iron?

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We know that iron and zinc are important to nutrition and to everyone’s brain development, especially children.  Iron deficiency causes not only malnutrition and anemia, but it may contribute to Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or hinder brain development and child growth.  Unfortunately children in developing nations are at particularly high risk of not getting iron and zinc in their diets.

So it makes sense that taking a supplement beginning at young age in such countries might improve cognitive development.  We wish research was always that simple!  In the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a recent study looked at 560 nine-year-olds in Thailand randomly assigned at birth to receive supplements.  Some children got supplements with iron and zinc, and some of them just got a sugar pill.  The researchers followed the children over 9 years to find out if the children who were given supplements did better with IQ, memory, attention and school performance.

While the study showed that there really wasn’t a difference in outcomes at age nine,  maybe a caveat exists: children in the study only received the supplements  for six months early on in infancy, and most of the kids were not iron deficient.

The jury may still be out on the benefits of routine infant supplements, but make no mistake, the jury is certainly clear that if you or your child is iron deficient, then it is absolutely necessary to take action. Zinc is especially important in many developing countries because it can help prevent diarrhea, which is often a major problem.

In order to find out your iron levels, you may need to get tested.
To find out the recommended intake for iron, what foods to eat, and much more about the importance of iron, go to: http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/iron

For more information on what an iron test is and why it is important to get tested, go to: http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/iron-tests