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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam and guest co-host Dr. Jonathan Fricke welcome Chip Hughes, director of the worker education and training program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, about reducing and preventing the health hazards that threaten workers both during their average workday and during responses to disasters such as 9/11 and the Deep Water Horizon oil spill.

You can catch the episode on:

WCHL 97.9 FM

KKAG Retro Radio 88.3 FM

Listen to the show!
Download the episode from the Carolina Digital Repository

Research that Matters (min 0-11:10)
- Rocker bottom shoes help reduce chronic low back pain
  - Abstract of the article
  - News about the article
- Bisphenol A (BPA) and brain development in pregnant mice
  - Abstract of the article
  - News about the article
- OCD patients and poor coping skills
  - Abstract of the article
  - News about the article
- Does educational success help to reduce effect of early child abuse?
  - Abstract of the article
  - News about the article
Conversations with Chip Hughes (min 11:10-30:06)
House Calls (min 30:06 -40:00)
- My right hip hurts when I put weight on it and I have trouble putting on socks. What could this be?
- The medication for trigeminal neuralgia in my face and mouth doesn’t seem to be working. What do you suggest?
  - Trigeminal Neuralgia
- My father is in a nursing home and wears a condom catheter. How can I tell when he has a urinary tract infection?
  - Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH, Adam and guest co-host Leah Ranney, Ph.D., welcome Dr. Melina Kibbe, the new chair of the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery and the editor of the journal Jama Surgery, about sex bias in surgical research as well as her new position at UNC.

Please tune in! The show will air:

WCHL 97.9 FM
• Saturday, October 1, at 9 a.m.
• Sunday, October 2, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• Monday, October 3, at 6 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7 FM
• Sunday, October 2, at 7 a.m.

Listen to the show!
Download the episode from the Carolina Digital Repository

Research that Matters (min 0-9:12)
- Are partners of people with depression more likely to suffer with chronic pain?
  - Full text article

Prenatal exposure to common chemical in plastics and anxiety and depression in boys
- Full text article

Does job satisfaction affect your physical and mental health?
- News about the study

Can stronger relationships with family members decrease likelihood of your death?
- News about the study
- Study abstract

Conversations with Dr. Melina Kibbe (min 9:12-30:57)
- Dr. Kibbe’s faculty page
- Dr. Kibbe’s JAMA Surgery article news item
- Dr. Kibbe’s article
- Implicit Bias Guide (UNC Health Sciences Library)

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