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Two Careers, One Life with Dr. Eduardo Lapetina

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Eduardo working on large paintingThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Eduardo Lapetina, former professor of medicine at UNC and Case Western Reserve University, Principal Scientist at Burroughs-Wellcome, and renowned artist, about Two Careers, One Life.

Please tune in! This show will air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, May 3rd at 9am
• Sunday, May 4th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, May 5th at 6pm and 10pm
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, May 4th at 7am

Listen to the Show! 
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Show Topics: 

  • Research that Matters (min 0-10:30) behavior change & diabetes, probiotics & children, mobile app & alcoholism, optimism & women’s eating
  • Conversations with Dr. Eduardo Lapetina about Two Careers, One Life (min 10:30-31:30)
  • House Calls (min 31:30-40) abdominal pain & gall bladder, Botox & arthritis pain, tobacco use & emphysema, sleep apnea & bipap

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The title of each painting ideally hints at both its physical appearance and the poetic ambiguity of the long journey that brings it into being. A title should attach a painting to the world beyond its appearance, the world that claims a voice that speaks to the viewer of its unseen message. A fellow artist and friend, Adam Narcross, once said, “Eduardo’s paintings are far from mute. All you have to do is listen, and the whisper you hear is the music that comes from the hand of one of the gentlest souls to grace canvas with the loving caress of a brush or palette knife.”

Back When However We Move We Dance the TuneFinding My Way to the Stars IIIts Still a Brilliant WorldOn the Train from Past to FutureThe Deep Solace of SpringThe Shadows of My Solitude

Are YOU at Higher Risk of Shingles? Should YOU get a Shingle Vaccine?

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We are surprised that so few of our patients realize that a safe and effective vaccination exists for preventing shingles.  Despite this knowledge, we’ve not really thought in the past about who is at higher risk of shingles, so we liked this new study that got us to think more about this problem and in a new way.

A new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal examined  people who have emphysema or lung disease and whether they have a higher risk of getting shingles.  Researchers looked at 8,500 patients with lung disease COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), ages 50 and up, and they studied them every year for a total of 10 years.  What they found was that this group of people had almost a two times higher risk of developing shingles than people who did not have this lung disease.  Sixteen of every 1,000 patients who had lung disease developed shingles, compared to only nine in 1,000 who didn’t have lung disease.

The take-home message of this research is pretty simple: if you have lung disease, like COPD, emphysema or chronic bronchitis, or if you’re over the age of 60, you should talk to your doctor and seriously consider getting a shingles vaccine.  From what we know, the benefits of the vaccine clearly outweigh the risks, and it will also help to prevent you from getting postherpetic neuralgia, a tremendously painful complication of shingles that can affect your nerve fibers and skin.

We recently did a show on COPD and talked with Dr. Jim Donohue, the Division Chief of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at UNC.  To hear him speak about one of the most frequent causes of illness in the world you can go to

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