This weekend on YOUR HEALTH®, Adam and Cristy will be talking with Dr. Don Bailey, about fragile X syndrome. Dr. Bailey is a Distinguished Fellow at RTI International. Formerly he was a Kenan Distinguished Professor at UNC- Chapel Hill and director of the FPG Child Development Institute. He studies young children with disabilities and their families, focusing primarily on fragile X syndrome, the leading inherited cause of intellectual impairment.

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• Research That Matters (min 0-10)
  • Training helps doctors talk to dying patients
  • Potassium-rich diet tied to lower stroke risk
  • North Carolina Flu Update, including a Flu Vaccine Finder
• Conversations with Dr. Don Bailey (min 10-31)
  • The National Fragile X Foundation
  • Short video about Fragile X, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• House Calls (min 31-42)
  • Confidence in mammograms
    • Mammogram guidelines: what’s changed?
  • Coming off of medications
    • Stopping Antidepressants: Is It Withdrawal?
  • Petechiae