Fighting Future Flu Outbreaks

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam and guest co-hosts Dr. Jonathan Fricke and Laurel Sisler welcome Dr. Lisa Koonin—deputy director of the CDC’s Influenza Coordination Unit and adjunct assistant professor in UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health—about fighting future flu outbreaks.Dr. Lisa Koonin

You can catch the episode on: 

WCHL 97.9 FM

  • Saturday, August 25 at 9 a.m.
  • Sunday, August 26 at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Monday, August 27 at 6 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.3 FM

  • Sunday, August 26 at 7 a.m.

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Re-Air: Hunger, Faith and Health with Dr. Norman Wirzba and Rabbi Steven Sager

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Norman Wirzba and Rabbi Steven Sager, Professors at Duke Univeristy Divinity School about Hunger Health and Faith.

Please tune in! The show will air:Dr. Norman Wirzba and Rabbi Steven Sager

WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, March 19th at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• Sunday, March 20th at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• Monday, March 21st at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7 FM
• Sunday, March 20th at 7 a.m.

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

  • Research that Matters (min 0-09:40) Lower heart disease risk and death risk in patients with sense of purpose; Number of people with high cholesterol and low HDL decreases, but many still do have these; Sedentary people have higher BMI, lower heart fitness; Cartilage repair in long distance runners.
  • Conversations with Dr. Norman Wirzba and Rabbi Steven Sager (min 09:41-30:07)
  • House Calls (min 30:08-39:15) After multiple cancer diagnoses, should family get tests for something genetic?; When to make end-of-life decisions with Parkinson’s; Why some doctors may not treat multiple myeloma?; What is an anal fistula?

Research that Matters
Lower heart disease risk and death risk in patients with sense of purpose

Abstract
News Article

Number of people with high cholesterol and low HDL decreases, but many still do have these

Abstract

Sedentary people have higher BMI, lower heart fitness

Abstract
News Article

Cartilage repair in long distance runners

Press Release

Conversations with Dr. Norman Wirzba and Rabbi Steven Sager

Dr. Norman Wirzba
Rabbi Steven Sager

House Calls

What you should know about genetic tesing

Preparing for the End-of-Life

Multiple Myeloma

Anal Abscess and Fistula

Hunger, Faith and Health with Dr. Norman Wirzba and Rabbi Steven Sager

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Norman Wirzba and Rabbi Steven Sager, Professors at Duke Univeristy Divinity School about Hunger Health and Faith.

Please tune in! The show will air:Dr. Norman Wirzba and Rabbi Steven Sager

WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, December 12th at 9 a.m.
• Sunday, December 13th at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• Monday, December 14th at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.

WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, December 12th at 3 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7 FM
• Sunday, December 13th at 7 a.m.

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

Click here to learn more about Dr. Wirzba and Rabbi Sager’s Interfaith Day of Learning called Hunger: Want and Plenty, which will take place in February, 2016

  • Research that Matters (min 0-09:40) Lower heart disease risk and death risk in patients with sense of purpose; Number of people with high cholesterol and low HDL decreases, but many still do have these; Sedentary people have higher BMI, lower heart fitness; Cartilage repair in long distance runners.
  • Conversations with Dr. Norman Wirzba and Rabbi Steven Sager (min 09:41-30:07)
  • House Calls (min 30:08-39:15) After multiple cancer diagnoses, should family get tests for something genetic?; When to make end-of-life decisions with Parkinson’s; Why some doctors may not treat multiple myeloma?; What is an anal fistula?

Research that Matters
Lower heart disease risk and death risk in patients with sense of purpose

Abstract
News Article

Number of people with high cholesterol and low HDL decreases, but many still do have these

Abstract

Sedentary people have higher BMI, lower heart fitness

Abstract
News Article

Cartilage repair in long distance runners

Press Release

Conversations with Dr. Norman Wirzba and Rabbi Steven Sager

Dr. Norman Wirzba
Rabbi Steven Sager

House Calls

What you should know about genetic tesing
Preparing for the End-of-Life
Multiple Myeloma
Anal Abscess and Fistula

Constipation: Causes, Prevention & Treatment with Dr. Spencer Dorn

Dr. Spencer Dorn photoThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Spencer Dorn, Vice Chief of Gastroenterology at UNC’s Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders about Constipation: Causes, Prevention & Treatment. 

Please tune in! The show will air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, April 11th at 9 a.m.
• Sunday, April 12th at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• Monday, April 13th at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.
WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, April 11th at 3 p.m.
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7 FM
• Sunday, April 12th at 7 a.m

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

Show Topics:

  • Research that Matters (min 0-11:00) Link between parent’s depression and toddler’s in trouble, Being weighed daily helping to lose weight, Websites selling genetic cancer tests, Electronic cigarette advertisements
  • Conversations with Dr. Spencer Dorn about Constipation: Causes, Prevention & Treatment (min 11:00-33:00)
  • House Calls (min 33:00-40:00) Improved diet helping diabetes, Frightening MRI, Difference in costs at academic institutions vs. non-academic institutions, Vestibular Migraines

Seeing with your ears with Dr. Amir Amedi

Amir AmediThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® we’ll be joined by researcher and senior lecturer in the Department of Physiology at Hebrew University, Dr. Amir Amedi on Seeing with Your Ears, neuroscience research for the blind.

 

Please tune in! We’re on the air:
– Saturday at 9am
– Sunday at 9am & 5pm
– Monday at 6pm & 10pm

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Show Topics:

More with Dr. Amedi

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Cancer and Nutrition with Dietitian Aimee Shea

This week Adam and Cristy talk with dietitian Aimee Shea from the NC Cancer Hospital.

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  • Research That Matters (min 0-10:16)
    • Benefits of eating grapes
    • Personal genome testing
    • Smoking, drinking, poor diet, lack of exercise combined
    • Colon cancer test
  • Conversations with Aimee Shea (min 10:16-32:04)
  • House Calls (min 32:04-40:00)