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Surviving Heart Attacks: Advocating for YOUR HEALTH with Julia Allen

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Julia=OFFICIALAHA-FThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Julia Allen, two-time heart attack survivor and spokeswoman for the American Heart Association about Surviving Heart Attacks: Advocating for YOUR HEALTH.

Please tune in! This show will air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, March 14th at 9am
• Sunday, March 15th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, March 16th at 6pm and 10pm
WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, March 14th at 3pm
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, March 15th at 7am

American Heart Association

Go Red for Women: Fight Heart Disease in Women

Lifestyle Changes for Heart Attack Prevention

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Show Topics: 

Research that Matters (0-8:43) Oatmeal and Pre-mature death, Appropriateness of aspirin, Vaping, Stem cells and Multiple Sclerosis
Conversations with Julia Allen, Two-time heart attack survivor and spokeswoman for the American Heart Association and about Surviving Heart Attacks: Advocating for YOUR HEALTH (8:43-31:33)
House Calls (31:33-39:27): Fevers, Flu vaccines in the workplace, Lowering BP with medications, Irritating knot
Research that Matters

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Living a Heart-Healthy Life with Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum (YOUR HEALTH Radio February 2014)

The Importance of Genetics and Heart Disease (Research that Matters October 2012)

Re-Air: Life at Guantanamo: The Unspoken Truth with George Annas

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Professor George Annas Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights of Boston University School of Public HealthSpecial guest host, Dr. Amir Barzin, Resident Physician at UNC Family Medicine, will join Cristy to talk with Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights of Boston University School of Public Health, Professor George Annas about Life at Guantanamo: the Unspoken Truth.

Please tune in! This show will re-air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, December 27th at 9am
• Sunday, December 28th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, December 29th at 6pm and 10pm
WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, December 27th at 3pm
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, December 28th at 7am

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Additional Commentary: Why should a physician in the US care about forced-feeding of Guantanamo detainees?

Since 2002, the United States has maintained a military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for detention of persons captured during the “War on Terror”, primarily from Afghanistan and Iraq.  Many have been released without charges and a small number have been charged with high-level crimes, including orchestrating the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Of the remaining 166 detainees, approximately 100 have engaged in a hunger strike during 2013.  To prevent them from dying, the US military has required its physicians at Guantanamo to forcibly insert nasogastric tubes and provide nutritional supplements to hunger-striking prisoners.  Prisoners who do not comply are restrained in special feeding chairs and strapped in until their food is digested, to prevent them from self-induced vomiting.

The World Medical Association and the American Medical Association have both declared that forcibly feeding hunger striking prisoners is unethical.  But why should an American physician care about what happens in Guantanamo?

The simple reason is that physician participation in human rights violations anywhere degrades our profession everywhere.  None of my patients are directly threatened by physicians who act unethically in some other state.  But state medical boards across the United States hold physicians to high ethical standards to ensure public trust in all physicians.  Permitting US physicians to act unethically anywhere undermines trust in physicians and strikes at the core obligation of physicians to act in their patients’ best interests.

The physicians at Guantanamo are not, however, acting on their own accord but are caught in a difficult dual loyalty conflict: they are being ordered by their supervisors to commit acts that are inconsistent with the ethics of their medical profession.  We should support those military physicians at Guantanamo who refuse to carry out orders that violate medical ethics and encourage our elected representatives to force the termination of the abusive practices being done in our name.

Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
University of North Carolina

Substance Abuse Recover, TROSA, and Your Health with Kevin McDonald

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Kevin McDonaldThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Kevin McDonald, founder and president of TROSA, about Substance Abuse Recovery, TROSA, and Your Health.

Please tune in! This show will air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, March 15th at 9am
• Sunday, March 16th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, March 17th at 6pm and 10pm
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, March 16th at 7am

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You may also like:

A Journey Back from Opioid Addiction (YOUR HEALTH Radio July 2018)

An incredible story of recovery from Rabbi Mark Borovitz, an ex-con who found a new calling (YOUR HEALTH Radio January 2017)

Marijuana Use & Abuse with Dr. James Finch (YOUR HEALTH Radio August 2014)

Inside Rehab with Anne Fletcher (YOUR HEALTH Radio February 2013)

Women, Trauma & Addiction with Dr. Stephanie Covington (YOUR HEALTH Radio June 2012)

Teen Substance Abuse with Gary Sauls (YOUR HEALTH Radio July 2010)

Life at Guantanamo: The Unspoken Truth with George Annas

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George AnnasSpecial guest host, Dr. Amir Barzin, Resident Physician at UNC Family Medicine, will join Cristy to talk with Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights of Boston University School of Public Health, Professor George Annas about Life at Guantanamo: the Unspoken Truth.

Please tune in! This show will air:

WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, December 7th at 9am
• Sunday, December 8th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, December 9th at 6pm and 10pm

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, December 8th at 7am

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

Additional Commentary: Why should a physician in the US care about forced-feeding of Guantanamo detainees?

Since 2002, the United States has maintained a military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for detention of persons captured during the “War on Terror”, primarily from Afghanistan and Iraq.  Many have been released without charges and a small number have been charged with high-level crimes, including orchestrating the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Of the remaining 166 detainees, approximately 100 have engaged in a hunger strike during 2013.  To prevent them from dying, the US military has required its physicians at Guantanamo to forcibly insert nasogastric tubes and provide nutritional supplements to hunger-striking prisoners.  Prisoners who do not comply are restrained in special feeding chairs and strapped in until their food is digested, to prevent them from self-induced vomiting.

The World Medical Association and the American Medical Association have both declared that forcibly feeding hunger striking prisoners is unethical.  But why should an American physician care about what happens in Guantanamo?

The simple reason is that physician participation in human rights violations anywhere degrades our profession everywhere.  None of my patients are directly threatened by physicians who act unethically in some other state.  But state medical boards across the United States hold physicians to high ethical standards to ensure public trust in all physicians.  Permitting US physicians to act unethically anywhere undermines trust in physicians and strikes at the core obligation of physicians to act in their patients’ best interests.

The physicians at Guantanamo are not, however, acting on their own accord but are caught in a difficult dual loyalty conflict: they are being ordered by their supervisors to commit acts that are inconsistent with the ethics of their medical profession.  We should support those military physicians at Guantanamo who refuse to carry out orders that violate medical ethics and encourage our elected representatives to force the termination of the abusive practices being done in our name.

Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
University of North Carolina

Is Multiple Sclerosis Caused by Low Vit D, EBV, Both or Neither?

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Most of us know someone who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, also known as MS. As physicians, we know lots of people, but also as family members, we have too many afflicted with the disease.  It is a potentially horrendous disease that attacks the immune system and our bodies’ own nerves.  But what we don’t know about MS is what causes the disease?

The Journal of Neurology did a study that aimed to look at what factors cause MS to develop.  They looked at seven years’ worth of data and tried to link certain geographic areas, and factors about those areas, to the rates of MS.  They found that areas in the country that have a relatively lower amount of sunlight, and those areas with higher rates of mononucleosis (caused by the Epstein Barr Virus), also had higher rates of MS.   We also know that lower sunlight is linked with lower levels of vitamin D.

While it’s tempting to jump to conclusions based on one piece of research, to say we should get more sun exposure and Vitamin D, or avoid exposure to mononucleosis and the Epstein Barr Virus, this is way too premature.  For instance, 95% of us will be exposed to this virus sometime in our lives.

There is no doubt it’s exciting to think we have some links to developing an explanation for MS, but this study only shows us that vitamin D and mono may have roles in MS.  So for now, we wouldn’t recommend you make any changes based on this study until further studies are conducted.

The Last Survivor with Michael Kleiman

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Michael KleimanFilmmaker Michael Kleiman will join us on YOUR HEALTH® this weekend to talk about his documentary, The Last Survivor, which follows the lives of survivors of four different genocides and mass atrocities: The Holocaust, Rwanda, Darfur, and Congo.

 

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

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