Tag Archives: Prediabetes

The Global Fight Against Cervical Cancer

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This week on Your Health Radio, Adam and guest co-host Carol Ripley-Moffitt have an exciting conversation with Dr. Vivien Tsu, senior program officer at the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health. The theme of the conversation is the global fight against cervical cancerDr. Vivien Tsu<.

Please tune in! The show will air:

WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, August 20, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• Sunday, August 21, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• Monday, August 22, at 6 and 10 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7 FM
• Sunday, August 21, at 7 a.m.

 
 

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New Life after Cancer: A Story on Health & Healing with Dr. Carolyn Sarter (YOUR HEALTH Radio April 2011)

Women and Cancer with Dr. Linda Van Le (YOUR HEALTH Radio August 27, 2010)

The Balance of Care and Coverage with Dr. Ed Anselm

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Ed Anselm, Medical Director at Health Republic Insurance of New Jersey and Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai about The Balance of Care and Coverage.

Please tune in! The show will air:Dr. Ed Anselm

WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, April 2nd at 9 a.m.
• Sunday, April 3rd at 9 a.m.
• Monday, April 4th at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7 FM
• Sunday, April 3rd at 7 a.m.

 

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Prevention: Doing What Counts with Dr. Mike Pignone

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Cristy and guest co-hosts Dr. Bob Gwyther and Dr. Catherine Coe will be talking with Dr. Mike Pignone, Chief of General Internal Medicine at UNC Health Care about Prevention: Doing What Counts

Please tune in! The show will air:Mike headshot

WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, October 3rd at 9 a.m.
• Sunday, October 4th at 9 a.m., 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.
• Monday, October 5th at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.

WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, October 3rd at 3 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7 FM
• Sunday, October 4th at 7 a.m.

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Show Topics:

  • Research that Matters (min 0-10:19) How effective are messages at reducing athletic concussions, How soon can kids return to school after strep throat, Are gastric bypass surgeries effective in controlling diabetes, What images make kids want to smoke
  • Conversations with Dr. Mike Pignone about preventive medicine. (min 10:19-32:02)
  • House Calls (min 32:03-40:46) Antibiotics for asthma at urgent care, Flu shot at the doctor or at the pharmacy, Cramping and unpredictable menstrual period, What to do if blood sugar tests reveal prediabetes

Research that Matters
How effective are messages at reducing athletic concussions? 
Abstract of the article:
News about the study

How soon can kids return to school after strep throat?
Abstract of the article
>News about the study

Are gastric bypass surgeries effective in controlling diabetes?
Abstract of the article
News about the study

What images make kids want to smoke?
Abstract of article
News about the study

Conversations with Mike Pignone, MD   Prevention:   Doing What Counts
Physical Exam Recommendations:
NIH
CDC
Medicare Annual Wellness Visit Guidelines

House Calls
Antibiotics for asthma at urgent care
Flu shot at the doctor or at the pharmacy
Cramping and unpredictable menstrual period

What to do if blood sugar test reveals prediabetes:
CDC
NIH 

Healthy Youth and Risky Behavior with Dr. Hope White and Sherry Lehman

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White and Lehman photoThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be joined by Dr. Hope White (left), Data Consultant, and Sherry Lehman (right), HIV Consultant for North Carolina Healthy Schools to talk about Healthy Youth and Risky Behavior.
 
 
 

Please tune in! This show will air:

WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, October 25th at 9am
• Sunday, October 26th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, October 27th at 6pm and 10pm

WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, October 25th at 3pm

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, October 26th at 7am

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Show Topics:

  • Research that Matters (min 0-9:30) Living Longer, Hepatitis C, Which Jobs May be Worse for your Heart, Eating Organic Food
  • Conversations with Dr. Hope White and Sherry Lehman about Healthy Youth and Risky Behavior (min 9:30-30:30)
  • House Calls (min 30:30-40) Trouble with Depression, Ankle Sprains, Diabetic Shoes, Medicinal Marijuana

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Hospice Care: Comfort & Compassion with Libby Hart

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Libby Hart, RN, Health Educator at UNC Hospice, about Hospice Care: Comfort & Compassion.

Please tune in! This show will air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, January 11th at 9am
• Sunday, January 12th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, January 13th at 6pm and 10pm
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, January 12th at 7am

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Additional Commentary:

This wonderful interview with Libby Hart, RN nurse educator, helps educate us about hospice care. I appreciated Dr. Hart’s explanation about hospice as an active team-based model of care that can help patients and families achieve comfort in the last months of their lives. The compassionate discussion of goals of care and helping families and patients negotiate even simple acts such as eating a meal is invaluable and their fears over taking pain medicines like morphine. The discussion of patient and family fears about the double effects of morphine as they fear it may shorten patients’ lives in addition to controlling pain is particularly salient given the increasing use of these medicines in daily life. Lastly, while many people may feel uncomfortable about volunteering to help people in the last months of their life but it may be as quick as running errands for the patients or their families.

I had hoped there might be more discussion about the larger field of palliative care which can occur anywhere throughout our lives and is not limited to the last stages of life, but it appears this was beyond the scope of the interview. I would encourage that we as a society begin to move beyond the black-and-white line of “6 months or less to live” or not, into a realm where comfort can go hand in hand with routine medical care.

Perhaps the most important part of this interview is the discussion of prognosis and how even physicians struggle with assessing and communicating limited prognosis to patients while maintaining hope. A wonderful article in the New York Times by Dr. Paul Kalanithi notes this prognostic divide. It is our attempts to understand how long we have left, and gain meaning in our lives that is perhaps the most challenging part of hospice. This interview raised many important points for us to consider as patients, family members, and potential volunteers.