Health Show

Northeast Public Radio

The Health Show covers all aspects of modern health: prevention, treatment, research, administration and more. Each week The Health Show breaks the issues down so you can be a better informed patient or care-provider.

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Location:

Albany, NY

Genres:

Health

Description:

The Health Show covers all aspects of modern health: prevention, treatment, research, administration and more. Each week The Health Show breaks the issues down so you can be a better informed patient or care-provider.

Twitter:

@WAMCRadio

Language:

English

Contact:

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio P.O. Box 66600 Albany, NY 12206 (800) 695-9170

Episodes

Vox Pop : Medical Monday - Dr. Nina Sax : 8/19/13

8/19/2013
Joining us today on Medical Monday is Dr. Nina Sax, gastroenterologist and WAMC co-host of The Health Show. WAMC's Alan Chartock hosts.

Duration:00:50:02

The Health Show #1317

6/27/2013
1988 was an interesting year. A presidential election was underway. The Mets were in first place. And a public radio station in Albany, New York decided to

Duration:00:24:59

The Health Show #1316

6/20/2013
Almost decade ago, Dr. Richard Besser...the chief medical editor for ABC News lost his sister while she was having elective surgery. Since then he has been

Duration:00:24:59

The Health Show #1315

6/13/2013
If you had the chance, would you go back to being a teenagers again? Before you answer think back to just exactly what that meant. It wasn’t easy. Now

Duration:00:24:59

The Health Show #1314

6/6/2013
What is it about Americans that makes solving the problem of drugs and addiction so difficult? Addiction to drugs impacts almost every other problem facing

Duration:00:24:59

The Health Show #1313

5/30/2013
Clostridium difficile is not only very difficult to say, it can be deadly. This gut infection has been in the news with outbreaks in hospitals and nursing

The Health Show #1312

5/23/2013
We hear an awful lot about “awareness” in health care. The breast cancer awareness campaign has, over the years, made a huge difference in the way the

Duration:00:24:59

The Health Show #1311

5/17/2013
I’ve often said to colleagues that if I want to get a lot of mail...and usually nasty mail...I need to a story on either vaccines or Lyme disease. So today

Duration:00:24:59

The Health Show #1309

5/2/2013
Sakeenah Francis was living a comfortable, successful life. A college graduate with a career and a young family...until schizophrenia tore that life and

Duration:00:11:06

The Health Show #1308

4/25/2013
The bombing of the Boston Marathon has a lot of people asking questions. Questions like why. Like who was involved. Like is the danger over. We’re asking

Duration:00:11:06

The Health Show #1307

4/18/2013
OK parents, I’m looking at you. How old was your child when you first started adding solid food to the little bundle’s diet. According to a new survey, if

Duration:00:11:06

The Health Show #1306

4/12/2013
About one in every 100 people in the US are living with epilepsy. It is a condition that most people have heard of...but don’t really understand. And the

Duration:00:25:00

The Health Show #1305

4/8/2013
It seems like you can’t turn on the radio or read a health blog anymore without finding something else that will eventually kill you. Sunshine, artificial

Duration:00:11:06

The Health Show #1304

4/1/2013
Think about what happens when someone has a traumatic health condition. The condition is stabilized, treated...and then the patient goes through rehab. It

The Health Show #1303

3/21/2013
In 1977, the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released with the tag line: “we are not alone”. You know what, we really aren’t. And it has

The Health Show #1302

3/14/2013
To tell you the truth, I didn’t think the name “Superstorm Sandy” would stick. But it has...and as the areas that were affected by Sandy continue to

Duration:00:25:00

The Health Show #1301

3/7/2013
Over the years there have been two words that have summed up the most effective weapon in the fight against cancer...all cancer: early detection. Now

Duration:00:25:00

The Health Show #1300

2/28/2013
Once a woman is diagnosed, treated and cured of breast cancer...her journey is far from over. In fact, it’s more than likely just beginning. On today’s

Duration:00:25:00

The Health Show #1299

2/21/2013
Do you have high blood pressure? Are you sure? Most people with high blood pressure have no signs or symptoms, even if their blood pressure readings get

Duration:00:25:00

The Health Show #1298

2/14/2013
Over the past decade there have been an explosion of new laboratory tests for disease plus a steady movement to electronic health records. At least in the

Duration:00:25:00

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