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Katrina's Health Aftermath
Category: Healthcare
The worst of Hurricane Katrina may be over, but thousands of evacuees from the Gulf coast still face an uncertain future. With the recovery underway, are we prepared for the next perfect storm?
Drug Interactions
Category: Healthcare
Most people realize drugs have side effects. But did you know drugs can interact with other prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, herbal supplements and sometimes even food?
Your Health and Your Insurance
Category: Healthcare
Health insurance is important to everyone, especially people with chronic conditions like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Tune in to watch highlights from a panel discussion offering advice on how to handle problems with insurance providers.
Advocate Hlts.
Category: Healthcare
Traveling to Washington to ask Congress to support legislation can be a powerful experience. Learn how hundreds of people went to the nation's capital to help gain support for a bill to increase funding for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research.
Neck Tension
Category: Workplace Health
Learn some massage techniques to ease tension in your shoulder and neck.
Lower Trapezius Muscle
Category: Workplace Health
Tension in the trapezius muscle, located in the shoulder, is very common. At the end of a long day, do you find your shoulders up around your ears? Learn how to strengthen your lower trapezius to keep loose and limber.
Lower Back Health
Category: Workplace Health
Poor office chairs, long hours spent sitting and poor posture can cause major lower back pain. Learn how to keep your posture in check throughout the day.
Hamstring Exercises
Category: Workplace Health
Learn some exercises that can help ease lower back pain.
Thigh Exercises
Category: Workplace Health
Learn some exercises that you can do at your desk for the muscles of the lower body.
Eye Strain
Category: Workplace Health
Staring at a computer all day can be bad for your eyes. Here are some tips to relieve the strain.
Bags Under Eyes
Category: Workplace Health
Are bags under your eyes making you look more tired than you truly are? Here are some tips to reduce the puffiness.
Medicine and Gender
Category: Healthcare
That men and women have different bodies is news to no one. But with the advance of the medical sciences, more and more fascinating differences have been uncovered. Did you know, for example, that men and women often use different parts of their brain to accomplish the same task? Join our panel of experts as they discuss some of these gender differences and their implications for modern medicine.
Your Rights as a Patient
Category: Healthcare
Whenever you go to a hospital or clinic for a major procedure or diagnostic test, one of the many forms you are given to sign is an "informed consent" form. Many people sign it without much thought. What does "informed consent" mean? Join our panel of legal experts as they clarify this important medical principle.
Insurance Claim Forms
Category: Healthcare
"I authorize the release of any medical or other information necessary to process this claim." Do you recognize these words? You should, if you've ever read the fine print above your signature on a medical insurance claim form. But what does it really mean? What are you releasing, and to whom? And what about all the writing on the back of the form? Join our panel of experts as they discuss your medical privacy rights are and what rights you give up when you make an insurance claim.
Organ Donation
Category: Healthcare
Have you ever looked at the back of your driver's licence, come close to checking "yes" for organ donation, then changed your mind? The decision is ultimately up to you, but you should know the facts - and the moving stories - surrounding the issue to make an informed decision. On today's program we'll be discussing the current state of organ donation with an organ donation activist and a liver recipient, and try to dispell some common myths and misunderstandings about the process.
A Transplant Recipient's Story
Category: Healthcare
After years of suffering from a progressive gastrointestinal disease, David Pearl reached a point where his life depended on a liver transplant. He waited and waited... and finally the call came. Join us as he shares his remarkable story of survival and renewal, and discusses the emotional challenge of receiving the gift of life from another person's tragedy.
