Line One: Breast Cancer
According to the CDC, breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women, and the second most common cause of...
Line One: Nutrition as a Tool in Learning
Line One: Your Health Connection is a new program produced by KSKA-FM in Anchorage and now being provided statewide by the Alaska Public Radio...
Line One: Nutrition as a Tool in Learning
The relationship between good nutrition and effective learning is a key element in helping our kids get off to a good start. How...
Expanding Local Programming on KSKA
KSKA is kicking off September 2009 with a fresh start for many of our local produced programs, including Line One: Your Health Connection, Community...
Line One: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
September 9 is the tenth annual FASD Awareness Day. Events are usually held at 9:09, the 9th minute of the 9th hour of the...
Line One: Trauma Care in Alaska
Trauma director at the Alaska Native Medical Center, Dr. Frank Sacco and Dr. Reginald Burton from the American College of Surgeons join host Dr....
Line One: Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. This week on Line One, Anchorage urologist, Dr. Robert Allen joins Dr. Woodard to talk...
Line One: Preparing Alaska's Kids for Success
This week on Line One, host. Dr. Woodard talks with two local experts about early childhood education and preparing Alaska's kids for success. Executive...
Line One: Child Passenger Safety
In June, Alaska enacted a new law that requires children under the age of eight years, weight of 65 pounds or 4'9" tall to be placed in a car or booster seat while traveling on roads in Alaska. Alaska joins 46 other states and the District of Columbia in having a booster seat law. To talk about the new booster seat legislation and child passenger safety, host Dr. Woodard welcomes Gordon Glaser and Peggy Hayashi from the Alaska Division of Public Health.
Line One: Vaccines and Autism
Dr. Paul Offit is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital...
Line One: Health Care Needs of Alaska's Growing Homeless Population
Poor health can contribute to being homeless, and being homeless can lead to poor health. Limited access to health care can make it worse....
Line One: Urogynecology
Dr. Andrea Wang (right) of Alaska Urological Associates joins host Dr. Woodard on Line One this week to discuss disorders of the female urinary...
Line One: Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy Prevention
Teen pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy among young adults is at the root of a number of important public health and social challenges. After a...
Line One: Health Care Reform
Dr. John Oberlander (right), associate professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy & Management at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill will...
Line One: Food Allergies
This week's guest on Line One, Dr. Melinda Rathkopf, (right) takes a look food allergy. Some of the topics she and Dr. Thad Woodard...
Line One: Exercise Physiology
Today's guest on Line One, Dr. Michael Koehle (pictured right) examines the underlying mechanisms of environmental illnesses such as altitude, heat and decompression illness...
Line One: Sleep disorders
According to the Center for Disease Control, insufficient sleep is associated with a number of chronic diseases and conditions - such as diabetes, cardiovascular...
Line One: Hepatitis
In honor of World Hepatitis Day, Dr. Woodard welcomes Dr. Brian McMahon, recipient of the Hepatitis B Foundation's "Distinguished Scientist Award 2009" and Ginger...
Line One: Envision the Rhythms of Life
Sponsored by the National Institute of Health, Anchorage-based Mind Matters Research has been studying imagery as intervention since 2006. Led by Dr. Lyn Freeman,...
Line One: Women's Health
Co-founder of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective and and co-author of all editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Judy Norsigian arrives in Anchorage this week...