LISTEN: Managing Alzheimer’s is difficult for both patients and their families. What resources are there in Alaska?
Alzheimer’s disease affects the lives of 8,500 Alaskans. While the disease is devastating to the patient, it also provides incredible challenges for caregivers and family.
Line One: Pediatric endocrinology in Alaska
Children in Alaska are sometimes affected by unique pediatric endocrine disorders like rickets, precocious or delayed puberty, short stature, thyroid dysfunction and pituitary gland disorders.
Line One: Influenza and the Risks and Benefits of Influenza Vaccine
Each year about 35,000 deaths in the U.S. are attributed to influenza, about the same number of fatalities caused by automobile accidents. Influenza deaths...
Line One: Motivation
What do we know about motivation and how can we use that knowledge to change our behavior and those around us? Find out...
Line One: Child Abuse, Part 2
Today, Dr. Thad Woodard continues his discussion of child abuse with Dr. Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, MD who is also the medical director of Alaska CARES....
Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Dr. Woodard interviews Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH about her book Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us to help discover the psychobiology of beliefs and decision making with emphasis on health decisions. Suggestions for all of us to improve our decisions on health issues will be discussed.
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The Global Fund
For the United States the leading cause of death between one year and 45 years of age is unintentional injury, causing about 120,000 deaths for all age groups; but for the majority of the world’s population infections remain the leading killers. Malaria alone kills about 660,000 people per year. The Global Fund, our topic on Line One, seeks to fund the fight against HIV AIDS tuberculosis and malaria.
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LISTEN: Why aren’t there more Black men in medicine?
In 1978, Black males made up a little over 3% of medical school enrollments, but in 2019 that number was even smaller. Does this disparity contribute to healthcare inequities in minority communities?
Line One: The rise in fentanyl overdoses in Alaska
Overdose deaths from fentanyl are on the rise in Alaska, and its important to remember that the statistics account for more than just one person.
LISTEN: Genetic testing can tell you your risk of cancer, and it’s available here in Alaska
As technology and science advance we continue to find genes that play a role in both cancer and non-cancer diseases. Testing can show if you are at risk for a disease and also impact how you are treated.
Line One: Breast cancer awareness
Breast cancer author, nurse, and survivor, Lillie Shockney joins Dr. Woodard on Line One this afternoon. Mrs. Shockney is the administrative director at John...
Line One: Dr. Jack Hickel
Dr. Jack Hickel has spent many years in Swaziland as a medical missionary. Today he is a local family physician working at Southcentral Foundation....
Teen voices: stories about mental health, stigma and hope
Despite the fact that almost 50% of the US population experience mental illness at some point in their lifetimes, mental health awareness and advocacy programs are often poorly funded.
Line One: Peripheral Artery Disease
Do you have diabetes or hypertension? Are you overweight? Do you smoke? Do your legs or hips ache or cramp while walking? Is your...
Line One: Talking to youth about substance use
Today’s youth are constantly bombarded with the allure of harmful substances on social media. The highlight reel nature of social media misses the stark impacts that drugs and alcohol can have on us. On the next Line One, host Dr. Jillian Woodruff dives into the struggles that young people experience, with a conversation aimed at seeking compassion, and building trust.
Line One: Assessing Medical Information
Recent guidelines regarding screening mammography for breast cancer have been controversial. Should women trust these recommendations? Are they based on good science...
LISTEN: Electroconvulsive therapy and inpatient psychiatric treatment
Much of the stigma involving electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is from portrayal in movies. But when done correctly, it can cause changes in brain chemistry that can reverse certain mental health conditions like severe depression.
Line One: Health Care For All
NPR's Health care for All examines how Germany, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland provide universal coverage for their citizens. As a leader...
LISTEN: How kidney health impacts overall physical health
Our kidneys are amazing organs that filter our blood of waste and extra water to create urine. The function of our kidneys can be impacted by many things from high blood pressure, to diabetes and even trauma.
Line One: Health Risks of Cosmetics
Stacy Malkan is the author of the award-winning book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry, which exposes the...