Line One: Your Health Connection
Line One features local physicians and national subject experts from the fields of child care, mental health, nutrition, pharmacology, surgery and more. Join our hosts as they discuss these topics with their guests and live callers. Callers can talk one-on-one with each week’s guests and are encouraged to email questions during the live broadcasts.
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907-550-8433 (Anchorage)
1-888-353-5752 (Statewide)
lineone@alaskapublic.org
Listen to Line One on KSKA FM 91.1 in Anchorage, AK.
Wednesdays LIVE at 10:00 a.m. and repeating at 8:00 p.m.
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Alaska’s elderly population is growing at a rapid rate while facing a range of challenges that can be distressing, and physically impairing. -
The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has a robust summer work program helping 200 disabled youths across 17 sites in Alaska. Advocates say this resource is great for youth, their parents and for Alaska employers. -
Mental health challenges are on the rise for many Alaskans, and resources in rural Alaska remain difficult to access. -
Occupational therapists can provide much needed services to allow our elders to age with dignity in their homes and provide caregiver support.
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The Alaska Center For The Blind And Visually Impaired discusses the myths and misconceptions about blindness, what life in Alaska is like for the visually impaired and the support and resources that are available. -
Because chronic pain in children is a unique combination of biological, psychological and social factors in each child, the source of chronic pain can be complex. -
Most people believe they are too smart and too independently-minded to fall prey to the charms of a cultic leader or to blindly follow a belief system, yet many people do. -
More than two years into the pandemic, vaccines are widely available and most health measures have been lifted. But there are still Alaskans who have difficulty accessing vaccines or who have continued health risk in spite of them. -
David Livingstone Smith believes dehumanizing others is rooted in human psychology and leaves us vulnerable to leaders who trade in the politics of demonization and violence. -
During Child Abuse Prevention Month, Dan Bigley joins Prentiss Pemberton to discuss what is being done to prevent child abuse before it happens and what can be done to help children who have experienced abuse in their lives.
