Social marketing has the potential to add important dimensions to our understanding and management of public health challenges, but it is not without its problems and limitations. This program clarifies what social marketing is and is not. Karen Denard Goldman, PhD, presents key commercial marketing principles and practices that can enhance our public health practice such as successful social marketing programs in immunization, family planning, nutrition, and heart disease.
For this innovative procedure, Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon at Alliance Hospital, will use da Vinci, a breakthrough robotic system designed to transcend the limitations of both open surgery and laparoscopy, expanding the surgeon's capabilities and offering patients a minimally invasive option for many complex procedures. With da Vinci surgery, patients can experience significantly less pain, less blood loss, a much quicker recovery and a faster return to normal daily activities.
Do women experience heart disease differently from men? Why do they have a higher rate of becoming depressed? Does any treatment that's been developed from research on men work for women? This program examines the lack of medical research conducted on women, and how that's reduced the effectiveness of treatments in the areas of heart disease, depression and alcoholism. Experts interviewed include Pamela Douglas, cardiologist at Beth Israel Hospital, Gerald O'Connor, epidemiologist at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Martin Seligman, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, Carl Thoresen, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, and Donald West, Director of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Scott Cook, MD, will perform the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) technique. Cook is one of just 40 doctors in the United States trained to do the procedure. Rather than replacing the entire hip joint, as in a total hip replacement, hip resurfacing simply shaves and caps a few centimeters of bone within the joint. The bone-conserving approach of the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing System preserves more of the patient's natural bone structures and stability, covering the joint's surfaces with an all-metal implant that more closely resembles a tooth cap than a hip implant. This approach reduces the post-operative risks of dislocation and inaccurate leg length, and because the all-metal implant is made from tough, smooth cobalt chrome, it has the potential to last longer than traditional hip implants, which involved the removal of the entire femoral head and neck. The Birmingham Hip resurfacing technique, however, leaves the head and neck untouched.
Presented by Leonard R. Krilov, MD (Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Winthrop University Hospital, State University of New York at Stony Brook)
From Snake Oil to Penicillin: Consumer Health Information on the Internet
Health information on the Internet ranges from the reliable to the ridiculous. It is often hard to sort out the good from the bad, both for ourselves and for the consumers with whom we come in contact. This program will provide some tips for evaluating websites, and give the viewer some peer-reviewed, reliable sites to use when looking for health-related information. Guest is Jo-Ann Benedetti, MLS (Medical Librarian, Langeloth Center for Convalescent Care, Crandell Public Library, Glens Falls, NY).
Providing Culturally Competent Home Visiting Services to Vulnerable Families
Learn how the NYS Health Department's Community Health Worker Program (CHWP) provides outreach, health information, referral, advocacy and coordination of services on behalf of pregnant and young parenting families residing in high-risk areas. Yvonne Graham of the Caribbean Women's Association talks about providing culturally competent care and addresses lessons learned from providing services to Brooklyn immigrants for more than a decade.
Stacey Applegate, DO (Pediatric Resident, Brody School of Medicine) distiguishes between pulmonary and cardiac etiologies of cyanosis. She will discuss the four cyanotic congenital heart lesions and talk about the initial management and stabilization of infants with cyanotic heart lesions in the community care setting.
This program describes three medical treatments for obesity: medical center-based programs that emphasize exercise, education, portion control and peer support; medicines that can help control appetite and promote weight loss; and bariatric surgery, which reduces the stomach to the size of an egg and bypasses part of the digestive tract. Because more and more diseases are either caused by obesity or exacerbated by it, the emphasis of this show is on weight control for good health more than for good looks. The program tells the story of a young father who, at 400 pounds and after numerous efforts to lose weight, enters a bariatric surgery program. He is followed through surgery and beyond as he loses nearly 200 pounds, and is finally able to play soccer and ride bicycles with his children. Other patients include a woman who knows her weight loss is successful when she can stop taking blood pressure pills, and a woman who has lost weight with the help of medication that helps suppress appetite. Featured weight control programs are the Lifestyle Challenge Program at Albany Medical Center and the Weight Management Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Experts include Sharon Alger-Mayer, MD, Albany Medical Center; William Laycock, MD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; and Madelyn Fernstorm, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Capacitacion de Investigacion de Enfermedades Contagiosas - Entender su Papel en una Emergencia Nacional de la Salud (Disease Investigation Training - Understand Your Role in a National Health Emergency)
IN SPANISH: In a pandemic or bioterrorism event, public health staff may be called on to serve as disease investigators. This program is designed to help you and your program meet preparedness training needs and build disease investigation surge capacity to respond to such an event. The primary objective of this video is to identify public health workers' roles in responding to a national health emergency. Other objectives include identifying investigative tools, describing strategies to locate cases, identifying the the kinds of data for collection, discuss appropriate lines of communication and describe personal protective equipment and its use.
(Ante una pandemia o un evento de bioterrorismo, el personal de salud publica puerde ser llamado a servir como investigadores de enfermedades. Este programa esta disenado a ayudarle a usted y su equipo a cubrir sus necesidades de capacitacion en dicha materia y crear mayor capacidad en investigacion de enfermedades ante tal evento.)
Dr. Judah Folkman and Prof. Julia Dyckman Andrus describe the role of angiogenesis in supporting tumor growth and discuss therapeutic agents that have anti-angiogenic properties. They describe how agents with anti-angiogenic properties can be used to treat vascular anomalies and tumors.
This interruption in the regular heartbeat impairs the heart's ability to perform effectively, and can result in stroke, congestive heart failure or cardiomyopathy. Origins of the disorder are not clearly understood, but chances of developing it increase with age.When medications and other conventional interventions fail to restore a normal heartbeat, radiofrequency ablation is a leading option.
Presented by Paul Nurse, Ph.D. (FRS Head, Cell Cycle Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, U.K.); Co-hosted by Yeast Club and Molecular Biology IG (Sponsor: NCI-DBS).
Carotid artery stenting is minimally invasive and replaces open surgery to clean out a blocked artery and has proven to be superior to open surgery in all patients, including high-risk patients. The goal of a carotid stent is to reduce the risk of stroke and improve blood flow to the brain.
Senses and Sensitivity: Neuronal Alliances for Sight and Sound
The Science of Sight: Getting the Picture; Lectured by Dr. Jeremy H. Nathans: The ability to detect light enables human beings to obtain and process information about their environment. Detection of light begins when an image reaches the retina, a thin layer of nerve cells lining the back of the eye. The retina's ability to respond to light and perceive color makes human vision efficient. However, scientists are interested in color vision because it varies significantly from one person to the next. These variations reflect genetic differences in the proteins of the retina that are responsible for absorbing light.
XVI International AIDS Conference: August 13-18, 2006
Priorities in Ending the Epidemic
This session contains presentations from Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Special Correspondent NPR), William Clinton (Former U.S. President and Founder William J. Clinton Foundation), and William Gates (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
This program describes three medical treatments for obesity: medical center-based programs that emphasize exercise, education, portion control and peer support; medicines that can help control appetite and promote weight loss; and bariatric surgery, which reduces the stomach to the size of an egg and bypasses part of the digestive tract. Because more and more diseases are either caused by obesity or exacerbated by it, the emphasis of this show is on weight control for good health more than for good looks. The program tells the story of a young father who, at 400 pounds and after numerous efforts to lose weight, enters a bariatric surgery program. He is followed through surgery and beyond as he loses nearly 200 pounds, and is finally able to play soccer and ride bicycles with his children. Other patients include a woman who knows her weight loss is successful when she can stop taking blood pressure pills, and a woman who has lost weight with the help of medication that helps suppress appetite. Featured weight control programs are the Lifestyle Challenge Program at Albany Medical Center and the Weight Management Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Experts include Sharon Alger-Mayer, MD, Albany Medical Center; William Laycock, MD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; and Madelyn Fernstorm, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Capacitacion de Investigacion de Enfermedades Contagiosas - Entender su Papel en una Emergencia Nacional de la Salud (Disease Investigation Training - Understand Your Role in a National Health Emergency)
IN SPANISH: In a pandemic or bioterrorism event, public health staff may be called on to serve as disease investigators. This program is designed to help you and your program meet preparedness training needs and build disease investigation surge capacity to respond to such an event. The primary objective of this video is to identify public health workers' roles in responding to a national health emergency. Other objectives include identifying investigative tools, describing strategies to locate cases, identifying the the kinds of data for collection, discuss appropriate lines of communication and describe personal protective equipment and its use.
(Ante una pandemia o un evento de bioterrorismo, el personal de salud publica puerde ser llamado a servir como investigadores de enfermedades. Este programa esta disenado a ayudarle a usted y su equipo a cubrir sus necesidades de capacitacion en dicha materia y crear mayor capacidad en investigacion de enfermedades ante tal evento.)
Dr. Judah Folkman and Prof. Julia Dyckman Andrus describe the role of angiogenesis in supporting tumor growth and discuss therapeutic agents that have anti-angiogenic properties. They describe how agents with anti-angiogenic properties can be used to treat vascular anomalies and tumors.
This interruption in the regular heartbeat impairs the heart's ability to perform effectively, and can result in stroke, congestive heart failure or cardiomyopathy. Origins of the disorder are not clearly understood, but chances of developing it increase with age.When medications and other conventional interventions fail to restore a normal heartbeat, radiofrequency ablation is a leading option.
