Healthy eating and physical activity take more than willpower. While lifestyle choices are ultimately a matter of personal responsibility and personal choice, those choices are influenced by the food and physical environment. The speaker will explore how advertising, food industry PR campaigns, restaurant foods, portion sizes, food pricing, school environments, television, and transportation policy often encourage eating too much and discourage moving. The session will outline promising policy and environmental approaches that can help to reshape the environment and make healthier choices easier.
Outreach workers are an important link in the health care delivery system. This course has been designed to help you maximize outreach efforts and campaigns in your communities. Our panel of experts discuss disparities in the African American, Latino, and Asian/Pacific Islander communities.
Losing your memory is not a normal part of aging; it may be a disease called dementia. And while there is no cure for it, there are many ways to manage the disease. This program offers ideas to caregivers, and a chance to see and hear others' experiences. Several families dealing with Alzheimer's disease are followed. One family uses an adult daycare center, another has in-home care. Children are shown learning how to handle their grandparents' disease through storytelling and literature. Dr. Barry Reisberg of the Aging and Dementia Research Center at NYU Medical Center explains the different stages of Alzheimer's and how family members can slow the ill effects of the disease. Dr. Zaven Khachaturian of the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute of the Alzheimer's Association talks about the impact of this disease on families and our society.
Outreach workers are an important link in the health care delivery system. This course has been designed to help you maximize outreach efforts and campaigns in your communities. Our panel of experts discuss disparities in the African American, Latino, and Asian/Pacific Islander communities.
Losing your memory is not a normal part of aging; it may be a disease called dementia. And while there is no cure for it, there are many ways to manage the disease. This program offers ideas to caregivers, and a chance to see and hear others' experiences. Several families dealing with Alzheimer's disease are followed. One family uses an adult daycare center, another has in-home care. Children are shown learning how to handle their grandparents' disease through storytelling and literature. Dr. Barry Reisberg of the Aging and Dementia Research Center at NYU Medical Center explains the different stages of Alzheimer's and how family members can slow the ill effects of the disease. Dr. Zaven Khachaturian of the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute of the Alzheimer's Association talks about the impact of this disease on families and our society.
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)
Maternal Care, Gene Expression, and Neural Development
The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lectures Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide. Today's presenter is Michael Meaney, Ph.D. (Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences, McGill University, Montreal). This presentation is hosted by the Integrative Neuroscience Interest Group and sponsored by NIMH.
Robotic-Assisted Prostate Removal Surgery as Prostate Cancer Treatment
As leaders in prostate cancer treatment, urologic oncologists from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital were the first in the Delaware Valley to offer prostate cancer surgery laparoscopically, the minimally invasive alternative to traditional prostate removal surgery. Now, with the assistance of robotics, Jefferson urologists can offer their patients prostate removal surgery with less pain, a shorter hospital stay, a faster recovery and improved outcomes. The procedure will be performed by Costas Lallas, MD, and Edouard Trabulsi, MD, with narration by Leonard Gomella, MD.
Outreach workers are an important link in the health care delivery system. This course has been designed to help you maximize outreach efforts and campaigns in your communities. Our panel of experts discuss disparities in the African American, Latino, and Asian/Pacific Islander communities.
Losing your memory is not a normal part of aging; it may be a disease called dementia. And while there is no cure for it, there are many ways to manage the disease. This program offers ideas to caregivers, and a chance to see and hear others' experiences. Several families dealing with Alzheimer's disease are followed. One family uses an adult daycare center, another has in-home care. Children are shown learning how to handle their grandparents' disease through storytelling and literature. Dr. Barry Reisberg of the Aging and Dementia Research Center at NYU Medical Center explains the different stages of Alzheimer's and how family members can slow the ill effects of the disease. Dr. Zaven Khachaturian of the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute of the Alzheimer's Association talks about the impact of this disease on families and our society.
