The Informed Patient
The Informed Patient is Upstate Medical University's podcast on health, science and medicine, featuring experts from Central New York's only academic medical center.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 1564
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Understanding the Central New York food system
The co-directors of The co-directors of FoodPlanCNY FoodPlanCNY talk about what a food system includes and how a community-based approach would benefit Central New York. The co-directors of this proj…
00:14:03 |
Thu 05 Oct 2017
Exploring the connections among depression, obesity and antidepressants
Are you depressed because you're fat? Or fat because you're depressed? Are you depressed because you're fat? Or fat because you're depressed? Julio Licinio, MD, PhD Julio Licinio, MD, PhD (left), say…
00:14:04 |
Fri 29 Sep 2017
Oct. 1, 2017
Sunday, October 1st, 2017: Looking for causes of glaucoma; rehabilitation after spinal cord injury; caring for heart-failure patients.
00:51:52 |
Fri 29 Sep 2017
Endocrinologist discusses common thyroid disorders, thyroid cancer
The incidence of thyroid cancer is on the rise, partly because more cases are discovered incidentally when a patient undergoes testing for something unrelated, says The incidence of thyroid cancer is…
00:14:46 |
Fri 29 Sep 2017
Should physicians feel obligated to provide medical care on airplanes?
Have you been on an airplane when a flight attendant asked whether there was a physician on board to help with a medical emergency? Have you been on an airplane when a flight attendant asked whether …
00:13:24 |
Fri 29 Sep 2017
Urology chief gives a prostate cancer update, cites need for individualized treatment
Prostate cancer is a disease of many types that is best treated individually. Treatment options include various types of surgery, radiotherapy and medications, in addition to active surveillance and …
00:31:01 |
Fri 29 Sep 2017
Understanding the 'hunger hormone,' ghrelin
The hormone ghrelin is how our stomachs tell our brains to eat. Understanding how ghrelin works may lead to new therapies for diabetes and obesity, or a treatment for a rare genetic disorder called P…
00:14:59 |
Fri 29 Sep 2017
Socializing's role in cancer treatment; why breast-feeding is emphasized; a precise approach to psychiatry: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017
Kaushal Nanavati, MD Kaushal Nanavati, MD, talks about the value of social interactions for people with cancer. Nurse Anna Mroczek explains the importance of breast-feeding for both mothers and babie…
00:51:52 |
Fri 22 Sep 2017
Lung cancer treatments in the era of personalized medicine
Using an individual patient's genetic code helps doctors select treatments most likely to be effective, and that includes for lung cancers, some of the deadliest types of cancer. Using an individual …
00:15:26 |
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Rehabilitation after spinal cord injury - and a device that helps certain patients regain mobility
Gizelda Casella, MD, PhD Gizelda Casella, MD, PhD, an Upstate physiatrist with expertise in spinal cord injury, talks about rehabilitation for spinal cord injury and how a mechanical aid, the exoskel…
00:14:47 |
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Researcher focuses on possible causes of glaucoma
Vision researchers are trying to understand what causes glaucoma, a disease that mostly affects older people and can cause blindness. Upstate's Vision researchers are trying to understand what causes…
00:14:18 |
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Benefits of breast-feeding, its challenges and their solutions
Nurses specially trained in lactation are encouraging new mothers at Upstate's Family Birth Center to breast-feed their new babies. Anna Mroczek (left), a nurse who is an international board-certifie…
00:13:58 |
Mon 18 Sep 2017
How social interaction may benefit people undergoing cancer treatment
A A recent study recent study showing that people with cancer were more likely to survive when they had social interaction with other cancer patients during chemotherapy did not surprise showing that…
00:16:40 |
Mon 18 Sep 2017
New service provides a nurse on call for heart failure patients
Heart failure is the most common reason people over age 65 are admitted to the hospital. Those who leave Upstate University Hospital with a diagnosis of heart failure receive a phone number, so they …
00:14:41 |
Mon 18 Sep 2017
New horizons in stroke treatment; Crohn's disease research; explaining sickle cell disease: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017
Neurologist Neurologist Gene Latorre, MD Gene Latorre, MD, tells about treatment advances for acute stroke. Researcher, tells about treatment advances for acute stroke. Researcher William Kerr, PhD, …
00:51:52 |
Thu 14 Sep 2017
Lyme disease update; who are home health aides?; what to expect from anesthesia: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017
Kristopher Paolino, MD Kristopher Paolino, MD, addresses Lyme disease. Jeanette Zoeckler, PhD, talks about the job of home health aides., addresses Lyme disease. Jeanette Zoeckler, PhD, talks about t…
00:51:52 |
Fri 08 Sep 2017
Outlook improves for people with sickle cell disease
Survival rates for people with sickle cell disease have greatly improved over the last 40 years, and Survival rates for people with sickle cell disease have greatly improved over the last 40 years, a…
00:15:18 |
Thu 07 Sep 2017
How 'precision medicine' will add objectivity to psychiatric care
Similar to how biomarkers are guiding treatment of some cancers and heart conditions, the presence of certain substances or genes in an individual will be able to guide that person's psychiatric care…
00:14:18 |
Thu 07 Sep 2017
When children, parents, doctors disagree; eyesight restoration research; health risks of low-wage jobs: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017
Ethicists R Ethicists R obert Olick, JD, PhD obert Olick, JD, PhD, and, and Thomas Curran, MD, Thomas Curran, MD, discuss when children and parents disagree with doctors. Doctoral student Rose Pasqua…
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Thu 31 Aug 2017
Extending the time medication can help some stroke patients
Time is a critical element in the treatment of stroke, and now the Upstate Comprehensive Stroke Center has extended the amount of time that a clot-busting medication can be effective in some patients…
00:17:51 |
Wed 30 Aug 2017
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