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
- 1560
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Ethics consultants help families navigate tough hospital choices
Life-and-death decisions were once made exclusively by doctors, but nowadays those matters are largely in the hands of patients. This can create conflict as relatives disagree over how to treat a fai…
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Wed 27 Jul 2016
Syndrome can attack polio survivors years later
Polio epidemics are a thing of the past in the U.S., wiped out since the 1950s by vaccines. But some survivors of those epidemics are stricken decades later by post-polio syndrome, which brings back …
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Wed 27 Jul 2016
Polio survivor's tale of terror, hope; post-polio syndrome and its treatments; how ethics consultants help hospital patients: Upstate Medical University’s HealthLink on Air for Sunday, July 31, 2016
July 31, 2016 July 31, 2016 Neurologist Neurologist Burk Jubelt, MD Burk Jubelt, MD, explains polio and post-polio syndrome, and a survivor from a 1950s epidemic shares her story. Bioethicists, expla…
00:51:53 |
Wed 27 Jul 2016
E-cigarette dangers; how mother's opiate use affects her baby; doctor, patient views on digestive disorder: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, July 24, 2016
July 24, 2016 July 24, 2016 Respiratory therapist Theresa Hankin goes over the dangers and new regulations of e-cigarettes. Neonatologist Respiratory therapist Theresa Hankin goes over the dangers an…
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Fri 22 Jul 2016
Mild cognitive impairment, Zika virus, pancreas transplant recipients: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for July 17, 2016
July 17, 2016 July 17, 2016 Neurologist Neurologist Amy Sanders, MD Amy Sanders, MD, explains mild cognitive impairment. Infectious disease specialist, explains mild cognitive impairment. Infectious …
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Fri 15 Jul 2016
Mild cognitive impairment: when brain function is not quite normal, but not quite demented
Mild cognitive impairment is when some brain processes are not functioning the way they should at one‘s age. This state, short of full-on dementia and not serious enough to interfere with daily life,…
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Thu 14 Jul 2016
Pancreas recipients overjoyed at prospect of life without diabetes
For the first time in their lives, Patrick Nolan, 52 (at left in photo), and Harry Tynan, 39 (at right), are doing what most people take for granted: living without having to constantly check their b…
00:12:56 |
Thu 14 Jul 2016
E-cigarettes, now under FDA regulation, carry potential dangers
Electronic cigarettes, promoted as producing water vapor instead of smoke, actually produce an aerosol with tiny particles that could cause lung problems, says Theresa Hankin, a respiratory therapist…
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Thu 14 Jul 2016
Prevent drownings through education, awareness of hazards
Education and awareness underlie the best ways to prevent drowning, says Education and awareness underlie the best ways to prevent drowning, says Robert Newmyer, MD Robert Newmyer, MD, a pediatric cr…
00:14:21 |
Fri 08 Jul 2016
Pancreas transplant an option for people with severe diabetes
Upstate doctors are now offering a pancreas transplant option for some patients with diabetes, the most common cause of kidney failure. A pancreas transplant may be a proactive way for many with diab…
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Fri 08 Jul 2016
Pancreas transplants, preventing drowning, breast cancer/prostate cancer link: Upstate Medical University’s HealthLink on Air for July 10, 2016
July 10, 2016 July 10, 2016 Transplant surgeons Transplant surgeons Rainer Gruessner, MD Rainer Gruessner, MD, and, and Mark Laftavi, MD Mark Laftavi, MD, discuss the pancreas transplant program. Ped…
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Fri 08 Jul 2016
Mothers' opioid use can lead to withdrawal, neonatal abstinence syndrome in newborns
A growing number of babies are born to mothers who took a narcotic of some kind during pregnancy, and that puts the babies at risk for developing neonatal abstinence syndrome, says A growing number o…
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Thu 30 Jun 2016
Inherited gene linked to prostate cancer as well as breast cancer in study
A gene mutation linked to breast cancer appears to play a role in some prostate cancer as well, according to a A gene mutation linked to breast cancer appears to play a role in some prostate cancer a…
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Thu 30 Jun 2016
Transitional care helps Medicare patients go from hospital to home
Some may be completing a course of antibiotics. Some may have a new diagnosis of diabetes and need help learning to manage their disease. Others could be recovering from a fall that caused a broken b…
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Thu 30 Jun 2016
Lupus: a complex disorder that requires close monitoring
The autoimmune diseases known as lupus are hard to diagnose, unpredictable and affect many more women than men, explains Upstate rheumatologist The autoimmune diseases known as lupus are hard to diag…
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Thu 30 Jun 2016
Babies, mothers benefit from breast-feeding
As scientists have documented the importance of breast-feeding to a baby's current and future well-being, more American women are opting to breast-feed, says As scientists have documented the importa…
00:15:29 |
Wed 22 Jun 2016
Variety of medications treat advanced prostate cancer
Most men with prostate cancer can be treated successfully through surgery and/or radiation, but when the cancer has spread to other parts of the body, a systemic approach using medication is often pr…
00:15:07 |
Wed 22 Jun 2016
Ordinary people can help deter suicide, experts say
Asking whether someone is contemplating suicide can be a way to let that person talk about his or her troubles and perhaps find some relief or hope, crisis intervention experts say. Cheryl Giarrusso …
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Wed 22 Jun 2016
Gastroparesis, other digestive disorders are managed with multidisciplinary approach
Gastroparesis -- a complex condition in which food does not empty out of the stomach properly – can cause nausea and vomiting and eventually lead to a patient barely eating in order to avoid the asso…
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Wed 22 Jun 2016
Breast-feeding, prostate cancer treatments and historical medical photographs: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for June 26, 2016
June 26, 2016 June 26, 2016 Jayne Charlamb, MD Jayne Charlamb, MD, explains why more mothers are breast-feeding their babies., explains why more mothers are breast-feeding their babies. Bernard Poies…
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Wed 22 Jun 2016
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