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ACL tears and the menstrual cycle: Is there a connection?
June 20, 2024 19:08 - 23 minutes - 54.4 MBThis fall, nearly 200 female college athletes from Pace University will help Amy West, MD, try to answer a question that has troubled her since her college sports career: What effect, if any, does the menstrual cycle have on sports-related injuries? In a first-of-its-kind study, Dr. West, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist at Northwell Health, will be particularly interested in ACL injuries; compared to men, women have three to six times greater risk of an injury to this knee ...
Women's health: Funding better research, saving more lives
May 22, 2024 16:57 - 23 minutes - 55.4 MBFor the first time in 30 years, the federal government is taking action to improve women's health through funding better research, a move that took shape in March with President Joe Biden's executive order promising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. The administration says this initiative, supported by numerous federal agencies, will galvanize new research on a wide range of topics, such as heart disease, menopause, autoimmune disorders, migraines, certain cancers. It will also ad...
How good leadership equals good health — for people and businesses
April 17, 2024 13:37 - 22 minutes - 51.8 MBWhen you hear words like abundance and scarcity, you think of food, water and other essentials. For Laura Freebairn-Smith, PhD, author of "Abundance Leaders: Creating Energy, Joy, and Productivity in an Unsettled World," those words apply to styles of leadership. As she explains to host Sandra Lindsay, RN, these concepts can guide you in becoming a better leader, co-worker, partner and person. Listen in as they explore the intersection of leadership and health and reveal how embracing abunda...
Solar eclipse glasses: What you need to know
March 28, 2024 13:33 - 20 minutes - 47.6 MBWhether you're planning to watch from your backyard or travel, it's important to watch the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse safely. On this episode, you'll hear from two experts on what to expect and how to prepare for the celestial phenomenon of the moon blocking out the sun. Northwell Health ophthalmologist Matthew Gorski, MD, explains the risks of staring into the sun and how solar eclipse glasses can protect your vision no matter where you're watching from. Retired meteorologist Joe Rao...
A kid-friendly (and opioid-sparing) scoliosis surgery
March 20, 2024 21:22 - 25 minutes - 58.8 MBOpioids are a necessary part of surgery, but they come with many downsides — addiction risk being the most worrisome. So, when Vishal Sarwahi, MD met a young patient with a history of opioid misuse who needed scoliosis surgery, he knew he had to find another way. On this 20-Minute Health Talk, he shares his pioneering efforts to reduce reliance on opioids in pediatric scoliosis surgery, as well as the technical advances he has brought to the operating room that are making it possible — someth...
Keeping moms and babies safe: Improved heart care during and after pregnancy
February 14, 2024 11:00 - 20 minutes - 47.4 MBHeart disease remains the No. 1 killer of women in America, but many don’t realize that symptoms commonly associated with pregnancy, like shortness of breath, swollen hands and feet, could also be indicators of a serious underlying heart condition. Another startling fact: All women are at risk, according to Evelina Grayver, MD, director of Northwell Health’s Women’s Heart program for the Central region. In this episode, Sandra Lindsay revisits her conversation with Dr. Grayver from 2023, wh...
100-plus: Centenarians reveal their healthy-aging secrets
January 31, 2024 14:49 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MBYou might think that living a full life past 100 is a stretch, but these centenarians say otherwise: They’re active, inspired and full of energy after 100-plus years and counting. They shared their New Year's resolutions in a commercial from Northwell Health, and now they’re revealing their thoughts on healthy aging. From diet and exercise to purpose, pets and stress, these centenarians share their wisdom on a life well lived. And joining us in the 20-Minute Health Talk studio with a profess...
Top 5 medical advances of 2023
December 27, 2023 15:10 - 24 minutes - 56.5 MBAs 2023 comes to a close, we look back on five exciting medical advances coming from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research — the research arm of Northwell Health. In the last year alone, investigators published more than 3,000 papers in peer-reviewed journals. In this episode, we spotlight studies that made strides against cancer, knee pain, paralysis, postpartum depression and inflammatory bowel disease. Read more about these five notable Northwell advances of 2023. Chapters: ...
School shooting survivor turns tragedy into advocacy
December 13, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 48.4 MBTwo years after surviving a high shooting that claimed the lives of four of her fellow students, Kylie Ossege, now 19, is still recovering from the physical and emotional trauma left by the bullet that shattered her clavicle and nearly left her paralyzed. On this episode, Sandra Lindsay, RN, speaks with Kylie about the November 30, 2021 attack, her fight to regain the ability to walk and her recent surgery to stabilize her spine. Led by John Caridi, MD, a spine surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital...
20MHT Classic: Adding PrEP injectables to fight against HIV
December 01, 2023 22:56 - 23 minutes - 53 MBIn recognition of World AIDS Day today, we encourage you to listen to this classic episode of the podcast from early 2022 exploring the injectable form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the first option to prevent HIV that does not involve taking a daily pill. At the time of this recording (June 28, 2022), the newly approved treatment had begun to hit the market. Our colleague David Reich-Hale sat down with a panel of experts specializing in HIV treatment and prevention at the local, sta...
Healing veterans: Understanding the long-term effects of burn pit exposure
November 10, 2023 21:04 - 20 minutes - 46.2 MBExposure to the smoke from burn pits — the large open-air fires the military has used to dispose of waste — harmed veterans such as Juan Serrano, Patrick McCaffery and Robert Auletta, who work with Northwell Health's Military Liaison Services. Of the more than 10K U.S. veterans who have already been diagnosed with burn pit damage to their airways, the picture is grim and the reaction, most often, is shock. Conditions range from asthma and COPD, to sleep apnea, to a long list of cancers. On ...
20MHT Classic: Why military burn pits are a major health hazard
November 09, 2023 19:03 - 21 minutes - 48.2 MBOn this episode of 20-Minute Health Talk, we take another look at our August 2022 conversation with Anthony Szema, MD. At the time of this episode's recording, the pulmonologist was days removed from a visit to the White House to celebrate the passage of the PACT Act, new legislation that is now helping impacted veterans get treatment. As a leading expert in the health effects of burn pits, he played a key role in making that legislation a reality. Now, He is conducting a trial to collect da...
Covid, flu, RSV: What vaccines do I need this fall/winter?
November 01, 2023 23:29 - 17 minutes - 39.7 MBWhile the flu shot has been around since 1945, 2023 marked the introduction of a new vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — the first ever — and the latest Covid-19 shot. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the two new vaccines, and the protection they offer comes just in the nick of time: Health officials say there is a strong likelihood of another "tripledemic" this winter. In addition to the vaccines for Covid, flu and RSV, there is a new protective treatment for R...
A ’revolutionary’ RSV vaccine and monoclonal antibody
October 25, 2023 22:11 - 19 minutes - 45.1 MBIn recent months the FDA and CDC approved two new drugs that experts say will change how respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is managed. This comes at a critical time, says Mundeep Kainth, DO, MPH, as hospitals prepare for the influx of RSV, flu and Covid cases this fall and winter. The convergence of those three respiratory viruses, termed a "tripledemic," overwhelmed hospitals nationally last winter. Dr. Kainth, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Cohen Children's Medical Center, says t...
20MHT CLASSIC: mRNA pioneers win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 02, 2023 20:31 - 20 minutes - 48 MBOn today’s episode, we revisit a conversation we had with two pioneers of the mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines, Katalin Karikó, PhD, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD. The two were just awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their groundbreaking research in messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. When we spoke with Dr. Kariko and Weissman in June 2022, they had just received the Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine. The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research grants this honor to recognize p...
How safe spaces save LGBTQ lives and what parents, schools and communities can do to create them
September 28, 2023 14:36 - 21 minutes - 48.2 MBOn the third and final episode in our series on child suicide prevention, we discuss the spike in suicidality among our LGBTQIA+ youth, as reported in 2023 by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, as well as The Trevor Project. David Rosenthal, DO, PhD, and Helena Roderick, PhD, highlight the many challenges negatively impacting these kids, including minority stress, discrimination and unconscious bias, and how each contributes to this horrifying trend. They share what individuals an...
YourMomCares about how you feel
September 20, 2023 19:10 - 18 minutes - 42.7 MB“We need to change the conversation from mental illness to mental wellness,” says Sharon Feldstein, who helped launch a nonprofit called YourMomCares with the goal of creating and supporting programs that better behavioral health in our kids. This group of concerned mothers, whose children are prominent athletes, musicians and actors, is bringing much-needed attention to the crisis in children's behavioral health. Demand for services is far outpacing the resources to support it, and the situ...
Kids in crisis: How to start the conversation about child suicidality
September 13, 2023 19:13 - 22 minutes - 51.6 MBWith suicidal thoughts and behaviors on the rise in the U.S., Vera Feuer, MD, director of Emergency Psychiatry Services at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, joins Sandra Lindsay, RN, on the podcast to explain the warning signs and helpful resources for caretakers, including what language to use — as well as what to avoid — when talking to children struggling with suicidality. This is Part 1 of our series examining child suicidality, a term that may be new to some. It is defined as suicidal i...
A better treatment for essential tremor
September 06, 2023 13:42 - 19 minutes - 45.4 MBMurray Bocian, 76, was prone to spilling things: His hands were so shaky that he had to begin using a child's sippy cup. Murray was battling a condition called essential tremor, and it was impacting many aspects of his daily life. A nervous system disorder, essential tremor starts in the brain and triggers shakiness in the extremities, most often the hands. For most of the 10 million Americans living with essential tremor, lifestyle changes and medications can help manage symptoms. But when ...
Sports medicine: Treating the athlete, not the injury
August 16, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutes - 48.2 MBThe field of sports medicine isn’t just for serious athletes: The Nicholas Institute for Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma (NISMAT), Northwell’s sports injury clinic, has made sports medicine better, more accessible, and grounded in research. On this episode, the 20-Minute Health Talk team pays a visit to NISMAT, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, to talk to Tak Fukunaga, DPT, ATC, CSCS, sports physical therapist and NISMAT’s Manager of Rehabilitation Services, and Michae...
Screening smarter: How Northwell is improving prostate biopsy
August 07, 2023 10:00 - 17 minutes - 39.6 MBWhile cancer deaths are in decline in the United States, there is one glaring exception: Prostate cancer. Over the last decade, the number of prostate cancer deaths has risen by 3%. Our guest today, Ardeshir Rastinehad, DO, has made it his mission to turn that number around. In addition to his leading role in developing a safer, more accurate approach to prostate biopsies, the former National Institutes of Health researcher is now part of the team at Northwell Health implementing a new fast-...
Food as opportunity: Breaking the cycle of poverty through urban farming
July 20, 2023 18:09 - 21 minutes - 49 MBWithin a three-block radius of P.S. 175 in Harlem, there are 55 fast-food restaurants, 29 pharmacies and not one affordable food option, something Tony Hillery noticed while volunteering at the school more than a decade ago. He also saw an opportunity to help, which is why he launched Harlem Grown. Starting with one abandoned lot across the street from the school, Tony and the kids have built it into a network of 13 urban farms that harvest 6 tons (that's 3,000 lbs) of fresh, organically gr...
Food insecurity: How Northwell is helping
July 05, 2023 20:49 - 18 minutes - 41.9 MBThe lack of consistent access to quality food, or food insecurity, can have a devastating impact on people's health and well-being. In the wealthiest nation in the world, 34 million people, including 9 million children, are food insecure — a silent crisis that our guest, Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH, says is only getting worse. She explains how food insecurity impacts health at every age and what Northwell Health is doing to support these communities. This is Part 2 of our three-part series ...
Food is health: How these two experts made hospital food delicious and nutritious
June 22, 2023 14:46 - 25 minutes - 59.6 MBHospital food has a reputation for being bland and inedible — something that's no longer true at Northwell's 21 hospitals. Over the last seven years, our guests — Sven Gierlinger and Chef Bruno Tison — have transformed hospital meals by ditching frozen food and sugary drinks for fresh meats, fruits and vegetables. They've ensured that hospital kitchens prioritize fresh ingredients and cater to the patient population, and now chefs are able to deliver meals that look, smell and taste better — ...
Heart disease and pregnancy: Prevention, treatments and a new approach
June 07, 2023 13:43 - 21 minutes - 49.5 MBPregnancy is like a stress test on the body. Most women adapt just fine, but for some, the strain can dramatically raise the risk of heart disease — even in young women. Worse, that risk can remain elevated for years and even decades. On this episode, host Sandra Lindsay, DHS-c, RN, speaks with Evelina Grayver, MD, about how to prevent heart-related problems before, during and after pregnancy. Because heart disease continues to be the No. 1 cause of maternal mortality in the US, Dr. Grayver ...
Preparing high schoolers for medical careers: Northwell partners with FutureReadyNYC
May 24, 2023 12:02 - 24 minutes - 56.8 MBKnowing what you want to be when you grow up can be tricky, but the New York City's Department of Education internship program, FutureReadyNYC, is designed to help. The program provides high school students with exposure to professional careers; Northwell is the program's first healthcare partner. Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, LIJ Forest Hills Hospital in Queens, and Lenox Health Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan gave students a sense of what a career in medicine cou...
Understanding the options for hernia surgery
May 10, 2023 21:46 - 22 minutes - 50.7 MBOf the 1 million people who need hernia surgery in the US each year, most get a procedure that inserts a mesh patch to cover the hernia. Mesh surgery has a high rate of success and satisfies most patients, but some people would rather skip the insert. There is an alternative called the Shouldice Approach: Instead of using mesh, this procedure stitches together the patient's own tissue to repair a hernia. Samer Sbayi, MD, is a leading expert in both surgical approaches and joins the podcast t...
Pregnant while Black: A conversation with Dr. Monique Rainford
April 27, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutes - 38.4 MBOn this episode, Sandra Lindsay speaks with Monique Rainford, MD, about her new book, "Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America." The Yale Medicine OB-GYN discusses the role implicit bias and institutional racism play in the birthing experience for Black women in the United States. She offers strategies to reduce maternal mortality rates, which are three times higher for Black women than their white peers. Podcast transcript
Better care for Black mothers and babies
April 12, 2023 13:01 - 21 minutes - 49.2 MBFor too long, Black women have faced high maternal mortality rates, largely due to institutional bias, says Dawnette Lewis, MD, director of Northwell Health's Center for Maternal Health. She joins host Sandra Lindsay, RN, DHSc on this episode during Black Maternal Health Week to discuss the barriers to care Black women face, and what her team is doing to improve access to life-saving services before, during, and after pregnancy. Dr. Lewis has practiced for more than 20 years in maternal-feta...
Emergency NYC: A new Netflix series featuring Northwell
March 29, 2023 18:36 - 20 minutes - 28.9 MBThis new docu-series follows the lives of a diverse cast of healthcare pros, including paramedics, nurses, emergency physicians and surgeons. On this podcast, we speak with two of the people featured in Emergency NYC: David Langer, MD, and his patient Julian Primiano, a young opera singer who underwent brain surgery. Dr. Langer is the chair of neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, one of several Northwell hospitals where filming took place. Others include: Cohen Children's Medical Center, Nor...
The healing power of ECT (Part 2)
March 22, 2023 13:43 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBIn Part 2 of this deep dive into ECT, which stands for electroconvulsive therapy, Sohag Sanghani, MD, director of the ECT service at Zucker Hillside Hospital, talks about how the treatment was born, from its invention in 1938 by Italian scientists Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, to the advent of modified ECT, to it’s impact today. He shares the importance of shedding stigma around ECT, which continues to create barriers to a highly effective therapy for those living with severe depression, psyc...
The healing power of ECT
March 08, 2023 14:43 - 19 minutes - 45.7 MBElectroconvulsive therapy (ECT) carries stigma thanks to negative portrayals in movies like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Such portrayals hide ECT's true value — and the truth about the treatment: ECT has a decades-long track record of safety, and it offers a fast-acting solution for difficult-to-treat severe depression. ECT is also effective for patients with suicidal ideation or depression with psychosis or catatonia, says Sohag Sanghani, MD. He joins Sandra Lindsay, RN, and Rob Hoell...
Why Black women are at higher risk of heart disease — and what we can do about it
February 15, 2023 15:39 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBStacey Rosen, MD, joins Sandra Lindsay on this 20-Minute Health Talk to discuss why heart disease disproportionately impacts Black women, what factors contribute to their risk and what health systems like Northwell are doing to change the statistics. Meet the expert Stacey Rosen is the senior vice president of Katz Institute for Women's Health at Northwell Health; partners council professor of women's health at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; and a sp...
What everyone needs to know about obesity
February 08, 2023 14:41 - 21 minutes - 29 MBThere are many misconceptions around weight — starting with the fact that people burn fat differently depending on their size, says Mitchell Roslin, MD, director of bariatric surgery at Lenox Hill and Northern Westchester hospitals. On this episode, he breaks down the factors that contribute to obesity, from genetics and lifestyle to the way our bodies convert food into energy. Obesity itself has an impact on one's ability to lose weight due to something he calls the "metabolic switch." Dr. ...
Can famotidine — a heartburn drug — treat Covid?
January 19, 2023 11:00 - 16 minutes - 37 MBPeople with Covid-19 often get sick because the body’s inflammatory response to the virus overreacts. To tamp down that inflammation, researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, turned their sights toward famotidine, the active ingredient in a common over-the-counter heartburn medication with anti-inflammatory potential. On this bonus episode, we speak with the lead researcher of a unique clinical trial testing famotidine for Covid. Tobias ...
Covid treatments: Over-the-counter, prescription and in-hospital
January 13, 2023 22:46 - 19 minutes - 45.8 MBWhile Covid-19 vaccines remain the best protection against the novel virus, if you do catch Covid there are also several treatments to help manage symptoms, like Covid cough, and prevent hospitalization. Onisis Stefas, PharmD, executive director of VIVO Health, breaks down what treatments are available over the counter, by prescription (paxlovid and molnupiravir) and if you do end up in the hospital (remdesivir). He explains the difference between the types of medications (anti-viral vs mon...
BONUS: Top 5 moments of 2022
January 04, 2023 20:37 - 6 minutes - 15.6 MBOn this episode, we look back on Northwell Health’s most newsworthy moments from 2022. Our experts made headlines with life-saving treatments and innovative approaches that improved care for patients from New York to Ukraine. Here are Northwell's Top 5 moments of 2022: 00:36 - Extending benefits of telemedicine to War in Ukraine 02:22 - Heart, double lung transplant saves young mother's life 03:35 - Sandra Lindsay awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 04:40 - Ross Prize awarded to mRNA i...
Top 5 medical innovations of 2022
December 29, 2022 11:00 - 23 minutes - 53.7 MBAs 2022 comes to a close, we look back on five exciting medical advances coming from clinical researchers at Northwell Health and the health system's Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. In the last year alone, investigators published more than 2,500 papers in peer-reviewed journals. In this episode, we spotlight studies that made strides against endometriosis, diabetes, lupus, pancreatic cancer and (yes) Covid-19. Read more about these Five notable Northwell advances of 2022. Chapt...
BONUS: Can pediatricians treat psychological disorders?
December 22, 2022 16:13 - 14 minutes - 33.5 MBIt's a staggering stat: More than 15 million children and adolescents are in need of a pediatric psychiatrist. But finding treatment is anything but easy with just around 8,300 trained pediatric mental health professionals in the U.S. The consequence: Long wait times, worsening symptoms and even higher costs when they do get help. To increase the pool of providers that can offer effective treatments to this population, Project TEACH is training pediatricians, as well as family doctors and Ob...
Tripledemic: Should you be concerned?
December 15, 2022 20:54 - 24 minutes - 56.3 MBHeading into the holidays, surging cases of Covid-19, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) pose a unique threat, which many are calling a "tripledemic" or "tridemic." While RSV cases have plateaued, Covid-19 and the flu are on the rise. Hospitalizations for the flu are the highest seen at this time of year in a decade. While unprecedented, experts in infectious disease and emergency medicine say the convergence of these illnesses is not a reason to live in fear. On this episode, Bruc...
Doctor/therapist: How a NYS program is expanding access to behavioral health care
December 08, 2022 11:00 - 20 minutes - 47.6 MBWhile we associate mental health care with psychologists and psychiatrists, primary care doctors are often the first to see children and families with behavioral health issues. To strengthen and support doctors' ability to deliver that care, a state-wide program called Project TEACH provides free psychiatric consultation support and training. Since its inception in 2010, Project TEACH has enrolled nearly half of the 9,000 primary care physicians in New York State, leading to over 23,000 cons...
How hyperbaric oxygen therapy heals the body - Part 2
November 30, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes - 29.4 MBMore than just a treatment for scuba and deep sea divers experiencing decompression sickness, hyperbaric oxygen therapy has evolved during the last 70 years and become an option for more than a dozen other conditions. In part two of this episode, Owen J. O’Neill, MD, MPH, and John Peters, two experts in undersea and hyperbaric medicine, discuss the research driving this field forward, including a clinical trial conducted during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic that offered patients an alte...
How hyperbaric oxygen therapy heals the body - Part 1
November 23, 2022 11:00 - 21 minutes - 48.6 MBOxygen is crucial to healing — but it has to be able to reach the damaged tissue to help the body recover and fight off infection. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can facilitate that process by dramatically boosting the amount of oxygen your blood cells deliver to an injury. You may have heard about the therapy’s use in treating scuba diving incidents or carbon monoxide poisoning, but it can also speed healing from crush injuries, chronic wounds related to diabetes, radiation damage from cancer tr...
RSV: What parents need to know about the surge of this airway infection
November 17, 2022 19:42 - 20 minutes - 47.6 MBTypically, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) sends thousands of children to the hospital over fall and winter, peaking in January and February. But for the second year in a row cases have spiked early and continue to grow. This has led to unprecedented cases of the common respiratory virus across the U.S. On this episode, Cohen Children's Medical Center leaders Joshua Rocker, MD, and Margaret Duffy, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, discuss what they are seeing on the front lines in New York, the impact flu ...
20MHT BONUS w/ Sandra Lindsay: Understanding cultural barriers to hospice
November 09, 2022 11:00 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBOn this bonus episode Sandra Lindsay, DHSc, MA, MBA, RN, speaks with Tara Liberman, DO, executive director for Northwell Health’s Hospice Care Network, about the role that culture plays in end-of-life care. They discuss racial disparities in the use of hospice, how cultural beliefs can actually influence people’s perception of pain, and what providers need to know to deliver care in a culturally sensitive manner. This bonus edition of 20-Minute Health Talk continues the conversation from t...
6 myths about hospice care: Educating patients, families and clinicians
November 02, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 46.2 MBFrom pain and symptom management to emotional and spiritual support, hospice care can improve and even extend life for some patients with advanced illness, as well as offer respite for their families. Yet, this vital resource is severely underutilized, particularly in New York, which ranks 50th among all states in the utilization of hospice. On this episode, two palliative care experts discuss barriers to care and debunk the most common myths about hospice. Guests: Tara Liberman, DO, is ex...
How to know if you’re at high risk for breast cancer
October 26, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes - 50.7 MBWhile most breast cancers are found in women who are 50 years of age or over, about 1 in 10 diagnosed with breast cancer are under 45, and often their cancer is in a later stage when it’s discovered. On this episode, Nina Vincoff, MD, clears up the confusion around mammogram guidelines. She says every woman should go through a risk assessment at a younger age to determine their risk — something most do not discover until their first mammogram. For those at high risk, this can have deadly con...
20MHT BONUS w/ Sandra Lindsay: What women need to know about heart disease
October 19, 2022 10:00 - 12 minutes - 29.6 MBDespite the best efforts of heart health experts, only 56% of women recognize that heart disease is their No. 1 killer; among African American women that number drops to just 25%. Jean Cacciabaudo, MD, medical director at Huntington Hospital, renowned cardiologist and member of Northwell Health's Katz Institute for Women's Health, sits down with Sandra Lindsay, RN to discuss the differences between men and women when it comes to heart disease, what health systems are doing to address dispari...
How to pick a cardiologist or cardiac surgeon
October 05, 2022 21:10 - 21 minutes - 50.5 MBCardiovascular disease remains the number one killer of both women and men in the United States. Most of us will need to see a cardiologist or cardiac surgeon at some point in our lives. But, how do you find the best doctor who is right for you? On this episode, three experts representing different subspecialties within cardiovascular health offer advice to patients facing the question: How do I pick a cardiologist or cardiac surgeon? Jeffrey Kuvin, MD, is senior vice president of Cardiolo...
Providing police officers improved access to behavioral health care
September 21, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes - 51.1 MB"Police officers see everyone on their worst day," says Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, a guest on this week's 20-Minute Health Talk. This constant exposure to high-stress situations takes a considerable toll on an officer's emotional well-being, yet few seek help despite suffering higher rates of depression, substance use, burnout, PTSD and anxiety than the general public. Tragically, more police officers die by suicide than in the line of duty. On this episode, we speak with health care experts wor...