Healthy Fridays
Healthy Friday guests include primary care physicians and medical specialists from across Rochester’s health care community. Listeners have the opportunity to call-in to Healthy Friday and discuss their views directly with local doctors, offer their own perspectives and share their stories.
Healthy Friday takes place very third Friday of
the month on WXXI-AM 1370.
Elissa tackles back-to school health with doctors from Rochester General Hospital Guests are Dan DeMarle, PhD educational specialist and behavioral pediatrician and Dan Yawman MD.Rochester General Hospital pediatric associates.
Also, a sneak preview of the upcoming season of Second Opinion.
And we'll spend a full hour looking at what could be the future of health care. URMC's Center for Future Health has received a grant to study the highest-technology ways to stay healthy even as we age. We'll talk with the founder of the Center, Dr. Alice Pentland, and Center Director Cecelia Horwitz.
August 17th 12-2pm WXXI-AM 1370 and wxxi.org
A podcast of the program is available here:
(link to) http://wxxi.org/talk1370/healthyfri.html
How to participate
Every month, the phones at WXXI's Healthy Friday (585-263-9994) ring virtually nonstop for two hours. If you follow these guidelines, you'll have a much better chance of getting on the air.
Read more (link to): http://wxxi.org/talk1370/caller.html
Suggest a program topic:
Please send your ideas for health topics to
1370connection@wxxi.org
Useful Rochester-area health links
Monroe County Department of Health – statistics, news
and updates
www.health.state.ny.us
New York State Department of Health – statistics, news
and updates
www.health.state.ny.us
Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency – Community Health Planning Agency
www.flhsa.org
Us National Library of Medicine (Medline Plus)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Clic-on-Health – Health information provided by local medical, public and school librarians
http://www.cliconhealth.org/