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Do you feel helpless in the face of "the system?" This show is to help you learn how to take control and steer your way to health. Hear how others have met these challenges and overcome them. Learn how you can do so too. This program is a forum to share your experiences, ask your questions, and learn how to create and manage your health care team. Make the healthcare system work for you!

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Even if you eat wisely and exercise often, you and other stress junkies are at HUGE risk for illnesses like heart disease, cancer and stroke. Help save yourself and your ticker by listening to acclaimed heart specialist John M. Kennedy,... more
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Brenda Gleason, M.A., M.P.H. is the president and founder of M2 Health Care Consulting, a strategic policy and communications firm and a professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health. Her latest book, 8... more
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Nancy Williams, a veteran staffer of a women’s crisis center, has written a novel about a survivor of rape in the Old West. "According to the U.S. Justice Department, more than 20 percent of all women today report they’ve been... more
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Aimee Salas from the island of Curacao in the Dutch Carinnean has written a book about her life-changing experience when diagnosed with von Hippel-Lindau disease. On an island with a total population of 150,000 she found herself with a... more
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Chronic pain can become debilitating. Specialists may have checked your bones, nerves, blood vessels, discs or arthritis and found nothing, but pain may be stored in the muscles, triggering distant parts of the body. Tasso Spanos, a... more
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The National Institutes of Health report that 50% of Americans are sensitive to at least one allergen, which is more than twice the rate reported in years past. Is “clean living” to blame? Is Americans’ incessant use of anti-bacterial cleansers,... more
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Peter Magaro, PhD, cognitive psychologist and director of the Alzheimer’s Treatment and Memory Training Centers of America (ATMTC), the leading provider of professional memory training services in assisted living communities,... more
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Recurrent miscarriage is often a “silent epidemic” among women leading to depression and other issues. While there are many false misconceptions regarding pregnancy loss, recurrent miscarriage often is an indication of a... more
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At 17 years of age, Jesse Billauer's life was forever changed when a spinal cord injury resulted in quadriplegia. For Jesse, a star athlete and competitive surfer, this life-changing event became a calling to inspire others to overcome their... more
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Dr. Barry Friedberg is an anesthesiologist who wants to lower the incidence of side effects from anesthesia. "A lot of people wake up from surgery not quite the same person they were before they went under because of the overuse of... more
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