This weekend on YOUR HEALTH®, we’ll be joined by gun violence prevention advocate and survivor of the 2007 Virginia Tech campus shooting massacre, Colin Goddard, about his new documentary, Living for 32.
On a snowy, windy April day in Blacksburg, Virginia in 2007, young Americans pursued a college education and their teachers engaged in providing it to them. Thirty-two of them died, 17 more were wounded, and six more were injured jumping out of windows. One of those wounded was a 21-year-old senior International Studies major from Richmond, Virginia, named Colin Goddard. Goddard played a unique role in the horrific drama that played out at Virginia Tech University on that blustery April day: he was the only person within the building to call the police. By the end of the ordeal, the killer had fired at him at three separate moments during the eleven-minute assault. Goddard had been shot four times. He was later told he might not walk again, but fought his way through arduous physical therapy. And he grew a fire in his heart to do something about keeping dangerous people from having easy access to deadly weapons. “Living for 32” is his story. http://www.livingfor32.com
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Show Topics:
- Research that Matters (min 0-10): prostate cancer & radiation therapy, acupuncture & premenstrual syndrome, broccoli & living longer, ovarian cancer screening
- Conversations with Colin Goddard about his documentary, Living for 32 (min 10-32).
- House Calls (min 32-44): dog bites, ALCAT testing, endometriosis treatment, Viagra
Resources:
- Research that Matters
- Comparative Evaluation of Radiation Treatments for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: An Updated Systematic Review.
- Considering Prostate Cancer Treatment Options from the American Cancer Society
- Expectant Management (Watchful Waiting) and Active Surveillance
- Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer – interactive audio version from X-Plain
- Acupuncture for premenstrual syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
- Acupuncture: An Introduction from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Premenstrual Syndrome from Mayo Clinic
- Cruciferous vegetable consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total and cardiovascular disease mortality.
- Fruit and Vegetables from the American Heart Association
- Effect of screening on ovarian cancer mortality: the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Ovarian Cancer Screening from the National Cancer Institute
- Conversations with Colin Goddard
- House Calls
- Animal Bites – Prevention & Treatment – Medline Plus
- Allergy Testing – dubious products and proper testing from Quack Watch
- Endometriosis: in search of optimal treatment.
- Laparoscopic management of endometriosis: comprehensive review of best evidence.
- Alternative Treatments for Erectile Dysfunction – from a review in Medline: Natural aphrodisiacs.
