This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® we’ll be joined by researcher and senior lecturer in the Department of Physiology at Hebrew University, Dr. Amir Amedi on Seeing with Your Ears, neuroscience research for the blind.
Please tune in! We’re on the air:
– Saturday at 9am
– Sunday at 9am & 5pm
– Monday at 6pm & 10pm
Listen to the Show!
Show Topics:
- Research that Matters (min 0-8): cell phones & cancer, screening babies for incurable diseases, statins & prostate cancer, beta blockers & breast cancer
- Conversations with Dr. Amir Amedi on Seeing with Your Ears (min 8-33)
- House Calls (min 33-42): back pain, tanning beds & vitamin D
Resources:
- Research that Matters
- Cell phones and cancer risk http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones
- Newborn screening http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/medical/newborn_screening_tests.html
- Statins and cancer prevention http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/prevention/statins
- Beta blockers tied to breast cancer survival http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_112668.html
- Conversations with Dr. Amir Amedi
- More on Dr. Amedi’s research on neuroscience research and the blind http://elsc.huji.ac.il/content/brain-doesn%E2%80%99t-need-vision-all-order-%E2%80%98read%E2%80%99-material-report-hebrew-university-french-research
- American Foundation for the Blind http://www.afb.org/
- National Federation of the Blind http://www.nfb.org/nfb/default.asp
- House Calls
- Back pain http://www.niams.nih.gov/Health_Info/Back_Pain/default.asp
- Vitamin D & skin cancer http://www.skincancer.org/Vitamin-D/
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