Patrick Basile, MD: Upstate medical graduate performs high profile double arm transplant
Dr. Richard O’Neill’s Check-Up From The Neck-Up: Who, What, Where, When, How, or… what I learned on my vacation to China
Richard Cantor, MD: PEDS to Parents – How to keep kids safe in summer
Harold Smulyan, MD: What killed Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum?
Deirdre Neilen, PhD: The Healing Muse – ‘Snow’ and ‘Things My Daughter Lost in Hospitals’
Dr. Richard O’Neill talks about a new study showing a link between diet soda and diabetes. Read the study: Sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverage consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in men
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In our ‘Public Health Today’ segment, Donna Bacchi, MD, MPH, chair of Upstate’s Public Health and Preventive Medicine Department, asks us to consider the health benefits — or lack of – in a variety of available beverages, and helps us consider which are the healthiest choices.
In response to a recent study that links increased consumption of sugar with higher diabetes rates independent of rates of obesity, Dr. Richard O’Neill delves into the psychology behind the problem – how to go about changing what you eat, changing your kids’ diet, school lunch offerings and more.
Read the study: The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data
Read the New York Times summary article: It’s the Sugar, Folks
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Pediatric endocrinologist 
Roberto Izquierdo presents ‘adrenal insufficiency 101′ — what are the adrenal glands, who does this condition affect, how do you know you have it, and what happens during emergencies of illness or injury. He will explain why corticosteroids are kept on hand for people who have this condition.
Dr. Paula Trief contends that good communication is the key to living with someone who has diabetes. She explains the differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, new technologies used to control blood sugar, ways for families to get involved such as healthy meal preparation and when to step in in emergency situations.
For more information about Dr. Trief’s study Improving Diabetes Outcomes: The Diabetes Support Project, call 315-464-5619 or 315-464-3133.
Dr. Ruth Weinstock, professor of medicine and medical director of the Joslin Diabetes Center at Upstate, talks about a new breakthrough in the treatment of diabetes. She is the principal investigator in a clinical trial to test the effectiveness of a first-of-its-kind insulin pump for the U.S. market that addresses hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes.
For more information about the clinical trial (ASPIRE – Automation to Simulate Pancreatic Insulin REsponse) , call 464-9007.
Pediatric endocrinologist Roberto Izquierdo talks about thyroid cancer – the fastest growing cancer in women – and the theory that this increase could be related to the use of dental xrays and mammograms.
Read more about: The Joslin Diabetes Center at Upstate Medical University
Beth Hillson, gluten-free chef and founder of the Gluten-Free Pantry, talks about living well with Diabetes and Celiac Disease. Hillson, diagnosed with celiac disease in 1976, is president of the American Celiac Disease Alliance and a food editor of Living Without magazine.
Read Beth’s blog at GlutenFreeMakeovers.com.
