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’
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.
Upstate pulmonologist 
Robert Lenox shares a new treatment option available for individuals suffering from severe, persistent asthma. It’s called bronchial thermoplasty, and doctors say it can greatly improve the life of asthma sufferers, by lessening their dependence on harsh drugs and keeping them out of the emergency room for breathing troubles. Upstate University Hospital is the only hospital in New York state outside of New York City to offer this procedure.
Read the story: Upstate offers new procedure for treating severe, persistent asthma
For more information, call 315-464-3835 (Upstate University Hospital’s downtown campus) or 315-492-5804 (Upstate’s Community campus).
Dr. Gennady Bratslavsky, director of Upstate’s Prostate Cancer Program, talks about a new drug to treat hormone-resistant prostate cancer.
For more information, or to schedule an appointment, call 315-464-1500
Donna Bacchi, pediatrician and chair of Upstate’s Public Health and Preventive Medicine Dept, talks about the importance of vitamin D, including the diseases associated with deficiencies, how to determine your levels and the best sources of this vitamin.
Internist Apurv Khanna, director of the Hypertension Clinic at Upstate, talks about ‘resistant hypertension’, or high blood pressure that is difficult to control. Dr. Khanna will discuss the reasons for this condition and the testing and treatment the clinic provides.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call Upstate Connect 1-800-464-8668
Pediatric infectious disease specialist Joseph Domachowske discusses the issue of antibiotic resistance – how it is affecting more and more diseases, including e coli and gonorrhea – and whether there is anything we can do to make it better.
Read more about The Pediatric and Adolescent Immunology and Infectious Disease Center at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital. Read the article Dr. Domachowske refers to: Gonorrhea Could Join Growing List of Untreatable Disease, from The Scientific American.
Infectious disease specialist Mitchell Brodey discusses the ABC’s of adult immunizations – which ones are right for you?
2012 Adult Immunization Schedule, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Michele Caliva, administrative director of the Upstate New York Poison Center, and clinical toxicologist Alexander Garrard discuss the alarming increase and dangerous effects of synthetic drugs.
Poison Center 1-800-222-1222
Breaking News New York State Health Department Bans Synthetic Pot
Poison Center launches aggressive awareness campaign: Dangers of Synthetic Marijuana
Pulmonologist Ran Anbar talks about cystic fibrosis – what it is and how we have treated it up until now - and reveals an exiting new drug that treats its underlying cause, rather than just the symptoms.
A Breath of Fresh Air: New Hope for Cystic Fibrosis Treatment [Preview], The Scientific American
The Pediatric Pulmonology Center at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital
Michele Caliva, administrative director of the Upstate New York Poison Center at Upstate Medical University, talks about prescription drug abuse, and the growing abuse of these drugs by teenagers.
In the event of an unintentional poison exposure, call 1-800-222-1222 .
Onondaga County Health Commissioner Cynthia Morrow and Upstate’s Dr. Donna Bacchi discuss the two vaccines that are available to prevent the human papilloma virus (HPV) that cause most cervical cancers.
Toxicologist Alexander Garrard and Lt. John Corbett, who heads the narcotics division of the Syracuse Police Department, explain what dangerous illegal drugs are being used in Syracuse and Central New York.
Resources:
Erowid.com
Upstate New York Poison Center – Call 1-800-222-1222
