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show first aired January 31, 2008
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Have you ever had to sneeze...I mean you really really wanted to sneeze...but it just wouldn’t happen? Think it might mean something? On today’s Health Show we’ll talk to one of the author’s of Body Signs and find out just what your own body might be trying to tell you about your health. We’ll also head out to the country and hear how some rural communities are working to get a doctor in the house. And then head out of the country and find out how European research is making early detection and treatment of Arthritis possible.
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KNOW YOUR BODY SIGNS
Every so often we...or our partners...notice something a little different about our bodies. From growing a stray skin tag to our skin starting to smell like cleaning fluid, the body is always giving us signs to tell us what’s going on...if we’d only listen. Along with Dr. Joan Liebmann-Smith, Jacqueline Nardi Egan is the co-author of the book Body Signs - From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How To Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective.
The Making Of A Rural Doctor
There are some parts of the US where knowing your body signs and how to recognize illness is a necessity. Throughout the country, rural communities are in a constant struggle to attract and keep doctors. To practice in a remote area is to embrace a life of long hours, professional isolation and lower pay. The in the Northwest, the region’s medical school has a program dedicated to helping students see the upside of rural practice, too. Elizabeth Wynne Johnson chronicles the journey of one medical student as she gets her first real taste of what rural medicine is all about.
An Arthritis Blood Marker?
Dutch researchers at the Free University Medical Center in Amsterdam have discovered that the first signs of arthritis can be detected in the blood up to 14 years before symptoms of the crippling disease emerge. The discovery has opened up a whole new avenue for preventive treatment. Researchers in Amsterdam are now compiling a group of at-risk people for preliminary testing. Rheumatoid Arthritis is a potentially crippling disease which causes inflammation and deformation of the joints in around one per cent of the people in the developed world...and it’s more common in women than in men. As soon as the condition is detected, doctors have ways to slow it down or almost stop it in it’s tracks. So patients can lead a fairly normal life if they don’t suffer too many side effects from the medication. Radio Netherlands’ Liesbeth de Bakker spoke with Dr. Dirkjan Van Schaardenburg to learn more about his findings
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