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show first aired April 16, 2009
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The headlines spread like lightning around the world...actress Natasha Richardson dies after what seemed to be a minor fall on a ski slope, igniting a furious debate about safety. On this week’s Health Show...the ski helmet debate is raging in Canada. Then we’ll hear what another government, the French, is trying to do about its growing population of binge drinkers. Vitamin D is getting a lot more attention lately...we’ll chat up a British researcher and try to find out why. And a doctor is finding that after years of thinking she was holding on to a stethoscope, it was really the other way around.
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HELMETS FOR SKIERS - THE CANADIAN DEBATE IS ON
The recent death of British actress Natasha Richardson has thrown open the debate in Canada over the use of helmets for skiers and snow-boarders. Richardson was injured on the beginner hill at a Quebec ski resort. She died a couple of days later, of bleeding between the skull and the brain's covering. Some groups have now renewed the call for a law making ski helmets mandatory. And as Dan Karpenchuk reports, they say they've got the statistics and the science on their side.
Binge Drinking Comes To France
Binge drinking has been a growing problem in northern European countries for quite some time...and now the French are catching up. So much so that the National Assembly, as part of a comprehensive health bill, has voted to raise the legal drinking age from 16 to 18...and put a ban on open bars which have been extremely popular with French students. Radio Netherlands’ Alister Sanford reports.
Vitamin D - The New Wonder Drug?
Vitamin D has been getting a lot of attention lately. Recent studies have shown it can help prevent a growing list of chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension, as well as breast, colon and ovarian cancer...and that means this vitamin that has been so prominently displayed on milk cartons all these years is getting a lot of ink in the mainstream press. Here to talk about this important nutrient is Dr. Graham Beastall, President of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine and an adviser to the UK Government Department of Health.
This conversation also appears on line in the journal Clinical Chemistry.
Hanging Up the White Coat
Becoming a doctor is no easy matter. There are years of study, hours upon hours of resident work and thousands of dollars in college tuition and, most likely, loans. But according to Dr. Jane O'Shaughnessy...a specialist in emergency medicine who, until recently, practiced at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City...giving it up after a long career isn’t exactly a walk in the park, either.
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