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show first aired January 14, 2010
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Polio is on the ropes. There hasn’t been a case of wild polio virus in the western hemisphere since the early 90s...and now just four countries in the world have cases of the disease. On this week’s Health Show, we’ll talk to a member of Rotary International about that organization’s long history, and effective future, in the fight against polio. Then we’ll learn about Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman who died in the 1950s, but continues to help fight disease around the world. And we’ll find out about a study that suggests obesity may play a larger role in the development of prostate cancer than was first thought...or maybe not.
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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL VS. POLIO
There is hope that the fight to eradicate Polio from the face of the earth is in its final stages. It’s been over a decade since the last case was found in the western hemisphere and news cases elsewhere in the world are restricted to concentrated areas. You may not realize this, but one of the major players in the worldwide fight against Polio has been Rotary. Carol Pandak is the manager of Rotary International’s Polio Plus program.
He-La Cells
In 1951, a thirty-one year old African American women named Henrietta Lacks lay in a segregated ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Though she never knew it, she was instrumental in the continuing fight against disease around the world. William S. Hammack has this story of technology.
Is There A Prostate Cancer - Obesity Link?
It’s no secret that obesity is a major health problem in the US and has been rapidly getting more and more widespread. It has been associated with many major diseases...but obesity’s relationship to prostate cancer is, to say the least, complex. The January issue of the journal Clinical Chemistry contains the results of a major study that evaluated the link between certain hormones associated with obesity and the incidence and aggressiveness of prostate cancer. The same issue of Clinical Chemistry had an editorial on the topic by Dr. Stephen Freedland, a Urologist in the Duke Prostate Center and the Department of Surgery at Duke University and he’s with us to try to make sense of the findings.
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