WTUL, 91.5FM

Holly hosts a health and medical radio show Holly on Health on WTUL, New Orleans 91.5FM. The segment airs during the 8:00am hour of News and Views on the third Friday of every month. Listen to past episodes here!

Holly on Health, Episode 8: Meditation and Medicine, 1/25/2012

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To learn more about meditation and medicine, check out my guest post I wrote for exercisemenu.comWhy Medicine and Science Say You Should Meditate

Interview with Dr. Indranill Basu Ray, an expert in meditation and medicine research. Dr. Basu Ray has trained in medicine and cardiology in India; in interventional electrophysiology and device therapy from the University of Toronto; and in electrophysiology research from Massachussets General Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He has been in charge of Experimental EP Lab at Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center and a faculty in Medicine (Cardiology) at Harvard Medical School. He is presently with Ochsner Medical Foundation and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans and at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Basu Ray is a Professor and Dean of the College of Integrative Medicine, HUA, in Orlando, Florida since 2008.

Holly on Health, Episode 7: Movember, 11/11/2011

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Holly on Health, Episode 6: The Athlete Brain, 10/14/2011

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Holly on Health, Episode 5: Got Sleep?, 7/29/2011

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Seven out of ten adults in the United States are not getting enough sleep. Are you one of them? Just like diet and exercise, getting an adequate amount of sleep is critical to staying healthy. Sleep deprivation is associated with decreased concentration, depression, diabetes, hypertension, a compromised immune system, and other medical problems. Interview with Dr. Linda Kirby, Medical Director of Tulane Student Primary Care Clinic.

Holly on Health, Episode 4: Melanoma, 7/1/2011

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Melanoma is the most common type of cancer in young adults under the age of 30.  Interviews with a 25-year-old medical student who has been battling melanoma since being diagnosed with stage 3 cancer in 2010; Dr. Alan Lewis, Director of Dermatologic Surgery at Tulane University.

Holly on Health, Episode 3: The Health Disconnect, 5/20/2011

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The disconnect that young adults have between their health behaviors now and their risk of serious and preventable diseases in the future.  Interviews with students; Dr. Linda Kirby, Medical Director of Tulane Student Primary Care Clinic; Dr. Timothy Harlan, Medical Director of Outpatient Clinics, Associate Chief of General Internal Medicine, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Tulane University and also known as Dr. Gourmet, an author and expert in making smart diet, nutrition, and lifestyle choices.

Holly on Health, Episode 2: Who and Why Gen Y?, 4/22/2011

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Who and why Gen Y?  Health news for young adults—HPV vaccine for males, mental health, depression.  Interview with Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at Tulane University, City of New Orleans Health Commissioner and Senior Adviser for Health Policy, regarding the challenges of implementing community health care as a new, more effective model for primary care in New Orleans.

Holly on Health, Episode 1: Traveler’s Health, 3/18/2011

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Travelers’ health concerns—germs in hotel rooms, bed bugs and malaria.  Interviews with infectious disease specialist Dr. Susan McLellan, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University; Zack Lemann, Entomologist at Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans.  Discussion of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), established in 1999 through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and India’s Gennova Biopharmaceuticals to produce and test a novel vaccine that aims to eradicate malaria worldwide by 2025.

 


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