Category: Health

Dr. George Grunburger – Diabetes Management

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists

Leslie Achter – Discount Prescriptions

The CEO of Inside Rx, Leslie Achter to talk about how people like you and me, who are paying cash for their prescription medications, could get some discounts on more than one hundred prescription brand name medications and thousands of generic drugs.

Disposal Options for Unused Pain Medications

Every day, over 100 Americans die after overdosing on opioids, including prescription pain medications. To help fight the opioid crisis, Northwestern Medicine launched innovative strategies for reducing the number of pills prescribed by surgeons and is offering patients a safe, clinic-based disposal option for their unused pain medications. Dr. Jonah Stulberg, Opioid Stewardship Lead at Northwestern Medicine is my guest.

IBD and Pregnancy

For women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who are of childbearing years and considering becoming pregnant there can be a lot of frustration, confusion and fear about how their disease may impact their ability to have a healthy pregnancy. My guest is Dr. Marla Dubinsky Co-Director of the Susan and Leonard Feinstein IBD Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY.

Dr. Corey Hunter – Pain Management

Dr. Corey Hunter, an interventional pain specialist at the Ainsworth Institute of Pain Management, and Doug Rod, a medical retired US Army paratrooper, who damaged both his knees after many years of active duty talk to Audrey about an opioid-free non-pharmacologic treatment options for people with chronic pain conditions following an injury or trauma.

Dr. Ronald Emkey – FDA Approved New Use for Prolia

The FDA recently approved a new use for Prolia that helps people with conditions like COPD, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis who are at high risk of bone loss from taking corticosteroids, to manage their conditions. Dr. Ronald Emkey has the details.

Airing August 23-25, 2019 – TALK! with AUDREY

Are you prepared to take immediate action in the event that someone is having a stroke? Joining me today to talk about the signs of a stroke and how you can be prepared, Vascular Neurologist, Dr. Jennifer Rasmussen, stroke survivor, Melissa Berg, and her son, Tony Palamidessi; I speak with Dr. Corey Hunter, an interventional pain specialist at the Ainsworth Institute of Pain Management, and Doug Rod, a medically retired US Army paratrooper, who damaged both his knees after many years of active duty, about an opioid-free non-pharmacologic treatment options for people with chronic pain conditions following an injury or trauma; The FDA recently approved a new use for Prolia that helps people with conditions like COPD, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis who are at high risk of bone loss from taking corticosteroids, to manage their conditions. Dr. Ronald Emkey has the details.