HealthLink on Air

HealthLink on Air (HLOA) is a 60 minute, taped radio program that airs every Sunday on WSYR (570 AM) at 9 a.m.

11/8/09 Check-Up From The Neck-Up / News & Views

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Dr. Richard O'Neill's Check-Up From The Neck-Up: How do you get to Carnegie Hall?; and Luke Probst, PharmD: Kids and cough medicine.

News & Views:

Pediatric OTC Cough and Cold Remedies Should be Shunned in Toddlers

A transcript of the show will be available on the Tuesday following the radio broadcast.

11/8/09 Interview 1

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County Health Commissioner Cynthia Morrow MD MPH and Upstate's Donna Bacchi MD, MPH sift through the facts and fallacies swirling around the H1N1 vaccine.

Health Information Center Resources for Influenza:

• 2009 H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) and You, from the Centers for Disease Control.
• Novel H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) in Onondaga County, from the Onondaga County Health Department.
• Schedule a Flu Shot, from the Onondaga County Health Department.
• Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza, from the Upstate Health Sciences Library.
• Seasonal Influenza, from the Upstate Health Sciences Library.
• Flu, from Medline Plus.
• Seasonal Influenza (Flu), from the Centers for Disease Control.
• Know What To Do About The Flu, from Flu.gov.

HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER
at SUNY Upstate Medical University

11/8/09 Interview 2

Listen (Duration: 10:54)

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Music Therapist Ann Minton of the Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital explains music's universal, almost magical, power to soothe young patients and support the healing process.

Health Information Center Resources for Music Therapy:

• American Music Therapy Association (AMTA).
• Fact Sheets and Bibliographies, from Research from AMTA.
• Examples of Music Therapy (audio clips), from Sound Feelings.
• Music Therapy, article from the American Cancer Society.
• Music Therapy. from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. You may need to accept the Disclaimer and Terms for using web site.
• Music Rx, from the Children’s Cancer Association.
• PubMed Database - Search for abstracts and some free full text articles, from the National Library of Medicine.
• Music Therapy in Hospice and Palliative Care: a Review of the Empirical Data, from PubMed Central. Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2005 June; volume 2(2): 173–178.
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Approaches for Pediatric Pain: A Review of the State-of-the-science. Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2005 June; volume 2(2): 149–159.

HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER
at SUNY Upstate Medical University

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