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

11/22/09 Check-Up From The Neck-Up / News & Views

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Dr. Richard O'Neill's Check-Up From The Neck-Up: The powerful legacy of a parent's decision to stop smoking; and Surgeon Kara Kort, MD considers her patients' stories as she responds to the latest change in mammography guidelines.

News & Views:

Panel Puts Off Mammography until Age 50, from MedPage Today.

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

11/22/09 Interview 1

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Part 1: Difficult Decisions In Health Care. Upstate Bioethicist Gregory Eastwood MD and Crouse Neonatologist Tom Curran MD consider the ethical implications of in vitro fertiization Americn-style in this month's edition of Difficult Decisions in Health Care: "When Babies Pay the Penalty for Advanced Technology".

Health Information Center Resources for Ethics and Cost for Premature Newborns:

• Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention. Institute of Medicine. National Academy of Press, 2007.
• Neonatal Care, a Bioethics Briefing Book, from the Hastings Center. Chapter on Neonatal Care by Dr. Alan R. Fleischman.
• Intensive Care for Extreme Prematurity -- Moving beyond Gestational Age. By Jon E. Tyson, M.D and others. New England Journal of Medicine. Volume 358: page 1672-1681 April 17, 2008.
• Million-Dollar Babies; The cost of care for preemies is sky-high--some 15 times the expense of full-term infants and rising. Is there such a thing as too young?. Business Week. June 12, 2008.
• The Gift of Life and Its Price: 21st Century Babies. New York Times. October 11, 2009.

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at SUNY Upstate Medical University

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The Center for Bioethics and Humanities, a department of SUNY Upstate's College of Medicine.

11/22/09 Interview 2

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Part 2: Difficult Decisions in Health Care. Upstate Bioethicist Gregory Eastwood MD and Crouse Neonatologist Tom Curran MD consider the ethical implications of in vitro fertiization Americn-style in this month's edition of Difficult Decisions in Health Care: "When Babies Pay the Penalty for Advanced Technology".

Health Information Center Resources for Ethics and Cost for Premature Newborns:

• Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention. Institute of Medicine. National Academy of Press, 2007.
• Neonatal Care, a Bioethics Briefing Book, from the Hastings Center. Chapter on Neonatal Care by Dr. Alan R. Fleischman.
• Intensive Care for Extreme Prematurity -- Moving beyond Gestational Age. By Jon E. Tyson, M.D and others. New England Journal of Medicine. Volume 358: page 1672-1681 April 17, 2008.
• Million-Dollar Babies; The cost of care for preemies is sky-high--some 15 times the expense of full-term infants and rising. Is there such a thing as too young?. Business Week. June 12, 2008.
• The Gift of Life and Its Price: 21st Century Babies. New York Times. October 11, 2009.

HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER
at SUNY Upstate Medical University

Read More About:

The Center for Bioethics and Humanities, a department of SUNY Upstate's College of Medicine.