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Category: Technology

Safely viewing the solar eclipse; climate's health effects; is kratom risky?: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, April 7, 2024
April 4, 2024
Interviews with Robert Fechtner, MD, Augusta Williams, DSc, Willie Eggleston,...

Minimally invasive surgery can cure early lung cancers
April 3, 2024
Interview with thoracic surgeon Jason Wallen, MD

Using defibrillators; surgical robots; treating sleep apnea: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, March 24, 2024
March 21, 2024
Interviews with Christian Knutsen, MD, and Guillermo Negrete, MD; Seetharam...

Pancreas/kidney transplants; babies and electronic screens: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, March 10, 2024
March 7, 2024
Interviews with Matthew Garner, MD, and Danielle Hoose, DPT

Biomarker testing explained; gathering food in the city: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, March 3, 2024
February 29, 2024
Interviews with Thomas VanderMeer, MD, and Michael Davoli; and with Anne...

CPAP options include waiting list, alternate cleaning method
February 27, 2024
Advice from Ryan Butzko, DO, Upstate sleep specialist on the options sleep apnea...

Machines offer precision, extended reach
February 22, 2024
Urologist Seetharam Bhat, MBBS, gives some history of robots, explains how they...

These simple-to-use devices are crucial after cardiac arrest
February 22, 2024
Interview with emergency physicians Christian Knutsen, MD, and Guillermo...

Mental and physical health, zero gravity among considerations
February 20, 2024
Interview with Michael Marge, EdD on the health concerns and some...

Less invasive spine surgery; implants to improve hearing; edible marijuana dangers: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024
February 15, 2024
Interviews with Ali Hazama, MD, Jeffrey VanTassel and Michael Hodgman, MD,

Infants need human interaction for healthy development
February 13, 2024
Interview with Upstate physical therapist Danielle Hoose, DPT

Devices improve hearing differently than hearing aids
January 17, 2024
Upstate audiologist Jeffrey VanTassel on how cochlear implants can help people...

Worries about AI; a treatable heart condition; fixing injured joints: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Jan. 24, 2024
January 11, 2024
Interviews with Serife Tekin, PhD, Cynthia Taub, MD, and Zachary Telgheder, MD

Low-back pain; a technique for pain relief: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023
December 21, 2023
Interviews with HeeRak Kang, MD, and Vandana Sharma, MD

Whipple procedure can remove early pancreatic cancers
December 18, 2023
Surgeon Mashaal Dhir, MD discusses the Whipple procedure which helps some...

Newer surgical methods mean small incisions, quicker recovery
December 18, 2023
Interview with neurosurgeon Ali Hazama, MD on how herniated disks, spinal...

Wiring brains to computers; unruptured aneurysms; drugstore hearing aids: Upstate Medical University's HealthLink on Air for Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023
December 8, 2023
Interviews with L. Syd Johnson, PhD, Aravind Reddy, MD, Hesham Masoud, MD, and ...

Goal is for patients to feel as if they'd never had the surgery
November 30, 2023
Interview with Zachary Telgheder, MD, Upstate orthopedic surgeon

Rapidly evolving technology lacks guidelines, rules or laws
November 27, 2023
Serife Tekin, PhD, explains some of the ethical concerns surrounding artificial...

Ethical questions abound if humans are wired to machines
November 16, 2023
L. Syd Johnson, PhD, associate professor of bioethics and humanities discusses...