Age Management Strategies [Interview][Transcript]

dr_charles_mahl_age_managementGuest: Dr. Charles Mahl
Presenter: Neal Howard
Image title: Dr_Charles_Mahl_Age_Management
Guest Bio: Dr. Mahl is a former retinal surgeon. Following his own issues with back and hip pain he entered into his second career in regenerative medicine. His specialties are pain management using prolotherapy and stem cells to eradicate pain and negate surgery. Dr. Mahl is sought about by fellow physicians, celebrities and individuals from across the country and the US to be trained or treated by him. For more information, visit GenLife.

Segment overview: Dr. Charles Mahl, MD, FACS, FICS, talks about age management medicine.

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Prolotherapy and Stem Cell Therapy [Interview][Transcript]

dr_charles_mahl_prolotherapyGuest: Dr. Charles Mahl
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Dr. Mahl is a former retinal surgeon. Following his own issues with back and hip pain he entered into his second career in regenerative medicine. His specialties are pain management using prolotherapy and stem cells to eradicate pain and negate surgery. Dr. Mahl is sought about by fellow physicians, celebrities and individuals from across the country and the US to be trained or treated by him. For more information, visit GenLife.

Segment overview: Dr. Charles Mahl, MD, FACS, FICS, talks about using prolotherapy and stem cells to eradicate pain and negate surgery.

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Revolutionary 3D Imaging Essential for Patient Diagnosis and Care [Interview][Transcript]

marie_meynadier_eos_imagingGuest: Marie Meynadier
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: After receiving her doctorate, Marie Meynadier joined Bellcore (Red Bank, NJ) and the prestigious ATT Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ), where she conducted research on semiconductor devices. She then returned to France to head up the management of major national and international development programs in electronics, optics and microelectronics, which enabled the creation of several start-ups in these areas. She joined the medical field in 1999, taking the lead at the start-up Biospace lab, which specialized in preclinical imaging. After rapidly turning the start-up into a profitable business, she founded EOS imaging.
Marie holds a degree in electronic engineering from Sup Telecom and a PhD (Doctorate) from the Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Segment overview: Marie Meynadier, Founder and CEO of EOS Imaging, discusses the company, it’s role in the healthcare arena, and the future of EOS Imaging.

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Six Weeks of NO WHEAT [Interview][Transcript]

cyndi_o_meara_no_wheat_dietGuest: Cyndi O’Meara
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Cyndi O’Meara is a nutritionist, bestselling author, international speaker and founder of Changing Habits. Cyndi graduated with a BSc majoring in Nutrition from Deakin University in 1984, her special interest was ancestral foods. At the end of her degree she was so disillusioned by the nutritional guidelines that she paved her own path and stayed clear of the low fat diets of the day, and not without controversy.

Segment overview: Cyndi O’Meara, nutritionist and co-director of the recent documentary, “What’s With Wheat – The Truth They Don’t Want You To Know!”, author of the book “Changing Habits Changing LIves” (1998) and founder of Changing Habits talks about the ‘6 Weeks No Wheat’ program and other services and products available at www.changinghabits.com.au

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WARNING! Today’s Wheat is Addictive [Interview][Transcript]

cyndi_o_meara_addictive_wheatGuest: Cyndi O’Meara
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Cyndi O’Meara is a nutritionist, bestselling author, international speaker and founder of Changing Habits. Cyndi graduated with a BSc majoring in Nutrition from Deakin University in 1984, her special interest was ancestral foods. At the end of her degree she was so disillusioned by the nutritional guidelines that she paved her own path and stayed clear of the low fat diets of the day, and not without controversy.

Segment overview: Cyndi O’Meara, nutritionist and co-director of the recent documentary, “What’s With Wheat – The Truth They Don’t Want You To Know!” talks about the way wheat crops are now grown and processed.

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What’s with Wheat? [Interview][Transcript]

cyndi_o_meara_wheat_intoleranceGuest: Cyndi O’Meara
Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest Bio: Cyndi O’Meara is a nutritionist, bestselling author, international speaker and founder of Changing Habits. Cyndi graduated with a BSc majoring in Nutrition from Deakin University in 1984, her special interest was ancestral foods. At the end of her degree she was so disillusioned by the nutritional guidelines that she paved her own path and stayed clear of the low fat diets of the day, and not without controversy.

Segment overview: Cyndi O’Meara, nutritionist and co-director of the recent documentary, “What’s With Wheat – The Truth They Don’t Want You To Know!” discusses the question of whether modern wheat is to blame for a number of concerns from brain fog to poor memory, metabolic issues, disturbed sleep patterns and gastrointestinal issues.

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The Health News – 13 September 2016

Overview:
•  The Queensland Government has banned the use of Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) chemicals after they leeched from firefighting foam at the Oakey Aviation Base into the town’s groundwater, contaminating land and causing health worries.

• Last week 7.30 reported the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) had received almost 90 reports of psychiatric events in children and adolescents treated with Singulair’s active ingredient, a drug called montelukast. Suicidal thoughts and actions, depression, aggression and hostility are listed side effects on the Consumer Medicines Information for Singulair.

• The Great North Run is Britain’s largest running event with more than 50,000 participants. Claire Lomas (left paralysed from the chest down following a horse-riding accident in 2007), who is 16 weeks pregnant, wearing a bionic suit has completed the Great North Run in England five days after she started it.

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Providing Support in the Battle against Opioid Painkiller Dependence, Prescription Drug Overdose [Interview][Transcript]

henry_acosta_international_overdose_awareness_dayGuest: Dr. Richard Kidd
Presenter: Henry Acosta
Guest Bio: Dr Richard Kidd is a GP owner/principal of Nundah Doctors Surgery. Chair of the AMA Council of General Practice, Board member and councillor of Federal AMA and AMA Queensland, and a past President of AMA Queensland, Richard chairs the AMA Queensland Real Time Monitoring Committee and sits on Department of Health and DVA committees including the My Aged Care Gateway Advisory Group, Practice Incentive Payments Advisory Group, the Health Care Homes Payment Mechanism Working Group, and the Health Sector Group in the Attorney General’s Department. A Board member of Scriptwise and of Peach Tree Perinatal Wellness, he is Co-Founder of Doctors for Refugees.
Richard is the Brisbane North PHN Clinical Lead, a member of the Queensland Clinical Senate, GP Alliance, Brisbane North Health Alliance, and Metro North Health and Hospital Services Committees.

Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, we welcome Dr Richard Kidd here to discuss the importance of adopting of a compulsory national real-time prescription monitoring system to save lives in time for observing International Overdose Awareness Day. Those who are battling opioid painkiller dependence, and their families, are encouraged to access support via a recently launched website called turntohelp.com.au

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The Health News – 12 September 2016

Overview:
•  A University of Tasmania study is now offering monthly $50 gift vouchers to expectant mothers to stop smoking. Dr Mai Frandsen is a research fellow with the Cancer Council of Tasmania and the University of Tasmania, and her passion was to try and reduce the rates of smoking in pregnancy.

• A man in Britain had the vision in one of his eyes restored after surgeons used a robot to operate inside a patient’s eye for the first time. Twelve patients will undergo surgical procedures using the surgical robot, which was developed by Dutch company Preceyes, in a trial funded by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre.

The University of Alabama study asked students to complete a challenging exam, then either exercise or rest for 15 minutes. Researchers then treated the students to an all-you-can-eat pizza lunch. Researchers say the lactate — one of the brain’s energy sources — that is produced during strenuous activity might have been enough to replenish the students’ brain energy needs after the exam, reducing their need to overeat.

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The Health News – 9 September 2016

Overview:
•  The University of Sydney, University College London and the University of Montreal based their research – effects of basic levels of weekly exercise could offset some of the harmful effects of drinking alcohol – on surveys of more than 36,000 adults over the age of 40. The findings, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found physical activity may decrease the risks of dying from cancer and other illnesses.

• Half of Queensland’s emergency department nurses are copping abuse from patients outside of the workplace, the Central Queensland University study has found. It has been a familiar story for emergency department nurse Rachael Dixon. Ms Dixon hopes the study raises awareness that abuse from patients does not just happen in the workplace.

The international study into the optimal time for twins to be born has found babies with individual placentas should be delivered at 37 weeks, in line with current Australian recommendations in order to minimise the risk of stillbirth. This was co-authored by the University of Adelaide, compared 32 studies involving more than 35,000 twin pregnancies from across the globe.

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