The Living Brain - An Interview with Norman Doidge
AUDIO: Did you that your brain can grow new cells, reorganize its networks, and improve with time? This is not the immutable organ you learned about in high school biology class. The human brain is in fact a living, changing structure with immense potential for development.
Reporting AIDS - Youth & AIDS: Hope’s Voice
VIDEO: John Mikytuck visits a photo shoot for a new ad campaign “Does HIV Look Like Me?” sponsored by Hope’s Voice. There he talks with several young HIV positive people about the effect of the disease and their message of prevention through awareness.
Reporting AIDS - Fighting AIDS Denialism
Video: Reporting AIDS host John Mikytuck interviews Dr. John Moore, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Dr. Jeanne Bergman, The Center for HIV Law and Policy in New York City, to discuss AIDStruth.org, a Web site launched to fight AIDS denialism.
Polytrauma: The Nervous System & Physiological Systems
With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, increasing numbers of civilians and military personnel are being exposed to explosive blasts. The injuries caused by these blasts are devastating, wreaking havoc on many parts of the body at once. The physicians and healthcare specialists treating the victims of these blasts must be aware of the complexity […]
ROAD TO HOPE documentary
VIDEO: The 2005 Road to Hope Tour traveled 7,000 miles from Washington, DC to San Francisco, CA visiting 23 schools and thousands of students. The tour featured HIV positive young people and advocates that joined together to educate and bring awareness to students around the country about HIV and AIDS. Hope’s Voice and joined forces with advocacy groups from around the country to put together this exciting tour.
Reporting AIDS: HIV Vaccine Trials
As a kid, growing up in California, Legend Rivera had some ideas about AIDS. Back then, he said, “it was like coodies.” In high school in the 1990’s, Rivera was taught that HIV wasn’t coodies and by practicing safer sex he could stay uninfected. However, until an outreach worker from the NYC Vaccine Trials Unit […]
The Courage Trial - An Interview with Dr. Alan Shah
video: In this interview, Dr. Alan Shah, an attending cardiologist at NYU Medical Center discusses the merits, flaws, and impact of the new Courage trial. This study compared percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to optimal medical therapy in the treatment of stable coronary artery disease (CAD), and found similar outcomes with both treatments.
While there have been smaller studies with similar findings, Dr.Shah found this study to be impressive because it involved a large number of patients (2,287) and because aggressive medical therapy was used.
What We Have Learned From The Marine Casualties Returning From War
Dr. Michael Yochelson, M.D., joins NRH as the Director of Brain Injury Programs. He obtained his B.S. from Duke University and his M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine internship, neurology residency and PM&R residency in the National Capital Consortium (National Naval Medical Center/Walter Reed Army Medical Center), where […]
