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KNPB Channel 5 is offering both national and local television programs to raise awareness and to foster understanding of health-related issues in our community. Browse the following list of related shows or take a look at Channel 5's monthly program guide, Take 5. (Available in a PDF format on KNPB's Interactive Web site.)
This month's features include:
| Second Opinion: Taking Charge of Your Health |
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"Flu" — Sunday, April 1, 12:30pm
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With thousands of people dying each year from the flu, it takes a pandemic to get us talking about it. The leading experts in the field will discuss the everyday flu, what we can do to keep ourselves healthy and flu-free, and if a more serious flu really poses as great a threat as the media portrays.
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"Fertility" — Sunday, April 8, 12:30pm
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While hearing the word "infertile" can have a devastating effect on women and men, there are many options and procedures available to people having trouble conceiving. But with high tech fertility methods developing faster every day, what are moral issues surrounding infertility in our country? |
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"Life After Breast Cancer" — Sunday, April 15, 12:30pm
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The diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer is a traumatic time for the patient and their loved ones. Yet life after the cancer treatment is often just as challenging. Experts, patients and laypeople discuss life after breast cancer-what it means to a woman personally, medically, socially and sexually.
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- "Kidney Stones"
— Sunday, April 22, 12:30pm
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Some say passing a kidney stone is more painful than childbirth. People have been suffering from kidney stones since the beginning of time, and the incidents continue to rise. What are kidney stones, how are they treated, and more importantly, can they be prevented?
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- "Longevity" — Sunday, April 29, 12:30pm
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As our average life expectancy increases, we ask is living longer better? Our panel discusses genetics, modifiable factors and medical technology that may dictate how long we live.
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| Keeping Kids Healthy: |
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"Making the Hospital Less Scary / Surviving Glycogen Storage Disease" — Tuesday, April 3, 1:30pm
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Part One: Making The Hospital Less Scary It doesn't have to be terrifying to have your child go into the hospital! Have you heard of Child Life Specialists or Family-Centered Care? Those are two of the programs geared toward supporting you and your child during a hospital visit, and with their help, the hospital simply doesn't have to be so scary. Join host Dr. Winnie King to see how specially-trained hospital staffers can work with you and your child to reduce your stress, and learn how to find the hospitals and programs that will help you achieve that goal. Part Two: Surviving Glycogen Storage Disease Imagine having to feed your child eight times a day - every day - including in the middle of the night. Not just when he's a baby, but through adolescence and beyond. And if you miss or delay a feeding - because you oversleep or get stuck in traffic or run out of supplies - your child could have a seizure, suffer developmental delays, go into a coma, or even die. That's what life is like for families who have a child with Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD), a condition in which the body can't properly regulate its blood sugar. Join us as we step into the lives of one-year-old Felice, four-year-old Jonah, and 15-year-old Casey, who are all living with GSD, and learn how they and their families cope with this extraordinary challenge. And find out why evolving treatments and promising research are giving GSD families hope - hope for a normal lifestyle, and for a good night's sleep. |
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"Overweight Kids: Is Your Child at Risk" — Tuesday, April 10, 1:30pm
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One of the biggest epidemics sweeping the country is childhood obesity - kids who weigh too much for their own good health, and who may be developing serious illnesses like diabetes as a direct result of their weight. But it doesn't have to happen to your child; you can fight back! Join host Dr. Winnie King to meet a 12-year-old boy who has overcome obesity-induced diabetes; and learn from an endocrinologist, an exercise specialist, and two nutritionists how to prevent your children from crossing that "overweight" line - through simple techniques like playing games, exercising with the family, and preparing delicious but healthful snacks and meals. |
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TBD — Tuesday, April 17, 1:30pm
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TBD — Tuesday, April 24, 1:30pm
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| Frontline: "So Much So Fast" |
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Tuesday, April 3, 10:00pm
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When he was 29 years old, Stephen Heywood was diagnosed wit ALS - also called Lou Gehrig's disease-and told he had two to five years to live. But Stephen and his family refused to accept the doctors' death sentence. "So Much So Fast" follows the Heywoods' passionate, acerbic, and relentlessly hopeful reaction to a disease that transforms their lives. Stephen's older brother, Jamie, starts a foundation dedicated to finding a cure through fast-paced guerrilla science that attracts both praise and controversy. Stephen gets married and he and his wife, Wendy, have a son. They confront the encroaching paralysis of ALS with a mix of courage and humor, and, surrounded by friends and family, upend the cliches of their situation. From Oscar-nominated ("Troublesome Creek") filmmakers Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, "So Much So Fast" tells a haunting story of one family's unexpected answers to some of life's biggest questions. |
| Fat: What No One Is Telling You
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- Wednesday, April 11, 9:00pm;
- Sunday, April 15, 1:00pm
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Open abuse of fat people is the last accepted prejudice. As the number of obese Americans climbs to frightening levels, the quest for answers is becoming even more urgent. Obesity experts have a growing - and sobering - awareness of the complex human puzzle that is driving this epidemic and creating so much personal pain in a society that worships "thin." Is it genes? Is it metabolism? Is it stress, evolution or the lack of willpower? Why can't the brain control hunger? What drives us to keep eating when we know we're full? Fat: What No One Is Telling You gives viewers a window into the intense human dramas that rage inside people who have been labeled obese and the difficulty of solving their weight problem. |
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