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This fall, nearly 200 female college athletes from Pace University will help Amy West, MD, try to answer a question that has troubled her since her college sports career: What effect, if any, does the menstrual cycle have on sports-related injuries? In a first-of-its-kind study, Dr. West, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist at Northwell Health, will be particularly interested in ACL injuries; compared to men, women have three to six times greater risk of an injury to this knee ligament. On this episode, Dr. West discusses her study, the dire need to improve injury prevention in female athletes across the board, and what women can do now to reduce their risk of injury. 
This is Part 2 of our series focusing on women’s health. All year long, we’ll be covering topics affecting women, from issues around ovarian and lung cancer to federal funding for women’s health research, to the lack of gender-specific studies, which we covered in Ep. 1, featuring two prominent leaders in women's health, Stacey Rosen, MD, and Nisha Parikh, MD. You can listen to that episode in our feed. 

For the first time in 30 years, the federal government is taking action to improve women’s health through funding better research, a move that took shape in March with President Joe Biden’s executive order promising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and sweeping action from multiple federal agencies. The last major initiative around women’s health research came in 1993 with the passage of a law requiring women and minorities be included in all clinical research. Despite these efforts, women, and in particular minority women, continue to be underrepresented today. On this episode, host Sandra Lindsay, RN, speaks with Stacey Rosen, MD, and Nisha Parikh, MD, MPH, about the new push from the Biden Administration, the need to remedy these disparities, and what health systems, businesses, community groups and individuals can do to help.

When you hear words like abundance and scarcity, you think of food, water and other essentials. For Laura Freebairn-Smith, PhD, author of "Abundance Leaders: Creating Energy, Joy, and Productivity in an Unsettled World," those words apply to styles of leadership. As she explains to host Sandra Lindsay, RN, these concepts can guide you in becoming a better leader, co-worker, partner and person. Listen in as they explore the intersection of leadership and health and reveal how embracing abundance leads to a fuller, happier life.
About the expert
Prior to co-founding OPG, where she is a partner, Laura served as Director of Yale’s Organizational Development and Learning Center, which she helped create. She has also consulted for the New York Times, Lemann Foundation and ESPN.

Whether you're planning to watch from your backyard or travel, it's important to watch the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse safely. On this episode, you'll hear from two experts on what to expect and how to prepare for the celestial phenomenon of the moon blocking out the sun. Northwell Health ophthalmologist Matthew Gorski, MD, explains the risks of staring into the sun and how solar eclipse glasses can protect your vision no matter where you're watching from. Retired meteorologist Joe Rao shares his extensive knowledge on the topic, including personal accounts from many years spent "chasing eclipses." The instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium reveals where to be, how to watch if you don’t have glasses, what to look for and, most importantly, why everyone should go out of their way to see a solar eclipse: "Without a doubt, the greatest cosmic pageant that can be witnessed.”
Chapters:
00:01 - Intro
01:57 - What is a solar eclipse?
03:30 - Dangers of looking into the sun
04:21 - Solar retinopathy
05:44 - What are solar eclipse glasses?
07:28 - Where to get solar eclipse glasses
08:05 - How much do solar eclipse glasses cost?
08:25 - Solar eclipse glasses alternatives
09:50 - Path of totality 2024
11:52 - What will I see if in the Tri-state area?
13:56 - Do solar eclipse glasses expire?
14:50 - Solar eclipse glasses and kids
15:45 - What NOT to do during the solar eclipse
16:20 - Joe Rao talks astronomy and meteorology
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Opioids are a necessary part of surgery, but they come with many downsides — addiction risk being the most worrisome. So, when Vishal Sarwahi, MD met a young patient with a history of opioid misuse who needed scoliosis surgery, he knew he had to find another way. On this 20-Minute Health Talk, he shares his pioneering efforts to reduce reliance on opioids in pediatric scoliosis surgery, as well as the technical advances he has brought to the operating room that are making it possible — something he calls the Rapid Recovery Protocol.
 

Dr. Sarwahi is director of Northwell Health's Center for Minimally Invasive Scoliosis Surgery and the Center for Advanced Pediatric Orthopedics at Cohen Children’s Medical Center.

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Heart disease remains the No. 1 killer of women in America, but many don’t realize that symptoms commonly associated with pregnancy, like shortness of breath, swollen hands and feet, could also be indicators of a serious underlying heart condition. Another startling fact: All women are at risk, according to Evelina Grayver, MD, director of Northwell Health’s Women’s Heart program for the Central region. In this episode, Sandra Lindsay revisits her conversation with Dr. Grayver from 2023, where the women's heart health expert explains what symptoms to look out for, when to seek help and the ins and outs of a new field of medicine specializing in the treatment of heart conditions during pregnancy — cardio-obstetrics. 


Dr. Grayver helped establish Northwell's cardio-obstetrics program, which is helping expecting and new parents get ahead of or prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes related to heart disease. 
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