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Katherine Basbaum discusses how to avoid excess snacking and tips on eating healthy while working from home.

Stroke can happen at any age, even in infants. In fact, one-third of strokes happen to people under age 65.

Many of the risk factors for stroke can be changed. Smoking, obesity, heavy drinking, high blood pressure — all can play a role, as can conditions such as heart disease.

In this segment, Dr. Nicole Chiota-McCollum discusses why it is important for you to know the signs of a possible stroke, learn your risk factors and identify what you need to do if you suspect you or a loved one is having a stroke.

UVA Cancer Center has a team of dedicated physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of non-cancerous (benign) blood disorders, including those that are secondary to hematologic or other cancers. Our hematopathologists are experts in identifying rare and complex diseases of the blood, and our benign hematology physicians and nurses offer superior care for patients in whom blood disorders have been diagnosed.

Dramatic advances have been made in recent years for most hematological cancers because of research. Novel targeted therapies, which complement or replace traditional chemotherapy and radiation treatments, are now routine for many hematological malignancies.

Listen as Karen Ballen, MD discusses Hematologic malignancies and stem cell transplantation at The UVA Cancer Center.

UVA Cancer Center treats patients for their disease but places equal emphasis on their well-being throughout the process. Learning about your condition is a great way to be an informed patient. 

Listen as Lydia Witman, MLIS discusses the Cancer Center Learning Resource Center at UVA Health System. 

Learn more about the UVA Patient and Family Library

Learn more about The Cancer Center Learning Resource Center

What would you say if your doctor gave you a prescription to gather information on your particular condition? This is when the UVA Patient and Family Library can help. A more informed patient can be a better patient, with better outcomes. 

Listen as Lydia Witman, MLIS discusses information prescriptions as a way for your doctor to guide you to be your own best health advocate. 

Learn more about the UVA Patient and Family Library

What does it mean to be your own best health advocate? It is The knowledge, ability, and confidence to find and evaluate information about your own health.

The Patient & Family Library in the University Hospital lobby near the Information Desk, is a good place to find easy-to-understand health information. 

Listen as Lydia Witman, MLIS discusses ways to help you understand your health information and be an informed patient.

Learn more about the UVA Patient and Family Library

Precision Breast IORT (intraoperative radiation for breast cancer) offers an image guided radiation treatment option for women with early stage breast cancer who apply for and are accepted into the study. With this unique form of IORT, subjects receive concentrated radiation at the time of their lumpectomy combining multiple procedures into a single visit.

Listen as Shayna Showalter, MD discusses Precision Breast IORT, a clinical trial option for women with early-stage breast cancer.

At UVA Travelers' Clinic, we provide pre-departure assessments and counseling for any international traveler. We see adults and children who may travel for:

Vacation, including visits to friends and relatives
Business, including health-care related work.

We focus on illness and injury prevention information. We also offer guidance and medication for self-treatable conditions such as traveler's diarrhea, altitude sickness and jet lag.

Listen in as Tania Thomas, MD discusses the UVA Travelers' Clinic where you can find reliable information on vaccines for safe travel.

A clinical trial is a scientific study that tests the effectiveness of a treatment, a device or a drug. A trial could test, for example, the effectiveness of blood pressure medication in lowering blood pressure or whether a certain drug could decrease cholesterol.

Clinical Trials are important in finding new cures for diseases, yet many people are skeptical of participating in clinical trial.

Dina Halme, Ph.D  discusses the importance of clinical trials and myths that are associated with them.

Research from the School of Medicine shows that rural Appalachia now has the highest cancer death rates in the country. Nengliang (Aaron) Yao, PhD, and other researchers in UVA’s Department of Public Health Sciences examined decades of data obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics. They found that cancer incidence declined in every region of the country between 1969 and 2011 except rural Appalachia, where it increased. 

Listen in as Nengliang (Aaron) Yao, Ph.D discusses the research being conducted to help discover why the cancer rate is increasing in rural Appalachia.