Ideas: Juvenile Diabetes
Aired March 2, 2006 on WVIZ/PBS
Also featured on a special Children's Health compilation episode of Ideas, aired June 15, 2006 on WVIZ/PBS
With incidences of Juvenile Diabetes exploding across America - and especially in Ohio - ideas examines the daily effort diabetics have to out forth to ensure survival. We look at the disease through the eyes of an 11-year-old Rocky River girl, who explains how it impacts her and her family's lives. Then we'll hear from the leading Diabetic expert at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital about the efforts being made to control, and eventually cure, Type 1 Diabetes.
90.3 at 9: Hidden Diabetes
Aired March 27, 2006 on 90.3 WCPN
20.8 million Americans - that's 7% of the population - have diabetes, and nearly a third of them don't know it. The risks associated with diabetes are huge, according to the American Diabetes Association: heart disease, blindness, nerve damage, kidney disease. How do you spot diabetes danger signs in yourself and your kids? And what do you do after a diagnosis? We'll talk about it Monday morning on 90.3 at 9. Join the conversation with our guests, Dr. James Gavin of Emory University and Dr. Doug Rogers of the Cleveland Clinic.
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