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RECENT COVERAGE

Hospital Leaders Upset About Potential Competitor

Regional News Stories: Thursday, August 28, 2008

What initially seemed like a boon for Summit County residents is now taking a different tone, possibly pitting doctors against doctors, and hospital against hospital. ideastream®'s Rick Jackson reports.

Prostate Chronicles - Chapter 3: Too Much Information

Regional News Stories: Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Wow, this is just like Ben Casey or Doctor Kildare. I’m flat on my back on a hospital gurney being wheeled through a maze of corridors heading for an appointment with a surgical knife. Make that two surgical knives. But, I’m getting ahead of myself.

Alternative Ways To Collect Child Support Succeed In Ohio

Regional News Stories: Friday, August 22, 2008

For the past 2 decades, Ohio has been cracking down on child support deadbeats. Parents who don't pay what they owe may see the money deducted from their paychecks or tax returns. Those who get far behind in their payments can have their professional license or their DRIVER'S license suspended. And the worst deadbeats are sometimes sent to jail. Ohio corrections officials, though, are now hailing some pilot projects that are an ALTERNATIVE to jail...and they're calling for the thrust to be spread STATEWIDE. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports.

Teen Pregnancy and Single Motherhood

The Sound of Ideas: Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Re-air of December 11, 2007 national award winning Sound of Ideas® program: The statistics about teen pregnancy are sobering: 2800 teens get pregnant each day, and only a third of them are likely to finish high school. Looking at those numbers, it's hardly surprising to find that teen mothers are more likely to end up living in poverty. The problem hits African-American communities particularly hard: Sixty-nine percent of black children are born to single parents and a high percentage of those children are born to teen moms. On our program, we had a frank conversation about teen pregnancy and what can be done about it.

Health Podcast (August 18, 2008)

Regional News Stories: Monday, August 18, 2008

On this edition, ideastream®'s Gretchen Cuda talks about cholesterol-lowering foods at your neighborhood supermarket. Plus, ideastream®'s David C. Barnett on his recent diagnosis of prostate cancer and the blog that will chronicle his recovery from treatment.

Living With Prostate Cancer

Regional News Stories: Monday, August 18, 2008

Each year 220-thousand men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer...among them this year is our own David C. Barnett. He will be sharing his experiences dealing with the disease over the next few weeks on a blog, "Prostate Chronicles," on WCPN.ORG We'll hear about what he's learning from medical experts, from other men with prostate cancer and from his own bout with it. David is about to undergo surgery but before taking off for that he spoke with Morning Edition Host Eric Wellman about his diagnosis...and the blog project.

Plant-Based Medicine Found in Supermarket Lowers Cholesterol

Regional News Stories: Monday, August 18, 2008

There are a lot of products on supermarket shelves these days that are are supposed to be good for your heart. But look carefully at the nutritional information on the packaging of some brands of bread, orange juice and milk- and you'll find there is something added. That something is called a plant sterol - a natural substance that the FDA says can lower cholesterol as effectively as some drugs. Eric Wellman and ideastream® health reporter Gretchen Cuda took a trip to the grocery store to see what types of plant sterol fortified products they could find.

Cleveland Schools CEO & Fannie Lewis remembered

Feagler & Friends: Friday, August 15, 2008

Dick Feagler interviews schools chief Dr. Eugene Sanders; the roundtable discusses the issues of the week.

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RESOURCES

HealthWatch
Each month, ideastream presents information about various health-related topics under the title HealthWatch.

Cancer & Depression Resources
In 2008, WVIZ/PBS featured the films The Truth About Cancer and Depression: Out of the Shadows, followed by an opportunity to receive more information about cancer and depression. Please use the links below to access the information from these two special broadcasts.
Cancer Resources
Depression Resources

Focus on Mental Health
Special coverage of mental health issues continues with a series of in-depth reports on policy and issues affecting the delivery of mental health services to people all over Northeast Ohio.

Living With Cancer
ideastream and The Gathering Place partnered with Northeast Ohio community organizations and healthcare facilities to present a special broadcast event, Living with Cancer: Celebrating National Cancer Survivors Day.
Living with Cancer Resource Guide PDF

And Thou Shalt Honor
1 in every 4 households includes a caregiver. 80% of home care services are provided by family members. A caregiver is anyone providing care and support to adult family members or friends who are frail, elderly, chronically ill, or have a disability. This website has been prepared by WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN ideastream with the assistance of local caregiving professionals and related organizations as a companion to And Thou Shalt Honor: Caregiver Town Hall Meeting.
And Thou Shalt Honor Resource Guide PDF

A Lion in the House
"Your child has cancer." Hearing these words will profoundly change a family's life, plunging members into a world of uncertainty, emotional upheaval and excruciating decisions. A Lion in the House tells the stories of five children facing battles with cancer.
A Lion in the House Resource Guide PDF

FUNDING

Funding for the coverage of health topics comes from The Cleveland Foundation; The George Gund Foundation; The Community Foundation of Lorain County; The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation; The McGregor Foundation; and The Woodruff Foundation.

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PODCASTS

Health Podcast
This podcast explores developments in science and health care with a uniquely northeast Ohio lens. The region has some of the world’s premiere medical centers. The physicians they employ and the research they’re conducting serves as a jumping off point for many of our stories and conversations. This podcast brings you inside northeast Ohio’s medical community from the doctors’ office, to the operating room to the research laboratory. The podcast is updated every Monday.

SERIES

Life's Blood: A Wasted Resource Becomes Life-Saving Therapy
Having a baby is a happy time – and the last thing parents want to think about is the possibility their child may someday have a life-threatening disease. But the birth of a child is just the time to plan ahead – by collecting and saving their child’s cord blood. Health reporter Gretchen Cuda examines the differences between public and private cord blood banking, follows the cells from the delivery room to the lab where they are processed, and talks to experts about the therapeutic potential of these remarkable cells.

Children's Health
In 2005-2006, ideastream took an extensive multiple media look at Children's Health. The project was designed to help educate parents, teachers and caregivers about ways to improve the health of the children in their lives and build further awareness of the long-term societal health crisis that produces unhealthy children.