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University of Iowa Health Care Today is a health information radio program produced by UI Hospitals and Clinics in collaboration with KXIC-AM Radio 800 in Iowa City, Iowa. The show airs Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at approximately 7:30 a.m. and 9:50 a.m.

October 2006

Halloween Safety
Tips for parents to help their trick or treaters to stay safe on Halloween.

SIDS Month
All infants under one year of age are at risk. It appears the peak incidence for SIDS is between two to four months of age.

Physical Therapy Month
Physical therapy helps a wide range of people, including the athlete who wants to return to competition and the elderly individual who wants to return home.

Respiratory Care Week
Respiratory therapists work in intensive care units, emergency departments, diagnostic labs, clinics, and in home care with infants, pediatrics, and adults.

UI Sports Medicine
A free seminar will be offered Tuesday, October 24, on fitness for women and preventing problems that are common in the female athlete.

Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a pattern of violent and/or abusive behaviors by a present or former intimate partner.

Jennissen Honored
Jennissen received a SAFE KIDS Iowa award for his involvement in an effort to upgrade Iowa's child passenger safety law.

Prescription Month
It is important to include over-the-counter medications, including vitamins/minerals, pain medication, herbal supplements, laxatives, antacids, etc. because they may affect your prescription medications.

Fire prev wk
Barbara Latenser

Case Managers
Case management is a collaborative process between the patient, medical team, case manager, and payer.

Breast Cancer
by Laurie Fajardo

Bev Klug
Kabat-Zin, founder of the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Program, will speak in Iowa City October 9 and 10.

Nuclear Medicine Week
Nuclear medicine is a technique for studying the function of virtually any organ system using radioactive tracers.

Nurse-midwives
Nurse-midwives provide women's health care focusing on family planning and gynecologic needs of women, pregnancy, childbirth, the post partum period, and care of the newborn.

 

 

 

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