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Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
In Part 2 of this deep dive into ECT, which stands for electroconvulsive therapy, Sohag Sanghani, MD, director of the ECT service at Zucker Hillside Hospital, talks about how the treatment was born, from its invention in 1938 by Italian scientists Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, to the advent of modified ECT, to it’s impact today. He shares the importance of shedding stigma around ECT, which continues to create barriers to a highly effective therapy for those living with severe depression, psychosis and other behavioral health conditions.
Listeners can find Part 1 of this conversation with Dr. Sanghani in our feed, or read the podcast transcript here.
Chapters:
- 00:01 - Intro
- 01:10 - Unmodified ECT vs modified ECT
- 02:59 - A complicated history
- 04:06 - Dispelling myths, removing stigma
- 06:12 - Who should not get ECT?
- 06:49 - ECT in pregnancy
- 07:15 - History of ECT
- 09:20 - Before ECT, camphor used to treat depression
- 12:38 - ECT training course
More from Northwell Health:
- Learn about ECT from the patient's perspective.
- The healing power of vagus nerve stimulation
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) carries stigma thanks to negative portrayals in movies like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Such portrayals hide ECT's true value — and the truth about the treatment: ECT has a decades-long track record of safety, and it offers a fast-acting solution for difficult-to-treat severe depression. ECT is also effective for patients with suicidal ideation or depression with psychosis or catatonia, says Sohag Sanghani, MD. He joins Sandra Lindsay, RN, and Rob Hoell to dispel myths and misunderstandings around ECT. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, the director of the ECT service at Zucker Hillside Hospital — which was among the first few in the US to ever use ECT in 1941 — explains how ECT works, who benefits from the treatment and how it changes lives.
Chapters:
- 00:01 - Intro
- 01:33 - ECT patient perspective
- 03:36 - What is ECT?
- 04:49 - What happens during ECT?
- 06:10 - Evolution of ECT
- 07:11 - Who gets ECT?
- 08:26 - Is ECT more effective than medications?
- 10:20 - Continuation ECT
- 11:38 - ECT's impact on patients
- 12:34 - What makes ECT so effective?
- 14:48 - ECT side effects
- 17:56 - Life after ECT treatment
More from Northwell Health:
- Learn about ECT from the patient's perspective.
- The healing power of vagus nerve stimulation
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Stacey Rosen, MD, joins Sandra Lindsay on this 20-Minute Health Talk to discuss why heart disease disproportionately impacts Black women, what factors contribute to their risk and what health systems like Northwell are doing to change the statistics.
Meet the expert
Stacey Rosen is the senior vice president of Katz Institute for Women's Health at Northwell Health; partners council professor of women's health at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association.
Sandra Lindsay, DHSc, MBA, MSN, RN, is Northwell’s ambassador to raise health locally, nationally and globally. She leads the health system in expanding knowledge of issues that affect community health, public policy and other aspects of health care. She spent spent 29 years in nursing, most recently serving as director of critical care nursing at a Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. On December 14, 2020, Sandra volunteered to become the first American vaccinated with the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
Chapters
- 00:01 - Intro
- 00:39 - Why sex, gender and background matters
- 02:49 - Risk factors in Black women
- 05:06 - What can you do?
- 06:26 - Making research more accessible
- 07:47 - The social determinants of health
- 09:30 - Prioritizing yourself
- 11:52 - Recognizing symptoms
- 14:10 - Where should women get their health information?
- 16:09 - What are health system's doing?
- 17:57 - Finding your healthcare partner
- 20:33 - A roadmap for heart-healthy living
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
There are many misconceptions around weight — starting with the fact that people burn fat differently depending on their size, says Mitchell Roslin, MD, director of bariatric surgery at Lenox Hill and Northern Westchester hospitals. On this episode, he breaks down the factors that contribute to obesity, from genetics and lifestyle to the way our bodies convert food into energy. Obesity itself has an impact on one's ability to lose weight due to something he calls the "metabolic switch." Dr. Roslin explains how weight gain is linked to other illnesses like cancer and when people should consider talking to their doctor about medical weight loss strategies, such as medications and weight loss surgery.
Dr. Roslin is a pioneer in the field of bariatric surgery, helping to develop advanced treatments like the single-anastomosis duodenal-switch, also known as SADI.
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
People with Covid-19 often get sick because the body’s inflammatory response to the virus overreacts. To tamp down that inflammation, researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, turned their sights toward famotidine, the active ingredient in a common over-the-counter heartburn medication with anti-inflammatory potential. On this bonus episode, we speak with the lead researcher of a unique clinical trial testing famotidine for Covid. Tobias Janowitz, MD, PhD, AN Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and adjunct professor at the Feinstein Institutes, shares the results of the study, as well as how the pandemic impacted their approach and led to an early success story for decentralized trials, repurposing medications and the importance of collaborating with other institutions.
Chapters:
- 00:08 - Intro
- 01:39 - Safety, efficacy of famotidine for Covid
- 02:55 - What is famotidine?
- 04:45 - A fully remote trial
- 05:58 - Virtual trial strengths, weaknesses
- 07:00 - Famotidine dosage for heartburn, Covid treatment
- 08:12 - Studying famotidine for Covid
- 09:10 - Decentralized clinical trials
- 10:56 - New paradigms, new problems
- 12:02 - A national focus on decentralized trials
- 13:16 - Collaboration supports clinical excellence
This bonus episode expands on Ep. 102 featuring Onisis Stefas, PharmD, executive director of VIVO Health. Listen to that episode, available in our feed, to learn about the Covid treatments available today.
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Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
While Covid-19 vaccines remain the best protection against the novel virus, if you do catch Covid there are also several treatments to help manage symptoms, like Covid cough, and prevent hospitalization. Onisis Stefas, PharmD, executive director of VIVO Health, breaks down what treatments are available over the counter, by prescription (paxlovid and molnupiravir) and if you do end up in the hospital (remdesivir). He explains the difference between the types of medications (anti-viral vs monoclonal antibodies) and which remain effective today against the new Covid variants.
Chapters:
- 00:07 - Intro
02:08 - A personal experience with paxlovid
05:26 - Covid treatments for mild-to-moderate Covid-19
08:13 - Categories of Covid treatments
10:05 - Paxlovid effectiveness
10:24 - Molnupiravir vs paxlovid
11:22 - When should you take paxlovid
12:05 - Remdesivir infusion
12:57 - Covid anti-viral medication vs monoclonal antibodies
14:11 - Paxlovid, molnupiravir, remdesivir work against new Covid variants
14:47 - Why paxlovid usage is low
16:39 - Outro
Listen to more from Dr. Stefas on 20-Minute Health Talk:
- When hospitals close: How to address "care deserts" - March 15, 2022
- Breaking down the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine - March 5, 2021
- What's in the Covid-19 vaccine? - Jan. 13, 2021
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Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
Wednesday Jan 04, 2023
- 00:36 - Extending benefits of telemedicine to War in Ukraine
- 02:22 - Heart, double lung transplant saves young mother's life
- 03:35 - Sandra Lindsay awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
- 04:40 - Ross Prize awarded to mRNA inventors
- 05:36 - A celebration of service
Listen to our episode reviewing the Top 5 medical innovations of 2022.
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Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, we look back on five exciting medical advances coming from clinical researchers at Northwell Health and the health system's Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. In the last year alone, investigators published more than 2,500 papers in peer-reviewed journals. In this episode, we spotlight studies that made strides against endometriosis, diabetes, lupus, pancreatic cancer and (yes) Covid-19.
Read more about these Five notable Northwell advances of 2022.
Chapters:
- 02:05 – Treating pancreatic cancer in a petri dish | Matthew Weiss, MD
- 05:51 – A powerful lupus treatment in the pipeline | Richard Furie, MD
- 10:25 – Famotidine for Covid | Tobias Janowitz, MD, PhD
- 14:45 – A noninvasive test for endometriosis | Christine Metz, PhD
- 19:12 – Treating diabetes with ultrasound | Sangeeta Chavan, PhD
Meet our guests:
Matthew Weiss, MD, professor in the Institute of Cancer Research at the Feinstein Institutes and the deputy physician-in-chief and surgical director in the Cancer Institute at Northwell Health
Richard Furie, MD, chief of the Division of Rheumatology at Northwell and global principal investigator on the LILAC (Part A) clinical trial
Tobias Janowitz, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; adjunct professor at the Feinstein Institutes; and principal investigator of the trial studying famotidine for Covid
Christine Metz, PhD, professor in the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the Feinstein Institutes and co-director of Research OutSmarts Endometriosis (ROSE) study
Sangeeta Chavan, PhD, professor at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
It's a staggering stat: More than 15 million children and adolescents are in need of a pediatric psychiatrist. But finding treatment is anything but easy with just around 8,300 trained pediatric mental health professionals in the U.S. The consequence: Long wait times, worsening symptoms and even higher costs when they do get help. To increase the pool of providers that can offer effective treatments to this population, Project TEACH is training pediatricians, as well as family doctors and Ob/Gyns, to be able to handle mild-to-moderate behavioral health conditions. On this bonus episode, host Sandra Linday, RN, speaks with two pediatricians using the New York State program, a collaboration between the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) and seven top universities and hospitals across the state, led by University at Buffalo (UB). They share their experiences treating youth with mental health conditions like depression, anxiety and ADHD before Project TEACH began in 2010, and how the free training, consultation and referral service has transformed their practice.
This bonus conversation builds on an earlier podcast featuring two of the founders of Project TEACH, David Kaye, MD and Victor Fornari, MD, as well as the new NYS lead for its reproductive psychiatry branch, Kristina Deligiannidis, MD.
Our guests this week are:
- David Fagan, MD FAAP, vice chair of Pediatric Ambulatory Services at Cohen Children's Medical Center, a part of Northwell Health
- Maureen Montgomery, MD, FAAP, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at SUNY Buffalo
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Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
- Masking recommendations
- Overlapping symptoms between Covid-19, flu and RSV
- How hospitals handle surges
- The importance of getting vaccinated against Covid-19 and the flu
- Bruce Farber, MD, chief of Public Health and Epidemiology at Northwell Health
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Eric Cruzen, MD, senior vice president and executive director of the Emergency Medicine service line, Northwell Health