This seventh season of North Shore-LIJ's award-winning TV series, "MEDICAL UPDATE", celebrates a special TV milestone as the program airs its 100 + episodes.

Below is this month's program schedule for "Medical Update." The program, hosted by Dr. Frank Field and produced by Elaine Wohl of the Public Relations Dept., airs at 11 a.m. on Saturdays on WLNY-TV on Channel 10 on Long Island Cablevision and Channel 55 on Time-Warner Cable in Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island and Brooklyn, and on Verizon TV's Channel 1. The program is also available to satellite TV subscribers on DirecTV and Dish TV. In addition to cable and satellite TV, the program is rebroadcast on Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s “Medical Update” TV Channel 14, and can also be viewed on demand on North Shore University Hospital’s patient channel. 

The program is also available for viewing on our homepage at www.northshorelij.com under the program's logo, and may be seen on HealthPort directly at your desktop, as well as a video library of the previous seasons of programs.  To view the videos available on HealthPort, click on the News Tab on the Healthport Home Page.

"MEDICAL UPDATE"  MARCH 2010 TV SCHEDULE

#95- Saturday, March 13 at 11 am
TREATING CHILDREN WITH COLITIS AND CROHN’S DISEASE
Jeremiah Levine, MD, Chief, Dept of Gastroenterology, Schneider Children's Hospital and Stephen Dolgin, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Schneider Children's Hospital discuss the complexities of inflammatory bowel diseases in children, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Chronic symptoms and posssible causes are examined, managing the patient's disease, and eventual surgical solutions are discussed. A young, sports-minded patient and his mother express their positive view on how best to live with Crohn's everyday.

#96- Saturday, March 20 at 11 am
TREATING ADULTS WITH DIABETES
Viswanathan Ravishankar, MD,  Dir. Center for Pregnancy & Diabetes, NSUH and Michael Balkan, MD, Chief, Dept of Endocrinology, Huntington Hospital discuss all aspects of treating adults, particularly pregnant women, with diabetes. They explain the types of diabetes, the prevalence of diabetes in the US, associated complications, glucose management and advances in glucose monitoring and insulin injections.

#97- Saturday, March 27 at 11 am
ORAL HEALTH & DENTAL IMPLANTS
Ronald Burakoff, DMD, Chairman, Dept of Dental Medicine, NSUH & LIJ Medical Center and William Stewart, DDS, MPH, Chief, Dept of General Dentistry, NSUH & LIJ Medical Center discuss the unique specialty of dental medicine, the importance of dentistry and medicine in the hospital setting, inpatient oral health and pre-surgical patient oral health screening. They also fully examine dental implants, the types and how they are fitted. A satisfied patient tells how dental implants gave him back his smile and an excellent quality of life.

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