GREAT NECK, NY – The North Shore-LIJ Health System’s award-winning television series, Medical Update, begins its ninth season this Saturday, October 8, with even more hot medical topics packed into every half-hour program.

The new season of Medical Update begins on Saturday, October 8 at 11 a.m. and airs the second, third, fourth, and in some cases, such as October, the fifth Saturday of every month until May 2012. This season's 13-week program slate (with 13 repeat programs) is broadcast on WLNY-TV, which can be seen on Channel 10 on Long Island Cablevision, Channel 1 on Verizon FiOS TV, and on Channel 55 on Time Warner Cable in New York City, DirecTV and DishTV. The series will also be aired on Great Neck’s public access TV (PATV), Channel 20. For more information and to view archived programs online, go to: www.northshorelij.com/NSLIJ/News and scroll down to Medical Update TV.

"This is a fantastic opportunity to give our viewers the latest information on the most important medical topics, and do it in more detail than what’s usually delivered on TV,” said Mike Rosen, MD, the program’s host and a familiar face to New York television news viewers. “This new season promises to be most interesting, with cutting-edge medical topics discussed by top clinicians.”

Dr. Rosen has been a medical journalist since 1994 and last appeared in the New York area as correspondent (and managing editor) for the Daily HealthFeed, a syndicated nightly medical news report appearing on 50 local news affiliates nationwide, and as medical reporter for WPIX-TV. He has been the senior medical correspondent for WCBS-TV Channel 2 in New York, and also appeared on the CBS overnight network news program Up To The Minute. Many of the medical topics he covered featured North Shore-LIJ physicians. The program is produced by Elaine Wohl of North Shore-LIJ’s Department of Public Relations.

During the upcoming season, North Shore-LIJ medical experts will delve into a range of timely topics, including the importance of childhood vaccinations, understanding multiple sclerosis, the newest tests and treatments for prostate cancer, treating chronic kidney disease, the signs and symptoms of gout, new robotic cancer surgery technology, the newest neuro-stimulation techniques for treating Tourette’s Syndrome and many other medical breakthroughs, coupled with life-enhancing information.
 

Media Contact: Elaine Wohl
516-455-2600/2615
ewohl@nshs.edu