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Calm Instead of Crisis: A Conversation with A Hospice Doctor

Dr. Joseph Shega, MD, senior vice president and national medical director for VITAS Healthcare, the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care & Health News Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Joseph Shega discuss the following:
Hospice is a scary concept. Why shouldn’t people put it off for as long as possible?
How does someone know when it’s time for hospice? Who makes that decision?
What does the hospice admission process involve?
Describe the four levels of hospice care in laymen’s terms.
What is the role of the physician in hospice care?
What can someone expect once they become a hospice patient?
 
Joseph Shega, MD, is senior vice president and national medical director for VITAS Healthcare. Dr. Shega oversees the regional medical directors and the director of physician services. He joined VITAS in 2013 as a regional medical director and in 2016 was promoted to national medical director. Dr. Shega has devoted his career to improving the care of older adults at the end of life. Prior to joining VITAS, he was an associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago in geriatrics and palliative medicine. In this role, he helped expand the palliative medicine program, including accreditation of a fellowship program in hospice and palliative medicine, integration of palliative care into oncology, and furthering the understanding of pain assessment and management in persons with dementia.  “The best hospice doctor,” he believes, “is an advocate, someone who appreciates and respects individuality, values personhood and matches each care plan to that personhood.”In conjunction with his work at VITAS, Dr. Shega serves as the chair of the ethics committee for the American Geriatrics Society, as co-editor of the Pain and Aging section of Pain Medicine, and as an editorial board member for the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine’s roundtable on quality care for people with serious illness. Dr. Shega is a key contributor to the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine’s UNIPAC education series and serves as managing editor of the upcoming 5th edition. Dr. Shega earned his bachelor’s degree from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, and his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a fellowship in geriatric medicine at the University of Chicago.
 
VITAS® Healthcare has more than 35 years of experience caring for fragile patients and managing care transitions: from hospital to home, from curative to palliative, from chronic to end-stage. VITAS operates 44 hospice programs in 15 states and the District of Columbia, employing 12,051 professionals who care for seriously ill patients daily, primarily in the patients’ homes but also in the company’s 32 inpatient hospice units as well as in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living communities. In the third quarter of 2016, VITAS reported an average daily census of 16,341 patients.
Learn more at VITAS.com or call 800.93.VITAS.

Building a Better Fat Trap. Q & A with Gary Thompson, M Pharmaceuticals

Gary Thompson, President and CEO of M Pharmaceuticals USA, a clinical-stage company developing innovative technologies for obesity and weight management joins eHealth Radio and the Health News, Pharmaceutical & Weight Management Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Gary Thompson discuss the following:
A fat loss drug is the holy grail, what has been the challenges in developing a drug that actually works?
With drugs that "trap fat", what have been the issues surrounding Orlistat products currently on the market?
Your company has redesigned this drug, now called C-103, to address "bathroom issues", how does this new drug work?
What have studies for C-103 demonstrated so far?
Would your drug work against other illnesses that affect the obese such as fatty liver disease, if so, how?
What is the next step for your diet drug?
 
Gary A. Thompson, B.S. is President & CEO M-Pharmaceutical U.S.A. Inc. Thomspon has 30 years plus of sales and management experience in Fortune 500 health care organizations and start up pharmaceutical companies. He has served as Vice President of sales for Cigna Healthcare managing billions of assets over his career. Mr. Thompson's management and leadership roles with start up ventures including ToConceive LLC., (510K FDA Clearance ) in women's health and wellness, and in the obesity space as President of M-Pharma's newly acquired Chelatexx, LLC., C-103 reformulated orlistat.
 
Website: www.m-pharma.ca
Social Media Links: Facebook: facebook.com/pages/M-Pharmaceutical-Inc Twitter: @MPharmaceutical

Personalized Nutrition: Finding Exactly What Nutrients Will Restore Your Health

 
Dr. Greg Tefft, the World’s Leading Expert in Personalized Nutrition & author of the internationally bestselling book Your Personal Life, Measuring What Your Body Needs to Live Lean, Long, Strong & Better joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Nutrition Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Greg Tefft discuss the following:
What really is personalized nutrition and why do you say in your book it’s not “You are what you eat” but that “You are what you retain?”
You say that you believe all disease is a matter of what we eat...Let me quote you here. “Experiencing the fastest healing process and the healthiest, fittest, longest life possible is totally based on a tug- of-war between what’s inside of you and what choices you are exposed to and make from the outside. Food is always the dominant variable.” Can you comment further on this.
Tell us about the testing program that you developed and perfected over the past 60 years? How does it work and what does it tell you about someone’s health... how is it different than other medical testing?
 
Dr. Greg Teftt, author of the internationally bestselling book Your Personal Life, Measuring What Your Body Needs to Live Lean, Long, Strong & Better, is a renowned board-certified naturopathic and chiropractic physician, three-time Natural Mr. America, former Olympic and U.S. Swim Team sports-med staff doctor, and well known drugless clinician to the stars at Malibu Health & Rehabilitation Center. He says that EVERY illness can be traced to what we put in our mouths. And the opposite holds true, every illness can be eliminated by putting the RIGHT foods in our mouths.  Now that doesn’t mean eating the accepted standard “healthy diet,” or living on wheatgrass and kale. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.  Because EVERY body is different -- which means that your health is a matter of what is nutritionally correct for your body only.  You must give it the very nutrients that are lacking, while reducing the ones that are excessive. And the only way to accomplish this is to test using a lock of your hair instead of 1,000 blood tests as the basis for an exacting analysis. This ends the guesswork by you or your doctors.    Why is using ONE lock of hair so vital as a biopsy specimen? Because it’s the same as taking twelve blood tests a day for three months. This approach eliminates daily errors in blood fluctuations and identifies long term mineral and related nutrient patterns that are more reliable for therapeutic intervention and permanent change. Urine and saliva do not measure up as saliva provides no reflection of nutrient status, while urine shows what is excreted, not assimilated by cells.  
Furthermore, in his book, Dr.Tefft lays out why the health system is failing people today with standardized nutrition advice--and just how our genes and metabolic state predetermine what works for us and what doesn’t.  According to Dr. Tefft, “Experiencing the fastest healing process and the healthiest, fittest, longest life possible is totally based on a tug-of-war between what’s inside of you and what nutrition choices you make as well as what you are exposed to from the outside environment. Food is always the dominant variable.”
 
Website: www.ArborVitaeNutrition.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arborvitaenutrition

Work Comfortably and Pain free with the Help of the New Phone App, WorkPose

Charissa Sims, an Occupational Therapist, CEO of Ergolution & Co-Founder of the Free Workpose Phone App joins eHealth Radio and the Health News & Pain Management Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Charissa Sims discuss the following:
What gave you the idea to come up with the Workpose App?
How can a user get the most out of using the Workpose App?
If I have neck pain, does the Workpose App provide suggestions and can you give me some tips to reduce neck pain?
What are some basic suggestions that can help people be more comfortable at work? A common problem s not having the correct posture while working in the office for an example.
What's next for Workpose?  Are you planning to add more content or features?
 
Vanessa Friedman is the founder of Ergonomic Connection, which has been providing speciality ergonomic furniture and computer accessories to businesses and individuals since 2003. She is a Kinesiologist with a speciality in Exercise Science. Her career started in the orthopedic arena by helping clients rehabilitate from a workers’ compensation injury. Through this work, she saw the need for injury prevention in the work place and the solution was, to prevent the injury by correcting the workspace and educating clients on easy to use tools, equipment and excercises. Vanessa has partnered with Charissa Sims to bring comfort in the workplace, mainstream. She hopes to get all WorkPose users pain free.
 
Charissa Sims is an Ergonomist and Occupational Therapist working in the field of injury prevention. She has been running ergonomic programs and performing evaluations for the past fifteen years. Sims truly loves helping people be more comfortable and productive at work and has seen amazing results over the past decade. While lecturing on Ergonomics at the University of Southern California, she managed the ergonomics program at Raytheon Space and Airborne systems. As a consultant, she worked with some of the biggest technology, insurance and healthcare companies in the world from Google to Electronic Arts, Symantec to UCLA, as well as City of Hope, FOX, NBC Universal, Riot Games, CBS, Union Bank, AIG and The Hartford. Sims receives many requests from people that work from home and cannot afford her fees. She wanted to create something that was affordable, easy to use and accessible. You can learn more about Mrs. Sims other projects at her company site: www.ergolution.net.
 
Website: www.workposeapp.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPose Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorkPose_App Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workpose_app

Sayar Care, an all-natural product that slows and reverses hair loss

Zee Schwab, the CEO at Sayar Care, an all-natural product that slows and reverses hair loss, using ingredients proven to work as well as commonly used drugs without the side effects joins eHealth Radio and the Hair Loss Prevention and Health News Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Zee Schwab discuss the following:
Why do young adults lose their hair?
What makes an all natural approach to stopping hair loss better than using pharmaceuticals?
How can you target DHT and not cause the side effects seen with the drugs that block DHT?
With this all natural way, how long does it take to see results?
If users stop using it for a little bit, does the hair loss accelerate?
What tips can you tell us that will help people slow their hair loss?
 
Sayar Care produces and distributes :Retain™. :Retain™ is an all natural product that slows and reverses hair loss, using ingredients scientifically shown to work as well as commonly used pharmaceuticals, with fewer side effects. it addresses the multiple causes of hair loss, and ensures that new and remaining hairs stay healthy and well taken care for.
In order to properly stop hair loss, the hormone that causes the hair loss needs to be blocked. After that has been accomplished, the body needs to be reminded to continue nourishing the dying hair follicles, and the hair needs to be strengthened. :Retain™ accomplishes this while using only eight natural ingredients. Using this unique approach, Sayar Care has produced a viable all-natural product to combat hair loss, with the success seen from more commonly used pharmaceuticals.
 
Website: www.SayarCare.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sayarcare Twitter: @sayarcare

INOCULATED - A Story of Darkness and Hope

Kent Heckenlively, a science teacher, attorney, and author, who wants the world to know about the CDC whistle-blower, Dr. William Thompson and it's all in is new book, INOCULATED: How Science Lost its Soul in Autism joins eHealth Radio and the Health News Channel.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Kent Heckenlively discuss the following:
Tell us why you decided to write this book.
Why is INOCULATED such an important book?
In your subtitle you use the phrase – “How Science Lost its Soul in Autism” – please explain what you mean?
You share some startling revelations in the first three chapters, can you talk about some of them?
What first brought this subject to your attention?
 
Kent Heckenlively is a science teacher, an attorney, and a founding contributing editor of Age of Autism.  During his undergrad years at St. Mary’s College, Heckenlively worked for U.S. Senator Pete Wilson and was the school’s Rhodes Scholar candidate.  In law school at Golden Gate University, he was a writer and editor of the school’s law review, spending his summers working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco.In the summer of 2010 and 2011, Heckenlively attended the Teacher Research Academy at Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratories, spending eight weeks in a virus lab investigating the expression of micro-RNAs in a monkey model of Ebola infection.  Kent is also a member of the Compass group, a consortium of autism parents, leading scientists, and philanthropists in Silicon Valley looking for answers to neuro-immune diseases.Heckenlively served on the Executive Council of the San Ramon Valley Education Association for several years and was the Health and Safety Committee Chairman for the teacher’s union, representing more than 1,600 educators, therapists, and psychologists.In the fight against chronic diseases, Kent finds great wisdom in the strategy used by Nelson Mandela in South Africa.  Mandela believed change could only come about when one engaged in satyagraha, a Buddhist concept which insists on speaking the absolute truth, while at the same time practicing ahimsa, a commitment not to harm those who might be your adversaries.
In November of 2014, Heckenlively published PLAGUE: One Scientist’s Intrepid Search for the Truth About Human Retroviruses, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases, with Dr. Judy Mikovits, a 20-year government scientist and former head of the Lab of Anti-Viral Drug Mechanisms at the National Cancer Institute.  The book quickly became one of the best-selling virus books of the last 30 years and has garnered extensive praise from the patient community and leading physicians.His new book, INOCULATED: How Science Lost its Soul in Autism is even more explosive, detailing allegations by a senior CDC scientist of how the agency has covered up a link between vaccines and autism.  The allegations of Dr. William Thompson are now under investigation by Congressman Jason Chaffetz's office and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.Kent and his wife Linda live in Northern California with their two children, Jacqueline and Ben.Fun fact:  Kent played football for De La Salle High School whose Spartans had a 151-game winning streak from 1992 to 2003, a record unequaled by any American sport.  This accomplishment is depicted in the 2014 film, When the Game Stands Tall, starring Jim Cazaviel and Laura Dern.  Kent firmly believes that even though all this success happened after he stopped playing football for De La Salle it was “just a coincidence” and not a reflection of his athletic skills.
 
 
Website: www.inoculated.org

Committed to protecting the public’s health, safety and welfare from mosquito-borne diseases

The Honorable Micah Ali, President of the Compton Creek Mosquito Abatement District, an independent special district committed to protecting the public’s health, safety and welfare from mosquito-borne diseases joins eHealth Radio and the Health News Channel.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Micah Ali discuss the following:
For the benefit of our listeners, please give us an overview of the Compton Creek Mosquito Abatement District.
What are some of the programs that the District oversees?
Why are these issues that the District covers so important?
How does the District further help the community?
What future plans do you have for the District?
 
The Honorable Micah Mr. Ali is a proven leader in the City of Compton, working tirelessly to improve the quality of life and bring much needed resources to the citizens of Compton. Mr. Ali has served on numerous Boards and Commissions both as an elected and appointed official such as: Compton Community College District Personnel Commission which he Chaired, and he served on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Ballona Wetlands. Mr. Ali was also recently re-elected to serve on the School Board for the Compton Unified School District.
 
 
Website: http://comptoncreekmad.org

MedjetAssist: Your premier global air-medical transport provider

 
John Gobbels, the Chief Operating Officer/Vice President and transport expert for MedjetAssist, the premier global air-medical transport membership program for travelers which is a great supplement to travel insurance again joins eHealth Radio and the Travel Health Care Information Channel.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest John Gobbels discuss the following:
What is MedjetAssist, and how does it compare/contrast to basic travel insurance?
What are some of the different kinds of Medjet memberships?
With the recent attack in Germany, we are reminded that travel safety is very important. How would a Medjet membership benefit a traveler in Berlin at that time? 
As winter sports season has begun, would you recommend Medjet for skiers and snowboarders?
Would Medjet cover snowbirds or students studying abroad who are away from home for an extended period of time?
 

 
John Gobbels brings over 25 years of pre-hospital and hospital service and management experience to his role as vice president and COO of MedjetAssist. Since joining the premier air-medical transport membership program in 2006 as director of transport operations, Mr. Gobbels has been responsible for complete oversight of all transport and repatriation operations.
Before moving from his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Medjet’s headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, Mr. Gobbels spent 13 years with STAT MedEvac, the air ambulance arm of the renowned University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). During his tenure, he played integral roles in almost all aspects of the program, from base operations to communications and clinical operations.
For six years Mr. Gobbels served as clinical director of STAT MedEvac, overseeing compliance with the Commission on Air-Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS), as well as the continuing education requirements for all clinical staff. Previously, he was a flight nurse and paramedic. Mr. Gobbels began his career with UPMC in 1991 as a critical care nurse.
John Gobbels holds a Masters degree in Management and Information Technology from Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA., as well as multiple degrees in health care.
 
 
Web Site: medjetassist.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: www.facebook.com/medjetassist  Twitter: @MedjetAssist

The State of Pain Management in America and the Benefits of Alternative, Drug-Free Solutions

Greg Houlgate, the CEO and President of Oska Wellness, a company that makes a revolutionary product called the Oska Pulse joins eHealth Radio & the Health News & Pain Management Channels.
This product is a drug-free, alternative pain management solution that utilizes Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy (PEMF) to help reduce chronic pain. Greg is here to talk with us more about his company and how drug-free therapies like PEMF are changing the landscape of healthcare.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Greg Houlgate discuss the following:
Tell us your company, Oska Wellness, and its flagship product, Oska Pulse?
Can you tell us a bit more about the history of PEMF and how this technology is helping people live a more active, pain-free lifestyle.
According to the CDC, more than 40 million die every day from prescription opioid overdoses. How does the Oska Pulse serve as an alternative to such pain medication?
Can you give us an idea of the feedback and support you’ve been receiving from the medical community about your product and its implications for pain management and recovery?
What is coming down the pipeline for Oska Pulse in 2017?
How does one go about purchasing an Oska Pulse, and do they need insurance?
 
Greg Houlgate is an innovator of new technologies in both medical and consumer products. He has over 25 years of senior management, sales and marketing experience with DJO’s Global Recovery Science Division (DJO being a Blackstone Company), Onsite Network,  an interactive media company, West Coast Trends, a leading travel luggage and golf bag provider, Porsche Design, a high scale golf and other luxury product company, and Callaway Golf.  Greg speaks fluent Japanese and achieved a B.S. out of UC Irvine and later an MBA out of the University of Phoenix.
 
Website: www.oskawellness.com
Social Media Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OskaWellnessInc Twitter: https://twitter.com/OskaWellness

PrivateRX, a revolutionary line of Intimate Skin Care products for mature women

 
Return guest Dr. Ronald D. Blatt, M.D an expert in the field of women's health for over 30 years & Founder of PrivateRx joins eHealth Radio and the Female Health & Health News Channels.
 
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Ronald D. Blatt discuss the following:
Dr. Blatt, please remind our listeners why you created a women's line of intimate skin care products.
Also if you would, get into what products are in the line of PrivateRX.
To clarify, the external vaginal lubricant is a relaunched product correct?
Where can women get the external lubricant and the other products in the line?
You have been a guest on E-Health Radio in the past and also have appeared on TV, plus you and your products have appeared in numerous magazines. Since you have been out and about speaking on the PrivateRX line of women's intimate skincare and the subject of menopause, please tell us ...Why Menopause still seems to a "taboo" subject?
Why do you think women tend to shy away from discussing this with their partners, friends, family?


How are women reacting to your advice, suggestions and wisdom on the subject?
 
Ronald D. Blatt, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., has been an expert in the field of women's health for over 30 years. Board-certified gynecologist, expert surgeon and compassionate physician, Dr. Blatt's driving imperative is to treat matters of vaginal health and intimate skin care with knowledge, awareness and respect.
Dr. Blatt has built one of the world's top health care practices in New York City, where he is Chief Surgeon and Medical Director of the Manhattan Center for Vaginal Surgery and the Manhattan Centers for Women's Health. He is also Founder of the PrivateRX revolutionary line of Intimate Skin Care products for mature women.
 
Website: www.privaterx.com
Social Media Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PrivateRx Twitter: @private_rx