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Your
Health Online - Season 3
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Program
16, January 22, 2002
Kids
and Stroke
Most
of us recognize weakness down one side of the body, or speech
slurring as warning signs of stroke. But if
it were your 4 or 5-year-old child with these symptoms,
would stroke ever enter your head? Kids can have stroke
-- in fact, they're more common than brain tumours in children.
But for all the similarities between child and adult strokes,
there are also key differences.
Megadosing
Vitamins
If
a little vitamin A is good for your eyesight, then more
is better, right? Not always. Doctors are concerned
about a trend toward megadosing vitamins. But health
nuts say the recommended daily allowances are set too low
to be effective. We talk vitamins with Dr. Shirley Epstein.
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Schedule
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Your
Health airs Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. on TVO,
and is repeated Wednesdays following the View From
Here, between 11 and midnight, and on Saturdays at 2:00
pm.
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Next Week's Your Health
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January
29
Williams
Syndrome
It's
not obvious at birth and although as children they have
health problems, at first, they seem unrelated. For
Melissa and Bob Santagato it was an eye doctor who finally
put it all together. Their son John Robert has a rare
disorder caused by a missing or inverted chromosone.
It's called Williams Syndrome.
Treating
the "Nearly Ill"
Let's
face it - we're all part of the bottomless population of
people who are "nearly sick". Recent studies
support the idea of giving medications to people before
they even have symptoms of disease. But some worry that
this practice is more about expanding markets for drug companies
than preventative medicine.
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Maureen
Taylor
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As
a journalist and broadcaster for 17 years, Maureen
Taylor brings a wealth of experience to her
on-air
roles on TVO.
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