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  • Ioan Grillo on the Campbell Conversations.
  • State Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay (R-Pulaski) and State Sen. Rachel May (D-Syracuse) react to Gov. Kathy Hochul's state budget proposal on this week's edition of the Campbell Conversations.
  • Jennifer Pahlka discusses the context of her upcoming talk, “Governing in the Age of AI: Lessons from Recoding America”, based on her book, “Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better”.
  • Buffalo is one of the most segregated cities in the country. Those disparities play out in housing, transportation, education, and even whether there are grocery stores near where people live.
  • Geneticist and microbiologist Nathan Tucker shares his research into how exercise can lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease. Exercise physiologist Carol Sames talks about a study showing that exercise improves survival rates for people who have had colon cancer. Family nurse practitioner Dana Ruth talks about the most common forms of skin cancer: squamous cell and basal cell carcinoma, and melanoma. And toxicologist Michael Hodgman explains what's important to know about marijuana edibles.
  • Radiation oncologist Anna Shapiro explains how low-dose radiation therapy can help relieve the pain of osteoarthritis. Simulation Center Director, Dr. Hesham Masoud, and director of the Standardized Patient Program, Matt Capogreco, tell about the standardized patient jobs -- portraying real patients -- for which they are recruiting. Nicholas Brennan, who is working toward both medical and doctoral degrees, explains his research, which focuses on the mechanism of muscle atrophy and aging.
  • Emergency physician Erin Underriner talks about Lyme carditis, a potentially dangerous complication of untreated Lyme disease that affects the heart. Pediatrician Nienke Dosa and Julia Duff, executive director of the Spina Bifida Association of New York State, explain what is understood about spina bifida. Pediatric oncologist Melanie Comito discusses how rates of recurrence of a common childhood leukemia were reduced in a clinical trial involving 26 kids from the Upstate Cancer Center. And urologist Joseph Jacob advises seeing a doctor if you notice blood in your urine.
  • The Upstate Golisano Pediatric After Hours Care medical director, Dr. Phillip Mackewicz, advises what sorts of illnesses and injuries are best treated at After Hours, as the program relocates to downtown Syracuse, across the street from Upstate University Hospital. Exercise physiologist Carol Sames explains a study that shows how exercise fights breast cancer recurrence. Upstate's Norton College of Medicine student Michael Sun shares a paper he co-wrote about skin conditions that may arise with urologic cancers.
  • Physical therapist Molly Torbitt discusses fear of falling. Upstate Global Health Institute director, Dr. Stephen Thomas tells about a new clinical trial underway of a vaccine to prevent C. diff, one of the most common health care-associated infections in the world. Dr. Reza Saidi, director of Upstate's Kidney Transplant Program, tells how and why the percentage of living donor kidney transplants has increased.
  • To see how the world wastes time ... er, explores cultural phenomena ... check out some of the top videos by country from YouTube Rewind's rankings for 2017.
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