About Blood – WCPN 90.3 & WVIZ/PBS ideastream
About Blood – WCPN 90.3 & WVIZ/PBS ideastream
– a new kind of partnership –
– a new kind of partnership –
ideastream in collaboration with NetWellness and other multimedia partners presents About Blood!
NetWellness and ideastream are partnering to bring more understanding to the health and medical issues you care about. Launched in 1995, NetWellness is a consumer information website from Case Western Reserve University, The Ohio State University and the NetWellness.org. ideastream is a non-profit public broadcasting organization including WVIZ/PBS, 90.3 WCPN, WCLV and other educational and public service media. About Blood is part of ideastream’s ongoing multiple-media coverage on important health issues presented in collaboration with The Plain Dealer and NetWellness. Through this partnership, you will be able to explore ideastream’s programs as NetWellness puts in-depth information at your fingertips.
Stories About Blood from 90.3 WCPN ideastream:
Blood Biology
Blood Phobias Real, Treatable
The Sound of Ideas
In his special installment of The Sound of Ideas host Mike McIntyre and guests will examine the anatomy of blood – what exactly is it and what does it do? They’ll also explore how doctors use blood to learn what’s going on inside our bodies and explain various blood diseases including leukemia and sickle cell anemia.
Learn more from NetWellness:
- Sickle Cell Anemia Information
- A Closer Look at Blood Cancers
- Understanding Blood Tests
- Acquired Von Willebrand
- Diabetes and Pregnancy
- Diabetes Health Topic
- Difference between Iron Defiency, Anemia and Thalassemia Trait
- Frequently Asked Questions about Genetic Counseling
- Hemochromatosis and Low Iron
- High Blood Sugar Levels
- Inherited Disorders and Birth Defects Health Topic
- Low Blood Sugar Levels
- Mircocytossis and Hypochromia
- Parent Blood Types Mix
- Potential Child Blood Type
- Thrombocytopenia
Ohio’s Newborn Screening Program
Blood is a window to our genes. All newborns are pricked in the heel after birth, and that drop of blood is screened for genetic disorders. The CDC calls this newborn screening process one of the ten greatest public health achievements in the U.S. over the last decade. What we can learn from this drop of blood is increasing at a rapid clip, and some of these disorders can be managed through early treatment. One such disorder is PKU. If caught early, brain damage can be avoided through dietary interventions.
Learn more from NetWellness:
- The Clotting Process: What You Need to Know
- Bleeding and Clotting Problems: What Can Go Wrong
- Bleeding and Clotting Disorders
- Potential Inherited Blood Conditions Within 1st Cousin Marraige
- Pregnancy Risk With von Willebrands
Leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells. In the 1950s, nearly all children with leukemia died. Now that picture has drastically changed. While it remains the most common form of childhood cancer, it is also the most curable.
Learn more from NetWellness:
This half-hour television program explores how blood works in the body with a focus on sickle cell anemia — a genetic disease that affects red blood cells and is most common in the United States among African Americans. Learn more about the sickle cell story through the eyes of 25-year old Akron resident Arthur Brown and his family. Brown was born with one of the most severe forms; when he was six-weeks old, his mother was told her infant son would likely not to survive to age five. We chronicle Brown’s fight against this devastating disease from childhood to the present. Living and thriving as a young adult, Arthur Brown has come close to death more than once and shares his struggles and triumphs with a disease he considers to be both a curse and a gift.
View this program:
Learn more from NetWellness:
- Preventing Risk: Pulmonary Embolism, Heart Attack, and Stroke
- Difference between Iron Defiency, Anemia and Thalassemia Trait
- Inherited Disorders and Birth Defects Health Topic
- Like Sickle Cell, Diabetes Is Also More Common In African Americans
- SD Disease Is Similar To Sickle Cell Anemia
- Sickle Cell Anemia and Transplant
- Sickle Cell Anemia Health Topic
- Sickle Cell Anemia: Not a “Black Disease”
- Sickle Cell “Life Partner” Genotype
- What Chromosomes are Affected by Sickle Cell Disease?
- Why Sickle Cell Test Came Back Negative
Heart attacks, strokes and pulmonary embolisms can all result from some form of blood clot and while many factors contribute to strokes and heart attacks, a particular blood disease called Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) is the main contributor of Pulmonary Embolism or clotting in the lungs. This web-exclusive video answers some important questions including: What exactly is DVT? How does it happen? What are some of the risk factors and how can these dangerous blood clots be prevented?
Learn more from NetWellness:
- Preventing Risk: Pulmonary Embolism, Heart Attack, and Stroke
- Blood Pressure and Stroke
- Clot on Back of the Head
- Clotting during Menstruation
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- Stopping Stroke With Extra Oxygen: Looking for the Key
- Stroke Health Topic
- Subtle Symptoms Are Biggest Clues For Heart Attack
- Symptoms of Small Vessel Ischemic Change
- Understanding Brain Attack: A Closer Look At Stroke
- What Does Small Vessel Ischemic Disease Mean on My MRI?
- When To Worry About Heart Attack
When a patient presents with an unusual set of symptoms, what do doctors do? Usually, the mystery starts to unravel with a simple blood test. Blood provides clues to organ function.
Learn more from NetWellness:
- Family Testing For Clotting Disorders
- Hemochromatosis and Low Iron
- Mircocytossis and Hypochromia
- Polycythemia Vera in 18 Year Old
- Spontaneous Bleeding and ITP
- Thrombocytopenia
- Why Sickle Cell Test Came Back Negative
Host Dee Perry and guest explore the influence of blood on literature, music, film – -virtually every corner of arts and culture, including the science of Vampires.
Dan Folino is an accomplished local actor. He’s also the go-to guy if a local theater company is presenting a show, say like Sweeny Todd, that requires realistic stage blood. From realistic splatters to squirting veins; Dan cannot just make it – – but make it look real!
For more information:
Go to the Blood and the Body health topic.