Healthy Moments Radio Broadcast

One-minute tips on living a healthy lifestyle featuring Dr. Griffin Rodgers, Director of NIDDK.

Healthy Moments is a series of weekly radio episodes sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Healthy Moments features Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers, the Director of NIDDK, a renowned researcher in the area of sickle cell anemia.

Each week Dr. Rodgers offers tips on how to prevent and control diseases that are important to the community and NIDDK’s mission.

Guests on Healthy Moments have included Kimberly Plummer, Sugar Ray Leonard, Peggy Lewis, Sean Elliott, Dr. Stephen James, Dr. Susan Yanovski, Dr. David Nathan, Pastor David Cobb, Dr. Larry Agodoa, Dr. Gary Gibbons, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Janine Austin Clayton, Dr. Stephen Katz, Dr. Josie Briggs, Dr. Richard Hodes, Dr. Walter Koroshetz, Dr. Paul Sieving, Dr. Nora Valkow, Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, Dr. Perez-Stable, Mr. Eric Dishman, Dr. Joshua Gordon, and more!

To hear tips on how to stay healthy, tune in to Healthy Moments

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Episodes

Each episode is 1 minute in length.

Colonoscopy

April 22, 2019
Colon and rectal cancer is the second leading cancer killer in the US. A routine screening may be just what you need to avoid joining this statistic.

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What is GERD?

April 15, 2019
If you still have heartburn after taking antacids for two weeks, you might have gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. Learn more and call your doctor.

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IBS vs. IBD

April 8, 2019
Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are the two most common types of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, blood in the stool or fever. Learn more.

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What’s IBS?

April 1, 2019
Having frequent abdominal pain along with diarrhea or constipation or both? If so, you may have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, also known as IBS.

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Eat Healthy to Prevent Kidney Disease and Diabetes

March 25, 2019
Do you have a family history of diabetes and kidney disease? If the answer is yes, you can reduce your risk by losing a small amount of weight.

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Testing and Treatment for Kidney Disease

March 18, 2019
Early kidney disease usually has no symptoms, so you should get tested if you have diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, or a family history of kidney failure.

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A Faith Community’s Kidney Health Resource

March 11, 2019
African Americans are at a greater risk for kidney failure than other communities. Make a difference by introducing the Kidney Sundays tool kit in your place of worship.

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What is Kidney Disease?

March 4, 2019
March is National Kidney Month, a good time to learn about your kidneys.

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Donor Kim Plummer –Kidney Donation in the African American Community

Feb. 25, 2019
Kidney transplants are more successful among members of the same ethnic group – but some groups need more organ donors.

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