HeyJaredHealthy Rounds With Dr. Anthony Alessi
Healthy Rounds covers a range of topics, including new medical technologies and treatments, research, disease prevention. Its host, Dr.
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Progress With ALS and Other Neuromuscular Disorders (opens the original)
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ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease) is a devastating motor neuron disease that effects movement, speech, swallowing, and breathing. Dr. Cristina Viguera, who practices neuromuscular medicine at UConn Health, joins Dr. Alessi to discuss some potentially promising research findings in ALS, as well as some progress in treating the genetic condition spinal muscular atrophy. Submit questions for Healthy Rounds:healthyrounds@uchc.edu Dr. Cristina Viguera:https:/
Great Strides in Cancer Treatment (opens the original)
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The idea of using cells from your own tumor to develop a personalized vaccine that guides your immune system to fight your cancer goes back several decades. Today, we are on the verge of using messenger RNA to bring this concept to a new level, one that could change how we treat melanoma and other cancers. Dr. Margaret Callahan, chief of UConn Health’s Division of Hematology and Oncology and medical director of the clinical trials office, explains how immunotherapy works and why it holds so much
Concussions and Sports Neurology (opens the original)
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As we get ready for football season, Dr. Alessi brings on a fellow expert in sports neurology, Dr. Stephanie Aless-LaRosa, program director of the UConn Health Sports Neurology Fellowship. They discuss not only concussions (which is more than just a football issue) but also other conditions they see in the sports context, how more folks seem be active for longer, the perspective of a team physician on the sideline, ways to possibly reduce injury risk, and other specialties involved in sports neu
Wide World of Western Sports (opens the original)
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The term “Western sports” refers to events like roping, steer wrestling, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, and bull riding — some of the most dangerous forms of competition. Applying his expertise in neurology and sports medicine to care for these athletes over the last several years, Dr. Anthony Alessi has developed a unique perspective on this world. Professional bull riders have been flying in from other parts of the Americas to see him at UConn Health since 2018, when the first two arriv
The Brain and Spine Frontier (opens the original)
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Neurosurgery is a relatively young discipline in medicine, one that began with a focus on survival. Today the focus goes beyond survival to restoring personalities, memories, limb function, even the ability to walk. Dr. Ketan Bulsara, chair of UConn Health’s Department of Neurosurgery, joins Dr. Alessi to discuss restorative neurosurgery, as well as UConn Health’s elite position when it comes to identifying and treating complex brain tumors, and how UConn is now attracting, training, and produci
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