Sports/Energy Drinks Just as Bad on Teeth as Soda?
Aired on WTIC NewsTalk 1080, May 7, 2012
Dr. Jonathan Meiers, chair the UConn School of Dental Medicine’s Division of Operative Dentistry, joins Ray Dunaway on WTIC NewsTalk 1080 to discuss cavity-causing sports drinks and energy drinks.
Recovering from Career-threatening Injury
Aired on ESPN Radio 97.9-FM, May 4, 2012
Dr. Thomas Trojian, director of the Injury Prevention and Sports Outreach Programs at the New England Musculoskeletal Institute, joins The Bower Show to discuss what lies ahead for the Yankees’ Mariano Rivera following his ACL injury.
Conflicts of Interest in Health Care
Aired on WNPR-FM, May 2, 2012
Dr. William White, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hypertension in the Calhoun Cardiology Center, joins a panel discussion on WNPR’s “Where We Live” about industry’s influence on medicine and the safeguards in place to prevent biased research and medical decisions.
Physicians Feeling Pressure from Patients’ Financial Problems
American Medical News, April 23, 2012
The patient in front of William B. White, MD, an internist in Farmington, Conn., was being treated for hypertension, but he was worrying more about financial pressure than blood pressure.
Dental X-rays Linked to Common Brain Tumor
Reuters, April 11, 2012
A new study suggests people who had certain kinds of dental X-rays in the past may be at an increased risk for meningioma, the most commonly diagnosed brain tumor in the U.S. “They found a small risk (from) a pair of bitewings, but not a full mouth series, which is multiple bitewings. That inconsistency is impossible to understand to me,” said Dr. Alan Lurie, president of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology.
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