Investigative journalist David Kirby is the author of Evidence of Harm, a 2005 book that explores the possible relationships between autism and mercury contained in thimerosal, a preservative uses in some vaccines. In this interview from June 27, 2008, Kirby claims that the Centers for Disease Control used faulty data on one key study of vaccines. Read his article on the Huffington Post for more.
Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot
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Aryana Khalid on health care in Virginia
Aryana Khalid is Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the Commonwealth of Virginia. She joined Coy Barefoot on the April 30 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” Khalid is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and explains how her degree in systems engineering helped her launch a career in hospital administration. She also graduated from the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at UVa.
Sisters discuss how ACAC has improved their lives
Sherry Zak and Renee Breeden join Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to give a health and fitness update. The pair are sisters and have been ACAC members for over ten years, and tell the story of how working out have dramatically improved their quality of life.
Jennifer Niesslein on vaccines, new issue of Brain, Child
Jennifer Niesllein is the editor and publisher of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers. She joins Coy Barefoot on “WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the new issue. Author Sari Weston writes about vaccines in an article called Needles and the Damage Done. The magazine is also looking for submissions.
Dr. Atul Gawande seeks to make health care Better
The compulsion to do better touches us all as do the road blocks that impede our betterment: fatigue, inadequate resources and our imperfections. Yet, there is perhaps no other field in which improvement is more important than medicine, where the difference between saving or losing a life is in the smallest of details. Dr. Atul Gawande is a MacArthur Fellow and a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, as well as an associate professor of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Gawande’s new book is Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, and he joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now! to talk about ways to improve the health care system.
UVa Provost Garson on the health care debate
Dr. Arthur “Tim” Garson is Provost of the University of Virginia, and the former Dean of the Medical School. He joins Coy Barefoot on the February 14th edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to weigh in on the health care debate currently going on in the U.S. Presidential Race. Garson is also the author of Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality.
Dan Olmsted with the latest on the quest to explain the autism epidemic
Investigative reporter Dan Olmsted joins Coy Barefoot on the February 7 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to continue the discussion about the autism epidemic. Olmsted is now keeping his readers up to date on a blog called The Age of Autism, which also features articles from other contributers. His work will soon be collected in a new book on the history of mercury poisoning.
ACAC’s Martin Katz gives his prescription for fixing the US health care system
Dr. Martin Katz is a physician with the wellness initiative at Atlantic Coast Athletic Club (ACAC), and a native of South Africa. On the January 23rd edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”, he joins Coy Barefoot to say what he would like to see the presidential candidates say in terms of health care. Katz also describes what people who sign up for Wellness M.D. will receive.