This Key Opinion Leader interview is a part of HealthDay’s conference coverage of Digestive Disease Week, hosted from May 6-9 in Chicago, Illinois, where experts gathered to present advances in Gastroenterology. In this interview, Prateek Sharma, MD joins HealthDay’s integrative medicine expert Robin Miller, MD to share his impressions of the research presented during the week. Dr. Sharma is professor of medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

The American Academy of Neurology held its annual meeting on April 22-27 in Boston hosting a cohort of researchers who presented the results of cutting-edge science across all specialties in neurology. For more details and other highlights from this year’s annual meeting, HealthDay is joined by AAN Science Committee Chair Dr. Natalia S. Rost.

Dr. Scott Roberts of Yale School of Medicine says cordyceps fungus exists in our world, but it’s not a threat to human health -- for now.

Researchers identify 6 healthy lifestyle habits that may help you cut your risk of long COVID. Regular exercise and adequate sleep are just two of them.

A new study finds dogs with the canine form of dementia experience changes in their sleep cycle like people with Alzheimer’s.

Dr. Robert Gabbay, chief scientific and medical officer of the American Diabetes Association, speaks with us about new preventative drugs and devices for diabetes patients, and how much progress has been made in the path towards a cure.

HealthDay's Mabel Jong speaks with Holly Lofton MD, a board certified weight management physician specializing in obesity medicine at NYU Langone Health and Founder of HangryWoman.com, Mila Clarke on the new weight loss injection called Ozempic. Lofton speaks about the current market for Ozempic and Clarke tells of her experience taking Ozempic.

Produced, directed, edited by: Sydney Murphy

Talent: Mabel Jong

Premiered Sep 3, 2022

Social media is almost inescapable in today’s world, for better or worse. Today around seven-in-ten Americans use social media to engage the world, according to the Pew Research Center. The numbers are growing as quickly as the new social media platforms to accommodate the connections.

And while too much of it amounts to doom scrolling society’s slog towards perdition, British journalist Jon Ronson rightly noted, “The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.”

And too often voiceless has described the neurodivergent and the people who love them.

Take parents of children with autism, ADHD, and other learning differences desperately searching for ways to support them. Or neurodivergent individuals longing to turn the page on wrongheaded narratives that cast them as weird.

Enter social media — part support group and living, breathing Info Please almanac for moms and dads in search of life hacks for parenting their kids with learning disabilities, and also a far-reaching megaphone for young and proudly neurodivergent content creators to shout out their truth.

On this episode, we visit with a mother who moderates a Facebook groups focused on neurodiversity issues, helping to farm and sow advice that can be a life changer for group members — and herself.

Special correspondent Mabel Jong brings us the story.

Premiered Oct 1, 2022

In an unprecedented exodus, more than 47 million Americans in 2021 quit their jobs, according to a recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report.

Many dub that great migration — driven by the COVID-19 pandemic — the Great Resignation. And there are few signs it’s slowing.

All those departures mean opportunities for jobseekers. But opportunities for whom?

Even as employers increasingly talk the talk about diversifying the workforce — including making it more neurodiverse — candidates with learning and attention issues often aren’t making the cut.

According to Harvard Business Review, neurodivergent unemployment soars as high as 80%.

Not only do neurodivergent jobseekers miss out, but employers lose out on the value these employees add to the company in terms of productivity, culture, and diversity of thought.

In fact, during National Disability Employment Awareness Month each October, the U.S. Department of Labor celebrates the many and varied contributions of America’s workers with disabilities. While learning differences often come coupled with greater A-BILITIES, the fact remains that there is still more education that can be done regarding the unique talents of the neurodivergent.

On this episode, we travel to the Windy City to visit with a young public relations practitioner who shares about navigating the workforce with ADHD.

HealthDay News special correspondent Mabel Jong brings us her story.

Premiered Jan 7, 2023

2e children, as the shorthand goes, are intellectually gifted and neurodivergent, living with at least one learning disability such as ADHD, dyslexia, autism, or other learning differences.

Because of that profile — one in which their intellectual prowess may camouflage their disability or their clear-cut disability lands them in special education settings with students below their academic prowess — schools often find serving 2e students proves to be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

It’s no wonder that twice-exceptional students are among the most under-identified and underserved cohorts in schools.

On this episode, we visit Cate Dunn, an Arizona twice-exceptional teenager who through her podcast is giving voice and shedding light on the 2e life.

"A World of Difference" special correspondent Mabel Jong brings us the story.

What do you call a child who tests as gifted and has a diagnosed learning or attention issue?

It’s not a riddle, but rather a reality for at least 6% of students believed to be what is known as “twice-exceptional.”

2e children, as the shorthand goes, are intellectually gifted and neurodivergent, living with at least one learning disability such as ADHD, dyslexia, autism, or other learning differences.

Because of that profile — one in which their intellectual prowess may camouflage their disability or their clear-cut disability lands them in special education settings with students below their academic prowess — schools often find serving 2e students proves to be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

It’s no wonder that twice-exceptional students are among the most under-identified and underserved cohorts in schools.

On this episode, we visit an Arizona twice-exceptional teenager who through her podcast is giving voice and shedding light on the 2e life.

HealthDay's Mabel Jong speaks with Vineet Arora, MD, Dean for Medical Education at the University of Chicago Medicine, on her experience with burnout within the healthcare system. To further discuss the impact of the Great Resignation in Healthcare, Jong is also joined by Janet Tomcavage, Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive for regional healthcare provider, Geisinger Health System. Arora and Toncavage discuss the impact of Covid on healthcare workers and how hospital systems are adapting.

Produced, directed, edited by: Sydney Murphy

Talent: Mabel Jong