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Today on Healthstyles, co-producer and host Diana Mason, PhD, RN, interviews Terri Ann Parnell, DNP, RN, founder and principal of Health Literacy Partners about the challenges that people face in understanding information about their health and how to manage it. Click here to listen to the interview:

The program begins with HealthCetera, an update on health news, followed by an interview by Healthstyles co-produer Liz Seegert with Paul Tang, MD, from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation about LinkAges, a community collarboation that addresses social isolation, well-being, and aging in community. You can listen to that interview here:

So, tune in at 1:00 today on WBAI, 99.5 FM in NYC and streaming at wbai.org.

Healthstyles is sponsored by the Center for Health, Media & Policy at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Today on Healthstyles, co-producer and host Diana

Barbara Glickstein hosts this week’s Healthstyles on Thursday, September 18th at 1PM on WBAI Pacifica Radio 99.5FM streamed live on the web at http://www.wbai.org

Medicare’s Open Enrollment period is October 15 through December 7th. It’s the time when you can change your Medicare coverage. It can be a confusing to navigate the complex world of health insurance. 

In the first half-hour Glickstein interviews John Sardellis, PhD, professor of health care at St. Joesph’s College of NY, and Member of the Society of Actuaries, who named this segment, “The ABCs and of course D of Medicare”  Tune in to hear him walk us through the process. Tune in (even if you’re not eligible for Medicare) and offer to share this advice with a relative, friend or elder neighbor or person with a disability who is covered by Medicare insurance.  We are public radio and we can all reach out and help someone.

Dr. Sardellis recommends this user friendly site is www.medicarerights.org.

In the second half of Healthstyles we hear from Sheree Crute, editor-in-chief and co-founder fierceforblackwomen.com Healthstyles new regular feature.

Ms. Crute discusses the second article in a three-part series on Black Women’s Health and fibroids –   Beating Fibroids: Find the Best Treatment for You. She also discusses another another featured article,  Lower Your Risk of Ovarian Cancer.   Follow them on Twitter @Fierceforbw @shereecrute @yrlamb and on Facebook fierceforblackwomen.

Barbara Glickstein hosts this week’s Healthstyles on

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My latest blog post on JAMA’s News Forum is about the unintended consequences of policy. Specifically, it deals with Medicare policy on admitting patients to hospitals as outpatients for observation. It clearly needs to be fixed.

JAMA doesn’t permit people to post comments on their blog so I welcome your comments on this site.

Diana J. Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, Rudin Professor of Nursing

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