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iRescueRadio gives you a unique take on medical, health and safety related news for the past week in a humorous format that is far from sterile. Join Roy, Jody and Dan for an entertaining look at injuries and illnesses around the world. Primary Format : Health Language : Unknown Also Listed as: User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of iRescueRadio Podcasts Methings.com listings of iRescueRadio Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

iRescueRadio 034: New Format: The Good, the Bad and the Training During a summer hiatus of about three weeks, we decided it was time to retool the show.  What we had, while good, was starting to get into nothing but politics, without rescue or health included.  I, as the producer, recommended finding the last week’s health and medical press releases.  It would have been this week [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 033: DDoS Attacks, Virtual Doctor’s Appointments, Hospital Stats, CPR on Soft Surfaces This week’s episode of iRescueRadio covers a string of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attacks that have occurred lately, followed by a discussion of virtual doctor appointments. After those conversations comes a discussion of a website where you can compare statistics at each of the hospitals across the country. This week’s puzzler covers a what would you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 032: Michael Jackson and Lou Gehrig’s Disease Connection to Algae This episode goes right into a short discussion on Michael Jackson, and the CPR that was done.  After that comes a discussion of the apparent connection of Lou Gehrig’s Disease to Blue-green Algae.  These topics and more in this week’s episode of iRescueRadio!Sources– Michael JacksonMichael Jackson, CPR and Dr. Conrad Murray (The Politic)The 911 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 032: Michael Jackson and Lou Gehrig’s Disease Connection to Algae This episode goes right into a short discussion on Michael Jackson, and the CPR that was done.  After that comes a discussion of the apparent connection of Lou Gehrig’s Disease to Blue-green Algae.  These topics and more in this week’s episode of iRescueRadio! Sources - Michael Jackson Michael Jackson, CPR and Dr. Conrad Murray (The Politic) The 911 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 031: Obama’s Health Care Reform, Weight Gain and Depression This week’s episode of iRescueRadio covers many topics, such as Obama’s health care reform, which has been all over the news lately.  We’d like to get your response to it, so feel free to comment on our blog. The other big topic this week is the connection of weight-loss to our sense of smell, or weight [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 030: Cellular Phones and Cancer, When to Call the Doctor, Jokes & Age and Faulty Speed Sensors This episode of iRescueRadio covers many great topics, starting with a problem with raccoons and what to do about them. The next topic is about speed sensors taking the blame for the Air France crash. After that is a discussion of the cancer risk that is associated with cell phones. The stumper this week is about when you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 029: Shark Attack Survival, Birds Falling from the Sky and Hormone Replacement Therapy Welcome to the 29th episode of iRescueRadio.  It’s hard to believe there have been so many, but it’s been a great run so far, each new episode is better than the last. This episode we talk about a man who survived a shark attack. The next topic is about birds falling from the air in Australia. Hormone Replacement [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 028: Booster Seat Laws, Dangerous Vehicles and Car Accidents This episode of iRescueRadio starts with a quick discussion of the strange sounds of digestion that happen from time to time… and sometimes at the most inopportune times. This week’s hot topic is about laws that are up for vote regarding booster seats in Michigan.  The laws are with regard to age, and not height.  If [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 027: Should the Courts Have a Say in the Medical Decisions of Parents? This week’s episode is dedicated to one major topic.  Too big to be simply the hot topic, but it’s something much bigger.  They start out by talking a little bit about fashion, of all things, as the topic turns to motorcycles in the rain. The main topic for this week is Daniel Hauser, a boy at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 026: Plane Crash, Microbes, Tumors and Lightning Strikes The 26th Episode of iRescueRadio is jam packed with many topics, starting with ProFirstAid’s appearance on The Doctors.  The hot topic is an airplane crash with a line-by-line transcript of the plane crash. The top medical news for this week is about a woman that had microbes eating the fatty tissue inside of her. This is followed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 025: Smells, Sales, Face Transplants and Snake Bites This, the 25th episode of iRescueRadio starts with a conversation about growing up and the smells associated with it.  It is followed up by a discussion on multi-level marketing sales schemes.  The next topic is about a woman that had a successful face transplant, after having been extremely disfigured. For the stumper of the week, it’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 024: Swine Flu Special This week’s episode is a little bit late, but it is a big one.  It’s all about Swine Flu and Vaccinations.  This is a mighty big episode this week, and has some great discussion. It does start out, however, with a quick discussion of an 11-foot alligator that turned up on a woman’s doorstep in Tampa. This [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 023: Spruce Grows in Man’s Lung, Bed Bugs Return, Allergic Reaction to Bees? This episode starts with a discussion about a tree growing in a man’s lung. He had a spruce growing, and it was five centimeters long.  That’s our top medical news of the week!The hot topic of the week: Nocturnal bed bugs are re-emerging! The fact that we don’t use DDT anymore, means that bed bugs [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 022: Somali Pirates, Nurse Fired Mid-Surgery and a Scenario In this week’s episode of iRescueRadio, we discuss the Somali Pirates in the Gulf of Aden.  We discuss provisions that are being created to help repel pirates, including non-lethal weaponry. The Hot Topic this week is about the nurse that was called out of surgery only to find she’s been fired.  What does this say about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 021: In-Flight Bathroom Emergency leads to Felony, Runaway Scooter carries off woman, Cardiac arrest and Online Studies This week on iRescueRadio, we start out talking about a parking lot stare down. What in the world was going on there?  We then move into two big stories.  The first is about a runaway scooter that carries off a woman.  How could that have happened and what was the outcome? The next topic is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 020: Diet can help control Epileptic Seizures, Choking Episodes, Population leaving Michigan This episode features a look at Epileptic Seizures, and what foods can help to control them.  Or can they? This is followed by discussion on the state of the economy in Michigan as the rate of families leaving this state is on the increase.  The numbers will astound you. What would you do if your child starts to choke? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 019: New Show Format, More BPA and Mercury Fillings This episode we have a new format.  One that includes some new music, as well as some new features for the program.  Things a little bit more broken up now, with fewer topics, but more in-depth training. In the episode, there are four main parts: Hot Topic: This is going to be the topic of the week [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 018: Bisphenol A (BPA) Edition This episode of iRescueRadio is a return to our regular format as Roy, Jody and Dan discuss the many problems linked to Bisphenol A (BPA).  It’s the only topic on the plate for discussion this week, so listen in! Sources FDA Defends Plastic Linked to Health Risks (NPR) 10 Ways to Avoid Toxic Plastic - BPA, Synthetic Estrogens [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 017: A Special Guest Host to Intern in China, what Health Issues could he face? This episode of iRescueRadio features our regular hosts, Roy, Dan and Jody. And it also has a special guest: Tyler.  It’s a fun episode that is a bit of a departure from our regular format.They talk about Tyler’s upcoming internship in China this summer and the health issues that may result from that if Tyler [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 016: Why Hair goes Gray, Snow blowers, AIDS, Plastic, Wine Caffeine and more This episode deals with why hair goes gray as we grow older, snow blower injuries, AIDS, plastic in bottles, the effects of wine, the effects of caffeine and skin cancer. Sorry I don’t have much time to do more of a write-up on this episode.  I’m in sunny Florida, on a bit of a vacation / [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 015: Tornadoes picking people up, and Gorilla and Wild Animal Attacks This episode we talk about tornadoes.  More specifically, a couple of stories involving a tornado picking up a person, and setting them back down.  We have a first hand account of this happening from someone that we managed to get on the phone.  Listen in! We then move to the chimp attack that happened recently, as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 014: Coma Patients: 40 percent Misdiagnosed, Creating Bionic Hands, Ears and More This episode of iRescueRadio covers coma patients.  40% of those in a vegetative state may be misdiagnosed! There are some amazing stories that we talk about including a personal story given by Roy of a time that he witnessed something pretty spectacular while working around a coma patient. We also talk about the creation or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 013: Of Roses, Romance, Legionnaires, Vaccines and Autism This is another episode that you won’t want to miss.  We talk about buying Roses for Valentine’s Day, with a story about Dan’s first date.  It’s a lot of laughs as we then move the topic of conversation toward a chemical effect on Romance. We then delve into Legionnaires’ Disease and Pontiac Fever for a bit. We [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 012: 911 Drug Deal; Tom Daschle; Unsafe Injection Practices; Medical Mysteries This episode, we talk about a man who puts a 911 dispatcher on hold to buy drugs.  Not only that, but we have the audio from the phone call!  Hear the 911 call record in this episode. We move into Tom Daschle’s withdrawal and the effect it will have on Healthcare reform. After that we discuss unsafe [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 011: NBC’s The Office covers CPR Training; The Octuplets; recorded in a StarBucks! Sorry this episode is late this week, but we promise, it’s a great one.  We recorded this episode at a StarBucks location in Grand Rapids, MI.  Thank you, StarBucks, for giving us permission to record there! This week, we discuss NBC’s The Office, where they had a CPR class in the workplace; following that is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 010: Toy Removal, Children, Butter, Women and Food Here’s the latest episode of iRescueRadio.  This week, we talk about toy removal from stores that sell second-hand clothing, keeping our children safe and an interesting situation regarding butter. Then we talk about women and food cravings. This is followed up by a discussion of health insurance in the coming years. All of this, and more, this week [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 009: Hudson River Plane Crash, Psychological Impact of a Plane Crash, Surgery Checklists, Coffee linked to Alzheimer’s Risk, Hallucinations This episode we talk about the Hudson River Plane Crash along with the Psychological Impact of a Plane Crash. We then go into Surgery Checklists, which are linked to a much success rate in surgeries.  Much higher than the study anticipated. Finally, we are back at the coffee talk.  This week, we discuss coffee’s link to Alzheimer’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 008: Dirty Scrubs, Coffee is Good for You, Top Stories of 2008 and more This episode of iRescueRadio covers the impact of wearing scrubs outside of the hospital, and the disease that resides within those scrubs. The talk then turns to coffee, as new research is suggesting that coffee is actually good for you.  Or at least better than we had initially thought. The topic then turns toward health care and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 007: New Years Resolutions, Second-hand Smoking, Jett Travolta, Kawasaki Disease, Seizures, Melamine, Adoption, World’s Oldest Woman In this, the seventh episode of iRescueRadio, Roy, Dan and Jody discuss New Years Resolutions, a woman giving birth in an airplane, second-hand smoke, and melamine in milk effecting adoptions from China.The big segment this episode is a discussion on seizures, and what can cause them, with John Travolta’s son Jett Travolta as the inspiration [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 006: California Supreme Court allows Good Samaritans to be sued for nonmedical care In an emergency episode of iRescueRadio, we tackle and article that came out in the Los Angeles Times last week. The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a young woman who pulled a co-worker from a crashed vehicle isn’t immune from civil liability because the care she rendered wasn’t medical. The divided high court appeared to signal [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 005: Learn CPR by SMS, Foot Grows in Baby’s Brain, Immune System at Night, Money Inspired Weight Loss, Strangers effect on Happiness, and Five Holiday True or False Questions! In this episode of iRescueRadio we start out talking about a rarity in health and science, with a foot being removed from a baby’s brain.  From there, we talk about the Australian Red Cross’ new software that can teach you CPR via SMS.We go into the effects of the immune system at night, weight loss [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 005: Learn CPR by SMS, Foot Grows in Baby’s Brain, Immune System at Night, Money Inspired Weight Loss, Strangers effect on Happiness, and Five Holiday True or False Questions! In this episode of iRescueRadio we start out talking about a rarity in health and science, with a foot being removed from a baby’s brain.  From there, we talk about the Australian Red Cross’ new software that can teach you CPR via SMS. We go into the effects of the immune system at night, weight loss [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 004: Christmas Safety! Reindeer Accidents, Winter Sports, Decorating Dangers and Injuries, Tree Fires, Sledding and Ice This episode of iRescueRadio covers Christmas safety. We start out talking about an accident involving Reindeer and a six car collision.  This is followed by followed by Winter sports safety tips.  What should you bring with you, when you take the kids sledding or skiing?  Is there need for a helmet? After that we talk [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 004: Christmas Safety! Reindeer Accidents, Winter Sports, Decorating Dangers and Injuries, Tree Fires, Sledding and Ice This episode of iRescueRadio covers Christmas safety. We start out talking about an accident involving Reindeer and a six car collision.  This is followed by followed by Winter sports safety tips.  What should you bring with you, when you take the kids sledding or skiing?  Is there need for a helmet? After that we talk [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 003: Television and Health, High School Basketball Player Heart Attack, Neighborhood Rescue This week we discuss how tv has a negative health and social effects on children;  we learn about the condition of a High School basketball player that collapsed with a heart attack in the middle of a game, and the outcome of that; and a CPR rescue story! Also discussed this week: how technology may be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 003: Television and Health, High School Basketball Player Heart Attack, Neighborhood Rescue This week we discuss how tv has a negative health and social effects on children;  we learn about the condition of a High School basketball player that collapsed with a heart attack in the middle of a game, and the outcome of that; and a CPR rescue story! Also discussed this week: how technology may be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 002: Stem Cells, Overworked Doctors, Cancer Vaccine, Asthma, and Sleep This week we discuss how stem cells have shown to help the body accept an organ transplant; we investigate the reasons for misdiagnosis of asthma and other illnesses, such as overworked doctors and excess paperwork; a new skin cancer vaccine is discussed; and the power of sleep as a memory aid and an important agent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 002: Stem Cells, Overworked Doctors, Cancer Vaccine, Asthma, and Sleep This week we discuss how stem cells have shown to help the body accept an organ transplant; we investigate the reasons for misdiagnosis of asthma and other illnesses, such as overworked doctors and excess paperwork; a new skin cancer vaccine is discussed; and the power of sleep as a memory aid and an important agent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 001: Brown snake, Black Widow, Flu, Music Therapy On this week’s iRescueRadio, a Canberra Australia man is bit by a brown snake and survives, a boy in Belding Michigan is bit by a black widow spider, Google Flu Trends is released, and we discuss the effects of music on your health. Show Notes Bush rescue for Canberra man after stopping for a bite - Canberra [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 001: Brown snake, Black Widow, Flu, Music Therapy On this week’s iRescueRadio, a Canberra Australia man is bit by a brown snake and survives, a boy in Belding Michigan is bit by a black widow spider, Google Flu Trends is released, and we discuss the effects of music on your health. Show Notes Bush rescue for Canberra man after stopping for a bite - Canberra [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iRescueRadio 001: Brown snake, Black Widow, Flu, Music Therapy On this week’s iRescueRadio, a Canberra Australia man is bit by a brown snake and survives, a boy in Belding Michigan is bit by a black widow spider, Google Flu Trends is released, and we discuss the effects of music on your health. Show Notes Bush rescue for Canberra man after stopping for a bite - Canberra [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website