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Get your questions about sports medicine, children's health, aging, diseases, insurance and other topics answered. Just ask the experts in our daily live health chats, moderated by some of the country's leading health journalists. Here's the basic schedule of topics. Click the specific link to participate in (or replay) these or one of the bonus health chats.
Mondays: Sports medicine and fitness, hosted by Los Angeles Times.
Tuesdays: Children's health, alternating with the topic of aging and alternative health, hosted by Chicago Tribune.
Wednesdays: Medical conditions and diseases, hosted by Baltimore Sun. Alternating with diabetes and obesity, hosted by Orlando Sentinel.
Thursdays: Health insurance. Hosted by Hartford Courant and Chicago Tribune. Alternating with chats on prescription drugs and on college health, hosted by Hartford Courant.
Fridays: Fitness and wellness, hosted by Allentown Morning Call and the Newport News Daily Press. Alternating with dermatology/plastic surgery, hosted by South Florida Sun Sentinel.
1:48 PM CDT, April 27, 2011
Live Health Chat
Monday: Best exercises for people with multiple sclerosis
Get advice on what types of exercises and workouts are best for MS from Dr. Barbara Giesser, clinical professor of neurology at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine and medical director of the Marilyn Hilton MS Achievement Center at UCLA. Giesser has specialized in treating people with MS since 1982. Join us May 2 at 11 a.m. PT (1 p.m. CT, 2 p.m. ET).
12:00 PM CDT, May 3, 2011
Live health chat
Tuesday: Older men's sexual health
Join us at noon CT (1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, May 3, to chat about older men's sexual health with Tribune reporter Judy Graham and panelists, Dr. Laurence Levine and Dr. Andy McCullough.
11:00 AM CDT, May 4, 2011
Live health chat
Wednesday: Treating shoulder pain
Join us May 4 at noon ET (11 a.m. CT, 9 a.m. PT) for a discussion with Dr. Paul Christo of Johns Hopkins about shoulder pain. The shoulder is the most mobile joint in the human body, according to the National Institutes of Health, so it's no surprise that many people suffer from rotator cuff issues, arthritis, tendinitis, frozen shoulder and more.
12:00 PM CDT, May 10, 2011
Live health chat
Tuesday: Plastic effect on developing children
Join us at noon CT (1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, May 10, for an hour-long chat about the adverse effects of plastic near developing children, with Chicago Tribune health reporter Julie Deardorff and panelist Susan Freinkel.
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