Monday, March 12, 2018 on the Doctor Ira Breite Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine Show On SiriusXM 110: Doctor Radio

Opioid use is a constantly in the headlines, and its important to separate fact from fiction and treatment from hysteria.  For those people who are chronically on opioids, a common problem is constipation.  Join me and Dr. Judy Nee of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital as we talk about the latest treatments for opioid induced constipation.

Constipated and using opioids?  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

After this we will talk with anesthesia pain specialist Dr. Joseph Pergolizzi about opioid induced constipation and about non-narcotic ways to treat a variety of pain!

Pain? Looking to avoid opioids?  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS

After this, the office is open!  We will have a combined gastroenterology update and Ask Doctor Ira...anything you forgot to ask your doctor ask me!

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Monday, October 29, 2017 on the Doctor Ira Breite Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine Show on SiriusXM 110: Doctor Radio!

A brief note to let you know that we have a heck of a pre-Halloween show planned tomorrow.  Since we want to get to Trick or Treating, we're going to start off with office hours: a complete hour of Ask Doctor Ira.  Call me with your medical questions at 1-877-NYU-DOCS. Anything you forgot to ask your doctor ask me!

Halloween is about scary, and who isn't scared of something (clowns, spiders).  We will be talking with psychologist Dr. Julie Pike about anxieties, fears, Halloween and, well spiders. 
Phobias? Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS.

Vampires? Nah. But, porphyria? Maybe! We will talking with University of Utah Professor Dr. John Phillips about this rare, but fascinating, disease of the blood.

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Monday, September 11, 2001 on the Doctor Ira Breite Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine Show on SiriusXM 110: Doctor Radio!

A brief note on Monday's show.  Dr. Caterina Oneto will join us to talk new treatments on C. diff, treating diarrhea and more from 8 to 9 AM eastern.  After that, the office will be OPEN and I will be taking your calls, emails and tweets at 1-877-NYU-DOCS on all medical topics.  Anything you forgot to ask your doctor ask me!

Our hopes and prayers go out to all those affected by the hurricanes.

Monday, June 5, 2017 on the Doctor Ira Breite Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine Show on SiriusXM 110: Doctor Radio

A brief update this Sunday on tomorrow's show.  Dr. Caterina Oneto will be joining me at 8 AM and we will be spending the hour talking probiotics, the microbiome, and answering your questions on all things digestive at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

We've all been hearing about antibiotic resistance.  Its a huge problem.  But how do you 'design' new antibiotics to replace those we have used and abused? Join me and Dr. Dale Bolger of the Scripps Institute as we talk about his labs new work on the old antibiotic Vancomycin.

We will end the show, as usual with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any medical questions on any topic at all: anything you forgot to ask your doctor, ask me!  Give me a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS. Or send me a tweet!

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Monday, April 3, 2017 on the Doctor Ira Breite Show on SiriusXM 110: Doctor Radio

I'm thinking about livers.  Really. Fatty liver has become big news and big business. Join and my fellow NYU gastroenterologist Dr. Lisa Ganjhu as we talk about fatty liver.  After that we will expand the conversation with GI Update where I will tell you the latest and greatest news in the world of digestive disease.  Liver and GI questions...let me know at 1-877-NYU-DOCS.

We will continue the GI conversation at 9AM ET when Thangam Venkatesan, MD of the Medical College of Wisconsin joins us to talk about Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome.

We will end the show, as usual, with Ask Doctor Ira where you can ask me any question on any medical topic at all: anything you forgot to ask your doctor, ask me!  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

Monday, November 14, 2016 on the Doctor Ira Breite Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine Show on SiriusXM 110: Doctor Radio!

We are back in the groove on Monday with a pretty awesome show. Starting with probiotics!  Kiran Krishnan, a microbiologist who has been involved with the dietary supplement and nutrition market for the past 15 years.  He'll be talking about research in the area of probiotics.  

After that we will have Gastroenterology Update, where I will tell you some of the latest and greatest questions in the world of digestive disease and answer your questions at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!  Or send me a tweet!

I have been on a diet for 6 months now.  I've Lost about 20 pounds and its pretty clear to me that I need to continue eating "diet like" keep the weight off.  Stinks.  Join me as I speak with Dr. Scott Kahan, MD MPH, Director of the National Center for Weight and Wellness, about the issues of obesity and what you can do about it!

We will end the show, as usual with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any medical questions at all: anything you forgot to ask your doctor ask me!  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

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Monday, April 18th on the Doctor Ira Breite Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine Show on SiriusXM 110: Doctor Radio!

Back from birthday fun and ready to get back to regular Doctor Radio Fun!  Starting with parasitic worms.  I guess we all have our own definitions of fun. Dr. Ken Cadwell, PhD and Dr. P'ng Loke will be joining me to talk about their new study (published in Science) at worms and inflammatory bowel disease.

After that, it will be time for Gastroenterology Update, where I will tell you the latest in the world of digestive disease and answer your questions and tweets.  Call me at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

April is IBS awareness month.  Join me and Dr. Andrea Shin of Indiana University School of Medicine as we talk about the IBS in America Study.  Dr. Shin is an author of the study.

We will end the show, as usual, with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any questions on any medical topic at all: anything you forgot to ask your doctor ask me!  Give me a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

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Monday, August 17th on the Doctor Ira Breite Internal Medicine Show on SiriusXM 110: Doctor Radio

Yes, that is a new station number.  Doctor Radio is joining all of the other great SiriusXM talk channels in the 100's, between Sirius Stars and the Wharton Channel.  And with the great show we have, you will be glad you changed your presets! (yes that was a terrible radio joke).

Starting with food safety.  As summer winds down and school starts, its time to gear up for safe eating.  Join me and Sally Feist, the executive director of the Partnership for Food Safety Education, as we talk about handling the picnic, the kids lunches, and yes, the coleslaw.

Worried about that Listeria?  Give us call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

After that we will expand the conversation with Gastroenterology Update, where I will tell you the latest and greatest in the world of Digestive Disease (Gastroenterologists work even during the heart of the summer) and answer your questions at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

Whether your lifting that kindergartener to get them to school or lifting your own 423 pound backpack full of whatever it is that you desperately need for grad school, back and neck pain can happen.  Join me as I am joined by Dr. Stefano Sinicropi, a board certified orthopedist at the Midwest Spine and Brain Institute.

Back or Neck problems?  Give us call or tweet.

We will end the show with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any questions on any medical topic at all...anything you forgot to ask your doctor ask me! Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS.

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Monday, July 13th, 2015 on the Doctor Ira Breite Internal Medicine Show on SiriusXM 8: Doctor Radio

We know what you want on Doctor Radio...your medical questions answered.  So, whether your about to drive up to the Cape to that cottage you rented and wondering about that babesiosis, or getting ready to camp at Yellowstone and thinking to yourself "what do I do if I get bit by a bear," or even if you are just sitting in your house worried that your six year old keeps coughing on you we have the answer!  Our first hour is going to be  (drumroll please)

"Summer of Questions with Doctor Ira."

So whether its sunburn, tick bites, infections and vaccines or even controlling your blood pressure, give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS or send us a tweet.  Speaking of which, our tweet of the week is

@doctorira @NYUDocs Dr Ira I would love to hear l about taking long term PPIs and what care is needed for the long term side effects #topic

— Ellen Sturgill (@ellels3) July 8, 2015

Dr. Caterina Oneto is coming on at the top of our second hour to talk about the latest and greatest in IBS!

We'll end the show with Ask Doctor Ira where you ask me any questions on any medical topic at all...anything your forgot to ask your doctor ask me. Give us a buzz at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

Monday, April 20th, 2015 on the Doctor Ira Breite Internal Medicine Show on SiriusXM 81: Doctor Radio!

When I was a second year medical student, my biggest fear was a brain aneurysm.  Every headache (and believe me, second year med students get a lot of those) portended disaster.  And while I was just nervous, aneurysm is a real problem and treatments are not great.  Join me as I speak to Dr. Ali Aziz-Sultan of Brigham and Women's Hospital as we speak about a new clinical trial that looks to treat brain aneurysm.

Neurosurgery questions?  Worried about aneurysm?  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

At 8:30 AM ET we will have Gastroenterology update, where I will tell you the latest and greatest news in the world of digestive disease.  Give us a call or tweet with your digestive questions!

We continue our brain show in a different sort of way.  Join me and Dr. Joseph Palamar, PhD, MPH as we talk about high school students and marijuana, hashish and synthetic marijuana use.  As the parent of two teenagers, I want to know what's going on with this.  You should too.

We will end the show with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any question on any medical topic at all.  Anything you forgot to ask your doctor, ask me!  Give me a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS.

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Monday, July 6th on the Doctor Ira Breite Show on SiriusXM 81: Doctor Radio!

I hope everyone had (is having) a great Fourth of July. We have a pretty incredible showed planned for this Monday.

Starting with IBS.  I am every excited to be joined by Douglas Drossman, MD, a renowned expert in the field of gastroenterology and irritable bowel syndrome.  We will talk about those difficult to manage "functional" GI disorders and answer your questions at 1-877-NYU-DOCS.

After this we will be expanding the conversation with Digestive Disease Update, where I will tell you some of the latest and greatest news in the world of digestive disease.  Almost keep up with Joey Chestnut this weekend and feeling the pain?  Give me a call or a tweet and I'm ready to help!

Every summer it seems that we here in the United States and Canada are worried about some emerging virus such as West Nile.  But what about the incredibly scary epidemics of Ebola virus causing Lassa fever that are going around?  Do we need to be worried here.  Join me as I speak with Dr. Bob Garry, Jr. PhD, Professor at Tulane University and Dr. Erica Ollman Saphire, PhD, a professor at Scripps Research Institute, as we talk about what going on in Africa and what it might mean to you.

We will end the show with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any question at all and I will be glad to answer it: anything you forgot to ask your doctor as me!  Give me a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

Monday, June 2nd on the Doctor Ira Breite Show on SiriusXM 81: Doctor Radio!

I am back from Memorial Day and my adventures as a Soylent taster and ready to get back to work on Doctor Radio.  Sophie Balzora, MD will be joining me at the top of the show.  We will be talking about colon cancer prevention and prevention guidelines.  Dr Balzora is an expert at reaching out to minority communities.

Colon cancer prevention questions?  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

After that, we will open up the conversation with digestive disease update.  I will tell you some of the latest and greatest news from the world of digestive disease and answer your gastroenterology questions and tweets.  Call us at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

In the movies,  suspended animation is often used as a gimmick.  Where would we all be if Austin Powers had not been frozen in the swinging sixties and come back to save us from the equally frozen Dr. Evil?  But what if freezing really helps people who have suffered grievous traumatic injury?  Join me and Dr. Samuel Tisherman, a professor of surgery and critical care at the University of Pittsburgh, as we talk about the new study being done on cooling severe trauma patients down to help them survive!

We will end the show with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any questions on any medical topic at all and I will be glad to answer...anything you forgot to ask your doctor ask me!  Give me a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

See me in the New York Times Talking About Soylent.

I think its a pretty good segment.

The Soylent Revolution Will Not Be Pleasurable

Monday, May 19th on the Doctor Ira Breite Show on SiriusXM 81: Doctor Radio

Fodmaps!  Heimlich!  Yes we have both on the air on my show Monday.

Starting with Fodmaps.  We've been talking about them and we've been confused by them.  And sometimes, we're not even sure, as doctors, why we put people on them. What's the evidence and what's the diet?  Find out!  Join me and Doctor Peter Gibson, Professor and Director of Gastroeneterology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia as we talk about the research he has conducted on IBS, the Fodmap and gluten free diets.  Find out what it means to you!

Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS

After this we will continue our discussion of IBS and all of Gastroenterology with Digestive Disease Update.  Hear some of the latest and greatest news in the world of digestive disease and call or tweet me your questions at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

If you've ever eaten at a restaurant in New York, its hard to avoid looking directly at  the "Choking" poster that is prominently posted on the wall.  And while the poster does detract from the fine dining experience, choking to death on a dinner roll is definitely worse.  Join me as I talk to Dr. Henry Heimlich, the 94 year old father of the procedure (and lots more).  He has just written a memoir entitled "Heimlich's Manueuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation."  Find out about his life and career.  Later in the show, Arthur Lih will join us to talk about a new device, "Life-Vac," that can help people who are choking and cannot have the Heimlich or other maneuvers performed on them.

At the end of the show, it will be time for "Ask Doctor Ira," where you can ask me any question on any medical topic at all: anything you forgot to ask your doctor, ask me!  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

Monday, May 12th on the Doctor Ira Breite Show on SiriusXM 81: Doctor Radio

I am back from Digestive Disease Week refreshed, educated and ready to go!  Dr. Lisa Ganjhu will be joining us at 8 AM to talk about autoimmune hepatitis. Autoimmune hepatitis?  Find out!

Odd liver enzyme tests.  No clue as to why?  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

We will expand the conversation after this with Digestive Disease Update.  This week featuring some of the nifty stuff that I saw at Digestive Disease Week in Chicago last week.  Call me with your questions on all things digestive at 1-877-NYU-DOCS or send me a tweet.

Speaking of Digestive Disease Week, one of the big things we saw was a swallowable, vibrating capsule which might help patients with chronic constipation from irritable bowel syndrome.  We will be speaking with Dr. Yishai Ron, of The Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, about his report from DDW on this very topic.

We will end the show, as usual, with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any question on any medical topic at all: anything you forgot to ask your doctor ask me!  Give me a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

Monday, April 21st on the Doctor Ira Breite Show on SiriusXM 81: Doctor Radio

Emerging infection and extinction.  Yup, a super happy show on Monday!

Starting with extinction.  Elizabeth Kolbert,  a New Yorker staff writer, will be joining us to talk about her book The Sixth Extinction.  Find out about how there have been five mass extinctions and how a sixth one may be looming.

After this we will have Gastroenterology update, where I will tell you the latest and greatest news in the world of digestive disease and answer your questions on all things digestive.  Topic of the day: the normal human microbiome!

A few weeks ago, my office became abnormally busy with the Flu.  Usually, by the time spring rolls around, we are done with the flu and ready to start check up season.  This flu seems to nasty as well, with lots of people requiring antibiotics after being "superinfected" with bacteria.  Join me and NYU Professor and Doctor Radio Medical Director Doctor Marc Siegel as we talk about the Flu B epidemic!

We will end the show, as usual, with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any questions on any medical topic at all...anything you forgot to ask your doctor, ask me!  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

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Monday, November 18th, 2013 on the Doctor Ira Breite Show on SiriusXM 81: Doctor Radio!

via Squatty Potty 

As I've been preparing for my Food Poisoning talk at the American Museum of Natural History I've been thinking about some weird medical problems: hot feeling cold, seizure causing pork, and cannibalism related dementia (don't eat other peoples brains).  So I am very excited that  Dr. Clifton K. Meador will be joining us to talk about his latest book: "Fascinomas: Fascinating Medical Mysteries." Find out what a fascinoma is and call us about your own strange medical symptoms!

After this, we will have Gastroenterology Update: where I will tell you some of the latest and greatest news in the world of digestive disease and answer your questions at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

Ok, we talk about bowel movements all the time on my show.  It is, as they say, the safe place where you can do it.  We spend a lot of time talking about fiber, about fluids, and about medications.  But what about your toilet itself?  Despite its ubiquity in the US, the "squat" toilet is standard in parts of the world.  Given that, we decided to reach out to Bobby Edwards, the creator of the "Squatty Potty," an ergonomic way of going to the bathroom.  He will be joined my his medical advisor, gastroenterologist Dr. Roger Siddoway, MD FACG.

We will end the show, as usual, with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any medical question on any topic at all: it does not matter what it is: anything you forgot to ask your doctor ask me!

Call me at 1-877-NYU-DOCS or tweet me!

Monday, July 15th, 2013 on the Doctor Ira Breite Show on SiriusXM 81: Doctor Radio!

We have a great show planned for Monday.  Starting with colon cancer. Dr. Thomas Weber, a colorectal surgeon and the President of the Colon Cancer Challenge Foundation will be talking to us about the rise in the diagnosis of this disease in young people and Treatment for this disease.

Colon Cancer questions...call us at 1-877-NYU-DOCS

After that we'll expand the digestive disease conversation to anything at all: liver, pancreas, the gallbladder..anything at all on Digestive Disease Update.

You can call us at 1-877-NYU-DOCS or tweet me at @doctorira.

We have been a little fascinated by stool on this show: given my specialty its not surprising.  But how about using stool as a treatment.  Join me at author Marie Myung-Ok Lee, who teaches writing at Columbia, as we discuss her recent NY Times essay "Why I donated My Stool."  Find out about stool transplants for ulcerative colitis and a variety of other intestinal diseases.

We will end the show, as usual, with "Ask Doctor Ira," where you can ask me any question on any medical topic at all...it does not matter what it is: anything you forgot to ask your doctor ask me!  Give me a call or a tweet.

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Monday, May 6th, 2013 on the Doctor Ira Breite Show on SiriusXM 81: Doctor Radio

From a tweet comes a show (and maybe more.) So tweet me!  Last week, we received a tweet asking about rashes and Celiac disease.  I gave the short answer right on the air and tomorrow we get the full story.  Dr. Vesna Petronic-Rosic, and dermatologist and dermatologist at the University of Chicago will be joining us to talk about the wide variety of skin conditions that can occur in celiac disease.

Weird rash? Stomach Problems?  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS.

Then onto more stomach problems.  Its time for Gastroenterology Update.  Call me with your digestive problems at 1-877-NYU-DOCS or give me a tweet!

We do a lot of historical stuff on this show...particularly on the Presidents of The United States.  It is a well known fact that John F. Kennedy suffered from a variety of ailments, including Addison's Disease. There is a lot on JFKs illness's documented on the "Doctor Zebra" webpage (he has been a guest of ours).  Today we will be talking with authors Richard Lertzman and William J. Birnes on their new book "Dr. Feelgood: The Shocking Story of the Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating and Drugging JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, and Other Prominent Figures."  Learn about Doctor Max Jacobson, whom he treated and what he treated them with.  Should be interesting!

We will end the show, as always, with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can ask me any question on any medical topic at all and I will be happy to answer it.  Give us a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS with anything you forgot to ask your doctor.

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Monday, April 22nd, 2013 on the Doctor Ira Breite Show on SiriusXM 81: Doctor Radio!

I have been enjoying my birthday gifts tremendously.  First amongst them is the pasta maker I received from my children.  The good news is I have gotten pretty darn good at making fresh pasta (thank you Mario Batali!).  The bad news is that heartburn abounds and I may be coughing a bit.  Join me and Dr. Jamie Koufman, the author of "Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook and Cure" as we talk about silent reflux, laryngeal reflux, and all of those other non-heartburn related reflux symptoms!

Call us with your "silent GERD" questions at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

We will then expand the conversation to all of digestive disease.  During Gastroenterology Update I will tell you some of the latest and greatest news from the world of digestive disease and answer your questions at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!  Tweet me as well.

As much as I love treating digestive disease, I can not lie: treating irritable bowel syndrome can be difficult.  Alternative therapy is just that: but for IBS it may be a reasonable option if more routine measures don't work.  Join me as I speak with Dr. Mark Weisberg and Dr. Gregory Plotnkioff as we speak about their new book Trust Your Gut: Get Lasting Healing from IBS and Other Chronic Digestive Problems Without Drugs.  Find out what they have to say about trusting your gut, and give us a call with your questions at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

We will end the show, as usual, with Ask Doctor Ira, where you can call me with any medical questions you may have.  Anything your forgot to ask your doctor ask me!  Give me a call at 1-877-NYU-DOCS!

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