Rural Health Today brings your listeners the latest health news five-days-a-week, directly from the leading experts in rural health.

Rural Health Today focuses on health care from the rural perspective, providing health news targeted specifically at the unique needs and concerns of Rural America.

Listen to our latest health radio reports in MP3 format below.  To start running Rural Health Today, or for more information, please call us at 312-224-2750 or e-mail us at healthradio@sbcglobal.net.

If your station is non-rural, we also offer a general daily healthreport, The 60 Second Checkup.  For more information on The 60 Second Checkup, click here.

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If you missed a recent edition of Rural Health Today, you can hear any of the current month's programs by clicking any of the links below. 

NOTE:  If any of the files doesn't download immediately, try canceling the download and clicking on the link again.  You can also right click on the link, click on "save as," and save the file to your computer.

(IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE:  In order to broadcast Rural Health Today, stations are required to notify us and submit a signed copy of the affiliate agreement.  Stations may NOT broadcast Rural Health Today, without submitting a signed agreement.  If your station is running Rural Health Today, and you have not notified us or submitted a signed copy of our affiliate agreement, contact us immediately at 312-224-2750 or healthradio@sbcglobal.net.  The signed agreement guarantees your station will have exclusive rights to carry Rural Health Today in your market, and stations that fail to submit a signed agreement will be forced to stop running the program immediately, if another station in the market contacts Sound Targeting and asks to run the program.)

(AFFIDAVIT REMINDER:  Stations, don't forget to fill out the required online affidavit at the end of each month.  To access the online form, simply click here.)

October 2008

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
		October 01- Binge drinking leads to oral clefts	October 02- Childhood obesity	October 03- Tweens home alone
October 06- Not FDA approved	October 07- Prostate cancer screenings	October 08- Alzheimer's vaccine	October 09- Suicide	October 10- Aging doesn't have to be painful
October 13- Traffic fatalities down	October 14- Winning a cancer battle	October 15- Diabetic and pregnant	October 16- Preterm babies and cerebral palsey	October 17- Fighting chronic illness worldwide
October 20- Bisphenol-A under investigation	October 21- Seeing with sound	October 22- Baby's sleep and Mom's depression	October 23- Convenience clinics	October 24- Exercise with strained muscle
October 27- Seatbelts save the unborn	October 28- Leaving cancer alone	October 29- Second chance breakfast	October 30- Smarter in school after a healthy breakfast	October 31- Vending machines

September 2008

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
September 01- School anxiety	September 02- Cutting edge treatment	September 03- Laughter yoga	September 04- DNA methylation	September 05- A prostate cancer re-run
September 08- How Vitamin A is saving babies	September 09- Saving money	September 10- Cholesterol screenings for children	September 11- High cholesterol kids and statins	September 12- Antidepressants to treat stroke
September 15- Using blood pressure numbers wisely	September 16- Helping with research	September 17- You're experiencing angina: now what?	September 18- How diabetes affects the heart	September 19- Diabetes can lead to hearing loss
September 22- College kids complacent about food allergies	September 23- Knowing your clinical trial	September 24- Food for your brain	September 25- Training like an Olympic athlete	September 26- Epileptic drug offers hope to alcoholics
September 29- Atrial fibrilation leads to stroke	September 30- Milk good, video games bad

August 2008

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
				August 01- Childhood obesity
August 04- HIV transmission through breast milk	August 05- Finding brain disorders early	August 06- Aging eyes	August 07- Macular degeneration	August 08- Circumcision cuts HIV rate
August 11- Seniors: use it or lose it	August 12- Dementia/Depression link	August 13- Hearing loss through diabetes	August 14- Depression and diabetes	August 15- Removing blood clots
August 18- Vitamin D and heart attacks	August 19- The growing dementia crisis	August 20- West Nile numbers fall	August 21- Fat and plaque build-up	August 22- Heart transplants
August 25- Healthy eating	August 26- Diagnosing Alzheimer's early	August 27- Knee replacements	August 28- The creative brain	August 29- The creative brain - part 2

July 2008

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	July 01- Young athletes' head injuries	July 02- Traveling with diabetes	July 03- Lupus	July 04- Boating with good vision
July 07- Saving pets in a natural disaster	July 08- Screening mammograms saving lives	July 09- Undoing skin damage that's already done	July 10- Regaining trust in tomatoes	July 11- Men's health care
July 14- Little people, big headaches	July 15- MRI for high-risk women	July 16- How the brain perceives social status	July 17- Teens using insulin pumps	July 18- Hemoglobin A1C
July 21- The fat risk	July 22- Follow-up mammograms	July 23- The fat factor and the racial divide	July 24- Surviving a flood	July 25- Cancer and gum disease
July 28- A swishing sound in the throat	July 29- Helping infants breathe	July 30- Dangers of Wii - Part 1	July 31- Dangers of Wii - Part 2

SPECIAL FOR KSIR - NOTE:  The following files are posted solely for the use of KSIR.  Other stations should continue to use the standard files, posted above.

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