'HealthWeek': Health information you can trust.WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1997--Dr. Nancy Snyderman Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D. is the chief medical editor for NBC News, and frequently appears on NBC's Today Show in various medical-related features. Early life Dr. Snyderman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Indiana University, earning her B.A. in Microbiology. , one of the nation's best-known medical journalists, has joined "HealthWeek," a weekly news magazine series to be launched nationwide on PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, beginning Friday, May 2 (check your local listings). Dr. Nancy Snyderman will present her own weekly "Healthful health·ful adj. 1. Conducive to good health; salutary. 2. Healthy. health  ful·ness n. Hints" segment on "HealthWeek," in which she offers practical information to viewers about common health concerns. She is a medical correspondent for ABC News and can be seen on "Good Morning America Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. The show was adapted from The Morning Exchange, a morning show created by and airing on the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and was launched nationally as " and "Prime Time Live." Dr. Snyderman can be heard nationwide on "Healthtalk" segments aired daily on CBS radio. She also hosts a daily radio talk show in San Francisco. "HealthWeek" is a production of The Washington Post Company in association with Maryland Public Television Maryland Public Television (MPT) is a not-for-profit, state-licensed public television network which serves the citizens and communities of Maryland and beyond through a variety of broadcast and non-broadcast activities. , and is being nationally underwritten by the Heinz Family Philanthropies. Each week, the series will include the top news in health, medicine, and related environmental issues. Using a magazine-style format, "HealthWeek" will also feature consumer health segments ranging from women's health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. and fitness to managed care and new treatments. "At `HealthWeek,' we are determined to be the leading provider of consumer health news and information. Having Nancy Snyderman join our already greatly qualified team demonstrates the high standards we are establishing," said Robert J. Davis, Ph.D., executive producer for "HealthWeek." Dr. Snyderman has reported on wide-ranging medical topics. In 1991, she spearheaded a month-long series on women's health that aired on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. . She has received numerous broadcasting honors, including awards from the Associated Press, California Medical Association, and the Radio and Television News Directors Association. She was recently elected to the board of directors of the American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and is the first woman to hold an elected position in the board's 100 year history. Recently, she published Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Good Health for Women Over Forty. Dr. Snyderman is a practicing surgeon as well as a trained pediatrician and currently serves as an associate clinical professor of otolaryngology at the California-Pacific Medical Center and the University of California-San Francisco. To obtain more information about "HealthWeek," please call Hampton Shaddock shaddock: see grapefruit. at 202/879-9361 or Ruby Shamir at 202/879-9317. CONTACT: HealthWeek Hampton Shaddock, 202/879-9361 Ruby Shamir, 202/879-9317 |
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