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This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Sean Haley about the benefits of getting the flu vaccine (for children and adults). Dr. Haley is the Medical Director for Population Health and he’s a family medicine physician at MUSC.

The King’s Highway was a post road that stretched from Savannah to Maine. The South Carolina section, built between 1739 and 1750, crossed the North Carolina line just above Little River on its way to Georgetown.

Christa Gonzalez of U S C Medical School, Columbia, joined Clemson’s Rural Health Agent Ellie Lane on a recent sMaking It Grow program talking about how access to fresh food and its preparation are critical for our citizens’ health. One in eight South Carolinians has been diagnosed with diabetes and each year a larger percentage joins that group. Gonzalez and Lane talked about the Food Share program available in most of our state – every two weeks participants get a box of fresh food – and recipes on how to prepare healthy meals with those items. Gonzalez leads the culinary medicine program at the medical school in Columbia –all students get some instruction in that topic. Extension’s Rural Health agents have on-going programs helping people control diabetes and hypertension; knowing about Food share can be part of that work.

Botflies, also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, are a family of flies technically known as the Oestridae. Their larvae are internal parasites of mammals, some species growing in the host's flesh and others within the gut. Dermatobia hominis is the only species of botfly known to parasitize humans routinely, though other species of flies cause myiasis in humans.

Most colleges and universities try to help students connect with businesses through internships so they can get some exposure to the business community which might help them with their career decisions. But how about connecting them directly with successful entrepreneurs? A program in the Upstate was created last year to do just that. Mike Switzer interviews Chris Manley, CEO and founder of Engenius, a digital marketing agency in Greenville, S.C. that has partnered with Clemson University‘s Center for Career and Professional Development and NEXT, a Greenville entrepreneurial support organization for the NEXT and Clemson Internship Program.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Christine Holmstedt about the benefits of daily aspirin for patients diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, with an update about related, draft guidelines from the U.S Preventive Services Task Force. Dr. Holmstedt is a Professor of Neurology and Director of Clinical Stroke Services at MUSC.

“E” is for Edgefield pottery. The term “Edgefield pottery” is used to identify alkaline-glazed stoneware first produced in Edgefield District in the 1810s.

The financial markets have been doing really well since the short, sharp drop caused by the pandemic last year. Is anybody concerned about the stock market and interest rates anymore? Our next guest is. He says there are several indicators pointing to overvaluations and pending corrections. Mike Switzer interviews Tyson Halsey, a chartered financial analyst with Income Growth Advisors in Charleston, SC. He is also a member of the SC Chapter of the CFA Society.

By now, we’ve all heard about and many of us have experienced the problems caused by supply chain issues. Our next guest says this is also causing marketing headaches for the business community. Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Bob Riggle, a marketing professor at The Citadel in Charleston, SC.