Keeping Kids Healthy
Ground Breaking Television Series Wins Fifth Emmy Award for Its Show on Freidreich’s Ataxia and launches Award-Winning Ninth Season May 2008.
To see the Emmy-winning Freidreich's Ataxia show, click here.
Scroll down to see the list of shows airing in the New York Metropolitan region during our ninth season.
For a full list of topics we've covered on Keeping Kids Healthy, please click here.
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Keeping Kids Healthy, the weekly pediatric health television series, produced by Montefiore Medical Center in association with Thirteen/WNET New York, launches an award-winning season of shows for its ninth season beginning May 2, 2008. Keeping Kids Healthy won its fifth Emmy Award at the 2008 New York Emmy Awards in April. To date, Keeping Kids Healthy has garnered five Emmy awards and eleven nominations. The series has also received two Telly Awards and received the Parents' Choice Foundation Award.
This pioneering children's health television series is a show about better parenting, disease prevention and about keeping your kids safe. The 2008 Emmy Award was presented in the category of Health/Science programming for the show Friedreich's Ataxia: Living Life "Pretty Well." The show received one Emmy Award in April 2007 for outstanding Interview/Discussion programming, one Emmy in March 2006 for outstanding Health/Science programming and two Emmy Awards in the same category in 2005.
Keeping Kids Healthy originally premiered on Friday May 10, 2002, and is nationally syndicated by American Public Television. The show is Executive Produced by Rich Sabreen Enterprises. The show's ninth season begins airing May 2, 2008. The series airs on Friday afternoons at 2.30pm and then repeats on Saturday mornings at 6.30am. Here is the list of shows airing in Season Nine:
| Living with Friedreich's Ataxia read more |
Fri 5/2 Sat 5/3 |
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| Teen Pregnancy: What Can a Parent Do? read more |
Fri 5/9 Sat 5/10 |
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| Hidden Dangers of Sports read more |
Fri 5/16 Sat 5/17 |
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| Helping Your Child Cope with Grief read more |
Fri 5/23 Sat 5/24 |
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| Foster Adoption I: The Child's View read more |
Fri 5/30 Sat 5/31 |
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| Foster Adoption II: The Family's View read more |
Fri 6/6 Sat 6/7 |
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| Lupus: Unraveling a Medical Mystery read more |
Fri 6/13 Sat 6/14 |
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| When Mom or Dad is an Alcoholic: Coping Tips for the Family read more |
Fri 6/20 Sat 6/21 |
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| Triumph of the Spirit I: Conquering Spinal Cord Injury read more |
Fri 6/27 Sat 6/28 |
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| Triumph of the Spirit II: A Child's Journey Through Paralysis read more |
Fri 7/4 Sat 7/5 |
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| Money and Kids: A Reality Check! read more Teen Suicide: The Silent Epidemic read more |
Fri 7/11 Sat 7/12 |
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| Kids with Chronic Illness: Through Their Eyes read more |
Fri 7/18 Sat 7/19 |
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| Cystic Fibrosis: A Day in the Life read more |
Fri 7/25 Sat 7/26 |
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Shot in the lobby of The Children's Hospital at Montefiore and hosted by Dr. Winnie King, a medical journalist and practicing physician, this weekly television series brings parents and caregivers together with medical professionals from around the nation to discuss real issues and provide useful information to adults and children alike.
Each half-hour show of Keeping Kids Healthy is usually divided into two segments dealing with different topics. Sometimes, we focus the full half-hour on a single topic.
On this site, you'll find more information about the topics discussed in each episode and additional resources should you want to learn even more. You can also browse our Child Health Library, containing more than 4,000 pages of medical information to help you learn more about various conditions and illnesses that affect children.
Please remember that the information provided on Keeping Kids Healthy is not meant to replace the guidance or advice of your pediatrician.
