Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement
First this week, News Intern Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss scientists concerns about advertisers looking into using our smart speakers or phones to whisper ads to us while we sleep.   Next, Bina Desai, head of programs at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, discusses how to predict the economic impact of human displacement because of climate change as part of a special issue on strategic retreat. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Li sten to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 17, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts

Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement
First this week, News Intern Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss scientists concerns about advertisers looking into using our smart speakers or phones to whisper ads to us while we sleep.  Next, Bina Desai, head of Programs at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, discusses how to predict the economic impact of human displacement due to climate change as part of a special issue on strategic retreat. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF) [Image: Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 17, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts

Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement
First this week, News Intern Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss scientists concerns about advertisers looking into using our smart speakers or phones to whisper ads to us while we sleep.  Next, Bina Desai, head of Programs at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, discusses how to predict the economic impact of human displacement due to climate change as part of a special issue on strategic retreat. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF) [Image: Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 17, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts

Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement
First this week, News Intern Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss scientists concerns about advertisers looking into using our smart speakers or phones to whisper ads to us while we sleep.   Next, Bina Desai, head of programs at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, discusses how to predict the economic impact of human displacement because of climate change as part of a special issue on strategic retreat. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 16, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence - Devices and facebook vaccines
In the second of our EBM round-ups, Carl Heneghan, Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined by Deborah Cohen, investigative journalist and scourge of device manufacturers. We're giving our verdict on the sensitivity and specificity of ketone testing for hyperemesis, and the advice to drinking more water to prevent recurrent UTIs in women. Deb joins us to talk about the massive, international, investigation into failing regulation for implantable devices - and shar es some of the stories where these have harmed patients. Finally, Carl is excised about antivaxer ads on facebook - but Helen has seen some pro-vaccine ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence - Devices and facebook vaccines
In the second of our EBM round-ups, Carl Heneghan, Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined by Deborah Cohen, investigative journalist and scourge of device manufacturers. We're giving our verdict on the sensitivity and specificity of ketone testing for hyperemesis, and the advice to drinking more water to prevent recurrent UTIs in women. Deb joins us to talk about the massive, international, investigation into failing regulation for implantable devices - and shares some of the stories where these have harmed patients. Finally, Carl is excised about antivaxer ads on facebook - but Helen has seen some pro-vaccine o...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

WHO can tackle pharma advertising
The array of options available to pharmaceutical companies, to advertise their drugs, is incredibly broad - and the amount that they spend is increasing, with some reports saying it ’s up 60% in the last five years. In most countries, there are pretty strict rules to limit the ways in which Pharma can spend their advertising dollars - but the WHO... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 3, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

WHO can tackle pharma advertising
The array of options available to pharmaceutical companies, to advertise their drugs, is incredibly broad - and the amount that they spend is increasing, with some reports saying it’s up 60% in the last five years. In most countries, there are pretty strict rules to limit the ways in which Pharma can spend their advertising dollars - but the WHO guidelines which have informed many of those rules are now 30 years out of date. A new analysis on bmj.com “Ethical drug marketing criteria for the 21st century“ proposes some ways in which those guidelines should be updated, we're joined two of the authors - Lisa Parker and...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 3, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Barriers to Patient Communication Advertising, Clinical Jargon, Hopeful Messaging
Beth Eaby-Sandy, MSN, CRNP of University of Pennsylvania discusses barriers to patient communication advertising, clinical jargon, and encouraging hopeful messages from the 22nd Annual Perspectives in... Author: thoraciconcology Added: 12/29/2017 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - December 29, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts

Research Summaries: A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels
Towels on a rack in a hotel room (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Don’ Panic. I know the title of this research article seems heavy, so keep your towel nearby as I try to walk you through this article from Cialdini et al in the Journal of Consumer Research.   Cialdini is famous for his book Influence and his work focuses around how to influence other people. One way to get people to do what you want, is to refer to social norms and thus use the power of peer pressure.  For example, a toothpaste  manufacturer may advertise that most people do use toothpaste and that too of their brand. Thus, a social norm is highligh...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 6, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Research Summaries influence persuasion Source Type: podcasts

Choosing treatments for localized prostate cancer, low T advertising and testosterone Rx, what we know about NOACs, and more
Editor's Audio Summary by Michael Berkwits, MD, MSCE, Deputy Editor of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the March 21, 2017 issue (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - March 21, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Advertising junk food to children
In the UK, junk food advertising is banned on children ’s TV - but manufactures are still able to target children in other ways.  A recent report from the WHO  "Tackling food marketing to children in a digital world", takes a look at the issue. In this podcast we're joined by João Breda, programme manager for nutrition physical activity and... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 4, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Advertising junk food to children
In the UK, junk food advertising is banned on children ’s TV - but manufactures are still able to target children in other ways.  A recent report from the WHO  "Tackling food marketing to children in a digital world", takes a look at the issue. In this podcast we're joined by João Breda, programme manager for nutrition physical activity and obesit y at the regional office for Europe of the World Health Organisation, and Mimi Tatlow-Golden, lecturer in childhood studies and developmental psychology at the open university, and the lead author on the report. Read the full report:http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 4, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts