TWiV 341: Ebolavirus experiences
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Adam Kucharski, Gillian Slack, and Emma Thomson
Vincent returns to the University of Glasgow MRC-Center for Virus Research and speaks with Emma, Gillian, and Adam about their ebolavirus experiences: caring for an infected patient, working in an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone, and making epidemiological predictions about the outbreak in west Africa.
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Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - June 14, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment for children with anaemia
In some areas of health care, we use a treatment for one condition to try to help people with something else. One example is the use of anti-malaria treatments for children with anaemia and the evidence for this was examined in a new Cochrane Review in January 2015. Anke Rohwer from the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care at Stellenbosch University in South Africa describes the rationale and the findings in this Evidence Pod. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 20, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Restricting or banning alcohol advertising to reduce alcohol consumption in adults and adolescents
Misuse of alcohol is a major public health challenge around the world. One strategy that has been tried to minimise the harm is the banning of alcohol promotion and advertising. The evidence on the effects of this has been investigated in a Cochrane Review that was published in November 2014. One of the authors, Charles Parry from the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit in the South African Medical Research Council, discusses its findings and implications. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 5, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
The Lancet: February 12, 2015
Ebola in west Africa: getting to zero. Udani Samarasekera discusses a Lancet Editorial and World Report (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - February 13, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
Listen to The Lancet: February 12
Ebola in west Africa: getting to zero. Udani Samarasekera discusses a Lancet Editorial and World Report (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - February 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
Patient spotlight - Doing it for themselves
In our accompanying roundtable discussion,we hear views from a group of patients and clinicians based largely in the UK on the actions required to advance progress towards providing patient centred care.
To extend the conversation we talked to members of the BMJ's international patient advisory panel and other patient advocates - and what follows are short clips of hour long conversations with people in the US, Europe, India, Equador a nd Uganda.
While the quality of the recordings vary there is no mistaking
the passion of these advocates to improve care for fellow patients and the barriers which need to be overcome...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 10, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Patient spotlight - Doing it for themselves
In our accompanying roundtable discussion,we hear views from a group of patients and clinicians based largely in the UK on the actions required to advance progress towards providing patient centred care.
To extend the conversation we talked to members of the BMJ's international patient advisory panel and other patient advocates - and what follows are short clips of hour long conversations with people in the US, Europe, India, Equador and Uganda.
While the quality of the recordings vary there is no mistaking
the passion of these advocates to improve care for fellow patients and the barriers which need to be overcome ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 10, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - February 1925
Paleontologist Raymond Dart had newly arrived in South Africa when he came across a fossil that would change his life and his science. It was the face, jaw and brain cast of an extinct primate – not quite ape and not quite human. The paleontology community shunned the find, and proving that the creature was a human relative took decades. [Originally aired 26/02/2014] (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - January 26, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast: 22 September 2016
This week, a sea of viruses, defining social class, the human journey out of Africa and human remains found on Antikythera shipwreck. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - January 26, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: podcasts
Deworming buffalo and a news roundup
Vanessa Ezenwa discusses the complex relationship between parasitic infections and tuberculosis in African buffalo and what it can tell us about human health. Online news editor David Grimm dicusses coloration in lizards, weighing earth-like planets, and how bears help meadows by eating ants. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: Mark Jordahl/Flickr/CC-BY-2.0] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 8, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Science Source Type: podcasts
Travel to West Africa? Don't Neglect Malaria Prevention
If travel can't be postponed, travelers to West Africa must guard not only against Ebola but against malaria, too. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - December 10, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
" Cornge " -- The Discovery Files
Purdue researchers have identified a set of genes that can be used to naturally boost the provitamin A content of corn kernels, a finding that could help combat vitamin A deficiency in developing countries and macular degeneration in the elderly. Vitamin A deficiency causes blindness in 250,000 to 500,000 children every year, half of whom die within a year of losing their eyesight, according to the World Health Organization. The problem most severely affects children in Sub-Saharan Africa, an area in which white corn, which has minimal amounts of provitamin A carotenoids, is a dietary mainstay. Insufficient carotenoids may...
Source: The Discovery Files - November 14, 2014 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
How hippos help and a news roundup (14 November 2014)
David Grimm and Meghna Sachdev discuss robots that can induce ghostly feelings, the domestication of cats, and training humans to echolocate. Elizabeth Pennisi discusses overcoming hippos' dangerous reputation and oddly shaped bodies to study their important role in African ecosystems. Hosted by Sarah Crespi. [Img: Kabacchi/Wikipedia] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - November 14, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
