Heart Health: Links to Pregnancy and Delivery
Factors that affect a woman's reproductive health can also have an effect on her heart, new research shows. Giving birth prematurely or delivering a small-for-gestational-age baby is associated with a later risk of cardiovascular disease in the mother. Another study found that when women's ovaries were removed and the estrogen was not replaced through hormone therapy, a woman's overall risk of dying increased, as did her risk of dying of heart disease or stroke. (Source: MUSC Heart and Vascular Podcast)
Source: MUSC Heart and Vascular Podcast - April 5, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medical University of South Carolina Source Type: podcasts
Immune tolerance induction for treating inhibitors in people with congenital haemophilia A or B
Approximately 1 baby in every 5000 is born with haemophilia A and 1 in 30,000 births have haemophilia B. In a new Cochrane Review in April 2014, Abha Athale and colleagues from McMaster University in Canada examined the effects of immune tolerance induction and she tells us what they found in this Evidence Pod. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 1, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Babies With 3 Genetic Parents: Good Idea or Just Wrong?
It's possible to take genetic material from 3 people to produce a viable egg. But will this open the door to overengineered 'designer' babies? And is it just a bad idea? (Source: Medscape Nurses Podcast)
Source: Medscape Nurses Podcast - March 7, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Babies With 3 Genetic Parents: Good Idea or Just Wrong?
It's possible to take genetic material from 3 people to produce a viable egg. But will this open the door to overengineered 'designer' babies? And is it just a bad idea? (Source: Medscape Allergy and Immunology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Allergy and Immunology Podcast - March 7, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Designer Babies: Gore and Topol on Fetal Genome Sequencing
Former Vice President Al Gore talks with Medscape Editor-in-Chief Eric Topol about the pros and cons of fetal genome sequencing and why he is concerned about the potential for designer babies. (Source: Medscape ObGyn Podcast)
Source: Medscape ObGyn Podcast - March 7, 2014 Category: OBGYN Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
" Babble On " -- The Discovery Files
Research from the University of Washington and the University of Connecticut shows that what spurs early language development isn't so much the quantity of words a baby hears as the style of speech and social context in which speech occurs. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - March 7, 2014 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
" Tot Thought " -- The Discovery Files
An infant cognition study conducted by the University of Chicago offers evidence that babies are able to make inferences about social relationships. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - February 21, 2014 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
Ethical Issues That Keep Him Up at Night -- Dr. James Grifo
A leading infertility expert talks to bioethicist Art Caplan about key issues: what age is too old to have a baby, deciding to keep or destroy a undesirable embryo, and more. (Source: Medscape Nurses Podcast)
Source: Medscape Nurses Podcast - December 11, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Chicago Prostate Cancer Center's New Philosophy on Prostate Cancer
Dr. Brian J. Moran, Medical Director at Chicago Prostate Cancer Center, speaks about the center's new philosophy on prostate cancer. Topics include:
* The impact of the Baby Boomers on prostate can...
Author: Chicago Prostate Ctr
Added: 08/28/2013 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - August 28, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Neonatal survival and Lifebox
Helen Macdonald, assistant editor at the BMJ, talks to Neil Marlow, professor of neonatal medicine at University College London, about his update to the EPICure study looking at outcomes for extremely premature babies.
Jane Feinmann talks to writer and surgeon Atul Gawande, about Lifebox – which has been chosen again as the BMJ’s Christmas appeal... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Neonatal survival and Lifebox
Helen Macdonald, assistant editor at the BMJ, talks to Neil Marlow, professor of neonatal medicine at University College London, about his update to the EPICure study looking at outcomes for extremely premature babies.
Jane Feinmann talks to writer and surgeon Atul Gawande, about Lifebox – which has been chosen again as the BMJ’s Christmas appeal for 2012. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 27, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Robert G. Gish, MD - Screening Baby Boomers: Implementing New Recommendations for Hepatitis C
(Source: PeerView CME/CE Audio Podcast - Gastroenterology)
Source: PeerView CME/CE Audio Podcast - Gastroenterology - August 23, 2013 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Answers in CME Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: podcasts
