When an investigative journalist calls
At Evidence Live this year, the focus of the conference was on communication of evidence - both academically, and to the public. And part of that is the role that investigative journalism has to play in that.
At the BMJ we’ve used investigative journalistic techniques to try and expose wrong doing on the part of government and industry - always in collaboration with clinicians and researchers.
To explain a bit more about the world of journalism and campaigning, we're joined by to Shelley Jofre - from the BBC, Jet Schouten - from Radar, Kath Sansom - who started the online sling the mesh campaign & Deb Cohen, forme...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 22, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Nutritional science - why studying what we eat is so difficult.
We at The BMJ care about food, and if our listener stats are to be believed, so do you.
In this podcast we talk to a few of the authors of a new series, published next week on bmj.com, which tries to provide some insight into the current state of nutritional science - where the controversies lie, where there’s broad agreement, and the journey of our understanding of nutrition.
The open access fees for those articles has been paid for by Swiss Re - a wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer - they have not had any input into the editorial process, which has gone throu...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Drugs with low response rates - should they always be offered to patients?
From the 2018 Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) Annual Conference held in Denver, CO, Jacob Kettle, PharmD, BCOP, of the University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia, MO, gives his insig...
Author: VJOncology
Added: 06/08/2018 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - June 8, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 496: Vaccines work, whether or not you believe in them
Vincent and Rich recorded this episode at Vaccines in the 21st Century, a meeting held at the University of California, Irvine, where they spoke with Stacy Schultz-Cherry, Douglas Diekema, and Andrew Noymer about vaccine facts and fiction. Hosts: Vincent Racanielloand Rich Condit Guests: Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Douglas Diekema, and Andrew Noymer Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine International dsRNA Virus Symposium Dummheit (Healthc Policy) Universal influenza vaccine (mBio) Vaccine personal belief exem...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - June 3, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 495: Influenza virus keeps its ion channel 20
The TWiVerati follow up on the Ebola virus outbreak, virulence of Ebola-Makona, and reveal how a parasitoid is revealed to hyperparasitoids, and binding of influenza virus to a calcium ion channel to mediate influenza virus entry. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine International dsRNA Virus Symposium Tracing Ebola virus contacts(CIDRAP) WHO FAQ Ebola virus vaccine(WHO) Nipah virusoutbreak (CIDRAP) Revealingparasitoid to hyperparasitoid (PNAS) Hy...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 27, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 494: Ebola Makona is the opposite of hakuna matata
Vincent, Kathy, and Alan review the ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the finding that mutations identified in the 2015 West African epidemic do not alter pathogenesis in animals. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine International dsRNA Virus Symposium New Ebola virus outbreakin DRC (WHO) Ebola virus case in urban area of DRC(WHO) Ebola virus outbreak not PHEIC(WHO) Ebola virus vaccinearrives in DRC (CIDR...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 20, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 493: Condit is on drugs and norovirus is lit
The TWiVerati discuss the FDA Advisory Committee deliberation on the anti-poxvirus drug tecovirimat, and immune cells in gut-associated lymphoid tissue as the major target during acute murine norovirus infection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine FDA meeting materials for tecovirimat(FDA) SIGA Briefing Information (pdf) Errata to the SIGA Briefing Information (pdf) Gut immune cells major targets of norovirus inf...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 13, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 492: CRISPR diagnostics
The Masters of the TWiXome review the development of sensitive, portable, and field-based viral diagnostics using the CRISPR-Cas system. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine Norovirus outbreaks from nori(Emerging Inf Dis) SHERLOCK(Science) HUDSON(Science) DETECTR(Science) Letters readon TWiV 492 Weekly Science Picks Alan - Decline of local newspapers leaves epidemiologists blind Kathy- Journal oversight, mental he...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 6, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Key Insights: Lymphoma
Co-chair Dr. John P. Leonard summarizing the key take-home points presented during the Lymphoma session at this years Great Debates & Updates in Hematologic Malignancies conference.<br /><br /><br />Earn CME Cre...
Author: imedex
Added: 04/30/2018 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - April 30, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 491: The Ileum and the Odyssey
The TWiVome deconstructs the evolutionary history of RNA viruses, and immune promortion of murine norovirus pathogenesis by replication in intestinal tuft cells. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine Evolutionary historyof RNA viruses (Nature) The amphioxus song Norovirus tropism for tuft cells(Science) Letters readon TWiV 491 Weekly Science Picks Alan - Oligodendroglioma in song Kathy- Everything-repellent coating...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 29, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 490: Shave ice and giant viruses
From the TWiV team, human cowpox infection possibly acquired from a pet cat, and a new giant mimivirus of green algae with genes encoding enzymes of fermentation. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 ASV Job Site revamped Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference Faculty positions at Icahn School of Medicine Dick Courtney obit Human cowpox infection(NEJM) Mimivirus encodes fermentation genes(Virology) Letters readon TWiV 490 Weekly Science Picks Kathy- Landscapes that look like another world (but they are from Sp...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 22, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
HOPA 2018 updates on urothelial carcinoma: what is new?
The 2018 Annual Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) Conference, held in Denver, CO, saw many thought-provoking sessions and exciting updates. Here, Kirollos Hanna, PharmD, BCOP, BCPS, of t...
Author: VJOncology
Added: 04/09/2018 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - April 9, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Recommendations for the treatment of muscle and non-muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma
Speaking from the 2018 Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) Annual Conference, held in Denver, CO, Kirollos Hanna, PharmD, BCOP, BCPS, of the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneap...
Author: VJOncology
Added: 04/09/2018 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - April 9, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Updates on immunotherapy options for metastatic urothelial carcinoma
New and exciting developments on urothelial cancer were presented at the 2018 Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) Annual Conference, held in Denver, CO. In this detailed interview, Kirollo...
Author: VJOncology
Added: 04/09/2018 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - April 9, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 488: Who nose if it will work in humans
The TWiV team reveals that recent mumps virus outbreaks in the US are due to waning vaccine efficacy, and an intranasally delivered small interfering RNA that controls West Nile infection in the brain. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASM Microbe 2018 ASV 2018 Microbiology Student Symposium at UC Berkeley Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference Waning mumps vaccinein US (Sci Trans Med) siRNA controlof West Nile virus brain infection (Cell Host Microbe) Image credit Letters readon TWiV 488 Weekly Science Picks Kathy- Peak blo...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 8, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
