Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA
Contributing Correspondent Lizzie Wade joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss fossilized footprints left on a lake shore in North America sometime before the end of Last Glacial Maximum—possibly the earliest evidence for humans on the continent. Read the research.
Next, Paolo Cherubini, a senior scientist in the dendrosciences research group at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, discusses using tree rings to date and authenticate 17th and 18th century violins worth millions of dollars.
Finally, in this month’s installment of the series of book interviews on race and science, guest host A...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 23, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Are laboratory-made, COVID-19-specific monoclonal antibodies an effective treatment for COVID-19?
Cochrane is producing a series of reviews to help decision makers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2021, we published the first version of a Living Systematic Review on the effects of monoclonal antibodies for treating COVID-19 and in this podcast we speak to Nina Kreuzberger one of the lead authors, about the review, which was initiated in the Germany-wide joint projects "COVIM" and "CEOsys" and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - September 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update Sept 2021
Diabetes Core Update – September 2021 Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 20 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical p...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - August 26, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
Ivermectin for preventing and treating COVID-19
Cochrane is producing a series of reviews relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2021, we published the first version of our review on the effects of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19, in a collaboration between Cochrane's Infectious Diseases and Haematological Malignancy Groups. We asked one of the authors, Maria Popp from University Hospital Wuerzburg in Germany, to tell us about their findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety in children and young people
The Cochrane Common Mental Disorders Group has produced many reviews of the effects on interventions for conditions such as anxiety and depression. They added to these in November 2020 with a substantially revised version of their review of the use of cognitive behavioural therapy for children and adolescents. We asked one of the authors, Tessa Reardon from the University of Oxford in the UK, to tell us about the importance of this review and what it found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Does preconception lifestyle advice help people with infertility to have a baby?
Cochrane Reviews cover a wide range of interventions to help couples with infertility or subfertility to conceive, and these are updated to take account of new evidence or introduce new review methods. One of the reviews, looking at preconception lifestyle advice for people with infertility, was updated for the first time in April 2021 and we asked lead author, Tessy Boedt from the Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism at KU Leuven in Belgium to tell us more. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 20, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Is vitamin D an effective and safe treatment for COVID-19?
Cochrane is producing a series of reviews to help decision makers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2021, we published the first version of a living systematic review on the effects of vitamin D supplementation and, in this podcast, Vanessa Piechotta talks to the first author and her colleague at the University Hospital in Cologne Germany, Julia Stroehlein, about the potential effects of vitamin D and the evidence they ’ve found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Stopping long-term antidepressants in people with depression or anxiety
Some Cochrane reviews investigate the effects of different ways of stopping, rather than starting treatments. A new review in April 2021 does this for adults who have been taking antidepressants for some time. One of the authors, Mieke van Driel from The University of Queensland in Australia tells us more in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 8, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Treatment options for newly diagnosed glioblastoma in older people
In March 2021, the Cochrane Neuro-Oncology Group published a series of eight new complex systematic reviews on priority topics for the brain tumour community. These were selected from the most important unanswered questions identified by people in this area using James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership methods, which bring together patients and the public with practitioners. One of the reviews was a network meta-analysis of treatments for glioblastoma in the elderly and we asked lead author, Catherine Hanna from the University of Glasgow in the UK, to tell us about the condition and the review. (Source: Podcasts f...
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
