Adult pandas eating specially formulated dietary cookies
These adult pandas are eating dietary cookies specially formulated at the China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda to supplement their natural diet.
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Scientists from Michigan State University and Stanford University, taking a fresh look at ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - December 9, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
What It Means to Talk About Race and African American Health
This talk examines the impact of racism on African American health, looking at pervasive inequities that drive higher rates of morbidity and death in the United States. Where once explicitly racist theories of African American bodies and minds dominated public and scientific discourse, contemporary understandings of racial inequities in health tend to use less incendiary language, but still conceive of poor health as fundamentally a problem of individuals. Such framing centers health behaviors including diet and visits to the doctor, and leaves the role of social structures uninterrogated. This talk explores the deeply ent...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 7, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Virtual Workshop Metabolism-based Therapies for Epilepsy Workshop
Metabolism-based therapies for epilepsy have been suggested since antiquity but the modern use of ketogenic diets for epilepsy treatment has been in medical practice for nearly 100 years. The use of these diets has since expanded to less intensive regimens and supplements. Despite decades of research, the mechanisms underlying the efficacy of these treatments is not completely understood, although important factors have been identified.
The nature of these treatments (e.g., altered diet regimens) has made rigorous studies a challenge, both in the preclinical and clinical spaces. Bench-bedside translation has been a challen...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 29, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Argus goo-eater feeds on red-eyed treefrog eggs
An Argus goo-eater (Sibon argus) feeds on red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas) eggs, a main staple of their diet. In a National Science Foundation-supported study, researchers found that with the loss of amphibians, the Argus goo-eater declined in both occurrence rate and ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 27, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Marc Abrahams founded the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, in 1991. He is editor of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, and former editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Research. He has written 24 mini-operas (about heart repair, bacterial space exploration, atomic/human romance, species mixing, coffee chemistry, the Atkins Diet, human/sheep cloning, cockroaches, incompetence, and much else). He invents ways to make people curious about things they might otherwise avoid.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/wals/2019-2020/improbable-research-ig-nobel-prizes...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 11, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Director's Seminar - Asthma and Pregnancy: Adverse outcomes and susceptibility to air pollution
NIH Director's Seminar Series
Dr. Mendola is a reproductive epidemiologist with a long-standing interest in environmental influences on reproductive health. She came to NICHD in 2011 after serving as a researcher and branch chief at the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Center for Health Statistics. Dr. Mendola ’ s research is designed to answer clinically relevant questions related to poor pregnancy outcomes for women with chronic disease, with a particular focus on maternal asthma and ambient air pollution exposure. She built on her past work on air pollution and pregnancy outcomes, developing an intramu...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Cassedy Lecture in the History of Medicine: " Savages cry easily and are afraid of the dark ” What it means to talk about race and African American health
12th annual Cassedy Lecture in the History of Medicine:
This lecture will examine the impact of racism on African American health, looking at pervasive inequities that drive higher rates of morbidity and death in the United States. Where once explicitly racist theories of African American bodies and minds dominated public and scientific discourse, contemporary understandings of racial inequities in health tend to use less incendiary language, but still conceive of poor health as fundamentally a problem of individuals. Such framing centers health behaviors including diet and visits to the doctor, and leaves the role of soci...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 6, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIMHD Director's Seminar: Genetic Research with Alaska Native People: Lessons and Future Possibilities
The objectives of Dr. Dillard ’ s presentation will include the following:• Lessons learned over a decade of engagement with the Alaska Native community about ethical, legal and social implications of genetic research.• Findings from recent and ongoing genetic research by Southcentral Foundation, a tribal health organization in Anchorage, Alaska.• Ideas to increase participation of individuals from groups typically underrepresented in genetic research.
Dr. Dillard is of Inupiaq Eskimo descent, born and raised in Alaska. She is the director of research for Southcentral Foundation, a tribal health organization which ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 5, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
We are what we eat: nutrition, genes, cognition & deep learning in age-related macular degeneration
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the United States and in the developed world. Two NIH-supported randomized clinical trials with 10 years of follow-up in nearly 10,000 participants demonstrated that nutritional supplements with antioxidant vitamins and minerals reduces the risk of progression to late AMD. Dietary data suggest the importance of the Mediterranean diet in reducing the risk of AMD, particularly fish consumption. The analyses of the genetic interaction with nutrition challenges the idea that you can eat away your geneti...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIAAA Jack Mendelson Lecture: Is Relapse and Recycling Necessary for Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder?
Jack Mendelson, M.D. Honorary Lecture 2019
NIAAA established the Jack Mendelson, M.D., Honorary Lecture Series commemorating Dr. Mendelson ’ s remarkable contributions to the field of clinical alcohol research. In 2019 NIAAA selected Carlo C. DiClemente, PhD, to deliver NIAAA ’ s 11th Annual Mendelson Lecture.
Carlo C. DiClemente, Ph.D., is an internationally distinguished scientist whose research has revolutionized the behavioral treatment and prevention of addiction and other health-related disorders. He has made groundbreaking contributions to understanding the process of human intentional behavior change. Dr. DiCle...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Demystifying Medicine 2019 - Premature and Unusual Causes of Coronary Heart Disease
Demystifying Medicine 2019
Coronary heart disease is the most common cause of death worldwide, comprising nearly 16 percent of all deaths annual. While many risk factors are known — aging, smoking, poor diet, lack of exercise — in some cases, the etiology often remains a mystery. More worrisome is the increasing presence of the disease in younger populations, with injury to the inner layer of a coronary artery sometimes manifesting itself as early as childhood.
For this Demystifying Medicine lecture, we bring you two speakers who are providing new insights into Coronary heart disease by studying unique patient populati...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 12, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
WalMart wants to influence healthcare with diet-changing app
David Hoke, senior director, Associate Health and Well-Being at Walmart, explains how the store and Fresh Try app will engage consumers with chronic health conditions to address an important health issue - their diet. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - September 18, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: Mobile Patient Engagement Source Type: video
Special CCR Grand Rounds: 1) Pooled CRISPR Screens for Cancer Biology and 2) Dietary control of intestinal stem cells in physiology and disease
Special CCR Grand Rounds – 2018 AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award and Lecture
The Wachtel Cancer Research Award is presented to young cancer researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the cancer field.
This is the sixth lecture for the AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) and Science Translational Medicine. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Cancer Research (CCR) is co-hosting the event.Air date: 8/10/2018 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Cancer Genomics and Dietary Influences in Cancer
Special CCR Grand Rounds – 2018 AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award and Lecture
The Wachtel Cancer Research Award is presented to young cancer researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the cancer field.
This is the sixth lecture for the AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) and Science Translational Medicine. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Cancer Research (CCR) is co-hosting the event.Air date: 8/10/2018 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Who knew mosquitoes could go on diets? This species is foregoing human blood for floral nectar
Most mosquitoes in a species called Wyeomyia smithii refuse blood meals in favor of sweet floral nectar. New research is helping to explain the evolutionary genetics of the switch from blood sucker to flower fanatic.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - January 12, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
