Disrupting snail food-chain curbs parasitic disease in Senegal
In this episode:00:45 A sustainable solution for schistosomiasis controlSchistosomiasis is a serious parasitic disease that affects millions of people, who become infected when they come into contact with contaminated water. To prevent the spread and reinfection of this disease, researchers trialled an environmental intervention that removed plants from lakes in Senegal. These plants act as food for freshwater snails – intermediate hosts for the disease. Results showed that this reduced disease levels, and that the plants could be composted to increase agricultural yields, suggesting this approach could be used to improv...
Source: Nature Podcast - July 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Nature's Take: How the war in Ukraine is impacting science
The ongoing war in Ukraine has devastated the global economy, rocked geopolitics, killed thousands of people and displaced millions. Science too has been affected and the impacts on research are being felt more widely than just in Ukraine and Russia.In this episode of Nature's Takes we discuss the war's impact on publishing, international collaborations, climate change and energy, and the destructive impacts on scientists themselves. And as the war continues, we consider the future of science in the face of a new political climate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - October 3, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
The future of Afghan healthcare
The infrastructure of Afghanistan healthcare is under threat, as international agencies who run clinics withdraw from the country. At the same time, some of the healthcare workforce are leaving the country, while those who remain face the prospect of their wages drying up as the economy of the country collapses.But there remain people dedicated to providing healthcare, and in this podcast we hear from, Wais Mohammad Qarani, president of the Afghanistan Midwifery and Nurses Council, about what changes might be seen under the new regime, and what needs to be done to support care in the country. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 18, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The future of Afghan healthcare
The infrastructure of Afghanistan healthcare is under threat, as international agencies who run clinics withdraw from the country. At the same time, some of the healthcare workforce are leaving the country, while those who remain face the prospect of their wages drying up as the economy of the country collapses.
But there remain people dedicated to providing healthcare, and in this podcast we hear from, Wais Mohammad Qarani, president of the Afghanistan Midwifery and Nurses Council, about what changes might be seen under the new regime, and what needs to be done to support care in the country. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 18, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Measure the broader impacts of healthcare
The synergistic linking of increasing health and wealth is broadly accepted - it's an integral part of the thinking between the Sustainable Development Goals, and the World Bank's call for universal healthcare as a way of boosting a country's economy.
But the quantification of that link - the extent to which a particular health intervention, has broader economic impacts, is actually pretty poorly understood.
In this podcast, we hear from some economists, who have an idea about how we could - fairly easily - measure those impacts at the same ti me we measure clinical efficacy.
Joining us are, Dean Jamison, professor eme...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 10, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Measure the broader impacts of healthcare
The synergistic linking of increasing health and wealth is broadly accepted - it's an integral part of the thinking between the Sustainable Development Goals, and the World Bank's call for universal healthcare as a way of boosting a country's economy.
But the quantification of that link - the extent to which a particular health intervention, has broader economic impacts, is actually pretty poorly understood.
In this podcast, we hear from some economists, who have an idea about how we could - fairly easily - measure those impacts at the same time we measure clinical efficacy.
Joining us are, Dean Jamison, professor emeri...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 10, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Food insecurity in the 6th largest economy
Every year, the BMJ has a charity appeal - we ’ve regularly focused on organisations like MSF, or Lifebox - providing support to areas of the world which don’t have good healthcare provision… This year though, covid-19 has changed everything - and we’re focussed inwards, on the UK.
With growing unemployment, sections of the population being laid off, and with the well documented delays in receiving universal credit - food insecurity has become a major issue in the sixth largest economy in the world.
In this podcast Martin Caraher, emeritus professor of food and health policy at City University of London, explain...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 23, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Food insecurity in the 6th largest economy
Every year, the BMJ has a charity appeal - we’ve regularly focused on organisations like MSF, or Lifebox - providing support to areas of the world which don’t have good healthcare provision… This year though, covid-19 has changed everything - and we’re focussed inwards, on the UK.
With growing unemployment, sections of the population being laid off, and with the well documented delays in receiving universal credit - food insecurity has become a major issue in the sixth largest economy in the world.
In this podcast Martin Caraher, emeritus professor of food and health policy at City University of London, explains...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 23, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
A rare condition associated with coronavirus in children, and tracing glaciers by looking at the ocean floor
First up this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel talks with host Sarah Crespi about a rare inflammatory response in children that has appeared in a number of COVID-19 hot spots. Next, Julian Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and professor of physical geography at the University of Cambridge, talks with producer Meagan Cantwell about tracing the retreat of Antarctica's glaciers by examining the ocean floor. Finally, Kiki Sanford interviews author Danny Dorling about his new book, Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration ―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives. Th...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 28, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
A rare condition associated with coronavirus in children, and tracing glaciers by looking at the ocean floor
First up this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel talks with host Sarah Crespi about a rare inflammatory response in children that has appeared in a number of COVID-19 hot spots.
Next, Julian Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and professor of physical geography at the University of Cambridge, talks with producer Meagan Cantwell about tracing the retreat of Antarctica's glaciers by examining the ocean floor.
Finally, Kiki Sanford interviews author Danny Dorling about his new book, Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives.
...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 28, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
A rare condition associated with coronavirus in children, and tracing glaciers by looking at the ocean floor
First up this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel talks with host Sarah Crespi about a rare inflammatory response in children that has appeared in a number of COVID-19 hot spots.
Next, Julian Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and professor of physical geography at the University of Cambridge, talks with producer Meagan Cantwell about tracing the retreat of Antarctica's glaciers by examining the ocean floor.
Finally, Kiki Sanford interviews author Danny Dorling about his new book, Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Live...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 28, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
A rare condition associated with coronavirus in children, and tracing glaciers by looking at the ocean floor
First up this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel talks with host Sarah Crespi about a rare inflammatory response in children that has appeared in a number of COVID-19 hot spots.
Next, Julian Dowdeswell, director of the Scott Polar Research Institute and professor of physical geography at the University of Cambridge, talks with producer Meagan Cantwell about tracing the retreat of Antarctica's glaciers by examining the ocean floor.
Finally, Kiki Sanford interviews author Danny Dorling about his new book, Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives.
...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 26, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
