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04 July 2019: Machine learning in materials science, and sand ’s sustainability
This week, using an algorithm to find properties in materials science, and the global consequences of sand-mining.In this episode:00:47 Predicting propertiesA word-association algorithm is reading millions of abstracts to discover new properties of materials. Research article: Tshitoyan et al.; News and Views: Text mining facilitates materials discovery08:28 Research HighlightsTiny robot-jellyfish, and genome mutation hot-spots. Research Article:Multi-functional soft-bodied jellyfish-like swimming; Research Highlight:How DNA ‘hotspots’ snarl the search for cancer genes10:48 Sand under stra...
Source: Nature Podcast - July 3, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts

Mental health in conflict zones
Fiona Charlson and Mark van Ommeren talk about the hidden epidemic of severe mental health disorders in conflict zones. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - June 12, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts

Ep370: Interviewed on Louie Free Show
Just wanted to share my interview from the Louie B Free Radio Show on June 6, 2019. I share a little bit about growing up in the Youngstown, Ohio area. We also talk about medical topics like medicine & social media, the perceived fear of vaccines, the 2019 Measles epidemic in the USA, the inappropriate use of antibiotics for viral infections, the concerning cost of pharmaceuticals and prescription drugs, hospice and end of life care, the dangers of genetic testing, and more! (Source: Doctor Anonymous Live)
Source: Doctor Anonymous Live - June 7, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: DrMikeSevilla Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts

Tackling gambling
In the UK we have a complex relationship with gambling, the government licences the national lottery, and uses profit from that to fund our art and museum sector - horse racing is a national TV event, and we've seen a proliferation of betting shops on our high streets. At the same time, there's increasing acceptance that gambling causes problems for some people - to the extent that it's been termed a "hidden epidemic" and a public health problem. And it's to that point that the authors of a new analysis have written in the BMJ - if we see gambling as a public he alth problem, why aren't we treating it as such. To talk a...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Tackling gambling
In the UK we have a complex relationship with gambling, the government licences the national lottery, and uses profit from that to fund our art and museum sector - horse racing is a national TV event, and we've seen a proliferation of betting shops on our high streets. At the same time, there's increasing acceptance that gambling causes problems for some people - to the extent that it's been termed a "hidden epidemic" and a public health problem. And it's to that point that the authors of a new analysis have written in the BMJ - if we see gambling as a public health problem, why aren't we treating it as such. To talk ab...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Postoperative pain management and opioids
Inappropriate use of opioids after surgery has contributed substantially to the global opioid epidemic. Lead author Paul Myles (Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) discusses a newLancet Series that proposes alternative approaches for pain management after surgery. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - April 12, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 500: Keep virology weird
The entire TWiV team visits The University of Texas in Austin to record episode #500 with guests Jinny Suh, Jason McClellan, and Jon Huibregtse. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guests: Jinny Suh, Jason McClellan, and Jon Huibregtse Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode A big list of science podcasts Immunize Texas McClellan Lab Huibregtse Lab John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease Video of this episode (YouTube) Weekly Science Picks Alan - The Airplane Cabin Microbiome Rich - Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)(wiki) ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 1, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

Darknet Opioids
When tackling societal problems - like the opioid epidemic in the US - there are two ways of approaching it. One is to reduce demand - by organising treatment programmes, or reducing the underlying reasons why people may become addicted in the first place - but that ’s hard. So governments often turn to the other route - reducing supply - and that’s what the US government did in 2014 when it rescheduled oxycodone combination products from schedule 3 to schedual 2 - essentially making it harder for people to obtain a prescription. Now reducing that legal supply, without in hand reducing the demand, led to fears that ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 15, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Darknet Opioids
When tackling societal problems - like the opioid epidemic in the US - there are two ways of approaching it. One is to reduce demand - by organising treatment programmes, or reducing the underlying reasons why people may become addicted in the first place - but that’s hard. So governments often turn to the other route - reducing supply - and that’s what the US government did in 2014 when it rescheduled oxycodone combination products from schedule 3 to schedual 2 - essentially making it harder for people to obtain a prescription. Now reducing that legal supply, without in hand reducing the demand, led to fears that t...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 15, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group 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

We must not get to the stage of thinking that [homelessness] is normal
The number of people officially recorded as sleeping on the streets of England rose from 1768 in 2010 to 4751 in autumn 2017.1 Charities estimate the true figure to be more than double this. Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography at the University of Oxford joins us to explain what's fuelling that rise, why the true extent of the problem is far larger, and what steps need to be taken to tackle the epidemic. Read the editorial: http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k214 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 2, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts