Diabetes Core Update- A Focus on Obesity Part 3 April 2024
In this special series on obesity, our host, Dr. Neil Skolnik, discusses the obesity epidemic with some of the foremost experts in the world. In Part 3 of the series, Dr. Skolnik is joined by Drs. Susan Fidler, Charles Vega, and Margot Savoy. Together, they talking about discussing obesity with patients – how to open the conversation on this sensitive topic, how to handle resistance to addressing the topic, and how to avoid stigma and bias. The Focus on Obesity series is a collaborative project of the American Diabetes Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians. The entire program will comprise a total of ...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - April 18, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update – April 2024
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 25 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 practice and can be applied in a trea...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - April 2, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist ’s career
Robots that can smile in synchrony with people, and what ends up in the letters sectionFirst on this week’s show, a robot that can predict your smile. Hod Lipson, a roboticist and professor at Columbia University, joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how mirrors can help robots learn to make facial expressions and eventually improve robot nonverbal communication. Next, we have Margaret Handley, a professor in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics and medicine at the University of California San Francisco. She shares a letter she wrote to Science about how her past, her family, and a rare instrument relate to he...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - March 28, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Special Edition: A Focus on Obesity, Part 2 – March 2024
In this special series on obesity, our host, Dr. Neil Skolnik, discusses the obesity epidemic with some of the foremost experts in the world. In Part 2 of the series, Dr. Skolnik is joined by Drs. Deborah Horn, Thomas Wadden, and Donna Ryan. Together, they discuss, in detail, approaches to obesity including lifestyle, medications and bariatric surgery. The Focus on Obesity series is a collaborative project of the American Diabetes Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians. The entire program will comprise a total of seven episodes: four episodes of Diabetes Core Update, which will cover topics of interest f...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - March 18, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1095: Monkeys fly and mice exaggerate
TWiV reviews heterosexual transmission of clade I Mpox virus, continued circulation of oropouche virus in South America, herpesviruses in South American fur seals and sea lions, sex-specific differences in physiological responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection, underdetected dispersal and extensive local transmission drove the 2022 mpox epidemic, and a humanized mouse model for adenovirus-associated virus gene therapy. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode M...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 10, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1090: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus before discussing uptake of the RSV vaccine Abrysvo or the monoclonal anti-RSV antibody nirsevimab to prevent severe disease following RSV infection in infants 8 months or younger before going over this week’s influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 virus statistics, including all circulating variants in the US, examines if self-testing is more accurate than clinician administered Binax rapid diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection, if N95 masks need a yearly fitting, how SARS-CoV-2 vaccination impacts the prev...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 24, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Navigating planets, plays and prejudice — a conversation with Aomawa Shields
In the latest episode of Nature hits the books, astronomer Aomawa Shields discusses her memoir Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe.The book tracks her career path as a scientist and a classically-trained actor, explores her experiences as an African American woman in STEM, and interrogates science’s place in culture — some of the things we discussed in this podcast.Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe Aomawa Shields Constable (2023)Music supplied by Airae/Epidemic Sound/Getty images. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - December 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Give children control; supporting adolescent health and wellbeing
Conclusion and preview of next episode (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Dust: the tiny substance with enormous power
In the latest episode of Nature hits the books, writer and researcher Jay Owens joins us to discuss her book Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles. Much like dust itself, Jay’s book travels the globe, looking at the impacts that these microscopic particles are having on the world, our health and environment, as well as exploring the role that humanity has played in creating them.Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles Jay Owens Hodder & Stoughton (2023)Music supplied by Airae/Epidemic Sound/Getty images. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - November 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Fitness Trackers to Guide Advice on Activity Prescription
Fitness trackers are a group of devices including watches, phones, and rings that track physical activity. JAMA Executive Editor Gregory Curfman, MD, speaks with I-Min Lee, MBBS, ScD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, about using fitness trackers to guide advice on activity prescription. Related Content: Fitness Trackers to Guide Advice on Activity Prescription (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - November 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 4 - How to transform global health institutions born of colonial eras
Leaders from academic and funding organisations discuss the transformative change required to overcome extractive and inequitable research practices in global health, and the need for examining power and privilege within traditional research institutions.
Our panel
Samuel Oti, senior program specialist, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, and member of the Global Health Decolonization Movement in Africa (GHDM-Africa)
Muneera Rasheed, clinical psychologist and behaviour scientist and former faculty, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Liam Smeeth, professor of clinical epidemiology and director of ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Decolonising health and medicine: Episode 2 - Looking back to move forward: missing histories of the decolonisation agenda
Experts discuss how failing to confront colonial pasts is linked to present lack of progress in global health equity, why health leaders need historical educations, and how, for Indigenous peoples, it’s not just a colonial history but a colonial present.
Our panel
Seye Abimbola, editor of BMJ Global Health, and health systems researcher from Nigeria currently based at the University of Sydney, Australia
Catherine Kyobutungi, Ugandan epidemiologist and executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, head of the school of history and professor of medical and glob...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1053: Bird flu in Baltimore
From the Centers for Excellence in Influenza Research and Response meeting in Baltimore, Vincent speaks with Ron Fouchier, Rafael Medina, and Louse Moncla about recent changes in the epidemiology of avian H5N1 influenza virus and the threat to humans and other animals. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Ron Fouchier, Rafael Medina, and Louise Moncla Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Spike shirts at vaccinated.us (promo code Microbetv) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - October 15, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1043: Marion Koopmans on COVID-19, Mpox, H5N1, polio and One Health
From the European Society for Clinical Virology meeting in Milan, Vincent speaks with Marion Koopmans about COVID-19, Mpox, H5N1 and polio, and the promise of a One Health approach to prevent outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: Marion Koopmans Click arrow to play Download TWiV 1043 (45 MB .mp3, 62 min) Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) SARS-CoV-2 variants in Rotterdam wastewater (Sci Tot Envi...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 10, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1032: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses predicting COVID-19 incidence using wastewater surveillance data, use of wastewater metrics to track COVID-19 in the US, wastewater-based epidemiology predicts COVID-19-induced weekly new hospital admissions in over 150 USA counties, association between duration of SARS-CoV-2 positivity and long COVID, rapid direct detection of SARS-CoV-2 aerosols in exhaled breath at the point of care, effectiveness of oral Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir vs. intravenous three-day Remdesivir in preventing progression to severe COVID-19, NIH launching of several phase 2 long-COVID treatment trial...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 5, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
