Counting the ways Donald Trump failed in the pandemic
The Trump administration was left a playbook for pandemics when they entered the Whitehouse, but even before covid-19 was a threat systematically dismantled the public health protections put in place to follow that playbook.
In this podcast, Nicole Lurie, Gavin Yamey and Gregg Gonsalves talk about how the US response to public health was mismanaged, how it has become politicized, and what that playbook suggested should have been done. They also talk about rebuilding public health in the US after this is all over.
Our guests;
Nicole Lurie, former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response under the Obama administra...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 5, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Why men may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, and using bacteria to track contaminated food
First up this week, Staff Writer Meredith Wadman talks with host Sarah Crespi about how male sex hormones may play a role in higher levels of severe coronavirus infections in men. New support for this idea comes from a study showing high levels of male pattern baldness in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Read all our coronavirus coverage. Next, Jason Qian, a Ph.D. student in the systems biology department at Harvard Medical School, joins Sarah to talk about an object-tracking system that uses bacterial spores engineered with unique DNA barcodes. The inactivated spores can be sprayed on anything from lettuce, to wood, to san...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 4, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Why men may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, and using bacteria to track contaminated food
First up this week, staff writer Meredith Wadman talks with host Sarah Crespi about how male sex hormones may play a role in higher levels of severe coronavirus infections in men. New support for this idea comes from a study showing high levels of male pattern baldness in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Read all our coronavirus coverage.
Next, Jason Qian, a Ph.D. student in the systems biology department at Harvard Medical School, joins Sarah to talk about an object-tracking system that uses bacterial spores engineered with unique DNA barcodes. The inactivated spores can be sprayed on anything from lettuce, to wood, to...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 4, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Why men may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, and using bacteria to track contaminated food
First up this week, staff writer Meredith Wadman talks with host Sarah Crespi about how male sex hormones may play a role in higher levels of severe coronavirus infections in men. New support for this idea comes from a study showing high levels of male pattern baldness in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Read all our coronavirus coverage.
Next, Jason Qian, a Ph.D. student in the systems biology department at Harvard Medical School, joins Sarah to talk about an object-tracking system that uses bacterial spores engineered with unique DNA barcodes. The inactivated spores can be sprayed on anything from lettuce, to wood...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 4, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Why men may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, and using bacteria to track contaminated food
First up this week, Staff Writer Meredith Wadman talks with host Sarah Crespi about how male sex hormones may play a role in higher levels of severe coronavirus infections in men. New support for this idea comes from a study showing high levels of male pattern baldness in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Read all our coronavirus coverage.
Next, Jason Qian, a Ph.D. student in the systems biology department at Harvard Medical School, joins Sarah to talk about an object-tracking system that uses bacterial spores engineered with unique DNA barcodes. The inactivated spores can be sprayed on anything f rom lettuce, to wood, to...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 3, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update: COVID-19 – Challenges and Opportunities to Help Vulnerable Populations, May 2019
This special issue focuses on Challenges and Opportunities to Help Vulnerable Populations during the COVID-19 Outbreak. Recorded April 23, 2020 This is a part of the American Diabetes Associations ongoing project providing resources for practicing clinicians on the care of Diabetes during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today’s discussion is an audio version of a webinar recorded on April 23, 2020. Presented by: Enrique Caballero, MD Harvard Medical School Ashby Walker, PhD University of Florida Anne Harper, MS, RDN, CDE Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Lisa Taylor, DNP, MSN, BSN Optum/United Health Group Arshiya A. Ba...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - May 19, 2020 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
COVID-19: From Mitigation to Containment
Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, of Harvard University discusses public health strategies and policies for lifting shelter-in-place and quarantine and for returning the US to a new post-first-wave normal. Recorded Monday April 20, 2020. (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - April 22, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
David Williams - everyday discrimination is an independent predictor of mortality
There comes a tipping point in all campaigns when the evidence is overwhelming and the only way to proceed is with action. According to David Williams, it ’s time to tackle the disproportionate effects of race on patients in the UK.
David Williams, from Harvard University, developed the Everyday Discrimination Scale that, in 1997, launched a new scientific approach to assessing social influences, such as racism, on health.
He’s shown that peopl e who experience every day acts of discrimination— like getting poorer service in a bank or a restaurant, or being treated with less courtesy—will over time have worse he...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 13, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
David Williams - everyday discrimination is an independent predictor of mortality
There comes a tipping point in all campaigns when the evidence is overwhelming and the only way to proceed is with action. According to David Williams, it ’s time to tackle the disproportionate effects of race on patients in the UK.
David Williams, from Harvard University, developed the Everyday Discrimination Scale that, in 1997, launched a new... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 13, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
David Williams - everyday discrimination is an independent predictor of mortality
There comes a tipping point in all campaigns when the evidence is overwhelming and the only way to proceed is with action. According to David Williams, it’s time to tackle the disproportionate effects of race on patients in the UK.
David Williams, from Harvard University, developed the Everyday Discrimination Scale that, in 1997, launched a new scientific approach to assessing social influences, such as racism, on health.
He’s shown that people who experience every day acts of discrimination— like getting poorer service in a bank or a restaurant, or being treated with less courtesy—will over time have worse heal...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 13, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Nudging the calories off your order
There has been a lot of noise made about calorie counts on labels - the idea being it ’s one of those things that might nudge people to make healthier choices.
So much so that in 2018, in the USA, it became mandatory for food chains with more than 20 outlets to label the calories in their food.
But the effectiveness of that is hard to gauge - it’s relied on reporting from custo mers, which leads to an incomplete picture. The really killer data would be from the chains themselves, but they’re reluctant to share that widely.
That's where new research comes in - and we're joined in the podcast by Joshua Petimar, post...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 31, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Nudging the calories off your order
There has been a lot of noise made about calorie counts on labels - the idea being it’s one of those things that might nudge people to make healthier choices.
So much so that in 2018, in the USA, it became mandatory for food chains with more than 20 outlets to label the calories in their food.
But the effectiveness of that is hard to gauge - it’s relied on reporting from customers, which leads to an incomplete picture. The really killer data would be from the chains themselves, but they’re reluctant to share that widely.
That's where new research comes in - and we're joined in the podcast by Joshua Petimar, postdo...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 31, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Climate change will make universal health coverage precarious
The BMJ in partnership with The Harvard Global Health Institute has launched a collection of articles exploring how to achieve effective universal health coverage (UHC). The collection highlights the importance of quality in UHC, potential finance models, how best to incentivise stakeholders, and some o f the barriers to true UHC.
One of those... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 24, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Climate change will make universal health coverage precarious
The BMJ in partnership with The Harvard Global Health Institute has launched a collection of articles exploring how to achieve effective universal health coverage (UHC). The collection highlights the importance of quality in UHC, potential finance models, how best to incentivise stakeholders, and some o f the barriers to true UHC.
One of those barriers, and it’s a big one, is climate change - patterns of disease will change, both communicable and non-communicable, cataclysmic weather will disrupt systems, and the economic impact is going to challenge our ability to pay for healthcare.
But even against that backdrop...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 24, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
