What are the risks and benefits of different positions for spinal taps in infants?
The Cochrane Neonatal Group works on producing and updating Cochrane Reviews to provide comprehensive data based on the latest evidence about the care of babies and infants. In December 2023, they added to their more than 450 reviews with one on the position used to perform spinal taps. Here are two co-authors of the review, Marcus Glenton Prescott from St. Olav ’s Hospital, Trondheim in Norway and Sara Pessano from Gaslini Children ' s Hospital in Genoa Italy, to tell us about the findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - January 8, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 992: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses clearance of longstanding, immune-deficiency-associated, vaccine-derived poliovirus infection following remdesivir therapy for chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection, SARS-CoV-2 exposure in New York City rats, clinical characteristics and outcomes of children with SARS-CoV-2 infection during the Delta and Omicron variant-dominant periods in Korea, exhaled breath aerosol shedding of SARS-CoV-2 variants, outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and the development of long COVID over 10 months, Nirmatrelvir and the risk of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, assessment of the risk of venous thr...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 18, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 971: Another year is viral
In the first epitope of 2023, TWiV reviews our coverage of virology in 2022, including favorite story arcs, episodes, show titles, and much more. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Our favorite 2022 virology stories: •Vincent: Paul Offit on bivalent boosters (TWiV 917, 942, Special) •Dickson: Interviews with Paul Offit and Andy Slavitt •Rich: TWiV 948: Breathless with David Quammen •Kathy: TWiV 915: Mouse mouth to mouse mom •Bri...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 1, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Endovascular thrombectomy and intra-arterial interventions for acute ischaemic stroke
The most common type of stroke is one in which a large artery in the brain gets blocked by a blood clot and there are dozens of Cochrane reviews of various treatments for these ischaemic strokes. One of these reviews, looking at the effects of endovascular thrombectomy and intra-arterial interventions, was updated in June 2021 and lead author, Melinda Roaldsen from the Arctic University of Norway in Troms ø, briefly describes the new findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 1, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia
In this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19.
They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, and new editor-in-chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.
This week, the team bring you updates on;
Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospita l with covid-19 - how are people with long covid faring.
Finally published research from Scandinavia on the risk of thrombotic events after administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca v...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia
In this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19.
They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, and new editor-in-chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.
This week, the team bring you updates on;
Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospital with covid-19 - how are people with long covid faring.
Finally published research from Scandinavia on the risk of thrombotic events after administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vac...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Norway's prime minister reveals plans to protect the world's oceans
Erna Solberg on fisheries, fossil fuels and the future of the oceans.This week, world leaders are announcing a series of pledges to protect and sustainably use the world’s oceans. The pledges form the crowning achievement of the ‘High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy’ a multinational group formed back in 2018. The panel has sought to bring together research, published in a number of so-called ‘blue papers’ and special reports by scientists, policy- and legal-experts from around the world – all with the ear of 14 participating world leaders.Erna Solberg, the prime minister of Norway, co-led the Panel....
Source: Nature Podcast - December 3, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Norway's prime minister reveals plans to protect the world's oceans
Erna Solberg on fisheries, fossil fuels and the future of the oceans.This week, world leaders are announcing a series of pledges to protect and sustainably use the world’s oceans. The pledges form the crowning achievement of the ‘High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy’ a multinational group formed back in 2018. The panel has sought to bring together research, published in a number of so-called ‘blue papers’ and special reports by scientists, policy- and legal-experts from around the world – all with the ear of 14 participating world leaders.Erna Solberg, the prime minister of Norway, co-led the Panel....
Source: Nature Podcast - December 3, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 687: Peter Hotez sticks to the vax
Peter Hotez joins TWiV to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, including why it went out of control in the US, the hijacking of public health practices by anti-science extremist groups, prospects for control, and whether we will be prepared for the next one. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Guest: Peter Hotez Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Peter Hotez on TWiP 29 and TWiV Special Wednesday, January 20, 2021 (Microbes Inf) SARS-CoV-2 RBD protein vaccine candidate (bioRxiv) Anti-science extremism i...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - November 29, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Talking politics, talking science
Science and politics are not easy bedfellows - "Stick to the science" is a three part series which aims to find out why.In the third and final episode we try to get to the bottom of how journalists, communicators and policymakers influence how science is perceived. We discuss the danger of politicization and ask the question - can science be part of the political narrative without compromising its values?Tell us what you think of this series: https://go.nature.com/2HzXVLcThis episode was produced by Nick Howe, with editing from Noah Baker and Benjamin Thompson. It featured: Deborah Blum, Bruce Lewenstein, Dan Sarewitz, Han...
Source: Nature Podcast - October 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Physical activity and mortality - "The least active quartile did less than 5 minute per day"
We know that exercise is good for you - the WHO recommends at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity aerobic physical activity each week.
That recommendation is built on evidence that relied on self reporting that may underestimate the amount of lower intensity exercise those people were doing, and at the sometime overestimate the overall amount.
That makes new research, published on bmj.com particularly interesting - it pulls toge ther the published data on outcomes for measured activity, where study participants were given an accelerometer to wear.
Ulf Ekelund, from the Department...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Physical activity and mortality - ”The least active quartile did less than 5 minute per day”
We know that exercise is good for you - the WHO recommends at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity aerobic physical activity each week.
That recommendation is built on evidence that relied on self reporting that may underestimate the amount of lower intensity exercise those people were doing, and at the sometime overestimate the overall amount.
That makes new research, published on bmj.com particularly interesting - it pulls together the published data on outcomes for measured activity, where study participants were given an accelerometer to wear.
Ulf Ekelund, from the Department o...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 23, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
One million ways to sex a chicken egg, and how plastic finds its way to Arctic ice
Researchers, regulators, and the chicken industry are all united in their search for a way to make eggs more ethical by stopping culling—the killing of male chicks born to laying hens. Contributing Correspondent Gretchen Vogel talks with host Sarah Crespi about the many approaches being tried to determine the sex of chicken embryos before they hatch, from robots with lasers, to MRIs, to artificial intelligence, to gene editing with CRISPR.
Also this week, Sarah talks with Melanie Bergmann, a marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, about finding microplast...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - August 15, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Life and Death in Norway and the US
Interview with David M. Cutler, PhD, author of Life and Death in Norway and the United States (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - May 13, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
