TWiV 1105: All the T and B in China
TWiV reviews influenza H5N1 in North American cows and in birds throughout New York City, polio health emergency extended, ChatGPT to control vaccine hesitancy, increasing viral hepatitis worldwide, dengue public health alert in Puerto Rico, cherry trees drowning in Washington DC, death of iron lung Paul, origin and dispersal history of hepatitis B virus in Eastern Eurasia, and antibody-independent protection against heterologous SARS-CoV-2 challenge. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links fo...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 14, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1101: It's not over 'til it's Offit
Paul Offit joins TWiV to discuss his latest book, “Tell Me When It’s Over”, an insider’s guide to deciphering COVID myths and navigating our post-pandemic world. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Brianne Barker Guest: Paul Offit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Become a member of ASV (asv.org) The New City by Dickson Despommier Tell Me When It’s Over by Paul Offit Navigating the U.S. Immigration System (webinar) Classifying Viral Subspecies (Workshop) O...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 31, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Renter Eviction, Excess Mortality, and COVID-19
Renters who received eviction filings experienced excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, discusses a recent study that underscores the importance of studying health outcomes among marginalized populations with author Nick Graetz, PhD, from Princeton University. Related Content: Examining Excess Mortality Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic for Renters Threatened With Eviction (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - February 20, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Anticoagulation for Atrial Cardiopathy After Stroke, Eviction Threat and Mortality During COVID-19 Pandemic, PSVT Review, and more
Editor’s Summary by Karen E. Lasser, MD, MPH, Senior Editor of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the February 20, 2024, issue. Related Content: Audio Highlights (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - February 20, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Heidi Larson on misinformation, the right exercise to reduce depression, and Breathtaking TV
Social media, and the rate at which the online world is changing, is worrying - especially the speed at which health disinformation can speed around the globe. We look to tech companies for a solution to the problems of their own making - but Heidi Larson, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, and professor of anthropology, risk and decision science at LSHTM, joins us to explain why we should be cautious about focussing our attention there.
Next on the podcast, research just published in The BMJ looks at the efficacy of exercise at controlling depressive symptoms - but helps finally answer the key question - which ex...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1086: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the how the pandemic influenced the healthcare job market and why people conceal their infectious diseases before he reviews most recent statistics on the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 virus, including all circulating variants in the US, discusses if susceptibility and disease severity are inheritable traits, if vaccination during pregnancy protects neonates or leads to adverse effects, the effectiveness of a monovalent XBB.1.5 against disease resulting from infection with Omicron variants, whether vaccination in the same or o...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 10, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Cervical cancer could be eliminated: here's how
Cervical cancer is both treatable and preventable, and the WHO has called for countries to come together to to eliminate the disease in the next century.However the disease still kills over 300,000 people each year, and levels of screening, treatment and vaccination need to be stepped up in order to achieve this goal.These challenges are particularly stark in low- and middle-income countries, where a lack of funding, staffing and infrastructure are obstacles. Vaccine hesitancy, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, is also a key problem.In this Podcast Extra, two experts share their thoughts on how best to overcome...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 4, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1084: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the how the pandemic influenced the healthcare job market before he reviews most recent statistics on the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 virus, including all circulating variants in the US, discusses the safety of the prefusion RSV vaccine, if high or moderate dose of the quadrivalent influenza vaccine is better for protection against hospitalization, summarizes the new WHO COVID guidelines, revisits how to prevent pathogen transmission in healthcare setting, the under use of COVID oral antiviral and what occurs in persistently...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 3, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
A health and care emergency, the US constitutional weakness for pandemic response, ActionAid in conflict zones
With a new logo, and new music, comes a revamped The BMJ Podcast.
Every two weeks we’ll be bringing you a magazine style show, more variety and perspectives on medicine, health, and wellbeing.
In this episode:
Former chief executive of the NHS, Nigel Crisp, explaining why the UK is facing a national health and care emergency (01:22)
The guest editors of our US covid series, Gavin Yamey and Ana Diez Roux, discuss the US pandemic response, and how problems are built into the US constitution (19:48)
How The BMJ’s ActionAid appeal will help people in Gaza, Syria and Somalia (33:06)
Reading list:
The BMJ Commission ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 2, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
New ACG Guideline Offers Recommendations for ALD
The guideline was commissioned in light of the growing incidence of alcohol use disorder, which was further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast - January 25, 2024 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Medscape 210869 Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1081: I opened the pig sty and in flew enza
TWiV reviews the latest virology news, how infection with a plant virus causes insect to grow long wings, and reverse zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza viruses in US swine. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Become a member of ASV (asv.org) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) The New City by Dickson Despommier Midwife gave children pellets instead of vaccin...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 21, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1080: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin reviews most recent statistics on the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 virus in the US before discussing vaccine effectiveness in children and adolescents, how the pandemic impacted the socioemotional development of infants and toddlers, continues to dispel the myth of viral rebound, how to pay for Paxlovid, reviews quarantine guidelines, when to use steroids and the benefits of convalescent plasma, examines the role of immune aberrations in long COVID and how vaccination may protect against developing long COVID. Subscribe (free): Apple ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 20, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: VIncent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1074: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the outcomes of SARS-CoV-2, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus infection in pediatric communities under the age of 18 years, the treatment of infants with the human monoclonal anti-respiratory syncytial virus antibody to prevent hospitalizations, most recent statistics on the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 virus in the US, how the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic affected school attendance and child healthcare, how exposure length influenced transmission of SARS-CoV-2, how the durability of the anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody respo...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 30, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: VIncent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1073: Taming the shrew and barring Epstein-Barr virus
TWiV explains a study showing that ost traits shape virome composition and virus transmission in wild bats, rodents, and shrews, and development of a gB nanoparticle vaccine that elicits a protective neutralizing antibody response against Epstein-Barr virus. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Become a member of ASV (asv.org) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) The New City by Dickson Despommier Br...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 24, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: VIncent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1066: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses a microbiologist who was harassed during COVID pandemic sues university, use of inactivated poliovirus vaccine for poliovirus outbreak response, safety and immunogenicity of bivalent rsvpref vaccine coadministered with seasonal inactivated influenza vaccine in older adults, coffee as a dietary strategy to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection, enrollment of pediatric patients in COVID-19 interventional trials, vaccination, immunity, and the changing impact of COVID-19 on infant health, COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against post- COVID -19 condition among 589722 individuals in Sw...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 2, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
