TWiV 1091: Skeeter poo and obelisks too
TWiV reviews resurgence of Lassa fever in West Africa, at least 3 paralytic cases of cVDPV2 in Zimbabwe, CWD from eating prion-laden plants, measles in New Orleans and Broward County Florida, failure of Florida Surgeon General to support vaccination, a measles variant in Switzerland, SARS-CoV-2 persistent infections, leaky blood-brain-barrier for long COVID brain fog, West Nile virus transmitted among mosquitoes by the excreta, and viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 25, 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
How effective and safe are single-incision slings for women with urinary incontinence compared with other operations?
Cochrane Incontinence has produced more than 40 Cochrane reviews of interventions that might help people suffering from incontinence. In this podcast, Roses Parker, Cochrane ' s Commissioning Editor talks with lead author of the review Emily Carter, a senior clinician and researcher in urogynaecology in the Manchester Foundation Trust in the UK about the October 2023 update of the review for single-incision slings, a type of surgery for stress urinary incontinence. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 23, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
How whales sing without drowning, an anatomical mystery solved
The deep haunting tones of the world's largest animals, baleen whales, are iconic - but how the songs are produced has long been a mystery. Whales evolved from land dwelling mammals which vocalize by passing air through a structure called the larynx - a structure which also helps keep food from entering the respiratory system. However toothed whales like dolphins do not use their larynx to make sound, instead they have evolved a specialized organ in their nose. Now a team of researchers have discovered the structure used by baleen whales - a modified version of the larynx. Whales like Humpbacks and Blue whales are abl...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 23, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Smartphone apps for people with overweight or obesity
Digital interventions, or mHealth or eHealth interventions, are increasingly common in health care and it ' s important to evaluate their effects. With this in mind, a new Cochrane Review from February 2024 examines the evidence for smartphone interventions for adolescents and adults with overweight or obesity. In this podcast, Eva Madrid, from the University of Valpara íso in Chile, talks with lead author Maria-Inti Metzendorf, from the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, both of whom are currently on fellowships at the Iberoamerican Cochrane Center in Barcelona, Spain. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 22, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all
On this week’s show: Factors that pushed snakes to evolve so many different habitats and lifestyles, and news from the AAAS annual meeting First up on the show this week, news from this year’s annual meeting of AAAS (publisher of Science) in Denver. News intern Sean Cummings talks with Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about the sustainable use of orbital space or how space exploration and research can benefit everyone. And Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi with an extravaganza of meeting stories including a chat with some...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Cerebrolysin for acute ischaemic stroke
When someone has an acute ischemic stroke, urgent, effective, simple and reliable treatments will reduce their risks of disability or dying from their brain tissue damage. The treatments used vary around the world, and a drug called cerebrolysin and its analogues are widely used in post-Soviet countries, Eastern Europe, and Central and Southeast Asia. In October 2023, the latest update of the Cochrane review was published by researchers from Cochrane Russia based at the Russian Medical Academy of Continuing Professional Education and two of the authors, Dilyara Nurkhametova and Liliya Eugenevna Ziganshina, discuss it for t...
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - February 21, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Why are we nice? Altruism's origins are put to the test
In this episode:00:45 Why are humans so helpful?Humans are notable for their cooperation and display far more altruistic behaviour than other animals, but exactly why this behaviour evolved has been a puzzle. But in a new paper, the two leading theories have been put the test with a model and a real-life experiment. They find that actually neither theory on its own leads to cooperation but a combination is required for humans to help one another.Research article: Efferson et al.News and Views: Why reciprocity is common in humans but rare in other animals10:55 Research HighlightsThe discovery of an ancient stone wall hidden...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 21, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Remote Monitoring: Tailoring Treatment for Patients
Over 60 million Americans exchanged health data remotely with providers in 2024, marking a pivotal shift in healthcare. (Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast - February 21, 2024 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Medscape 210869 Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1089: Shoot out at the Circle-T ranch
TWiV reviews a fatal Alaskapox case, MERS in Kenya, diagnostic tests for Nipah and Lassa diseases, HPV vaccination rates in the US, cases of measles in Arizona and Minnesota, hepatitis C virus-derived RNA circles in infected cells, and prevention of respiratory virus transmission by resident memory CD8+ T cells. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker 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 ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 18, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1088: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the use of monoclonal antibody therapy to prevent RSV hospitalization of infants and use of GSK’s RSV vaccine Arexy to prevent severe disease following RSV infection in adults between 50-59 years before he reviews 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 how the influenza vaccine is manufactured can reprogram the antibody response, cardiovascular consequences of influenza infection, mortality of chikungunya virus infection, if an alternative vacc...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 17, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello 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
What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication
Why squeezing a blueberry doesn’t get you blue juice, and a myth buster and a science editor walk into a bar First up on the show this week, MythBusters’s Adam Savage chats with Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp about the state of scholarly publishing, better ways to communicate science, plus a few myths Savage still wants to tackle. Next on the show, making blueberries without blue pigments. Rox Middleton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dresden University of Technology and honorary research associate at the University of Bristol, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how blueberries and other blue fruits owe their ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - February 15, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Smoking changes your immune system, even years after quitting
00:45 Smoking's long-term effects on immunityIt's well-known that smoking is bad for health and it has been linked to several autoimmune disorders, but the mechanisms are not fully understood. Now, researchers have investigated the immune responses of 1,000 people. Whilst some effects disappear after quitting, impacts on the T cell response lingers long after. The team hopes that this evidence could help better understand smoking's association with autoimmune diseases.Research article: Saint-André et al.News and Views: Smoking’s lasting effect on the immune system07:03 Research HighlightsWhy explosiv...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
New Score Predicts Risk for Death on Heart Transplant List
The new score outperformed the current therapy-based 6-status system of ranking adult heart transplant candidates by medical urgency. (Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast - February 14, 2024 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Medscape 210869 Source Type: podcasts
