Podcast: A burning body experiment, prehistoric hunting dogs, and seeding life on other planets
News stories on our earliest hunting companions, should we seed exoplanets with life, and finding space storm hot spots with David Grimm. From the magazine Two years ago, 43 students disappeared from a teacher’s college in Guerrero, Mexico. Months of protests and investigation have not yielded a believable account of what happened to them. The government of Mexico claims that the students were killed by cartel members and burned on an outdoor pyre in a dump outside Cucola. Lizzie Wade has been following this story with a focus on the science of fire investigation. She talks about an investigator in Australia that has b...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 15, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: A burning body experiment, prehistoric hunting dogs, and seeding life on other planets
News stories on our earliest hunting companions, should we seed exoplanets with life, and finding space storm hot spots with David Grimm. From the magazine Two years ago, 43 students disappeared from a teacher’s college in Guerrero, Mexico. Months of protests and investigation have not yielded a believable account of what happened to them. The government of Mexico claims that the students were killed by cartel members and burned o n an outdoor pyre in a dump outside Cucola. Lizzie Wade has been following this story with a focus on the science of fire investigation. She talks about an investigator in Australia that has ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 15, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: A burning body experiment, prehistoric hunting dogs, and seeding life on other planets
News stories on our earliest hunting companions, should we seed exoplanets with life, and finding space storm hot spots with David Grimm. From the magazine Two years ago, 43 students disappeared from a teacher’s college in Guerrero, Mexico. Months of protests and investigation have not yielded a believable account of what happened to them. The government of Mexico claims that the students were killed by cartel members and burned o n an outdoor pyre in a dump outside Cucola. Lizzie Wade has been following this story with a focus on the science of fire investigation. She talks about an investigator in Australia that has ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 15, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: A burning body experiment, prehistoric hunting dogs, and seeding life on other planets
News stories on our earliest hunting companions, should we seed exoplanets with life, and finding space storm hot spots with David Grimm. From the magazine Two years ago, 43 students disappeared from a teacher’s college in Guerrero, Mexico. Months of protests and investigation have not yielded a believable account of what happened to them. The government of Mexico claims that the students were killed by cartel members and burned o n an outdoor pyre in a dump outside Cucola. Lizzie Wade has been following this story with a focus on the science of fire investigation. She talks about an investigator in Australia that has ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - September 15, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Can music interventions benefit cancer patients?
Music therapy is used for a variety of conditions and several Cochrane Reviews examine its effects. A team of music therapists with expertise in the use of music therapy with medical patients updated their review for cancer patients in August 2016 and Joke Bradt from the department of Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA tells us what they found in this Evidence Pod. She conducted the review with Cheryl Dileo from Temple University in Philadelphia, Lucanne Magill from Mount Sinai Hospital and New York University in New York, and Aaron Teague, doctoral student in the department of Creative Art...
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 8, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Medicine's Future, From a Leader in Genome Editing and Stem Cells
Eric Topol speaks with Chad Cowan, of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, about how regenerative medicine may soon cure diseases like type 1 diabetes and Parkinson disease. (Source: Medscape Med Students Podcast)
Source: Medscape Med Students Podcast - May 10, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
"The information we get can be harmfull"; Informed consent is not a panacea
Providing information to enable informed choices about healthcare sounds immediately appealing to most of us.
But Minna Johansson, GP trainee and PhD student at the University of Gothenburg, argues that preventive medicine and expanding disease definitions have changed the ethical premises of informed choice and our good intentions may... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 9, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
”The information we get can be harmfull”; Informed consent is not a panacea
Providing information to enable informed choices about healthcare sounds immediately appealing to most of us.
But Minna Johansson, GP trainee and PhD student at the University of Gothenburg, argues that preventive medicine and expanding disease definitions have changed the ethical premises of informed choice and our good intentions may inadvertently advance overmedicalisation.
Read the full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2230 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 9, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 384: Agent 003, a view to a fish kill
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove and Rich Condit
Guests: Nischay Mishra and Ian Lipkin
Nischay and Ian join the TWiVions to discuss mass die-offs of tilapia by a novel orthomyxo-like virus, Ian's editorial on the movie Vaxxed, and new vaccines to prevent dengue virus infections, including a human challenge model.
Links for this episode
Novel orthomyxo-like virus in Tilapia die-offs (mBio)
Fish flu (TWiV 41)
Anti-vaccination lunacy won't stop (WSJ)
Single-dose dengue vaccine effective (J Inf Dis)
Dengue vaccine needs (J Inf Dis)
Composition of TV003 (J Inf Dis)
Dengue vaccine mutagenesis ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 10, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Addressing sexuality in cancer patients
At the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) Annual Conference 2015, Michael Mawhinney, doctoral research student from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, tells us about the role of clini...
Author: PatientPowerEU
Added: 01/14/2016 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - January 14, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
What Influences Your Therapeutic Choices?
Regional variation in therapeutic decision-making and clinical practice prompts Dr O ' Donoghue to question what affects her choices. (Source: Medscape Med Students Podcast)
Source: Medscape Med Students Podcast - January 4, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
#371 : season 17 finale – cancercon 2016 preview
CancerCon 2016 is just right around the corner and joining us to give a sneak peek at what's to come are CancerCon 2016 Steering Committee members Chris Stroh and Sharla Moore. Survivor Spotlight on young adult survivor and PHD student Beth Oppenheim. (Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio)
Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio - December 23, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Stupid Cancer Show Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 366: Doctorates down under
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Carla Giles, Zoe Dyson, Brianna McLean, and Caitlin O'Brien
In Melbourne, Australia, Vincent speaks with four PhD students about their research projects and what it's like to get a doctorate down under.
Video of this episode: view at YouTube
This episode is sponsored by ASM Microbe and ASM Biodefense.
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TWiV is a MicrobeTV Production (Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition)
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - December 6, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
