SCCM Pod-487: The Intersection of Climate Change and Critical Care
According to the United Nations, climate change is the defining crisis of our time and is happening more quickly than anticipated. Can critical care professionals be the spark that lights the fire of change? Kyle B. Enfield, MD, FSHEA, FCCM, was joined by Srinivas Murthy, MD, MDCM, MHSc, at the 2023 Critical Care Congress to discuss the intersection of climate change and critical care. Dr. Murthy is a pediatric infectious diseases and intensive care physician at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada. His academic and clinical interests are in emerging and severe infections, innovative cli...
Source: SCCM PodCast - iCritical Care - August 16, 2023 Category: Intensive Care Authors: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Tags: Medicine Source Type: podcasts
Podcast special: onboard the climate train to COP26
Last weekend, hundreds of young people boarded a specially chartered train in Amsterdam to travel to Glasgow ahead of the United Nations COP26 climate summit.Among them were scientists, activists and policy makers. In a Nature Podcast special, we boarded the train to catch up with some of them - to talk about their science, their motivations and their message.News: All aboard the climate train! Scientists join activists for COP26 tripSubscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.
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Source: Nature Podcast - November 3, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Podcast special: onboard the climate train to COP26
Last weekend, hundreds of young people boarded a specially chartered train in Amsterdam to travel to Glasgow ahead of the United Nations COP26 climate summit.Among them were scientists, activists and policy makers. In a Nature Podcast special, we boarded the train to catch up with some of them - to talk about their science, their motivations and their message.News: All aboard the climate train! Scientists join activists for COP26 tripSubscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-o...
Source: Nature Podcast - November 3, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
How to help feed the world with'Blue Foods '
How aquatic foods could help tackle world hunger, and how Australian wildfires spurred phytoplankton growth in the Southern Ocean.In this episode:00:45 The role of aquatic food in tackling hungerAhead of the UN’s Food Systems Summit, Nature journals are publishing research from the Blue Food Assessment, looking at how aquatic foods could help feed the world's population in a healthy, sustainable and equitable way.We speak to Ismahane Elouafi, Chief Scientist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, who tells us about the role of blue foods in future food systems.Immersive feature: Blue FoodsNature'...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 15, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
How to help feed the world with 'Blue Foods'
How aquatic foods could help tackle world hunger, and how Australian wildfires spurred phytoplankton growth in the Southern Ocean.In this episode:00:45 The role of aquatic food in tackling hungerAhead of the UN’s Food Systems Summit, Nature journals are publishing research from the Blue Food Assessment, looking at how aquatic foods could help feed the world's population in a healthy, sustainable and equitable way.We speak to Ismahane Elouafi, Chief Scientist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, who tells us about the role of blue foods in future food systems.Immersive feature: Blue FoodsNature'...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 15, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Dead trees play an under-appreciated role in climate change
How insects help release carbon stored in forests, and the upcoming biodiversity summit COP 15.In this episode:00:44 Fungi, insects, dead trees and the carbon cycleAcross the world forests play a huge role in the carbon cycle, removing huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But when those trees die, some of that carbon goes back into the air. A new project studies how fast dead wood breaks down in different conditions, and the important role played by insects.Research Article: Seibold et al.09:37 Research HighlightsMassive stars make bigger planets, and melting ice moves continents.Research Highlight: Why gass...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 1, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Dead trees play an under-appreciated role in climate change
How insects help release carbon stored in forests, and the upcoming biodiversity summit COP 15.In this episode:00:44 Fungi, insects, dead trees and the carbon cycleAcross the world forests play a huge role in the carbon cycle, removing huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But when those trees die, some of that carbon goes back into the air. A new project studies how fast dead wood breaks down in different conditions, and the important role played by insects.Research Article: Seibold et al.09:37 Research HighlightsMassive stars make bigger planets, and melting ice moves continents.Research Highlight: Why gass...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 1, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 794: PAMS spray SARS-CoV-2
TWiV summarizes cases of arbovirus disease during 2019 in the US, and explains a study that estimates infectiousness throughout the SARS-CoV-2 course of infection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Vaccine Town Halls (ASV) Arboviral illness, US, 2019 (MMWR) Estimating SARS-CoV-2 infectiousness (Science) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Climate Reports | United Nations Brianne – Astronomy Picture of the Day: A Perfect Spiral Rich – COV...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 15, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Coronavirus Update With Peter Piot, MD, PhD
Peter Piot, MD, PhD, director of The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is a legend in global health, having been involved in identification of HIV and Ebola virus in Africa. He was founding executive director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 to 2008. He joins JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the global public health response to COVID-19 past, present, and future. Recorded January 28, 2021. Related Article(s): The Challenges Ahead With Monoclonal Antibodies (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - February 1, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Civilians under siege in Eastern Ghouta
In 2016, from an estimated pre-war population of 22 million, the United Nations (UN) identified 13.5 million Syrians requiring humanitarian assistance, of which more than 6 million are internally displaced within Syria, and around 5 million are refugees outside of Syria.
In this podcast, Aula Abarra, consultant in infectious disease from London, joins us to discuss what's happening now in Eastern Ghouta, and area of Damascus, where civilians are being held under siege, where humanitarian aid is unable to reach.
Read the full editorial:https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k1368 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 3, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Civilians under siege in Eastern Ghouta
In 2016, from an estimated pre-war population of 22 million, the United Nations (UN) identified 13.5 million Syrians requiring humanitarian assistance, of which more than 6 million are internally displaced within Syria, and around 5 million are refugees outside of Syria.
In this podcast, Aula Abarra, consultant in infectious disease from London,... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 3, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Civilians under siege in Eastern Ghouta
In 2016, from an estimated pre-war population of 22 million, the United Nations (UN) identified 13.5 million Syrians requiring humanitarian assistance, of which more than 6 million are internally displaced within Syria, and around 5 million are refugees outside of Syria.
In this podcast, Aula Abarra, consultant in infectious disease from London, joins us to discuss what's happening now in Eastern Ghouta, and area of Damascus, where civilians are being held under siege, where humanitarian aid is unable to reach.
Read the full editorial:
https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k1368 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 3, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Should malaria be eradicated?
The World Health Organization, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, and the United Nations, all have a vision of a malaria-free world. The world has already committed to malaria eradication, albeit without a target date.
Bruno Moonen, deputy director for malaria at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, thinks that for malaria, eradication is the... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 7, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
