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"What is Health?" with Peter Sterling (BS 178)
Peter Sterling (Click to play, Right click to download audio) This month's episode of Brain Science features neuroscientist Peter Sterling sharing the key ideas for his new book What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design. In recent years neuroscientists have developed a growing appreciation of the predictive functions of the brain. Sterling takes this principle to the next level by asking what this means for human health. He argues that medicine's traditional focus on homeostasis ignores the much larger role of what he calls allostasis, whi...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - November 27, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Addiction Books Brain Chemistry Brain Evolution dopamine Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts

Coronavirus Q & A With Andy Slavitt, MBA
Andy Slavitt, MBA, discusses recent developments in the COVID-19 pandemic and the US response. Slavitt is former Acting CMS Administrator in the Obama administration, board director at the United States of Care in Washington, DC, and a Distinguished Health Policy Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Recorded October 16, 2020. Related Article: The COVID-19 Pandemic Underscores the Need to Address Structural Challenges of the US Health Care System (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - October 21, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart
First up, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board. Echo-Hawk shares what inspired her journey in public health and explains the repercussions of excluding native people from health data. This story was originally reported by Lizzie Wade, who profiled Echo-Hawk as part of Science’s “voices of the pandemic” series. Next, host Sarah Crespi interviews Danielle Murashige, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, about her Science paper that attempts to quantify how much fuel a healthy heart n...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 15, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts

Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart
First up, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board. Echo-Hawk shares what inspired her journey in public health and explains the repercussions of excluding native people from health data. This story was originally reported by Lizzie Wade, who profiled Echo-Hawk as part of Science’s “voices of the pandemic” series. Next, host Sarah Crespi interviews Danielle Murashige, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, about her Science paper that attempts to quantify how much fuel a hea...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 15, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts

Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart
First up, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board. Echo-Hawk shares what inspired her journey in public health and explains the repercussions of excluding native people from health data. This story was originally reported by Lizzie Wade, who profiled Echo-Hawk as part of Science ’s “voices of the pandemic” series. Next, host Sarah Crespi interviews Danielle Murashige, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, about her Science paper that attempts to quantify how much fuel a healthy heart n...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 15, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts

Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart
First up, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board. Echo-Hawk shares what inspired her journey in public health and explains the repercussions of excluding native people from health data. This story was originally reported by Lizzie Wade, who profiled Echo-Hawk as part of Science ’s “voices of the pandemic” series. Next, host Sarah Crespi interviews Danielle Murashige, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania, about her Science paper that attempts to quantify how much fuel a healthy heart ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 14, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts

Coronavirus Update With Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, discusses recent developments in the COVID-19 pandemic. Recorded August 19, 2020. Related Article(s): The Ethics of COVID-19 Immunity-Based Licenses (“Immunity Passports”) (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - August 21, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

What are the chances of an American vaccine?
US President Donald Trump has been pushing hard for an American vaccine against Covid-19. He's named the program Operation Warp Speed, which has many people worried that safety tests will be rushed. What are the prospects for an American vaccine against Covid-19? If the US is first, will it make its vaccines available to other countries? And what if it's not first? Three American vaccine experts talk with the BMJ about prospects for an American vaccine against the new coronavirus. Joining us are; Nicole Lurrie - senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and a strategic adviser to the foundation working on global vacci...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

What are the chances of an American vaccine?
US President Donald Trump has been pushing hard for an American vaccine against Covid-19. He's named the program Operation Warp Speed, which has many people worried that safety tests will be rushed. What are the prospects for an American vaccine against Covid-19? If the US is first, will it make its vaccines available to other countries? And what if it's not first? Three American vaccine experts talk with the BMJ about prospects for an American vaccine against the new coronavirus. Joining us are; Nicole Lurrie - senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and a strategic adviser to the foundation working on global vaccin...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Testing for TB is only skin deep
A TB infection can take two forms, active and latent. Active disease is transmissible, and causes the damage to the lungs which makes TB one of the biggest killers in the world. In the latent form, the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis is quiescent and can stay that way for years until it becomes active and causes those clinical signs. Testing for the active version of the disease is done directly, but when it comes to latency, we use the tuberculin skin test to see if someone has an immunological response - and when that happens we consider them to have latent disease. However, in this podcast Lalita Ramakrishnan, p...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Testing for TB is only skin deep
A TB infection can take two forms, active and latent. Active disease is transmissible, and causes the damage to the lungs which makes TB one of the biggest killers in the world. In the latent form, the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis is quiescent and can stay that way for years until it becomes active and causes those clinical signs. Testing for the active version of the disease is done directly, but when it comes to latency, we use the tuberculin skin test to see if someone has an immunological response - and when that happens we consider them to have latent disease. However, in this podcast Lalita Ramakrishnan, pr...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

The Impact Of The ReDOS study In HCC
Nevena Damjanov, MD, Chief of GI Oncology, Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Presbyterian, University of Pennsylvania discusses, The Impact Of The ReDOS study In HCC. At The 2019 Gastrointestinal Cancers... Author: obr Added: 02/04/2019 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - February 4, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts

Sequencing TKIs In Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
Nevena Damjanov, MD, Chief of GI Oncology, Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Presbyterian, University of Pennsylvania discusses, Sequencing TKIs In Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC). At The 2019 Gastrointes... Author: obr Added: 02/04/2019 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - February 4, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts