A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair
What modern Indian genomes say about the region’s deep past, and how vitamin A influences stem cell plasticityFirst up this week, Online News Editor Michael Price and host Sarah Crespi talk about a large genome sequencing project in India that reveals past migrations in the region and a unique intermixing with Neanderthals in ancient times. Next on the show, producer Kevin McLean chats with Matthew Tierney, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, about how vitamin A and stem cells work together to grow hair and heal wounds. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast A...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - March 7, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Vitamin C for COVID-19, Stool Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening, USPSTF on Oral Health, and more
Editor’s Summary by Anthony Charles, MD, MPH, Associate Editor of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the November 14, 2023, issue. Related Content: Audio Highlights (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - November 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Do antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplements slow down the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)?
Age-related macular degeneration is a progressive and sight-threatening disease affecting the central area of the retina at the back of the eye. There are Cochrane Reviews of the use of antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplements to prevent or slow down progression of the disease and the latter was updated in September 2023. Here ' s lead author, Jenny Evans from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK to tell us about the latest evidence. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - November 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1056: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses health worker–perceived working conditions and symptoms of poor mental health, Mpox neutralizing antibodies at 6 months from mpox infection or MVA-BN vaccination, newborn and early infant outcomes following maternal COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy, duration of SARS-CoV-2 culturable virus shedding in children, prescribing outcomes in outpatients treated with nirmatrelvir–ritonavir for COVID-19 in an interdisciplinary community clinic, Nirmatrelvir and molnupiravir and post-COVID-19 condition in older patients, optimal duration of systemic corticosteroids in COVI...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - October 28, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1002: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses completeness and spin of medRxiv preprints and associated published abstracts of COVID-19 randomized clinical trials, lessons learned from a COVID-19 dog screening pilot in California K-12 schools, SARS-CoV-2 reinfection and severity of the disease, effectiveness of COVID-19 bivalent vaccine, Molnupiravir and risk of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, risk of new-onset long Covid following reinfection with SARS-CoV-2, low vitamin D levels associated with long COVID syndrome in COVID-19 survivors, and clinical experience with the α2A-adrenoceptor agonist, guanfacine, an...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 29, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: VIncent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update – April 2023
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 25 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - March 31, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
JAMA Internal Medicine : Why Too Many Vitamins Feels Just About Right
Interview with Peter A. Ubel, MD, author of Why Too Many Vitamins Feels Just About Right (Editorial) (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - June 21, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
USPSTF Recommendation: Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation to Prevent CVD and Cancer
Interview with John B Wong, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Vitamin, Mineral, and Multivitamin Supplementation to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Hosted by JAMA Deputy Editor Mary M. McDermott, MD. Related Content: Multivitamins and Supplements—Benign Prevention or Potentially Harmful Distraction? Patient Information: Vitamins and Minerals to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - June 21, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
The folate debate, and rewriting the radiocarbon curve
Some 80 countries around the world add folic acid to their food supply to prevent birth defects that might happen because of a lack of the B vitamin—even among people too early in their pregnancies to know they are pregnant. This year, the United Kingdom decided to add the supplement to white flour. But it took almost 10 years of debate, and no countries in the European Union joined them in the change. Staff Writer Meredith Wadman joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the ongoing folate debate.
Last year, a highly anticipated tool for dating ancient materials was released: a new updated radiocarbon calibration curve. T...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - November 4, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning
Charles Piller, an investigative journalist for Science, talks with host Sarah Crespi about a risky trial of vitamin D in asthmatic children that has caused a lot of concern among ethicists. They also discuss how the vitamin D trial connects with a possibly dangerous push to compare new treatments with placebos instead of standard-of-care treatments in clinical trials. *Note of correction: At 9:10 in the Vitamin D trial segment, the host says it is unknown if bone fractures appeared in placebo or treatment groups. In fact, while this information was not disclosed in a peer-reviewed publication, this is known through deta...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - August 12, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning
Charles Piller, an investigative journalist for Science, talks with host Sarah Crespi about a risky trial of vitamin D in asthmatic children that has caused a lot of concern among ethicists. They also discuss how the vitamin D trial connects with a possibly dangerous push to compare new treatments with placebos instead of standard-of-care treatments in clinical trials.
Next, Birhanu Eshete, professor of computer and information science at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, talks with producer Joel Goldberg about the risks of exposing machine learning algorithms online—risks such as the reverse engineering of training...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - August 12, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning
Charles Piller, an investigative journalist for Science, talks with host Sarah Crespi about a risky trial of vitamin D in asthmatic children that has caused a lot of concern among ethicists. They also discuss how the vitamin D trial connects with a possibly dangerous push to compare new treatments with placebos instead of standard-of-care treatments in clinical trials.
Next, Birhanu Eshete, professor of computer and information science at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, talks with producer Joel Goldberg about the risks of exposing machine learning algorithms online—risks such as the reverse engineering of trai...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - August 12, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning
Charles Piller, an investigative journalist for Science, talks with host Sarah Crespi about a risky trial of vitamin D in asthmatic children that has caused a lot of concern among ethicists. They also discuss how the vitamin D trial connects with a possibly dangerous push to compare new treatments with placebos instead of standard-of-care treatments in clinical trials.
Next, Birhanu Eshete, professor of computer and information science at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, talks with producer Joel Goldberg about the risks of exposing machine learning algorithms online—risks such as the reverse engineering of trainin...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - August 10, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Is vitamin D an effective and safe treatment for COVID-19?
Cochrane is producing a series of reviews to help decision makers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2021, we published the first version of a living systematic review on the effects of vitamin D supplementation and, in this podcast, Vanessa Piechotta talks to the first author and her colleague at the University Hospital in Cologne Germany, Julia Stroehlein, about the potential effects of vitamin D and the evidence they ’ve found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
