Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic ’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint
Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his editorial on preventing vaccine hesitancy during the coronavirus pandemic. Even before the current crisis, fear of vaccines had become a global problem, with the World Health Organization naming it as one of the top 10 worldwide health threats in 2019. Now, it seems increasingly possible that many people will refuse to get vaccinated. What can public health officials and researchers do to get ahead of this issue?
Also this week, Sarah talks with Science Senior Correspondent Jon Cohen about his story on Chinese scientist Shi Zhengli, the bat resear...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic ’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint
Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his editorial on preventing vaccine hesitancy during the coronavirus pandemic. Even before the current crisis, fear of vaccines had become a global problem, with the World Health Organization naming it as one of the top 10 worldwide health threats in 2019. Now, it seems increasingly possible that many people will refuse to get vaccinated. What can public health officials and researchers do to get ahead of this issue?
Also this week, Sarah talks with Science Senior Correspondent Jon Cohen about his story on Chinese scientist Shi Zhengli, the bat resea...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - July 28, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
How effective is quarantine alone or combined with other public health measures to control coronavirus (COVID-2019)?
Coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, has spread quickly throughout the world, and Cochrane is producing a series of rapid reviews of the evidence to help decision makers respond to the pandemic. In this podcast, lead author, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit from Danube University Krems in Austria outlines the findings of our review of the effectiveness of quarantine, which was requested by the World Health Organization and published in early April 2020. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control COVID-19: a rapid review
Coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, has spread quickly throughout the world, and Cochrane is producing a series of rapid reviews of the evidence to help decision makers respond to the pandemic. In this podcast, lead author, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit from Danube University Krems in Austria outlines the findings of our review of the effectiveness of quarantine, which was requested by the World Health Organization and published in early April 2020. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
The psychology and psychiatry of pandemics
The World Health Organization (WHO) characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and countries around the world are putting measures in place to combat the spread of coronavirus. How do psychological factors influence the spread of pandemic infection and the associated emotional distress and social disruption? In this podcast, Dr Raj Persaud talks to Professor Steven Taylor about his recently published book offering a comprehensive analysis of the psychology of pandemics. (Source: Raj Persaud talks to...)
Source: Raj Persaud talks to... - March 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Royal College of Psychiatrists Tags: Science & Medicine Source Type: podcasts
27 June 2019: Callused feet, and protein-based archaeology
This week, how going barefoot affects what your feet can feel, and uncovering history with ancient proteins.In this episode:00:44 A sole sensationA study of people who do and don't wear shoes looks into whether calluses make feet less sensitive. Research article: Holowka et al.; News and Views: Your sensitive sole08:50 Research HighlightsMagma moving quickly, and twice-transforming 4D materials. Research Highlight: Volcano’s magma hit top speed; Research Article: Wang et al.11:09 Dating fossils with proteinsArchaeologists turn to proteins to answer questions DNA cannot. News Feature: Move over, DNA: ancient proteins a...
Source: Nature Podcast - June 26, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
27 June 2019: Callused feet, and protein-based archaeology
This week, how going barefoot affects what your feet can feel, and uncovering history with ancient proteins.In this episode:00:44 A sole sensationA study of people who do and don't wear shoes looks into whether calluses make feet less sensitive.Research article:Holowka et al.;News and Views:Your sensitive sole08:50 Research HighlightsMagma moving quickly, and twice-transforming 4D materials.Research Highlight:Volcano ’s magma hit top speed;Research Article:Wang et al.11:09 Dating fossils with proteinsArchaeologists turn to proteins to answer questions DNA cannot.News Feature:Move over, DNA: ancient proteins are starti...
Source: Nature Podcast - June 26, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
27 June 2019: Callused feet, and protein-based archaeology
This week, how going barefoot affects what your feet can feel, and uncovering history with ancient proteins.In this episode:00:44 A sole sensationA study of people who do and don't wear shoes looks into whether calluses make feet less sensitive. Research article: Holowka et al.; News and Views: Your sensitive sole08:50 Research HighlightsMagma moving quickly, and twice-transforming 4D materials. Research Highlight: Volcano’s magma hit top speed; Research Article: Wang et al.11:09 Dating fossils with proteinsArchaeologists turn to proteins to answer questions DNA cannot. News Feature: Move over, DNA: ancient proteins a...
Source: Nature Podcast - June 26, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
"Counterfix" -- The Discovery Files
A new, simple technique developed by engineers from the University of California, Riverside, can detect fake drugs from a video taken as a sample undergoes a disturbance. The researchers report they have used an algorithm-based technology, called "chronoprinting," which requires only a few relatively inexpensive pieces of equipment and free software to accurately distinguish pure from inferior food and medicines. The World Health Organization says that about 10 percent of all medicines in low- and middle-income countries are counterfeit, and food fraud is a global problem that costs consumers and industry billions of dolla...
Source: The Discovery Files - April 5, 2019 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
Making multisectoral collaboration work
A new collection of articles published by The BMJ includes twelve country case studies, each an evaluation of multisectoral collaboration in action at scale on women ’s, children’s, and adolescent’s health.
Collectively these twelve studies inform an overarching synthesis and accompanying commentaries, drawing together lessons learned in achieving effective multisectoral collaboration.
In this podcast, Wendy Graham, professor of obstetric epidemiology a t the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Shyama Kuruvilla, senior strategic advisor to the World Health Organisation, join us to discuss what can ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 7, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Making multisectoral collaboration work
A new collection of articles published by The BMJ includes twelve country case studies, each an evaluation of multisectoral collaboration in action at scale on women’s, children’s, and adolescent’s health.
Collectively these twelve studies inform an overarching synthesis and accompanying commentaries, drawing together lessons learned in achieving effective multisectoral collaboration.
In this podcast, Wendy Graham, professor of obstetric epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Shyama Kuruvilla, senior strategic advisor to the World Health Organisation, join us to discuss what can be...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 7, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Have we misunderstood TB's timeline?
The number of people estimated to be latently infected with TB - that is infected with TB, which has not yet manifested symptoms - is around 2 billion. That is 1 in 3 people on the planet are infected by the bacteria. The World Health Organization ’s website notes that on average 5-10% of those infected with TB will develop active TB.
That number... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 23, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Have we misunderstood TB's timeline?
The number of people estimated to be latently infected with TB - that is infected with TB, which has not yet manifested symptoms - is around 2 billion. That is 1 in 3 people on the planet are infected by the bacteria. The World Health Organization ’s website notes that on average 5-10% of those infected with TB will develop active TB.
That number is terrifying, but a new analysis published in the BMJ, suggests that the assumption that latent TB often has a very long incubation period of many years may be wrong - and that may change how we calculate the number of people affected, and our whole approach to tackling the di...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 23, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Have we misunderstood TB's timeline?
The number of people estimated to be latently infected with TB - that is infected with TB, which has not yet manifested symptoms - is around 2 billion. That is 1 in 3 people on the planet are infected by the bacteria. The World Health Organization ’s website notes that on average 5-10% of those infected with TB will develop active TB.
That number... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 23, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
