Category: Health Topics
These podcasts are health related
December 31, 2018 – AFM
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Anchor lead: Can characterizing acute flaccid myelitis help clinicians spot it? Elizabeth Tracey reports Acute flaccid myelitis, the mysterious illness that has stuck fear into the hearts of parents nationally, has better definition now. Matthew Elrick, a pediatric neurologist at …
December 28, 2018 – Genetic Testing
December 27, 2018 – Following CRISPR Babies
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Anchor lead: How should the recently reported CRISPR twins be followed? Elizabeth Tracey reports Imagine being one of the CRISPR twins, the two babies reportedly born recently with modifications to their DNA made using CRISPR technology. The whole world is …
December 26, 2018 – Heritable Changes
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Anchor lead: Is the current state of mitochondrial replacement therapy a model for where CRISPR may go? Elizabeth Tracey reports Editing embryos using the technique known as CRISPR has reportedly resulted in the birth of twins, with changes in their …
December 25, 2018 – CRISPR Babies
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Anchor lead: What is the best response to gene-edited babies being born? Elizabeth Tracey reports The announcement that so-called gene edited babies, twins, had been born took the world by storm recently, and unleased a furor of reaction. Jeffrey Kahn, …
December 24, 2018 – Beyond Rehab
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Anchor lead: Engineering may help older adults simply live better, Elizabeth Tracey reports A bioengineering approach to rehabilitation may soon help older folks who’ve experienced events like falls return to their previous level of functioning faster and better, but may …