Category: Health Topics
These podcasts are health related
PodMed – Week of November 7, 2016
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This week’s topics include transfusion outcomes in old versus new blood, use of tranexemic acid during surgery, bystander use of defibrillators, and bypass surgery outcomes on stopped versus beating hearts. Program notes: 0:45 Bystander use of defibrillators 1:42 About 10% …
November 4, 2016 – Microbiome Specificity
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Anchor lead: Why do some people have gut bacteria that may cause cancer and others don’t? Elizabeth Tracey reports Do gut bacteria play a role in colon cancer development? Francis Giardiello, a gastroenterologist and colon cancer expert at Johns Hopkins, …
November 3, 2016 – Bad Microbiome
November 2, 2016 – Sayana Press
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Anchor lead: Can a self-administered injection help African women achieve effective family planning? Elizabeth Tracey reports Imagine an easy to use, inexpensive and reliable means of birth control that no one can tell if you’re using. Amy Tsui, an international …
November 1, 2016 – Parkinson’s Pathology
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Anchor lead: Could Parkinson’s disease spread from cell to cell like an infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports A protein known by the acronym LAG3 may be the key to understanding how Parkinson’s disease progresses in the brain, research by Ted Dawson …