Topic: Health and Medicine
Moira interviews Zack Lynch, co-author of the Neuro Revolution. The book reviews how history has already progressed through an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, and an information revolution. The Neuro Revolution foretells a fast approaching fourth epoch, one that will radically transform how we all work, live and play.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Belinda Clarke, Life Science Manager of the East of England Development Agency. She discusses the issues of biotech and healthy aging.
Moira talks to Dr. Alan Solinger, Vice President for Clinical Immunology of Xoma Corporation about the company's new approach for treating Type II diabetes.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Jim Hengst, President & CEO of ZeptoMetrix about how research scientists acquire materials such as HIV and SARS. She then talks to Jack Armstrong, CEO of Genaera Corporation about how they are working to develop better diabetes drugs.
Moira speaks with Sarah Dunant, the bestselling author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan. Her new novel, Sacred Hearts, takes place in a 16th century Italian convent. The story helps to give a view of the medical science and technology of the day.
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Andrew Balber, Chief Scientific Officer of Aldagen about the concept of banking mature stems cells, as well as LSU professor Dr. Nicholas Goeders about a new approach to treating addictions.
Moira talks with Sir Michael Rawlins, the chair of the United Kingdom's National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence. He discusses how Britain makes decisions on how medical treatments are determined for individuals.
Moira Gunn discusses nanotechnology with Dr. Mike Fisher of Bio Nano Consulting and Tony Cass, professor of chemical biology at the Imperial College, London. They review both its reality and its potential.
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Jay Keasling, Professor of Chemical Engineering and BioEngineering at UC Berkeley and first recipient of the Biotech Humanitarian Award. They discuss the growing worldwide challenge of malaria and a completely new approach which may make it manageable.
Can electronic medical records really help us deliver better care at lower cost? Maybe, says Peter O'Toole, but it'll require plenty of clueful cooperation between software and medical professionals. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he discusses expert systems, knowledge representation, data interchange standards, and the subtle art of balancing constraints and freedom in the gathering of clinical information.
