Topic: Health and Medicine
BioMS is working on a number of ways to treat multiple sclerosis. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the President & CEO of BioMS Medical about two of the most promising ways of treating MS.
Dr. Moira Gunn asks Deborah Eppstein, from Q Therapeutics, to explain what exactly having multiple sclerosis (MS) means for a patient.
Will Barack Obama's health care proposals be accepted by Washington? How is the weak economy affecting a young adult? Snigdha Prakash and Todd Melby present stories related to important issues hotly debated by both candidates. Prakash interviews an insurance lobbyist about health care and Melby profiles a teenager from Indiana about what she has to do to get by.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Patrick Casey, from Therapy Cell Limited, about the new technique of growing tendons from our own cells -- it's being done right now on horses.
Having an elderly parent with failing health and being unable to provide adequate care out of one's home poses a difficult enough challenge in the United States, let alone in Cairo, Egypt, where home services are scarce. In this audio interview with host Sheela Sethuraman, Magda Iskander describes how she founded Care With Love to fill the need in Cairo for short- and long-term home health care through well-trained and compassionate home health care providers.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Alan Sachs, about new medical treatments in development at Merck Pharmaceuticals based not on DNA, but RNA.
People learning to read will soon be able to use a handheld device to practice their reading skills when trained teachers and the Internet are not available. Using inexpensive hardware, Literacy Bridge plans to provide Talking Book audio players/recorders in developing nations starting this fall, with a goal of selling them for $10 per device or less. Listen to Cliff Schmidt describe the Talking Book and the benefits it will bring to people in far-flung locations.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. David Lacey, Senior Vice President of Research at Amgen, who talks about a new treatment for bone loss, no matter what the cause.
PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology and Health) is a nonprofit organization designed to ensure that the benefits of innovation in science and technology are available to developing countries and remotely located, low-income groups. In this audio interview, host Sheela Sethuraman speaks with Dr. Christopher Elias, president and CEO of PATH, about PATH's origins, accomplishments, and challenges.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich about his latest book, "The Dominant Animal," which looks at human evolution and the environment.
