Topic: Health and Medicine
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Carl Zimmer about Ecoli: the good, the bad, and the under appreciated.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with BIO's Jim Greenwood, and Josh Boger from Vertex Pharmaceuticals during the anual International BIO Conference 2008.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Paul Tan, CEO of Living Cell Technologies, who have a new innovative approach to diabetes.
When Dr. Vera Cordeiro Rio worked at Hospital da Lagoa in Rio de Janeiro, she witnessed a constant admission/re-admission cycle in childcare treatment. To break that cycle, she gathered medical community volunteers to form Renascer, addressing root causes that prevent families from receiving adequate care. In this audio interview, join host Sheela Sethuraman as she learns how Cordeiro Rio translated her passion into a methodology that is quickly sweeping through Brazil and the world.
In Our August Archives Favorites Series
The question of what to eat to be healthy has spawned a rash of often contradictory advice by "experts." In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Ethics and Society Program, NYU professor and author Marion Nestle offers simple advice that cuts through the confusion. She highlights the difference between "nutrients" and "food," and suggests how to bring "nutrition" back into the food realm. Her discussion forays into how agriculture and business interact to produce the foodstuffs on our shelves.
Kriss and Eric’s Favorites from the Archives
AIDS, malaria, and maternal mortality are some of the chronic public health issues that plague Africa. Invited to Stanford, Paul Farmer talks about how his Boston-based organization, Partners In Health, is spending donor dollars to bring the lessons garnered from its work in Haiti to scale up health care services in war-torn Rwanda. As dicussed in this audio lecture, his organization seeks to fill the gap that exists between medical R&D and health care delivery so preventions and cures can be brought to more of the people who need them.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with psychiatry lecturer and author Charles Barber, who recently wrote "Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation." She asks him why Americans account for two thirds of the anti-depressant drug market.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Bio-Link's Director, Dr. Elaine Johnson, about the easiest way to get a career in biotech.
Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan interview Ian Wilmut, of the Scottish Center for Regenerative Medicine, and ask him about the progress which has been made since they cloned Dolly.
AIDS in South Africa has left millions of children without parents or any resources to help themselves. In this audio interview with Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman, Kim Feinberg describes how her organization, the Tomorrow Trust, uses education to help these children grow into self sufficient, economically productive, and socially included adults.
