Topic: Health and Medicine
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with InterMune's CEO, Daniel Welch, about bringing their innovative therapies for Hepatitis C and Osteoporosis to market.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Genomic Health's President Kim Popovits, about the importance of diagnostics: matching particular cancers to effective therapies.
In developing countries, many tests for infectious diseases never reach the market because there is little financial incentive to pharmaceutical companies to get them there. In this audio interveiw, Alana Conner, senior editor at the Stanford Social Innovation Review, converses with Helen Lee, whose research department at the University of Cambridge has developed tests that allow for the rapid detection--and thus treatment--of diseases in rural settings around the world.
Dr. Joel Selanikio is the co-founder of DataDyne, a non-profit consultancy dedicated to improving the quantity and quality of public health data. He works mainly in developing countries where the dominant computer is the cellphone, and the dominant network protocol is SMS, a phenomenon that he calls "the invisible computer revolution."
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Pere-Joan Cardona who talks about a new treatment for tuberculosis - important as over 2 and a half billion people are infected.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Don Debethizy, from Targacept, about our brains and how we can design molecules to directly affect them. On the Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan talks about the technological breakthroughs thanks to treating battlefield injuries.
On BioTech Nation all about biotech and wallabies. On Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan breaks the news which may take the controversy out of stem cell research.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Ana Benavides from PharmaMar looks to the ocean for potential cures for cancer. And on the Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan reports on the latest crop of firms decoding your DNA on the Internet.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn looks at a condition which afflicts 3-to-5% of Americans, and 90% of those affected are women. Fred Dechow, of Mediquest, explains Raynaud's, and that if you have it, you know how painful it can be.
Neuroscience is studying what our brains look like while experiencing varying emotions. David Ewing Duncan speaks with Dr. Moira Gunn about what our brains look like when we feel fear.
