Topic: Health and Medicine
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with NY Times contributor Sandra Blakeslee, about neuroscience, and how it is revealing how our brains map out our physical bodies.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Helena Vieira talks about a new method to show if a promising new molecule might work... a method that's faster and cheaper then ever before.
Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the future of humanity and its ability to use social enterprise for productive purposes? In this University podcast, Larry Brilliant cites megatrends that are indeed cause for alarm. Yet his focus is the shining examples of altruism and philanthropy that inspire him ultimately to maintain faith in the ability of the human species to do good and overcome adversity.
On BioTech Nation, Geoff Corbett talks to Dr. Moira Gunn about useful microorganisms in the volcanoes of Antarctica. And David Ewing Duncan explains how to get our own DNA test.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Norma Nowak, who looks at some interesting new discoveries which could some day replace amniocentesis. David Ewing Duncan returns with Bio-Issue of the Week.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Anthony Smithyman, about antibiotics - once thought to be the great cure-all. Smithyman talks about the state of antibiotic resistance.
On the Bio-Issue of the Week - unbelievably - David Ewing Duncan celebrates the 15th anniversary of Viagra.
On this week's BioTech Nation discover how a visit to the pet store spurred on a biotech company, and learn how Britain's National Health Service decides who gets what medical treatment as Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman of the National Institute of Health & Clinical Excellence.
In this edition of Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators, host Jon dell speaks with Barbara Aronson, program manager for the World Health Organization's Health InterNetwork Access Initiative (HINARI). Thanks to this program, qualifying hospitals, universities, and other organizations in 70 of the poorest countries receive free access to many of the best biomedical journals.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn looks at pediatric biotech. Dr. Tom Anderson from Pediatric Bioscience talks about progress with autism and Asperger's Syndrome, and David Ewing Duncan presents the new scientific findings on coffee - big news... if you're a woman.
