Topic: Health and Medicine
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Amit Sachdev, the Executive Vice President for Health BIO, The Biotechnology Industry Organization. They talk about proposals for increased measures to ensure safety *after* a drug has been approved. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Anders Zachrisson, Senior Vice President,
BioGaia, about the scientific studies testing "pro-biotics." He tells us about the scientific studies looking at probiotics, which are increasing in popularity today from Scandinavia to Asia. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Darwin Prockop, the Director of Tulane's Gene Therapy Center who tells us why he's been working with adult stem cells for over a decade, and the mystery of how they work. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
On a special long-format BioTech Nation segment, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Alan Zelicoff and Michael Bellomo, co-authors of "Microbe -- Are We Ready fo the Next Plague?" about a new public-health data base designed can fight outbreaks such as SARS, as well as defend against bioterrorism. [BioTech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Charles O'Connor, the Director of The Advanced Materials Research Institute and a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. You'll hear where biotechnology and nanotechnology meet, and a new approach for delivering drugs. [Biotech Nation audio on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with a guy who just won't stop. With the help of a little technology, Dean Karnazes won the Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley. [Tech Nation audio on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Jerry Sanders, the managing director of San Francisco Science, who tells us how one of their products, Femspec, went from a doctor's dream to an actual medical device. [Biotech Nation audio on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Bill Hayes. You might remember him from "Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir." He's back with his signature mixture of science and life experience -- this time it's all about blood. [Tech Nation podcast on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Carolyn Givens, the Associate Medical Director of the Pacific Fertility Center, who tells us where In Vitro Fertilization meets stem cell research. [Tech Nation podcast on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Barry. You might know him from his award-winning book, Rising Tide. Now he shares what lessons we can learn today from the great influenza epidemic of 1918. [The Tech Nation podcast from IT Conversations]
