Topic: Health and Medicine
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with two of the lead scientists from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, where she learns that there are 250 million people in the world, all suffering from malaria. Then it's off to talk about the unusual humanitarian effort at DSM Nutritional Products with Communications officer, Alex Filz.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Randy Schatzman and Mark Litton from Alder Biopharmceuticals about they procedure for treating wasting disease as a part of cancer treatment.
Smoking has been considered a leading cause of preventable death in the United States and on the global level. This audio lecture from the the 2011 Global Health Care Series features Stanford Professor Robert Proctor, the first historian to testify in the federal courts as an expert witness against the tobacco industry. He explores the scale of the global tobacco epidemic and the social forces that have advanced it as a popular consumer product.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the history, the challenges and the issues of getting medicine to people versus the legal guarantees of drugs patents with World Trade Organization representatives, Keith Rockwell and Antony Taubman.
Dr. Moira Gunn chats with Senior Vice President of Business Development at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Paul Laikind, about how non-profit research works with not-for-profit biotech.
Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the new science of longevity from Columnist and Author, David Duncan.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Baxter International Chief Scientific Officer, Norbert Riedel, about what hospitals will look like in the future.
Dr. Moira Gunn meets Dr. Michael Jackson, Vice President for Drug Discovery and Development at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and learns about how massive robots are taking the drudge work out of looking for new drugs.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Duke University professor and author, Misha Angrist, about her new book, Here is a Human Being, where she dives into comprehensible explanations of the DNA of being human.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Ambrx CEO, Dr. Steve Kaldor, about once-a-week human growth hormone.
