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The science of why sitting all day is bad for your health
– Joe, do you sit all day? – Of course I sit all day. What, am I gonna have a standing desk like a psycho? – Sitting all day might actually be killing you. Guess I’ll have to Science the (bleep) out of this one myself. – Time to do a little sitting. – Joe, […]
Continue Reading...Salt: Are you getting Enough? (More Sodium & Health)
Salt. It doesn’t get much attention lately as the most that is said about it is usually just to eat less of it. But is that always the best advice? A March 1940 paper by Lawson Wilkins in Baltimore describes the case of a child who, starting from 11-months of age, had a very unusual […]
Continue Reading...A “living drug” that could change the way we treat cancer | Carl June
So this is the first time I’ve told this story in public, the personal aspects of it. Yogi Berra was a world-famous baseball player who said, “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Researchers had been, for more than a century, studying the immune system as a way to fight cancer, […]
Continue Reading...MacRobert Award 2018 winner: Owlstone Medical
One of the things about lung cancer is that those with early stage disease often don’t have much in the way of symptoms. Patients who present with symptoms, which is around 75% of the people we see the five-year survival will be at best around 5% and often less. What we really need to do […]
Continue Reading...Effects of a high meat diet on public health: Robert S Lawrence MD at TEDxManhattan
Translator: Leonardo Silva Reviewer: Ilze Garda Good morning. I can improve on that 11-year-old, saying, “You either pay the hospital, or you pay the farmer,” and I’m here to make a pitch for paying the farmer. Fifty years ago, when I was a medical student in Boston, we were in the midst of the cardiovascular […]
Continue Reading...The physician patient dialogue by Prof Ronal Dahl | COPD Choices
– There may be deficits in the interactions between patients and physicians because they use different languages and understanding of the importance of disease. There is a lot to gain and to improve in the patient-physician relationship and one of the things is that the physician should understand that patients not necessary know what an […]
Continue Reading...Robot Surgeons are the Future of Medicine
RoboCop, Robodog, Robo… …doctor? Alright, medical technology is getting weirder by the day. But I mean that in a good way. Take the iKnife for example. It’s a surgical knife that actually vaporizes tissue, and then analyzes the smoke that comes out so that a surgeon can know if she’s cutting into cancerous cells, or […]
Continue Reading...Deep Learning in Medical Imaging – Ben Glocker #reworkDL
Thank you, so I should say I’m talking about some successes and challenges coming from our group bimedical image analysis group at Imperial College London. These successes I’m talking about are mostly biased towards what we have done so far of course there’s a lot of success these days in medical imaging using deep learning […]
Continue Reading...How climate change affects your mental health | Britt Wray
For all that’s ever been said about climate change, we haven’t heard nearly enough about the psychological impacts of living in a warming world. If you’ve heard the grim climate research that science communicators like me weave into our books and documentaries, you’ve probably felt bouts of fear, fatalism or hopelessness. If you’ve been impacted […]
Continue Reading...He Came From India To be a Medical Researcher
I’m Pravitt Gourh, and we are in the Kastner Lab at NIH. I’m working on a disease called systemic sclerosis. It’s an autoimmune disease where the immune system starts attacking our own body instead of protecting us from infections. In some people, it can be a very devastating disease and eventually leading to death Unfortunately, […]
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