This month’s podcast discusses how employing nurses to lead clinical trials could improve patient recruitment, particularly in women’s health, and how T helper 9 cells could hold the secret to fighting deadly skin cancer.
Category Archives: Podcasts
PODCAST: Breathing easy, the many faces of asthma, MRSA’s Samson gene & more
In the May issue of the Nature Medicine podcast, we discuss the many faces of asthma, why hospital staph infections are so deadly and the latest on future treatments for sudden-onset hearing loss.
PODCAST: Trash talk
Inhibiting the cell’s garbage collection system provides a potential new cancer therapy and a new probe can image blocked arteries in exquisite detail — all that and more in the December episode of the Nature Medicine podcast.
PODCAST: Medicinephilia
In this month’s podcast, we speak to the Icelandic musician Björk about her new science-themed album Biophilia and explore new treatments for tuberculosis, tumor-induced seizure and MRSA. Listen below or subscribe to the show through iTunes.
PODCAST: On second inspection
In this month’s episode, we discuss genetic variants that help predict second cancers, a ‘lab on a chip’ that can diagnose deadly diseases, and what patent reform will mean for drugmakers.
PODCAST: Snake bite treatment, vaginal disease, gut pathogens & monkey immunity
In this month’s episode of the Nature Medicine podcast, we discuss a cream that increases snakebite survival, how microbiome researchers are looking to daily sampling to tackle vaginal disease, why sooty mangabeys are immune to HIV’s cousin SIV, and more.
PODCAST: Close to the bone
In this month’s edition of the Nature Medicine podcast, we discuss new research that challenges how bones are built, and plans for a million-person personalized medicine project.
PODCAST: Patently true
In this month’s episode of the Nature Medicine podcast, we visit the floor of a live auction for selling drug patents and discuss a new culturing system for studying the cause of the common cold.
PODCAST: Immune boost
In this month’s episode of the Nature Medicine podcast, we discuss how a vaccine-boosting adjuvant works, the unexpected overlap between epilepsy and autism and a predictive blood test for diabetes.
PODCAST: STEP up
In this month’s issue of the Nature Medicine podcast, we look back at the STEP vaccine trial and look forward to routine blood tests for prenatal diagnosis.