This week’s MedicCast Podcast features a review of closed head injuries including a look at both epidural and subdural hematomas. In light of the recent death of actress Natasha Richardson, this review of the dangers of patient refusing care following a blow to the head with positive LOC (loss of consciousness) is an important update [...]
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Despite the popular belief among many teachers and students, there’s no such thing as learning style – the theory that each of us has a preferred way to learn new ideas. There are many supposed kinds of learning styles, such as a visual learning style, an auditory style, kinesthetic, etc. Listen to this interview with [...]
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Earth Hour is a WWF initiative where individuals, businesses and governments turn off their lights for one hour to show their support for action on climate change. It is a symbolic event designed to engage people in the climate change discussion in order to send a strong message to political leaders that we want them [...]
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The Edinburgh University Science Podcast brings you news, discussions and interviews about topics from all fields of science, presented by a team of enthusiastic students.
If you haven’t been living on the moon, you should have heard that 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy. To celebrate, episode 6 of the EUSci podcast is all about [...]
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This week, we become stellar detectives to solve a supernova whodunit, find out how volcanos spawn tornado-like dust devils and investigate a curious chemical imbalance in our oceans. All that plus our weekly News Chat.
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Philip Zimbardo is internationally recognized as a leading “voice and face of contemporary psychology” through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his media appearances, best-selling trade books on shyness, and his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Luis Villarreal
Vincent, Alan, and Luis talk about rabies in Viet Nam and Angola, needle-stick infections with ebolavirus and West Nile virus, and viral evolution.
Links for this episode:
Furious rabies after an atypical exposure
Rabies outbreak in Angola
Ebolavirus needle stick injury in Germany
West Nile virus needle stick injury in South Africa
Antibody response to smallpox vaccine in humans (including [...]
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Dr Ross Church is a PhD from Cambridge, and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University. I talked to him about binary stars:
- What are binary stars?
- How common are they?
- Can stars exist in triple or more systems?
- How big are most binary stars?
- How do binary stars form?
- How can we [...]
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The Nursing Show podcast continues its antibiotics review with a look at macrolides. This medication review for nurses, RNs, and nursing students and educators covers common side effects, patient education considerations, and assessment and laboratory guidelines for nurses administering these drugs.
Listen to this episode mp3 on Macrolide Antibiotics for Nurses here.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Hamish Young
Vincent, Alan, and Hamish Young discuss bacteriophages in viral vaccines, enteroviruses and diabetes, inhibition of Hendra and Nipah virus replication by the malaria drug chloroquine, and viroids.
Links for this episode:
Bacteriophages in viral vaccines
Presence of enteroviral VP1 protein in pancreatic islets of diabetics
Chloroquine inhibits Hendra and Nipah virus replication
Review [...]
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