Posted on November 30th, 2009 by ArmedwScience
Dr. Andy Young, chief of the Military Nutrition Division at the US Army Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), and Mr. Gerry Darsch, director of the Combat Feeding Program at the Natick Soldier Systems Center, will discuss how military organizations work together to provide Soldiers healthy, good-tasting, sustainable, and nutritionally sound combat rations.
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Posted on November 30th, 2009 by podmedic
The MedicCast
As a follow up to last week’s episode DVT, this week on the MedicCast, the podmedic features the sequelae of DVT, pulmonary embolism. For EMS providers to suspect PE, they should be able to first know if the patient has a history of DVT. Since there are no protocols for PE the prehospital setting [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2009 by podmedic
The Nursing Show
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a condition wherein a blood clot forms in the leg. To be able to identify the presence of the condition, nursing assessment skills and history taking together with critical thinking are important since symptoms may be similar with that of trauma. In this week’s episode of the Nursing [...]
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Posted on November 29th, 2009 by AmSocMicrobiology
Y ahora disponible Mundo de los Microbios Podcast Ep. 29 Escucha http://is.gd/53GlW o Subscríbete con iTunes http://bit.ly/nDFjTA – Vacunas contra la neumonía, el lavado de manos y la gripe estomacal, la salud oral y el embarazo, y la posibilidad de vida en Marte.
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Posted on November 29th, 2009 by VRacaniello
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dick continue Virology 101 with a discussion of how RNA viruses produce mRNA and replicate their genomes.
Download TWiV #60 (51 MB .mp3, 71 minutes)
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Diagrams of viral RNA synthesis
Animations of influenza virus and HIV-1 replication
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Posted on November 28th, 2009 by Ginger Campbell
Episode 32 of Books and Ideas is an interview with Sheril Kirshenbaum, co-author (with Chris Mooney) of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future. The focus of our interview was on why it is increasingly important that scientists become skilled at communicating what we do to political leaders and to our fellow citizens. [...]
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Posted on November 26th, 2009 by EUSci
Better late than never, here’s the latest episode of the EUSci podcast. This week, our host Jess Smith is here to find out about fruitbat fellatio (believe it or not), magnetic navigation in birds, new spider discoveries, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the araneaic webful of science stories [...]
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Posted on November 25th, 2009 by ArmedwScience
Dr. Robert Heinssen, acting director of Division of Services and Intervention Research at the National Institute of Mental Health, discusses the largest study of suicide and mental health among military personnel ever undertaken–the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members (Army STARRS). Suicide rates among Army personnel have risen substantially since the [...]
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Posted on November 24th, 2009 by scienceTASTIC
Here in episode 031 of scienceTASTIC we all get a chance to report on some of our favorite things. Mike – a noted span enthusiast – lays out a new method of building bridges*, Neil deGrasse Tyson fanboy (and future object of a restraining order) Mark shares a video of an NdeGT talk, and chip-lover [...]
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Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by The Mr Science Show
Astrobiology is a fascinating and complex field of science. It is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, and is a relatively new field of science incorporating astronomy, biology, geology, palaeontology, physics, mathematics and other disciplines. It is even more fascinating given that we have never actually discovered [...]
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