Hosts Barbara Lewis, David Crabb, MD, Eric Meslin, PhD, and Jeremy Shere, PhD, talk to physicians and researchers about:
Malaria Nets for Africa
Interview: Elise Johnson, Indianapolis student & philanthropist
Two very different stories today, both from the continent of Africa.
Later, we’ll speak with a witness in a chilling and remarkable trial of a doctor accused of helping create tools of chemical and biological warfare during South Africa’s...
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Taming the Malaria Parasite
Interview: Joseph DiRisi, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Dr. Ellen Yeh, MD, PhD, instructor, Stanford Medical School Department of Pathology
More, now, on some of the newest research to wipe out malaria.
In the world's first large field trial, several thousand young children who got three doses of an experimental malaria vaccine had about 55% less risk of getting the disease over a...
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The Strange Trial of Dr. Wouter Basson
Interview: Steven Miles, MD, professor of medicine and bioethics, University of Minnesota
We have a remarkable story now, about a doctor on trial for breaching medical ethics.
Even though it stems from South Africa’s anti-apartheid era in the early 1980s, a trial is underway now.
But first, Dr. Eric Meslin, the director of the IU...
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Checkup
Too Much Health Care?
We all know that there’s a health care problem in the United States. Way, way too many people don’t have health insurance, and can’t pay for proper care. But there’s another side to the health care conundrum: that people who do have health...
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An Anti-gravity Treadmill
Interview:
Sound Medicine reporter Eric Metcalf
Now for something entirely different: a gizmo for people healing from a leg, hip or back injury. The anti-gravity treadmill is new device that allows those patients to walk and run without gravity -- and their body weight -- getting in the way....
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