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Tag: disease

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2042: Science Remaking the World

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 30, 2020 · Episode: 2042 Looking at a brave new scientific world in 1922. Today, science and change.

Tags 1922 cancer Columbia University disease emerson engineering ethics epidemiology evolution gasoline science technological change technology tuberculosis

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1806: Disaster

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 23, 2020 · Episode: 1806 A brief look at the history of catastrophe. Today, disaster.

Tags aids Anne Frank Armenian biological warfare bubonic plague castrophes death disasters disease Explosions famine Fires floods Galveston flood genocide Holocaust Hurricanes influenza Jhmer Rouge life NASA Space Shuttles SARS storms tornadoes Yellow River

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2674: The Royal Navy Surgeon

Michael Barratt

Posted on November 18, 2020 · Episode: 2674 The Royal Navy Surgeon; Taking Medicine to Sea in the Age of Sail. Today, the Royal Navy Surgeon.

Tags british disease hygiene illness injury journal medical officer national archives naturalist Navy physician record royal sea ship surgeon

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1712: Nightingale’s Graph

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 16, 2020 · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.

Tags Crimean war disease Florence Nightingale graphical displays of information graphs health care hospitals medicine mortality nursing statistics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1490: Germs

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 12, 2020 · Episode: 1490 Germs, John Snow, and the Broad Street Well. Today, we talk about germs.

Tags bacteria cholera disease immunology koch Lister medicine microbes microbiology snow

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1212: Macroparasites

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 28, 2020 · Episode: 1212 Human history in terms of macroparasites and microparasites. Today, we wonder who feasts upon whom.

Tags biology commerce disease history sociology war

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2534: History and Epidemic Disease

Helen Valier

Posted on August 10, 2020 · Episode: 2534 History and Epidemic Disease. Today, medical historian Helen Valier offers us a new look at history and epidemic disease.

Tags disease english epidemics Great Plague london Samuel Pepys swine flu

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1746: Evaporation

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 22, 2019 · Episode: 1746 In which a water glass lets me know that things are not as bad as they seem. Today, I learn from a water glass as I come out of sleep.

Tags balance of nature disease ebola evaporation kinetic theory of gases phase change phase equilibrium terrorism The Principle of LeChatelier and Braun thermodynamics

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2940: Polio and Mathematics

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on July 30, 2019 · Episode: 2940 Polio and Mathematics. Today, mathematicians ask, "should we rid the world of polio?"

Tags analytics disease mathematics polio

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1712: Nightingale’s Graph

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 3, 2019 · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.

Tags Crimean war disease Florence Nightingale graphical displays of information graphs health care hospitals medicine mortality nursing statistics

Houston Matters

Despite FDA Expansion, HPV Vaccination Still Faces Social Hurdles

Abner Fletcher

Posted on October 15, 2018 · The FDA has approved expanding HPV vaccination to older adults, but a pair of Houston doctors explains the social factors that often prevent people from getting it.

Tags cancer disease health hpv HPV prevention Kamini Muzumdar MD Anderson Cancer Center Michael Frumovitz science Texas Children’s Pediatrics

Houston Matters

Research Links Fatty Livers to Cancer

Abner Fletcher

Posted on September 17, 2018 · Alcohol isn't the only way you can damage your liver -- a bad diet can too.

Tags Baylor College of Medicine disease Fasiha Kanwal fatty liver disease health health science hepatocellular carcinoma liver cancer researchers

News

Researchers In San Antonio Offer New Hope To People With Tuberculosis

BONNIE PETRIE, TPR

Posted on July 6, 2018 · For centuries, a TB diagnosis was often a death sentence, but since the 1940s doctors used antibiotics to treat the infection.

Tags cancer disease tuberculosis

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1490: Germs

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 4, 2018 · Episode: 1490 Germs, John Snow, and the Broad Street Well. Today, we talk about germs.

Tags bacteria cholera disease immunology koch Lister medicine microbes microbiology snow

News

Scientists Precisely Edit DNA In Human Embryos To Fix A Disease Gene

Rob Stein, NPR

Posted on August 2, 2017 · In experimental embryos, scientists were able to repair the gene that causes a serious heart disorder. But more research is needed to confirm the method would produce healthy babies, they say.

Tags disease embryo medicine science

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