Recent Episodes
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Liquid Biopsy for Cancer Detection
We're a long way from curing cancer, but one way to work toward this goal is to diagnose cancer early. It's key to surviving cancer or to living longer with it. Treating it early means cancer has less chance of growing and spreading. That's why we need a simple blood test to diagnose cancer.
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Trust in Science and Medicine
This year's Edelman Trust Barometer found nearly 70 percent of people surveyed from 16 countries embrace one or more medical conspiracy theories or believe misinformation about health, food, medicine or vaccines.
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Microbial Seeding of Newborns
We know that natural childbirth provides health and developmental advantages to babies. One happens when the baby encounters the mother's vaginal and intestinal microbiome. Good bacteria can colonize the newborn's intestinal tract to mature their gut immune system. Since Caesarian babies are not exposed to these microbes, scientists are studying whether swabbing the newborn's nose, mouth, and skin with the mother's vaginal fluids could have the same effect.
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What Goes Around Comes Around
Two infectious diseases are making the rounds again this summer with outbreaks of Legionnaires pneumonia and cyclosporiasis. The Legionnaires outbreak is centered in the Upper East Side of New York City. There have been increasing cases with deaths reported. It's a bacterial disease that can cause serious pneumonia.
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The Blood Brain Barrier Injury in CTE
Protecting our brain is a layer that keeps out toxins from the body. A recent study of athletes found that this blood brain barrier was leaky and allowing harmful materials into the brain. It explains why athletes who have had repeated head injuries develop symptoms of traumatic encephalopathy syndrome. It's a long-term cognitive decline that develops into chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
