TechNation Health Podcast

By Moira GunnScience

TechNation Health Podcast episodes

October 04, 2019 Episode 19-40 Lemony Snicket Does Tech Noir
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
the author known best to you as Lemony Snicket, or rather his adult self: Daniel Handler. They talk about his latest adult novel: “Bottle Grove”, and a different take on the San Francisco of today. Then Moira speaks with two different female engineers. Brianna Wronko, the founder and CEO of Group K Diagnostics, is looking to create immediate response diagnostics. And Dr. Erica Smith, the Vice President of Business Development for Tools4Patient, talks about removing the placebo effect - the impact of a positive response to a drug, even when the patient received nothing.
59 min
September 13, 2019 Episode 19-37 Shrewd Samaritan in a Connected World
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
USF professor and development economist Bruce Wydick about “Shrewd Samaritan - Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbor”. Which poverty intervention programs work, and which don’t?
Then the global health challenge of the bacteria H. Pylori and its role in stomach ulcers and gastric cancer. Gilead Raday, COO of RedHill Biopharma talks about a treatment in their pipeline and a plan on how to avoid creating antibiotic resistance.
59 min
September 07, 2019 Episode 19-36 Your Mind Needs Motion
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
UC San Francisco professor Dr. Louise Aronson talks about a new stage of life: Elderhood, – Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimaging Life. With modern technology, it lasts longer than anyone imagined.
Also, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Daniel Kraft talks about the Internet of Medical Things, while Dr. Crystal Icenhour, the CEO of Aperiomics, talks about identifying hard-to-diagnose medical conditions by looking at the DNA of microorganisms in your body.
59 min
August 21, 2019 Episode 19-34 What Motivates the People Driving Biotech
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
the committed people who lead the biotech industry. Physician-entrepreneur Dr. Jeremy Levin chairs BIO, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and also works on the rare disease Angelman Syndrome at Ovid Therapeutics. Jim Greenwood, the CEO of BIO, asks “What’s the right thing to do?” about the price of drugs and everyday people. While BIO Vice Chair, Paul Hastings, is also the CEO of Nkarta Therapeutics. With Senior Vice President, Nadir Mahmood, they’re working with Natural Killer cells to fight cancer.
59 min
August 15, 2019 Episode 19-33 Talking to Robots – Future and Imagined
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Tech Nation’s former biotech correspondent David Ewing Duncan about his new book - “Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human Robot Future.” Then Dr. Daniel Kraft tells us how robotics are replacing surgeons, and McAfee’s Gary Davis, expands on those massive thefts of online credentials – they are for sale and they are out there … on the Dark Web – yes, he explains that, too.
59 min
August 09, 2019 Episode 19-32 Making medical breakthroughs faster
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Dr. Penny Heaton, CEO of The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, also called Gates MRI. Then scientist-entrepreneur Dr. Jake Glanville, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Distributed Bio, talks about developing a universal flu vaccine
59 min
July 25, 2019 Episode 19-30 PERFORMANCE – improving physically
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Surgeon Dr. Justin Barad, the co-founder and CEO of Osso VR. They help surgeons to learn new medical techniques better. And another MD, Dr. Daniel Chao co-founded Halo Neuroscience to improve any activity requiring repetitive motion – from athletes to musicians to people recovering strokes and even surgeons.
59 min
July 19, 2019 Episode 19-29 PAIN – When You Feel It, and When You Can’t
On this week’s Tech Nation Health, Moira speaks with we’re talking about pain. Podiatric surgeon Dr. David Armstrong, a Professor of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and Davide Vigano, CEO of Sensoria, talk about the long term effect of diabetes on the feet, and how to prevent and help heal problems. Dr. Shai Gozani, the President and CEO of NeuroMetrix, talks about their solution for treating chronic pain, and a study of pain sufferers in the face of the opioid crisis.
59 min
July 12, 2019 Episode 19-28 Moving cancer treatments to simple pills
On Tech Nation Health, Ali Fattay, the CEO of Curis, talks about moving cancer treatments from the most common method - infusions - to pills. And chief correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft discusses Circadian Medicine – paying attention to your Circadian rhythm turns out to be important, even in the modern Healthcare.
21 min
July 05, 2019 Episode 19-26 Early detection of Alzheimer’s
On Tech Nation Health,testing for Alzheimer’s Disease long before any outward symptoms appear. Carlo Medici, CEO of Alzeca describes their efforts, and our chief correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about the ability to control technology with voice and how it will significantly impact medicine.
23 min