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TechNation Radio Podcast episodes

April 21, 2021 Episode 21-17 “Deep” Empathy – How is it different?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MIT psychology professor Dr. Sherry Turkle. She’s written her memoir, and talks about the concept of “Deep” empathy. Then advanced clinical trial results for treating mild Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Jim Galvin, a professor and Director of the Comprehensive Center for Brain Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, talks about what it means, prior to its June, 2021 final decision by the FDA
59 min
April 21, 2021 Episode 414: Episode 21-17 “Deep” Empathy – How is it different?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MIT psychology professor Dr. Sherry Turkle. She’s written her memoir, and talks about the concept of “Deep” empathy. Then advanced clinical trial results for treating mild Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Jim Galvin, a professor and Director of the Comprehensive Center for Brain Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, talks about what it means, prior to its June, 2021 final decision by the FDA
59 min
April 13, 2021 Episode 21-16 Spinal Cord Injury to Cancer to COVID?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with former UC Irvine professor, Dr. Hans Keirstead, the chairman and CEO of Aivita Biomedical. They’re talking about adult stem cells, in your body right now, and work in treating spinal cord injury, and in ovarian cancer, melanoma, the skin cancer, glioblastoma … and even in a vaccine for COVID-19, this one designed to be affordable for everyone, everywhere.
59 min
April 13, 2021 Episode 413: Episode 21-16 Spinal Cord Injury to Cancer to COVID?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with former UC Irvine professor, Dr. Hans Keirstead, the chairman and CEO of Aivita Biomedical. They’re talking about adult stem cells, in your body right now, and work in treating spinal cord injury, and in ovarian cancer, melanoma, the skin cancer, glioblastoma … and even in a vaccine for COVID-19, this one designed to be affordable for everyone, everywhere.
59 min
April 07, 2021 Episode 21-15 Good Medicine
On this week’s Tech Nation, we’re talking about “Good Medicine … Health, Ethics and Innovation”. It’s a Collaboration Between Bioethics International and Scientific American. We’ll hear from Jennifer Miller, a professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, and Jeremy Abbate, the publisher of Scientific American. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about existing drugs being repurposed in the fight against COVID. And what gets us to stick with all that personal health technology we need? Rick Anderson is the President and General Manager for North America at Dario Health.
59 min
April 07, 2021 Episode 412: Episode 21-15 Good Medicine
On this week’s Tech Nation, we’re talking about “Good Medicine … Health, Ethics and Innovation”. It’s a Collaboration Between Bioethics International and Scientific American. We’ll hear from Jennifer Miller, a professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, and Jeremy Abbate, the publisher of Scientific American. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about existing drugs being repurposed in the fight against COVID. And what gets us to stick with all that personal health technology we need? Rick Anderson is the President and General Manager for North America at Dario Health.
59 min
March 31, 2021 Episode 21-14 Sir Edmund Hillary
On this week’s Tech Nation, spurred by the re-opening of expeditions to the summit of Mount Everest, after a one-year closure due to COVID-19, a 1993 interview with Sir Edmund Hillary, who with his climbing partner, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit. Then Dr. Gene Kinney, the President & CEO of Prothena Biosciences, a new drug in clinical trials for Parkinson’s. How Parkinson’s unfolds in the brain, the idea behind how this drug, and the hope of slowing, if not stopping, disease progress.
59 min
March 31, 2021 Episode 411: Episode 21-14 Sir Edmund Hillary
On this week’s Tech Nation, spurred by the re-opening of expeditions to the summit of Mount Everest, after a one-year closure due to COVID-19, a 1993 interview with Sir Edmund Hillary, who with his climbing partner, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit. Then Dr. Gene Kinney, the President & CEO of Prothena Biosciences, a new drug in clinical trials for Parkinson’s. How Parkinson’s unfolds in the brain, the idea behind how this drug, and the hope of slowing, if not stopping, disease progress.
59 min
March 25, 2021 Episode 21-13 The Birth of CRISPR
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Walter Isaacson about “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna (“DOWDna”), Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.” Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft takes us through the slate of winners of the $6 Million Rapid COVID Screening Xprize.
59 min
March 25, 2021 Episode 410: Episode 21-13 The Birth of CRISPR
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Walter Isaacson about “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna (“DOWDna”), Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.” Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft takes us through the slate of winners of the $6 Million Rapid COVID Screening Xprize.
59 min