Alzheimer’s Update, Part 1

This episode explores the current state of research on the multiple likely mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease as well as promising treatments and diagnostics. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2309944. 

This episode examines the need for and promise of xenotransplantation, considering first the plight of patients and then the progress being made by researchers. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2309946. 

This episode considers what happens when the rigors of training and the pursuit of excellence in in medicine collide with the mental health needs of trainees.

A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400698.

In this edition of The Naked Scientists: A meeting of minds: scientists show that when two people talk, their brains really do sync up. Also, bird flu is now spreading among cattle via their milk. What are the implications? And, a new scientific twist for better, more efficient f ...  Show more

An outbreak of bird flu has been tearing through the nation’s dairy farms and infecting more and more people.

Now there are troubling signs that the United States may be closer to another pandemic, even as President Trump dismantles the country’s public health system.

Bird flu has been in the headlines for ages, with scientists warning that we could be headed for a pandemic. But we’ve been hearing about this H5N1 virus for so long that it’s kind of starting to feel like the boy who cried wolf. So — what’s really going on with H5N1 bird flu? Ho ...  Show more