Ep 59 Thalidomide: Justice Delayed, Justice D...

Each of our cells can become cancerous. It’s an uncomfortable, yet unavoidable truth. Nor is it a truth restricted to our species - cancer is a consequence of complex life. The features that make a cell cancerous are those that, under other circumstances, are beneficial, essentia ...  Show more

Cancer has touched every one of us in some capacity, and learning of a diagnosis inspires many more questions than it answers. In this four-part series on cancer, we aim to lay a foundation of knowledge that will help make sense of this multifaceted disease. We begin our four-par ...  Show more

When FDA employee Frances Kelsey called for caution regarding the drug thalidomide in the 1960s, she wound up saving babies and changing FDA guidelines as we know them. Learn more in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-f ...  Show more

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There's so much to be grateful for in modern medicine. We can all agree that we would not do as well in a wo ...

00:48 Tiny syringes for drug deliveryA team of researchers have repurposed tiny syringe-like structures produced by some bacteria to deliver molecules directly into human cells. They hope that this method could be used to overcome a big challenge in modern medicine, namely ensuri ...  Show more

We begin this episode by discussing our article of the week from the Annals of Internal Medicine and is entitled “Cardiovascular health of middle-aged US adults by income level, 1999 to March 2020: A serial cross-sectional study.” In the second half, we begin by discussing an ...