The Intersection of Politics and Medicine: Impacts on Clinical Practice

What are clinical trials? Who should participate in them? And why are they important? In this episode of Science is the Best Medicine, Abhinav Sharma talks to Harvard’s Eugene Braunwald, MD, a cardiol...

16 Maj 201717min

Duke’s Mona Fiuzat, PhD, talks with Abhinav Sharma about how scientific discoveries are translated to usable treatments and how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration really works.

9 Maj 201737min

Cardiologist Joseph Hill, MD, PhD, editor-in-chief of Circulation, discusses what it’s like to run a peer-reviewed journal and how medical discoveries are disseminated in the age of information overlo...

9 Maj 201731min

Medicare, Obamacare, rising costs, and preexisting conditions: The controversy over health care in the United States rages on in Congress and online. In this episode Mark McClellan, director of the Ma...

2 Maj 201723min

Robert Lefkowitz, MD, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2012 for his groundbreaking work on the proteins known as receptors. That research has since influenced the development of a wide variety of...

2 Maj 201726min

Every year, more than two million people in the United States get infections that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a result, according to the Centers for Disease Control....

7 Apr 201715min

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is among the most common diseases in the United States, affecting approximately 14 percent of the adult population. The disease, which often goes unnoticed until its advan...

7 Apr 201736min