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Feb 26

#44 Rethinking medical device safety, part 2 – Omar Aimer

Send a text message to the show!Medical device pharmacovigilance is complicated. Alongside clinical safety, there are technology risks, from cybersecurity threats to outdated software, that can put patients at risk. In this two-part episode, Omar Aimer, President of ISoP and form ... Show More

20m 43s

Jan 28

#43 Rethinking medical device safety, part 1 – Omar Aimer

Send a text message to the show!Medical device pharmacovigilance is complicated. Alongside clinical safety, there are technology risks, from cybersecurity threats to outdated software, that can leave patients vulnerable. In this two-part episode, Omar Aimer, president of ISoP and ... Show More

22m 4s

Dec 16

#42 Unpacking the WHO Global Smart Pharmacovigilance Strategy – Shanthi Pal

Send a text message to the show!This special episode was recorded just before the 43rd Annual Meeting of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring wrapped up in Cairo, Egypt. Held from 27 to 29 October 2025, the meeting brought together representatives from more than 80 ... Show More

18m 4s

Sep 2025

Marsquakes, Vaccine Politics and Mammoth Microbiomes

This week’s roundup dives into Mars’s lumpy mantle, a nasal spray that may help prevent COVID and the growing confusion around vaccine access in the U.S. Plus, researchers link phone use while on the toilet to hemorrhoid risk, uncover ancient mammoth microbiomes and explain why s ... Show More

9m 45s

Apr 2021

Vaccine passports, explained | Recode Daily

One way that America can get “back to normal” is through what's called a digital vaccine passport. America is well underway with its covid vaccination rollout and while we still have a long way to go, more and more people are getting vaccinated. But while carrying a digital vacci ... Show More

8m 28s

Oct 2025

What’s Driving Experts Away from the CDC?

Several top public health experts have resigned from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, citing a troubling shift away from science-based decision-making. Former director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Demetre Daskalakis joins h ... Show More

16m 28s

Apr 2025

Ep 173 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 2: Who’s making the call?

After last week’s episode, we all know about each of the diseases that we’re protected against thanks to our childhood vaccine schedule here in the US. And after this week’s episode, we’ll understand more about the schedule itself - why it might look different from other schedule ... Show More

57m 12s

Sep 2025

Vaccine Shakeups, Brain Injury Warnings and Boozy Chimps

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee has been reshaped, with new recommendations on the horizon. Meanwhile studies reveal subtle brain changes in contact sports players and highlight ongoing risks of repetitive head injuries. Climate change ... Show More

10m 49s

Sep 2025

Vaccine Shakeups, Brain Injury Warnings and Boozy Chimps

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee has been reshaped, with new recommendations on the horizon. Meanwhile studies reveal subtle brain changes in contact sports players and highlight ongoing risks of repetitive head injuries. Climate change ... Show More

10m 49s

Apr 2025

Ep 172 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 1: Let’s give it a shot

We’re already back with our first episode of season 8! This week and next, we’re exploring childhood vaccine schedules - what diseases they protect us from, how the schedule is arranged, and who decides on the vaccines to include and the timing of vaccinations. In this first epis ... Show More

1h 7m

Jun 2025

Episode 137: Follicular Lymphoma Series, Pt 2. - Front-line Management

<p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This week, we continue our conversation on follicular lymphoma, this time focusing on front line therapy. We discuss how we approach localized and diffuse disease and the data behind why we do what we do. </ ... Show More

30m 11s

Mar 2025

The Growing Danger of Measles

<p>A measles outbreak continues to spread in Texas. More than 200 people have been infected. One child has died. And health experts are now concerned that low vaccination rates will make it harder to contain.</p><p>Teddy Rosenbluth, a health reporter at The New York Times, explai ... Show More

26m 2s

Mar 2023

Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with questions around their side effects -- have gone mainstream, blending with geopolitical conflicts, political campaigns, celebrity causes, and "natural" ... Show More

47m 44s

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