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Global Health: Three Most Promising Areas for Innovation, with Lord Nigel Crisp
The “global” in global health refers to the scope of the world’s health problems, not just their location. These problems vary widely and include issues such as epidemic infectious diseases, HIV/AIDs, nutrition, chronic disease and lack of technology and healthcare professionals, among many other issues. Lord Nigel Crisp, Member, House of Lords UK, is an […]
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Siddhartha Mukherjee – Overthrowing the Emperor of All Maladies
Today, millions of people are living with cancer or have had cancer. One in every three women and one out of every two men in America alone will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. “Statistically, cancer isn’t someone else’s problem, it’s all of our problem,” said Pulitzer-Prize winning author and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee. In […]
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Leo Szilard: The Man Behind the Bomb
Whichever way you pronounce it, Leo Szilard was a phenomenon. Credited for the creation of the Manhattan Project and the idea of nuclear chain reaction that spawned the atomic bomb, Szilard lived both sides of the arms race, working first to prevent, then to hasten, and finally to outlaw nuclear weapons. Szilard could see the […]
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Enjoy your favorite sport.. and stay healthy while you do it.
For those of you who refuse to enjoy your favorite sports from the sidelines, this new series is for you. Designed for the weekend warrior and those who love them, Sports Medicine: Expert Treatments for Optimum Activity explores approaches, treatments, and how to avoid common injuries. Whether you are a casual walker or a competitive […]
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April Enews and Highlights
Sign up to receive UCTV News and Highlights by e-mail: FEATURED THIS MONTH Leo Szilard: The Man Behind the Bomb William Lanouette, author of “Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, ” explains how Szilard’s fear of German dominance of nuclear research inspired the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the […]
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Millie Dresselhaus on Energy Sustainability
UCTV’s Women in Science kicks off the month of April by celebrating an influential woman in the scientific field, MIT Professor Mildred Dresselhaus. A pioneer in Nanoscience, Dresselhaus is one of the first scientists to open the door to using carbon based materials on a nanoscale. Some of her notable contributions paved the way for […]
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Mexico: Twenty Years After NAFTA
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, an important milestone for the U.S., Mexican, and Canadian regional economic partnership. Before NAFTA was launched 20 years ago, critics worried that the United States would lose jobs and more to the south, to Mexico. That did not happen. In fact, employment […]
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Turning Cancer into a Chronic, but Controllable, Disease
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder of NantWorks, describes his vision for turning cancer into a chronic but controllable disease by using advanced rapid gene sequencing, supercomputing and other methods of analysis to transcend the genome to the proteome. This approach has the potential to redefine how cancer is diagnosed and to develop therapies precisely tailored to […]
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Nutrition Labels: How Sweet It Is
Lately, the subject of added sugar in our diets has been in the news. Most recently the FDA announced the first makeover of the nutrition label since it appeared twenty years ago. One of the big changes is the requirement to note how much added sugar is in a product. The new labeling now indicates […]
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PrEParing for HIV: An Epidemic Interventions Initiative
Researchers at the University of California are getting closer to preventing HIV/AIDS. PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a prevention strategy that reduces the risk of getting infected with HIV by up to 99 percent. This four-year, multi-pronged series of demonstration projects targets young men who have sex with men in Los Angeles, Oakland and San […]