Hidden Health Abi Chandru and Sindhu Narayanan
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HiddenHealth is an initiative to educate and encourage individuals to recognize the often unspoken realities of the world around us, specifically through the lenses of health and medicine. Our goal is to construct a space to help foster a more centralized understanding of these issues and to promote the importance of education and the sharing of knowledge. We bring to you a multitude of diverse content, from breaking down interesting "myths" to bringing attention to global health disparities and highlighting breakthrough medical research.
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A Vicious Cycle: Provider Burnout
In this episode, Abi discusses provider burnout and its implications in the healthcare system. We encourage anyone with suggestions for improvements and/or corrections to our content to reach out to us through our platform on Instagram (@hiddenhealthpodcast_), so that we can ensure that the content we put out is informed and accurate!
Sources for this episode:
https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/what-physician-burnout
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/health/doctor-burnout-pandemic.html
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/05/23/new-surgeon-general-advisory-sounds-alarm-on-health-worker-burnout-and-resignation.html
https://ndphp.org/telltale-signs-of-physician-burnout/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6183652/
https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/jfmdp/journal-of-family-medicine-and-disease-prevention-jfmdp-4-094.php?jid=jfmdp -
Global Warming - A Gateway for Infectious Disease
In this episode, Abi discusses how global warming can increase the spread of infectious diseases, including those spread by insects, water/food, fungi, as well as tropical diseases. We encourage anyone with suggestions for improvements and/or corrections to our content to reach out to us through our platform on Instagram (@hiddenhealthpodcast_), so that we can ensure that the content we put out is informed and accurate!
Sources for this episode:
https://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/en/chapter6.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766891/
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/ntd/diseases/index.html
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp0912931
https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/what-we-do/climate-change-and-infectious-diseases/what-can-we-do.html -
HiddenHealth Shorts: An Introduction to Teratology
In this segment of HiddenHealth Shorts, Sindhu discusses an overview of concepts in teratology - the study of congenital anomalies. As discussed in the episode, we encourage anyone with suggestions for improvements and/or corrections to our content to reach out to us through our platform on Instagram (@hiddenhealthpodcast_), so that we can ensure that the content we put out is informed and accurate!
Sources:
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/teratogens
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/folicacid/faqs/faqs-fortification.html
https://deohs.washington.edu/teris/
https://www.verywellmind.com/stages-of-prenatal-development-2795073
https://birthdefectsresearch.org/
I have also gathered information from an epidemiology course I took recently at the University of Washington. -
HiddenHealth Shorts: Deep Brain Stimulation
Welcome back to HiddenHealth Shorts! In this episode, Abi discusses a fascinating surgical procedure used to help patients with neurodegenerative disorders - showing the wonders that medicine and technology together can bring to healthcare!
Sources:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/deep-brain-stimulation/about/pac-20384562 -
HiddenHealth Shorts: Playing God - The Future of Gene Editing
Welcome back to HiddenHealth Shorts! In this episode, Abi discusses the future of gene editing the ethical implications we face as a society as biology and technology continue to overlap.
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HiddenHealth Shorts: Maternal & Fetal Microchimerism
Welcome to the first episode in our new HiddenHealth Shorts series! In this segment, Sindhu discusses an emerging field in maternal-fetal immunology and research - microchimerism.
Sources for This Episode:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712643/#bies201500059-bib-0016
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143400417311001?via%3Dihub
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714269/
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2011/893819/