12 episodes

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.

Hidden Health Abi Chandru and Sindhu Narayanan

    • Education

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.

    A Vicious Cycle: Provider Burnout

    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

    • 11 min
    Global Warming - A Gateway for Infectious Disease

    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 

    • 7 min
    HiddenHealth Shorts: An Introduction to Teratology

    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. 

    • 7 min
    HiddenHealth Shorts: Deep Brain Stimulation

    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

    • 4 min
    HiddenHealth Shorts: Playing God - The Future of Gene Editing

    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. 

    • 7 min
    HiddenHealth Shorts: Maternal & Fetal Microchimerism

    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/

    • 7 min

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