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1:2:1 Podcast

An award-winning podcast from Stanford's School of Medicine, 1:2:1 presents engaging conversations about how advances in health-care policy and biomedical research touch our lives. The podcast is hosted by Paul Costello, executive director of the School's communication office.

  1. 31/05/2016

    New hope in treating cancer

    Crystal Mackall, MD, will lead a cancer immunotherapy center at Stanford that is being launched with an initial $10 million grant from the Parker Foundation.

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  2. 31/05/2016

    Stanford Biodesign: 15 years of success

    Over the last 15 years, Stanford Biodesign – now called the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign - has trained more than 1,000 graduate students and nearly 200 fellows. In a new 1:2:1 podcast, Paul Yock, the Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine, founding co-chair of Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering, and Biodesign’s director, discusses the program's success.

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  3. 31/05/2016

    Tom Brokaw on 'A Lucky Life Interrupted'

    Veteran NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw takes life at a much different pace than during his swashbuckling days as a mega broadcaster. In 2013, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma at age 73. He chronicled his battle with cancer in the recent memoir, A Lucky Life Interrupted.

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  4. 22/12/2015

    A word with Karl Deisseroth

    Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, calls the human brain “the most complicated object in the universe.” The Stanford psychiatrist and bioengineer is well-known for developing two game-changing techniques — optogenetics and CLARITY.

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  5. 02/11/2015

    Jimmy Carter on righting the greatest wrong

    In this podcast, former President Jimmy Carter talks about the plight of women and girls around the globe.

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  6. 14/09/2015

    Charlotte Jacobs on 'Jonas Salk: A Life'

    Jonas Salk: A Life tells the story of the brilliant and complicated physician who discovered and developed the first vaccine for polio. Physician-author Charlotte Jacobs, MD, professor emerita of medicine at Stanford, spent the past decade digging through archives, conducting over a hundred interviews and reading countless first-hand accounts and period news to write her latest biography.

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  7. 14/09/2015

    Heroin: A national epidemic

    New attention is being paid to a growing nationwide public health crisis - an epidemic of heroin use. In the last 13 years, there has been a fourfold increase in heroin overdoses in the United States. So what’s fueling the explosion of heroin use? Stanford addiction expert Keith Humphreys, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, says that it’s largely propelled by the huge number of prescriptions for opioid painkillers. In this podcast, he discusses the nationwide epidemic and whether or not enough is being done to combat the trafficking and use of the drug.

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  8. 14/09/2015

    The evaporation of child health care in the U.S.

    Thought leaders from several disciplines recently gathered at the Stanford campus for the inaugural ChildX conference to discuss how to solve health problems in pregnancy, infancy and childhood. One session focused on the future of child health in an aging America and featured Stanford health policy expert Paul Wise, MD, MPH, where he discussed the evaporation of child health policy in the U.S. In this podcast he talks about hows health policy has turned into cost-containment policy, spelling trouble for children and child health.

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An award-winning podcast from Stanford's School of Medicine, 1:2:1 presents engaging conversations about how advances in health-care policy and biomedical research touch our lives. The podcast is hosted by Paul Costello, executive director of the School's communication office.

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  • Creator
    Stanford University
  • Years Active
    2010 - 2016
  • Episodes
    139
  • Show Website
    1:2:1

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