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Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) with Dean L. Fanelli, Ph.D.

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This is Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) Radio which is an interplay of Life Sciences and Politics.  I am your host Dean L. Fanelli, Ph.D. I am an Intellectual Property attorney in Washington, DC. My practice focuses on issues attendant to the Life Sciences industry.  On PLS, we will explores cutting edge topics involving the Biotech and Pharma ecosystems and looks at political or governmental policy issues affecting the Biotech and Pharma industries.  Each week, PLS will have amazing guests including this week’s guest who is a parent that is confused about what to do for his kids when it comes to Covid-19 Vaccines.

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Michael Letts

May 12, 2022 21:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MB

A recent opinion piece from Wisconsin governor candidate Rebecca Kleefisch is making waves, mainly due to her explanation that some criminals are literally getting away thanks to liberal crime policies. She brought up the Waukesha Christmas Parade Massacre that occurred last year, where a “career criminal” killed six people and injured others, but managed to get out of jail on $1,000 bond. “All because a ‘woke’ prosecutor refused to uphold his oath to serve and protect,” Kleefisch noted. ...

What impact is wokeism having on the US and will it tear the country apart?

April 15, 2022 17:54 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MB

What impact is wokeism having on the US and will it tear the country apart? Americans are so deeply divided today that one might wonder if anything could possibly bring us together. But author and theologian Sheryl White, D. Min., says that history can offer us some comfort, particularly Civil War history. Dr. White says we need to stop choosing sides on every issue, bridging issues instead. It’s not an all-or-nothing siding with pro-lifers or pro-abortionists, pro-gun or anti-gun, Democra...

Some hoped FDA approval of Pfizer's COVID vaccine would convince unvaccinated Americans. It didn't, study finds.

April 08, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB

Biden jokes about expanded fight with Russia: 'If I gotta go to war, I'm going with you guys' Biden tells union workers, 'This fight is far from over' https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-jokes-war-russia-ukraine-union-sanctions President Biden joked about the possibility of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to expand to directly involve the U.S. military on Wednesday, telling union workers, "If I gotta go to war, I'm going with you guys." Biden made the statement during an address...

Matthew Yousefzadeh, Ph.D

April 01, 2022 19:21 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MB

Matthew Yousefzadeh, Ph.D., with the Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, has published more than 30 scientific publications with heavy emphasis on cellular senescence and aging. His latest study, published in 2021, in the journal Science, showed that senescent cells exacerbate COVID-19, which may explain why older populations struggle with recovery from the virus more tha...

US has officially accused Putin's forces of committing war crimes against civilians

March 25, 2022 15:47 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MB

US has officially accused Putin's forces of committing war crimes against civilians in Ukraine: Blinken condemns 'brutal' attacks on schools, hospitals, children and the 2,400 killed in Mariupol https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10644929/US-officially-says-Russian-forces-committing-war-crimes-Ukraine-targeting-civilians.html Gas price stimulus checks proposals head to Congress https://www.fox5ny.com/news/gas-price-stimulus-checks-proposals-head-to-congress NRCC Poll Shows ...

Harlan Ullman

March 18, 2022 16:00 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MB

Washington, DC Based - Harlan Ullman is a former adviser to the Pentagon has served on the Senior Advisory Group for Supreme Allied Commander Europe (2004-16). He is a  senior adviser at Washington D.C.'s Atlantic Council, chairman of two private companies and principal author of the doctrine of shock and awe. A former naval person, he commanded a destroyer in the Persian Gulf and led over 150 missions and operations in Vietnam as a Swift Boat skipper. His newest book, "Anatomy of Failure: W...

CAPT Kevin “Mac” McGovern, U.S. Navy (Ret.)

March 11, 2022 17:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB

CAPT Kevin “Mac” McGovern, U.S. Navy (Ret.) CAPT Kevin “Mac” McGovern (Ret.) (mcgovernforflorida.com) is running as a  conservative Republican congressional candidate in Central Florida. McGovern is a  retired Navy Captain who has served across the globe over decades with the U.S. Navy and has firsthand experience in Foreign Affairs. A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, he  served as a Senior Officer assigned to NATO, the International Security Assistance  Force under GEN Petraeus. He has al...

John Hoberman

February 18, 2022 17:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MB

John Hoberman is a professor of Germanic studies at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of “The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order” (1986) and many other publications on sports and politics. https://thehill.com/opinion/international/593335-doping-underworld-is-plaguing-olympic-games-again

Should Joe Rogan's Podcast Be Censored Or Banned?

February 04, 2022 17:35 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MB

While podcast commentator Joe Rogan continues to ignite controversy as a source of false claims about the COVID pandemic, the roots of such widespread falsehoods are examined in a recent investigative report. Journalist Alex Kotch, co-author of the report “How the Koch Network Hijacked the War on Covid,” tells the story of how that corporate-bankrolled campaign originally started and how it has continued to supplant public health experts and hijack the governmental response to the pandemic. ...

A plan to get the world fully vaccinated

January 28, 2022 17:00 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MB

At first glance, it may seem as if the world will soon have more than enough COVID-19 vaccines but Prashant Yadav says over 70 percent of the vaccines produced in 2021 were bought by high- and upper-middle-income countries. Less than one percent, by contrast, have gone to low-income ones. And, he says, it’s not just a problem of aggregate distribution. “The world may appear to have lots of vaccines, but only 27 percent of them are messenger RNA (mRNA) shots, which train the body to make th...

FDA Head Says Most People Will Get COVID-19 as U.S. Reaches Record Hospitalizations, Cases

January 14, 2022 00:46 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB

COSA Poll: Majority of voters support bill to block Biden's vaccine mandate Under the constitutional system the Founders constructed, Congress would be the sole body theoretically capable of issuing a nationwide vaccine mandate. This is not to say they would have the power to do so, only that Congress is the only body constitutionally charged with creating laws. The President certainly doesn't have this authority, but thanks to bad Supreme Court decisions, executive power has steadily ...

Bee Bloeser

December 31, 2021 17:48 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB

Omicron spreading rapidly in U.S. and could bring punishing wave as soon as January, CDC warns Top federal health officials warned in a briefing Tuesday morning that the omicron variant is rapidly spreading in the United States and could peak in a massive wave of infections as soon as January, according to new modeling analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The prevalence of omicron jumped sevenfold in a single week, according to the CDC, and at such a pace, the high...

New COVID-19 cases in US soar to highest levels on record

December 17, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MB

New COVID-19 cases in US soar to highest levels on record More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to the highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant. The previous mark was 250,000 cases per day, set in mid-January, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University. ----------------- CDC gets it SERIOUSLY wrong: Agency significantly revises estimate...

Paul Mango

December 10, 2021 17:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

Paul Mango was the Deputy Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2019-2021. During this time, he served as Secretary Azar's formal liaison to Operation Warp Speed where he was involved in nearly all strategic, operational, and financial aspects of the program, and facilitated its day-to-day activities among the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, and the White House.   Prior to his role as Deputy Chief of Staff, Paul served fr...

Dr. Jeremy Levin

December 03, 2021 18:19 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MB

My returning guest today is Dr. Jeremy Levin, Chairman and CEO of Ovid Therapeutics and the immediate past Chairman of the global Biotechnology Innovation Organization. He has been voted one of the 25 most influential people in the biopharmaceutical industry. Prior to Ovid, Dr. Levin served as President and CEO of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE:TEVA) the world’s largest generics drug company.

Jacob Teitelbaum, MD

November 26, 2021 17:00 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MB

New research published in Jama Network Open shows that 54% of people with COVID-19 still have persistent post-COVID symptoms at 6 months including: brain fog (23.8%), anxiety (30%), disordered sleep (27%), depression (20%), joint pain (10%), fatigue or muscle weakness (38%), and flu-like symptoms (10%). The study looked at 57 studies with 250,351 COVID-19 survivors. "The burden of poor health in COVID-19 survivors is overwhelming...One's battle with COVID doesn't end with recovery from the...

Nearly One Third Of Healthcare Workers In U.S. Hospitals Are Still Not Vaccinated Against Covid-19

November 19, 2021 17:00 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MB

Nearly one third of healthcare workers in U.S. hospitals are still not vaccinated against Covid-19, according to research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as tensions escalate over a looming—and contested—nationwide mandate that officials worry will leave the sector with a shortage of critical workers. As of September 15, 70% of healthcare workers were fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the CDC study of more than 3 million personnel across more than 2...

10 Reasons Your Child Should Get Vaccinated for COVID-19 as Soon as Possible

November 12, 2021 17:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB

My guest today is Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD 10 Reasons Your Child Should Get Vaccinated for COVID-19 as Soon as Possible https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/10-reasons-your-child-should-get-vaccinated-for-covid-19-as-soon-as-possible Dr. Gronvall is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.   She is an immunologist by trainin...

White House rolls out plan to quickly immunize kids age 5 to 11 against Covid

October 21, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MB

White House rolls out plan to quickly immunize kids age 5 to 11 against Covid https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/20/covid-vaccine-white-house-announces-plan-to-distribute-shot-to-kids-as-soon-as-its-authorized.html The White House on Wednesday outlined its plan to distribute doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to kids ages 5 to 11 as soon as it’s authorized by U.S. drug regulators. The Biden administration said it’s procured enough vaccine to inoculate all 28 million 5- to 11-ye...

More Than 6.41 Billion Shots Given: Covid-19 Tracker

October 07, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB

Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) Stories covered today include: More Than 6.41 Billion Shots Given: Covid-19 Tracker In the U.S., 398 million Covid-19 doses have been administered The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 6.41 billion doses have been administered across 184 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 28.7 million doses a day. In the U.S., 398 million doses have been given so far. In the last week, an avera...

What to expect in the trial of ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes

September 24, 2021 02:32 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MB

The highly anticipated trial of ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is underway in San Jose, California. The Stanford dropout who was once a Silicon Valley darling faces felony charges that she duped elite financial backers, customers and patients. Her startup, Theranos, promised to revolutionize the medical world by diagnosing diseases with just a few drops of blood — but the technology didn’t live up to expectations and may never have worked at all. What can we expect from the Theranos Tria...

Attorney Andrew M. Lieb

September 16, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MB

My guest today is Andrew M. Lieb - the Managing Attorney of Lieb at Law, P.C., with a practice focus on litigation and regulatory compliance. Mr. Lieb provides a wide range of legal services throughout the New York Metro area on such topics as real estate brokerage license law litigation / compliance, fair housing and discrimination litigation / compliance, employment disputes, residential and commercial landlord / tenant needs. Andrew also does discrimination prevention trainings for comp...

Dr. Jeremy Levin, Chairman and CEO of Ovid Therapeutics a

September 10, 2021 18:31 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MB

Dr. Jeremy Levin, Chairman and CEO of Ovid Therapeutics and the immediate past Chairman of the global Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), shares his latest thoughts on today's COVID-19 news: A new study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases shows Delta variant doubles the risk of hospitalization for the unvaccinated compared to the Alpha strain. New infections are up 21 percent in the last 14 days. Nationwide, COVID deaths are up 355 percent since early July. The increasing use (an...

Philip Buckler is the UNMASK Doctor

September 03, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MB

My guest today is Philip Buckler is the UNMASK Doctor. Philip is a General Dentist. He graduated from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry. He is currently an active Army, however, he is doing appearances only as a civilian. Philip has done extensive research on masks and is currently leading the group - Free People of the Southwest, where he recently put up his mask research summary video and his comprehensive chart: https://www.freepeopleofthesouthwest.com/cdcvsevidence   ...

Will COVID-19 cause millions to go on disability? Featuring Neil Romano

August 25, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MB

Neil Romano is the Former Chairman at The National Council on Disability. He has dedicated his career to the marketing of ideas and messages to help save lives and promote public policy. Romano's extensive professional background includes tenure as director of communications for the White House Office of Drug Abuse Policy.  In 2007, Romano was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S...

Todd Furniss, Author of “The 60% Solution - Rethinking Healthcare”.

August 13, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MB

Todd Furniss, Author of “The 60% Solution - Rethinking Healthcare”. He can talk about the CDC director warning about impending doom as cases start to climb back up - or any other COVID topic like obesity and COVID. how it effects your heart, long hauler effects... equality on healthcare. and his book. Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) Radio

COVID vaccines developed quickly — is a vaccine for HIV next?

August 06, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MB

Dr. Marc Serota is triple board certified in dermatology, allergy/asthma/immunology, and pediatrics. He treats all types of skin problems ranging from acne (including Accutane), rashes, eczema, psoriasis, warts, excessive sweating, hair loss, moles, and many others. After graduating medical school at the age of 23, he pursued 8 additional years of training. He completed a pediatrics residency at Cohen’s Children’s Hospital in New York, then completed an allergy/asthma/immunology fellowship a...

Surgeon general issues warning over vaccine misinformation as White House turns up the heat on Facebook

July 23, 2021 19:16 - 27 minutes - 25 MB

  Carole Lieberman, M.D., known as America's Psychiatrist who is an LA County Resident Carole Lieberman, M.D., known as America's Psychiatrist, is an author and news-talk media commentator. She is a board-certified Beverly Hills psychiatrist and an award-winning and bestselling author. She was trained at NYU-Bellevue and at Anna Freud's London Clinic. She has served on the Clinical Faculty of UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute for years.   When Dr. Carole isn't seeing patients or testi...

Damian Garde is a national biotech reporter for STAT

July 08, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MB

Damian Garde is a national biotech reporter for STAT Guest Bio: Damian Garde is a national biotech reporter for STAT, based in New York. He co-writes The Readout newsletter and co-hosts "The Readout LOUD" podcast. Prior to joining STAT in 2016, he spent four years covering drug development at FierceBiotech, and previously wrote for Patch.com and the Albuquerque Journal. Damian spends his free time watching movies and shouting at the New York Knicks through screens of various sizes. STA...

What breakthrough infections mean for the Covid vaccines

July 01, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MB

Jonathan Temte, MD, PhD, MS, is the associate dean for public health and community engagement at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Jon has also been active on pandemic influenza and bioterrorism working groups for the state of Wisconsin. His current research interests include viral disease surveillance in primary care, use of absenteeism monitoring in schools as early warning for influenza outbreaks, early detection of influenza in long-term care facilities...

Anna Wald, MD, MPH, Head of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Division,

June 18, 2021 20:23 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MB

Anna Wald, MD, MPH, Head of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Division, Professor of Medicine, Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, & Epidemiology, University of Washington Topics: COVID Vaccine Side Effects Explained Wondering what's normal and what's not when it comes to coronavirus vaccine reactions? Does a severe reaction predict how you'd react to the actual virus? Why do some people have a reaction and others don't? Experts say side effects are either a physical manifestation of you...

Jay Oliver is a radio talk show host & a conservative political commentato

June 11, 2021 16:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB

Jay Oliver is a radio talk show host & a conservative political commentator. With two decades of broadcasting behind him Jay Oliver has firmly established himself as one of the most recognizable voices on Long Island, NY interviewing politicians including Governor Andrew Cuomo, newsmakers, entertainers, authors, athletes, & more. Prior to hosting morning drive, Jay worked at various radio and TV outlets around the NY Metropolitan area. Website: https://linewsradio.com/

Ann D Kwong, PhD- Kwong Pharma Consulting, LLC.

June 04, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MB

Ann D Kwong, PhD- Kwong Pharma Consulting, LLC. She is a Drug discovery and development consultant with a passion for building teams and mentoring folks utilizing 30 years of experience in drug discovery, development, regulatory submission and commercialization. Extended Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-d-kwong-phd-0060154/   Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) Radio    

Todd B. Buck, Ph.D. Of Counsel Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

May 26, 2021 19:01 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MB

Todd B. Buck, Ph.D. Of Counsel Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. What are some hot areas in the biotech industry? (e.g., gene editing, mRNA Therapeutics, Car-T, etc.) What do you think of the patent waivers related to the vaccine? Explain what a patent is? Can information described in a patent can be used to manufacture vaccines? Can you describe generally what modified RNA is?  Whys is that patentable? Can you describe generally the differences between mRNA vac...

AANP President Sophia Thomas

May 14, 2021 02:38 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MB

AANP President Sophia Thomas. The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) is the largest professional organization representing nurse practitioners (NPs) of all specialties, with 290,000+ NPs nationwide delivering care in more than 1 billion patient visits every year.

Todd Furniss, Author of the new book called “The 60% Solution - Rethinking Healthcare”

May 06, 2021 16:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MB

Todd Furniss, Author of the new book called “The 60% Solution - Rethinking Healthcare”. He can talk about the CDC director warning about impending doom as cases start to climb back up - or any other COVID topic like obesity and COVID. how it effects your heart, long hauler effects... equality on healthcare. and his book.

J&J, Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Clotting Complications AND The Naturally Immune

April 17, 2021 00:16 - 24 minutes - 22 MB

Johnson & Johnson Vaccinations Paused After Rare Clotting Cases Emerge Federal health officials called for a halt in the use of the company’s coronavirus vaccine while they study serious illnesses that developed in six American women. Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, Retired surgeon & a former professor of surgery at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Noorchashm is also an advocatye for efficient and safe COVID-19 vaccination. Noorchashm has authored more than 65 articles, abstracts and reviews in ...

Featured Guest: Kathryn Gray, MD, PhD Maternal Fetal Medicine

April 09, 2021 15:56 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

Featured Guest: Kathryn Gray, MD, PhD Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts ---------------------------------- Governor Greg Abbott bans government-mandated 'vaccine passports' in Texas Texas government agencies and political subdivisions will not be allowed to create a so-called “vaccine passport” requirement, according to a new Executive Order filed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The order, dated Apr...

Rebecca Klar, Tech Reporter at The Hill

April 02, 2021 16:00 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MB

Rebecca Klar, Tech Reporter at The Hill (TheHill.com). Rebecca Klar is a tech reporter at The Hill, based in Washington, D.C. Before heading to D.C. to join The Hill's breaking news team, she was the city reporter for The York Dispatch, a daily paper in York, Pennsylvania, where she covered city government and economic development, and a reporter for Blank Slate Media, where she covered politics, crime and education in her hometown of Nassau County, Long Island. Rebecca graduated from Bingha...

Featured Guest: Dr. Hooman Noorchashm

March 26, 2021 15:32 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MB

Featured Guest: Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, Retired surgeon & a former professor of surgery at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Noorchashm is also an advocatye for efficient and safe COVID-19 vaccination. Noorchashm has authored more than 65 articles, abstracts and reviews in peer-reviewed medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Immunology, Nature Medicine, American Journal of Transplantation, Critical Care Medicine and Diabetes.

Inoculating Ourselves Against the “Pandemic of Fear”

March 17, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MB

Dare To Care – How to Survive and Thrive in Today’s Medical World Dr. Bonhoeffer is a global expert on infectious diseases and vaccine safety and a thought leader on efforts to transform how medical professionals care for their patients — and themselves. His new book is “Dare to Care — How to Survive and Thrive in Today’s Medical World.” Inoculating Ourselves Against the “Pandemic of Fear” “Doomscrolling” is one symptom of how fear and other negative emotions have become contagious in...

Neil Romano is the Former Chairman at The National Council on Disability

March 10, 2021 17:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MB

Featured Guest: Neil Romano is the Former Chairman at The National Council on Disability. He has dedicated his career to the marketing of ideas and messages to help save lives and promote public policy. Romano's extensive professional background includes tenure as director of communications for the White House Office of Drug Abuse Policy.  In 2007, Romano was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy and was unanimously c...

Peter Pitts, President and co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest

March 03, 2021 17:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MB

Peter Pitts is President and co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. Prior to founding CMPI, Pitts was a Senior Fellow for healthcare studies at the Pacific Research Institute. Peter was FDA’s Associate Commissioner for External Relations, serving as senior communications and policy adviser to the Commissioner. He supervised FDA's Office of Public Affairs, Office of the Ombudsman, Office of Special Health Issues, Office of Executive Secretariat, and Advisory Committe...

Mental Health and Coping During COVID-19 

February 19, 2021 17:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MB

Mental Health and Coping During COVID-19    Jennifer Bohr-Cuevas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for over twenty-five years. Ms. Bohr-Cuevas is in private practice on Long Island, NY. & specializes in treating children, adolescents, and their families. He is also a mother of a special need’s child. Ms. Bohr-Cuevas has provided psychological analysis on various TV shows including Newsmax, News 12, Law and Crime, etc. 

Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) Radio

February 05, 2021 17:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MB

Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) Radio Is your persistent cough a sign of seasonal allergies, influenza, or COVID-19? Mild cases of COVID-19 share plenty of symptoms in common with seasonal respiratory illnesses. For that reason, knowing whether you have contracted the disease and when you might need to get treatment can be confusing. So, what does it actually feel like to have COVID-19? Featured Guest Mark Goldman shares his firsthand experience.

Adults age 20 to 49 are biggest COVID-19 spreaders in US

January 29, 2021 17:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MB

Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) Radio Dr Oliver Ratmann - Imperial College London-Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Lecturer in Statistics Oliver focuses on developing statistical methods to characterise the spread of infectious diseases, and to guide public health interventions. He has developed novel ways of harnessing viral sequence data in combination with time-resolved patient data to measure the population-level impact of interventions, most notably on mitigatin...

Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) Radio

January 13, 2021 17:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

Welcome to Politics & Life Sciences (PLS) Radio News Story 1 - Over half of U.S. adults ‘unlikely’ to get COVID vaccine under emergency use authorization https://www.studyfinds.org/half-adults-unlikely-to-get-covid-vaccine/ The coronavirus vaccine is finally a real thing and millions of people have already received it. While the rollout has the world cheering, researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University finds many Americans aren’t exactly chomping at the bit to be the first in l...

Keith T. Flaherty, M.D

January 06, 2021 17:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB

Dr. Flaherty's research focuses on the understanding of novel, molecularly targeted therapies in cancer. In this context he focused on the development of response and predictive biomarkers to define the mechanisms of action and resistance of novel therapies, as well as to identify the optimal target population.

Politics & Life Sciences with Dean L. Fanelli, Ph.D.

December 30, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MB

Featured guest Dana Farraris

Is Saliva Testing Better? 5 Things To Know About the New COVID-19 Test

December 15, 2020 17:00 - 16 minutes - 15 MB

Politics & Life Sciences (PLS with Dean L. Fanelli, Ph.D. Former Presidents Obama, Clinton & Bush Say They'd Take COVID Vaccine On Camera To Prove Safety - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/03/covid-vaccine-obama-bush-clinton-said-they'll-take-publicly/3806592001/ Is Saliva Testing Better? 5 Things To Know About the New COVID-19 Test- Moderna To Request Emergency Authorization Of Coronavirus Vaccine- Our Featured guest today is Dani Kass, who is a senior intellectu...