Listen to stories on how plants know when to take risks, confirmation that the ozone layer is on the mend, and genes that come alive after death, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Science news writer Jon Cohen talks with Julia Rosen about South Africa’s bid to end AIDS. [Image: J.Seita/Flickr/Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: SPRINT trial in older adults, escitalopram for depression in heart failure, post-critical care rehabilitation, diagnosis and management of diarrhea
Editor’s Audio Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the June 28, 2016 issue
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Intensive Blood Pressure Control in Adults Aged 75 Years or Older
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the effects of intensive (<120 mm Hg) systolic blood pressure targets compared with standard (<140 mm Hg) systolic blood pressure targets in patients aged 75 years or older.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: StarTalk Live! at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin with Bill Nye
Are creativity and innovation contagious? Can they be taught? Bill Nye the Science Guy and Eugene Mirman travel to Austin, Texas to find out, with a little help from their guests Dr. Roberta Ness, Dr. Arthur Markman, and Maeve Higgins. Recorde…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Podcast: A farewell to <i>Science</i>’s editor-in-chief, how mosquito spit makes us sick, and bears that use human shields
Listen to how mosquito spit helps make us sick, mother bears protect their young with human shields, and blind cave fish could teach us a thing or two about psychiatric disease, with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Marcia McNutt looks back on her time as Science’s editor-in-chief, her many natural disaster–related editorials, and looks forward to her next stint as president of the National Academy of Sciences, with host Sarah Crespi.
[Music: Jeffrey Cook; Image: Siegfried Klaus]
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: A protein-based CVD risk score, trends in diet among US adults, herbal therapies for menopause, USPSTF colon cancer screening recommendations, and more
Editor’s Audio Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the June 21, 2016 issue
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: USPSTF Recommendation Statement: Screening for Colorectal Cancer
This Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for colorectal cancer starting at age 50 years and continuing until age 75 years (A recommendation) and recommends that for adults aged 76 to 85 years the dec…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Evidence Report: Screening for Colorectal Cancer
This systematic review to support the 2016 update of the US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement on screening for colorectal cancer summarizes published evidence about the effectiveness of routine screening, accuracy of screening tes…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Climate Change and the Future, with Al Gore
Neil deGrasse Tyson looks past politics to examine climate change, clean energy, the future of life on Earth, and spider goats with environmental activist and former Vice President Al Gore, blogger Andrew Revkin, and comic co-host Maeve Higgin…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Podcast: Treating cocaine addiction, mirror molecules in space, and new insight into autism
Listen to stories on the first mirror image molecule spotted in outer space, looking at the role of touch in the development of autism, and grafting on lab-built bones, with online news editor David Grimm. Karen Ersche talks about why cocaine addiction is so hard to treat and what we can learn by bringing addicted subjects into the lab with host Sarah Crespi. [Image: Science/Music: Jeffrey Cook]
