Topic: Health and Medicine

Dr. Moira Gunn interviews David Young of FermiScan, a company that is developing a new method of breast cancer detection using a snip of hair. He talks about the benefits of the test and its current market status.

How would you react if a company you owned shares in decided to invest 1% of its equity, 1% of its profit, and 1% of its manpower to solve big problems? Larry Page and Sergey Brin included these provisions into the original IPO for Google. This seeded Google.org with nearly $1 billion. In this session from the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit, Dr. Brilliant converses on Google's hybrid philanthropy and describes Google.org's major initiatives.

Although host Jon Udell isn't an avid gamer, and neither is his wife Luann, he was intrigued when she came home from a physical therapy session raving about the Nintendo Wii. In this episode Luann talks about how the Wii, the Balance Board, and the Wii Fit application are helping her retrain the proprioceptors in her legs. Then we'll hear from Anna Domyancic who, with Darren Gerber, runs Keene Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine. Like other physical therapists, they're finding that the Wii can be a valuable therapeutic tool.

Herbert Needleman has received numerous awards for his work in documenting the effects of lead poisoning in children. Dr. Moira Gunn asks Needleman why we have unleaded paints and gasoline, and how neuro-developmental changes are caused by lead poisoning.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Wayne Pisano, the CEO of the world's largest flu vaccine producer Sanofi Pasteur, and asks him whether Americans receive the same vaccination as Europeans do, and how you can prepare for a global flu epidemic.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Gregory Mitchell, a research biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, about the economics of algae, and why it forms to basis of most bio-fuel research.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Gary Small, the director of the UCLA Memory & Aging Research Center, about gaining understanding of the technological alteration of the modern mind through FMRI.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Lyle Armstrong, a stem cell researcher and senior lecturer at Newcastle University, who reminds us what stem cell scientists actually do.

The abuse of the synthetic drug known as methamphetamine has become a top crime problem in the United States, and now a global epidemic. In this talk, part of the Stanford Social Innovation Review's conference on evaluation, IT leader and philanthropist Thomas Siebel discusses the nature of meth addiction as well as the efforts of the Meth Project, a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing first-time meth use through public service messaging, public policy, and community outreach.

Viruses are everywhere, so how do we identify the ones that are problematic? Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Joseph DeRisi, professor in biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, about the promise of an innovative new technology: the virus chip.