Ms Information Podcast

Join us for another episode of Ms Information where Mindi and Nora welcome Dr. Linda Birnbaum, the former Director of the NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program!

We call Dr. Elisabeth Bik a science protector.We are thrilled to bring you an interview with Dr. Elisabeth Bik. She attracted international attention when she exposed major problems with the studies used to support original claims about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 that was hailed as a "game-changer" by Donald Trump. Wrong! Dr. Bik has exposed issues with more than 5,000 papers now!

We snuck in this last episode before the holidays to bring you some important information about coping with COVID-19 during the holidays.Mindi and Nora talk about the importance of ventilation and COVID-19 spread and how important it is to protect humans not Omicron.Mindi and Nora welcome Dr. Anne Sosin, policy fellow and public health practitioner from The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center to tell the tale about two states and the differing responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and rural access to medical care.For more information about us, check out our website at nhscience.org

Mindi and Nora chat about the state's recent admission of increased risk of kidney cancer in a PFAS-exposed community in New Hampshire and the Webb Telescope launch. Mindi and Nora also welcome prize-winning science writer Gina Maranto, who has covered biomedicine, the environment, and earth sciences at the national level since 1982. Join us to discuss climate change and Gina's work empowering people to take local action. 

Join Mindi and Nora for an update on the EPA and citizen science projects on air pollution and amazing new archaeologic discoveries. Our interview segment provides an important conversation on the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic with epidemiologist Dr. Megan Ward Harvey of Springfield College and Scott Schuler, the incident response commander for the seacoast and Strafford County regions of New Hampshire. We discuss the behind-the-scenes assessment of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ethical conundrum we face.For more information about Mindi and Nora and NH Science and Public Health visit our website at nhscience.org.

Join Mindi Messmer and Dr. Nora Traviss and our guests where we discuss science news and interesting topics in science. Today's stories include Saint Gobain's continued air, soil, and water pollution in southern NH and Dr. Traviss' citizen science project assessing air pollution caused by wood stoves and fireplaces. We also talk about why science, why now?Next week we welcome guests emergency response commander Scott Schuler and epidemiologist Dr. Megan Ward Harvey, who share a behind-the-scenes look at the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.