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Send us a textJoin Marla Dalton, PE, CAE, and William Schaffner, MD, for a fascinating conversation with cardiologist and renowned biomedical researcher Eric Topol, MD, on the revolutionary impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and healthcare. Topol shares how AI can help strengthen the patient-doctor relationship, enhance diagnostics, and reduce medical errors.Show notesA practicing cardiologist, Topol is chair and professor of Translational Medicine at Scripps Research. One of the most cited researchers in medicine, he has published several bestselling books on the future of medicine, including a new book that explores research transforming human longevity and chronic disease. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and was commissioned to lead a review of the UK National Health Service. Additionally, he is the editor-in-chief of Medscape and publishes the Substack newsletter, Ground Truths. Known for his groundbreaking studies on AI in medicine, genomics, and digitized clinical trials, Topol was named to the TIME100 Health list of the most influential people in health in 2024.  Follow NFID on social media

Today, I'm talking to Toni Rudd - The Binge Dietitian, a UK Registered Dietitian, who is based in Peru, and working with women all over the world who have binge eating behaviours. Previously, Toni worked within the UK National Health Service and has a range of experience with diabetes, weight management, learning disabilities and mental health. She now works online and is a weight inclusive and non-diet approach dietitian. Throughout her dietetic career, Toni has always been passionate in sharing her love for food, and helping people to realise, that even with chronic conditions like diabetes, there is no list of foods that they should or shouldn't be eating. She has always experienced there being so much confusion with food advice among her clients and consequently brings this passion to educating her clients and busting nutritional misinformation and fads. Today, Toni has left all of this behind and is now working in the non-diet space, online and is based in Peru, with her husband. In the episode today, Toni talks about her personal recovery story, rooted in early trips to WeightWatchers, dance and then working as a weight loss dietitian, before she transitioned into the food freedom space. If you'd like to hear the longer version of her story, Toni has guested before and the link is in the show notes to that episode. Toni talks today about helping her clients break out of restrictive and binge eating cycles. She explores common traps that clients fall into, which keep them stuck and the challenges of letting go of toxic diet culture messages. Toni explores how negative body image can interfere with recovery and ways to navigate feeling better in your body. She talks about the fear of failing in recovery and how to take a different approach after years of dieting and feeling a loss of control. There's so much packed in this episode. I hope that you enjoy the conversation.   To find out more about Toni: - Website: https://www.thebingedietitian.com/ Instagram: @the.binge.dietitian Previous podcast episode: https://harrietfrew.podbean.com/e/diet-clubs-dance-dietetics-and-eating-disorder-recovery-with-toni-rudd-the-binge-dietitian/     Harriet's Substack: https://substack.com/@theeatingdisordertherapist   Harriet Frew's current offers: - Online 10 Steps to Intuitive Eating Course https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/online-courses.html Online Breaking Free from Bulimia  https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/bulimia-nervosa-online-course.html Eating Disorders Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/eating-disorders-training-with-harriet-frew.html Body Image Training for Professionals https://www.theeatingdisordertherapist.co.uk/body-image-training-with-harriet-frew.html          

Episode 154: Ben Ashworth chats to Dr Edel Fanning, BSc, MSc, PhD. Edel is a chartered physiotherapist and leads the upper limb rehabilitation service at the Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin. Prior to working in Dublin, she worked as a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in the UK National Health Service. She has a keen interest in shoulder biomechanics, the sporting shoulder and injury prevention and has worked with elite athletes from a wide range of sporting disciplines. She completed her PhD at the University College Cork investigating the use of return to play criteria post glenohumeral joint stabilisation. Her work explores the role of 3D biomechanics and the use of novel upper limb functional tests in assisting return to play decision making post shoulder reconstruction in contact athletes.  - Topics Discussed  The Role of Isokinetic Testing in Shoulder Rehabilitation Objective Markers for Return to Play in Shoulder Rehabilitation Go-To Exercises for Shoulder Rehabilitation The Role of Psychological Readiness and Confidence - Where you can find Eden: LinkedIn X (Twitter) -  Sponsors Hytro: The world's leading Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) wearable, designed to accelerate recovery and maximise athletic potential using Hytro BFR for Professional Sport. TeamBuildr: A platform for any coach in any setting. Every day, thousands of coaches log into TeamBuildr to write training programs, build questionnaires and access athlete and client performance data. Teambuildr is a complete platform. Whether you're building your own programming, looking to create custom reports or give athletes a tool for accountability, they've built it out. Output Sports: is a faster, cheaper and more efficient way to test, analyze, report and program athletic performance - all in a single platform and sensor. Provide comprehensive performance evaluations with 200+ assessments spanning VBT, strength, power and movement. Validated by 10+ years of scientific research.  - Where to find Athletic Shoulder Website Podcast

10,000 flight cancellations, disruptions in the UK National Health Service, and the banking sector cast into turmoil. The CrowdStrike outage sent the entire world into disarray. In this episode of the Tech For Non-Techies podcast, host Sophia Matveeva imparts crucial knowledge on how to prevent IT crises and emphasizes the importance of understanding tech for business leaders.   Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:21 Severity of the CrowdStrike outage 00:03:22 Overview of the CrowdStrike Incident 00:04:23 Implications of Software Malfunctions 00:06:30 Importance of IT Risk Management 00:08:34 Software Testing and Quality Assurance 00:11:27 Aligning Engineering and Business Objectives 00:13:23 Relationship-Building between Tech and Business Teams   To learn about the Post Office disaster,  https://www.techfornontechies.co/blog/lessons-from-the-post-office-scandal   For the transcript, go to: https://www.techfornontechies.co/blog/business-leaders-lessons-from-the-global-it-outage   For more career & tech lessons, subscribe to Tech for Non-Techies on: Apple Spotify YouTube Amazon Podcasts Stitcher Pandora Do you want to succeed in the Digital Age? Check out the Digital Leadership Coaching Program Say hi to Sophia on Twitter and follow her on LinkedIn. Following us on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok will make you smarter

Today we have Part One of my two part conversation with Fraser Battye. Fraser is a Principal at the Strategy Unit of the UK National Health Service the NHS, and the Strategy Unit provides analysis and strategic change expertise. As part of that role, Fraser provides expert guidance on decision-making. And this is a two-part conversation which covers a huge number of fascinating dimensions of decision-making. In Part One, we cover : balancing values with ethical considerations, integrating the two brain hemispheres into the decision-making process decision options as theories to test AI and decision-making, and a lot more there Show notes: Fraser Battye on LinkedIn The Strategy Unit Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Like what you heard? Subscribe to All Things Risk wherever great podcasts are found: https://thedecisionmaking.studio/podcast Learn more about The Decision-Making Studio

At the beginning of today's episode the guys talk about their Oscar picks from last month and what they got right and wrong. They also talk about the claims of plagiarism regarding the screenplay for “The Holdovers”.  Then, Asif asks Ali about the Just for Laughs festival (4:40). Ali starts off by talking about the history of the festival and his personal relation to it from growing up in Montreal. He talks about its significance to comedians in general and his career in particular. He then talks about the recent financial troubles of Just for Laughs, including the fact that this year's festival has been canceled. Then Ali asks Asif about the phenomenon of medical tourism (25:24). Asif talks about what it is, how often people go abroad for medical treatment as well as the reasons why medical tourism has been increasing of late. He then goes over some of the risks of medical tourism including a recent report of patients who developed a fatal fungal infection after traveling to Mexico for cosmetic surgery. The opinions expressed are those of the hosts, and do not reflect those of any other organizations. This podcast and website represents the opinions of the hosts. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for entertainment and informational purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions.    Music courtesy of Wataboi and 8er41 from Pixabay   Contact us at doctorvcomedian@gmail.com   Follow us on Social media: Twitter: @doctorvcomedian Instagram:  doctorvcomedian   Show Notes: Alexander Payne's ‘The Holdovers' Accused of Plagiarism by ‘Luca' Writer (EXCLUSIVE): https://variety.com/2024/film/news/the-holdovers-accused-plagiarism-luca-writer-1235935605/ Just for Laughs: A timeline: https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/just-for-laughs-a-timeline 2024 Just for Laughs comedy festival cancelled, company seeks creditor protection: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/juste-pour-rire-2024-festival-1.7134047 Just for Laughs Gags: https://www.hahaha.com/en/videos-categories/gags Gilbert Rozon faces new allegations of sexual assault: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/gilbert-rozon-faces-new-allegations-of-sexual-assault-1.6109707 Despite the pandemic and inflation, the medical tourism industry is booming. Here's why: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/07/03/despite-the-pandemic-and-inflation-medical-tourism-is-booming.html Leaving Canada for Medical Care, 2017: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/leaving-canada-for-medical-care-2017.pdf What Do We Know About Medical Tourism? A Review of the Literature With Discussion of Its Implications for the UK National Health Service as an Example of a Public Health Care System: https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/21/6/410/1843042 Neurovascular Complications of Iatrogenic Fusarium solani Meningitis: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2308192 They came to clinics in Mexico for cosmetic surgery and got a deadly fungal meningitis: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/02/22/1232959262/medical-tourism-cosmetic-surgery-fungal-meningitis-clinics-mexico

Facts & Spins for April 11, 2024 Top Stories: Arizona's Supreme Court upholds an 1864 abortion ban, Pres. Biden states Benjamin Netanyahu is making a “mistake” in Gaza, Australia's Foreign Minister floats recognizing Palestinian statehood, Jacob Zuma is cleared to run in South Africa's election, the EU passes an agreement on immigration and asylum, the UK National Health Service will review all transgender treatment, the US stock market roils after inflation rises in March, House GOP lawmakers threaten to block the renewal of surveillance legislation, a school shooter's parents are dealt maximum sentences and a report warns over 10M children are threatened by war in Sudan. Sources: https://www.verity.news/

Many doctors assume that career decisions are a one-off event, but the reality is that many of us make one decision after another. Over time, our environments change, and we also change. Career management means paying attention to what is going in in our careers and in ourselves, and repeatedly adjusting to create the success and meaning that gives career satisfaction.Spanning three decades, Will Mangar has worked as a family physician in general practice within the UK National Health Service. He has spent many of these years leading organisations within primary care. He has a special interest in men's psychological health and wellbeing, and specifically with principles of meaningful purpose and its relationship with personal fulfilment and happiness in life. He devotes his professional time to his practice and raising awareness of men's mental health with the perspective of meaningful purpose through speaking, writing and broadcasting. You can find him on LinkedIn.You can also watch at www.youtube.com/@dr-coach/videos.Production: Shot by Polachek

Hello and welcome to Women Taking the Lead. I'm going to start us off by reading a quote I read not too long ago of my guest today. “As leaders in an increasingly polarized society, it's crucial that we recognize the talent within our organizations. Incredible talents are often overlooked, underutilized, or placed in situations that are bound to fail. The consequence of this is stagnant teams and underperforming businesses because our people feel disconnected. However, it's not the people who are broken; it's our organizational systems that require fixing.” That is a bold statement made by Dr. Mary-Clare Race, the President of Talking Talent. Meet Mary-Clare Race Dr. Mary-Clare Race is recognized for her remarkable career spanning four continents. She has played a pivotal role in facilitating business improvement for globally renowned organizations, including Barclays, Goldman Sachs, GSK, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Estee Lauder Companies, as well as governmental organizations including the British Government, Cabinet Office, and the UK National Health Service. A prominent figure in her field, Dr. Race's research contributions have been published in reputable journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Mental Illness at Work, and People & Strategy. While her expertise features in industry-leading publications including The Harvard Business Review, People Management and The Financial Times. Talking Talent, a team of business psychologists, coaches, talent specialists, and diversity leaders committed to creating workplaces where everyone feels valued and respected. With almost two decades of experience, they know that the best way to ensure business success and resiliency is by building spaces where people feel like they truly belong. Through their coaching-led approach, they help individuals and organizations develop the skills and behaviors they need to create a culture of belonging. Talking Talent has delivered award-winning DE&I programs and coaching within world-renowned organizations, including Disney, NatWest, Lloyds Bank, Citi, EY and many more. Clients have reported a 56% increase in job performance and £100 million saved each year in retention costs through a 50% reduction in the risk of staff turnover. In this episode Mary-Clare and I discussed: The history DEI and the current state of DEI efforts around the globe. The importance of considering the ecosystem vs. the individual when looking to retain talent Where companies can make investments in the coming year to see meaningful progress. How the most effective programs will both customize to the organization and personalize to the individual. Why, when psychological safety is introduced to a team or organization, the issues can appear to get worse before they get better. Where you can find Mary-Clare Race: www.talking-talent.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/talking-talent-ltd/ Resources Leadership Coaching. Find out more about my coaching process, or how to ask your employer to pay for you to work with a coach. Apply to be on an “On-Air Coaching” episode. Are you a female leader who has been promoted in the last year? Apply to be on the podcast. Leadership Operating System Inventory. Wondering what kind of Leadership traits you have? Take this FREE, FAST self-assessment and find out more about yourself as a Leader. Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to Doing. The book containing a simple, step by step system that gives you the foundation and structure to take your goals and make them happen.

They say when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade.My guest on today's episode is the living embodiment of that motto. He has been challenged in every way and still found a way to succeed. Today he's helping others to lead more successfully.Muhammad Mehmood crossed continents to take up a job in the UK National Health Service.When he got here, a technical hitch meant he couldn't start. Imagine being in a new country without an income, home or knowing anyone. Homeless and jobless he started from rock bottom.He found a job as a Kitchen Porter.Soon he found an opportunity. To turn an idea into a thriving hospitality business that could be successfully sold. After succeeding he was hired in to be CEO of a Tech company.From homeless to leading 10,000 employees Muhammad Mehmood's journey meant completing nine degree/diploma courses (including qualifying as an MD). Learning to speak six languages. And visiting to around 55 countries.I was lucky enough to spend a fascinating hour in discussion with Muhammad Mehmood.And the best thing is that it was all recorded so you can listen in.

Jake Watson is the writer of thedataplatform.substack.com⁠ and Principal Data Engineer at The Oakland Group. MLOps podcast #207 with Jake Watson, Principal Data Engineer at The Oakland Group, How Data Platforms Affect ML & AI. // Abstract I've always told my clients and colleagues that traditional rule-based software is difficult, but software containing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and/or Machine Learning (ML)* is even more difficult, sometimes impossible. Why is this the case? Well, software is difficult because it's like flying a plane while building it at the same time, but because AI and ML make rules on the fly based on various factors like training data, it's like trying to build a plane in flight, but some parts of the plane will be designed by a machine, and you have little idea what that is going to look like till the machine finishes. This double goes for more cutting-edge AI models like GPT, where only the creators of the software have a vague idea of what it will output. This makes software with AI / ML more of a scientific experiment than engineering, which is going to make your project manager lose their mind when you have little idea how long a task is going to take. But what will make everyone's lives easier is having solid data foundations to work from. Learn to walk before running. // Bio Jake has been working in data as an Analyst, Engineer, and/or Architect for over 10 years. Started as an analyst in the UK National Health Service converting spreadsheets to databases tracking surgical instruments. Then continued as an analyst at a consultancy (Capita) reporting on employee engagement in the NHS and dozens of UK Universities. There Jake moved reporting from Excel and Access to SQL Server, Python with frontend websites in d3.js. At Oakland Group, a data consultancy, Jake worked as a Cloud Engineer, Data Engineer, Tech Lead, and Architect depending on the project for dozens of clients both big and small (mostly big). Jake has also developed and productionised ML solutions as well in the NLP and classification space. Jake has experience in building Data Platforms in Azure, AWS, and GCP (though mostly in Azure and AWS) using Infrastructure as Code and DevOps/DataOps/MLOps. In the last year, Jake has been writing articles and newsletters for my blog, including a guide on how to build a data platform: https://thedataplatform.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-data-platform // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links Website: https://thedataplatform.substack.com/ How Data Platform Foundations Impact AI and ML Applications blog: https://thedataplatform.substack.com/p/issue-29-how-data-platform-foundations AI in Production Conference: https://home.mlops.community/public/events/ai-in-production-2024-02-15 How to Build a Data Platform blog: https://thedataplatform.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-data-platform --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Jake on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-watson-data/ Timestamps: [00:00] Jake's preferred coffee [00:26] AI in Production Conference teaser [02:38] Takeaways [04:00] Please like, share, and subscribe to our MLOps channels! [04:17] Data Engineer's Crucial Role [05:44] Jake's background [06:44] Data Platform Foundations blog [10:34] Data mesh organizational side of things [17:58] Importance of data modeling [20:13] Dealing with the sprawl [22:03] Data quality [23:59] Data hierarchy on building a platform [29:34] ML Platform Team Structure [31:47] Don't reinvent the wheel [34:04] Data pipelines synergy [37:31] Wrap up

New EasYoga Podcast Episode 157A - Join Gemma in this episode where she talks to special guest James Collier.James is a Registered Nutritionist and co-founder of Huel, one of the UK's fastest-growing food and nutrition companies, having sold over 350 million nutritionally complete plant-based meals globally since 2015. James' 30 years of experience in food and nutrition also includes several years as a dietitian in the UK National Health Service, and as a consultant in the fitness industry where he worked with both novice gym-goers and elite athletes. James has written for publications covering clinical, sports and fitness, and lifestyle nutrition, and has been featured on radio, television and numerous podcasts.You can find more out about James and Huel here:https://uk.huel.com/https://www.facebook.com/Huel/https://twitter.com/huelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQSprxdZWM2c0g8wc7qKDmwEasyoga Podcast was voted #1 of the Best 15 UK Yoga Podcasts by Feedspot. Go check it out. https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_yoga_podcasts/Podcast Ad's Affiliate LinksGrab yourself a coupon code to the affiliate links below.Confused Girl LA use code 'Yogigemma' at the checkouthttps://confusedgirlinthecity.com/Zencore Yoga use code 'Yogigemma15' at the checkouthttps://zencoreyoga.com/Tovi Gifts use code 'Yogigemma10' at the checkouthttps://tovigifts.com/Have a great day and as always, let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment below also please make sure to subscribe to this podcast.Did You Know...That You Only Need To Move Your Body For 30 Minutes Per Day 3 Times Per Week To Feel Awesome And Shift That Stressed Weight.Discover The #1 Secret Which Is 100% FREE!https://www.easyoga.co.uk/accessnow100percentfreeHave a great day and as always, let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment below also please make sure to subscribe to this podcast.Connect with Gemma via her website and social platforms:Calendly Link https://calendly.com/gemmahayleyniceWebsite is : https://www.gemmanice.comParadise Movement Website: https://www.paradisemvmnt.com/share/Ly1OUBA_tiXtCizF?utm_source=manualSocial Platforms:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gemmahayleynice/Pintrest – https://www.pinterest.co.uk/GemmaHayleyNice/YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3AzNc6oBLzanU-MgZsd-6ATwitter – https://twitter.com/GemmaHayleyNiceLinkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemmanicerelationshipcoach/EasYoga Podcast - https://link.chtbl.com/BUafvby8Insight Timer Meditation App - https://insighttimer.com/yogigemma

With all of the book banning in the United States, a person could make a case that some sections of the country has ideophobia or the fear of ideas.  Might also be bibliophobia. In this episode, a quick look at the definition of Ideophobia. If you need support contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-8255, the Trevor Project at 1-866-488-7386 or text “START” to 741-741. Resources Mentioned:    Mind.org.uk Causes of Phobias self-help guide.   https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/phobias/causes-of-phobias/    Mental Health America has an information page about phobias, the types of phobias and the treatment option of cognitive behavioral therapy.   From the UK National Health Service, a self-help guide to phobias, what they are and what you can do about them.  ADAA has on-line communities where you can communicate with other people that have your experience share their stories, experiences and there are mental health professionals that post helpful resources.   Disclaimer:  Links to other sites are provided for information purposes only and do not constitute endorsements.  Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with questions you may have regarding a medical or mental health disorder. This blog and podcast is intended for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing in this program is intended to be a substitute for professional psychological, psychiatric or medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.  

Medicine is an incredibly rewarding profession, yet we also work at a time of constant change and uncertainty. We are all likely to face adversity at least sometimes. In this episode, Will Mangar tells me about the idea of the psychological survival kit. When faced with difficulties, we first need to have self awareness to recognise that something is amis, and then put in some circuit breakers that would take us towards wellbeing rather than away. This means proactively building the sorts of behaviours that are nourishing and sustaining for the long term, such as relationships, exercise and creativity. You can also watch us talk on youtube.Spanning three decades, Will Mangar has worked as a family physician in general practice within the UK National Health Service. He has spent many of these years leading organisations within primary care. He has a special interest in men's psychological health and wellbeing, and specifically with principles of meaningful purpose and its relationship with personal fulfilment and happiness in life. He devotes his professional time to his practice and raising awareness of men's mental health with the perspective of meaningful purpose through speaking, writing and broadcasting. You can find him on LinkedIn.

This episode completes our pattern of curious conversations with members of the Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) Community. We couldn't think of a better way to end the season and podcast than inviting, Glenda Eoyang, Founder and Executive Director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, back as our special guest. In our first episode, Glenda shared: the history behind HSD, why HSD matters, and advice that anyone new to and familiar with HSD can use now. In this episode, we've asked Glenda to explain something many of us are curious about and that is the HSD Vision. She also shares details about the issue that's at the top of her wicked list. Glenda helps public and private organizations thrive in the face of overwhelming complexity and uncertainty. She is a pioneer in the applications of complexity science to human systems, and she founded the field of HSD in 2001.  As founding executive director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, she leads a global network of scholar-practitioners who use her models and methods to see patterns in the chaos that surrounds them, understand the patterns in simple and powerful ways, and take practical steps to shift chaos toward coherence. Her recent clients include the Finnish Research Institute (VTT), US Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, British Columbia Ministry of Health, Oxfam International, The International Baccalaureate Organization, The Sustainability Consortium, the Association for Medical Education in Europe, UK National Health Service, and Roffey Park Institute.  Glenda received her doctorate in HSD from the Union Institute and University in 2001, studying under Drs. Donald Klein and Kevin Dooley. There she discovered three fundamental factors that influence the dynamics of self-organizing change in human systems. This research forms the foundation for the body of work that helps individuals, institutions, and communities respond to complex change. With colleagues around the world, Glenda delivers a hybrid of education and consulting in the form of Adaptive Action Laboratories. Individuals and teams bring their most wicked problems, learn and practice human systems dynamics approaches, and leave with plans for next wise action. Groups from Vancouver to Sao Paulo and Boston to Delhi have used this method to break through apparently intractable issues.  Her published works include scholarly articles in a variety of fields and Radical Rules for Schools: Adaptive Action for Complex Change (HSD Institute, March 2013), and Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools (Lagumo Press, 1996). Glenda's latest book, with co-author Royce Holladay, is Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization (Stanford University Press, April 2013). It is a roadmap for anyone who chooses to work at the intersection of order and chaos. Glenda grew up in the Texas Panhandle, where there is more sky than ground and the wind “has been blowing for a very long time.” She lives now near the headwaters of the Mississippi River, on a little lake in Circle Pines, Minnesota. Thanks to Zoom, she engages with global partners in local action.  For more information about Glenda and the HSD Institute, visit www.hsdinstitute.org. You can reach Glenda via email @Geoyang@hsdinstitute.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hsdpatterns-possibilities/message

Brian interviews Giselle Mettam. Giselle is Executive Director and Co-Founder of Metta Health. She is passionate about high-quality healthcare, with 22 years of experience in the UK National Health Service. Now a business owner providing medical concierge services, she's connected to a network of over 700 consultants and support national and international clients to access safe, high-quality private healthcare in the UK, fast! We discuss medical tourism into the UK from Canada. Is two-tier health care good, a reality or the end of our health care system?

I always enjoy bringing on consultants whose expertise helps the masses. Neil Jurd has that experience to take your leadership to the next level. He now coaches throughout the United Kingdom, sharing lessons learned and what works (and doesn't work) in high-stakes, high-impact organizations. Neil Jurd is the author of ‘The Leadership Book – A step by step guide to excellent leadership' and the founder of the leadership training company and online leadership video platform Leader-Connect.co.uk.  Leader-Connect delivers leadership and team-development training to a wide range of organisations, current and recent clients ranging from schools and colleges through to Virgin Media, the UK National Health Service, BDP Port of Singapore Authority and the University of Sheffield.  Leader-Connect presents leadership in simple, clear and compelling terms, and the company uses experiential projects to make training engaging and effective.  A former British Army officer, he served in Iraq, Yemen, Bosnia and Sierra Leone, teaching leadership at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, sitting on the Army Officer Selection Board, and graduating from Advanced Command and Staff College. He was injured by enemy mortar fire leading his Gurkha Squadron in Iraq, and was commended for leadership as a junior officer. Neil is the National Director of Initial Officer Training for the Army Cadet Force. In 2020 Neil received a British Citizen Award and he was appointed OBE in the 2021 New Year Honours List. Neil has an MA from Cranfield University, studied Strategy at Manchester Business School, is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Lancaster University Management School, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and the Institute of Logistics and Transport. Neil lives in the Lake District, in Northern England, with his partner Macarena and their children.Find his company here - https://leader-connect.co.uk/Reach out to Neil here-https://neiljurd.com/Visit my website: https://thehello.llc/THERESACARPENTERRead my writings on my blog: https://www.theresatapestries.com/Listen to other episodes on my podcast: https://storiesofservice.buzzsprout.com

In this episode, we are sharing the highlights from our webinar 'Women's Health' with Dr. Jonathan White and Professor Helen Reese Leahy. Dr. Jonathan White is an Obstetrician and Gynecologist, and the Overcoming MS Medical Advisor. Helen lives with primary progressive MS and follows the Overcoming MS Program. They discuss how MS impacts women's health and how the Overcoming MS Program can best support women's health. This webinar was recorded as part of our Finding Hope with Overcoming MS webinar series. You can watch the whole webinar here or the podcast highlights on YouTube here. Keep reading for the key episode takeaways and bio information. Topics and Timestamps 00:56 The history of MS research with women (Helen) 08:15 Reproductive health and MS (Jonathan) 26:14 The Overcoming MS Program supports every aspect of women's health (Helen) 34:51 Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) (Jonathan) 47:41 Bladder issues with MS and menopause (Jonathan and Helen) Selected Key Takeaways More research is needed to understand menopause's effect on MS "The age group with the highest number of people with MS, both men and women, is now 55-64. So, if you think about [that] within the general MS population, that's obviously a very large number of women who are either menopausal or postmenopausal. But very, very few women over 50 are recruited for MS research trials. So, the effects of menopause on the lives and health of women with MS, in general, but also our response to DMTs, are very under-researched.” Inflammation can worsen as we age "‘Inflammageing' is a fascinating term, which essentially [means] the inflamed pro-inflammatory state that people exhibit as they get older. A lot of the conditions we develop at an older age are actually due to increases in inflammation. Cardiovascular disease would be a prime example of that. We think that ‘Inflammageing' certainly has a role in this mixed bag of MS and menopause, and of course, the obvious one to look at will be oestrogen deficiency. Is HRT beneficial if you have MS? There is some evidence to say that it is. But again, none of those studies are prospective or randomised control studies. Generally speaking, it's not recommended to take HRT just by virtue of having MS to protect yourself. But there's certainly no reason not to [take it] because you have MS [and menopause] and in fact, it may be beneficial. So, if you are struggling with the hot flushes, the night sweats or your urinary symptoms have suddenly got much worse, you're suffering from vaginal dryness, then this is definitely a conversation that you should be having." Bladder issues are common with MS and menopause "With MS in both males and females, we think up to between 50% and 70% of people will have bladder dysfunction due to MS. That usually affects the nerves supplying the muscle, the detrusor muscle in the bladder wall, and makes it very irritable, so it tends to be an overactive or urge problem with MS. That's also very common post-menopause, and the mechanism isn't entirely the same, but it does share a bit, and part of it is certainly to do with oestrogen deficiency." More Info and Links: Watch the original webinar Listen to Dr. Jonathan White's podcast episodes on Season 1 Episode 2, Season 2 Episode 19, Season 3 Episode 32, the 100th Episode, and Season 4 Episode 64 Read the paper‘Effects of Menopause in Women with Multiple Sclerosis: An Evidence-Based Review' Read ‘Does menopause influence the course of MS?' Visit the Royal College of Obstetricians, Gynecologists' women's health hub The British Menopause Society The Women's Health Concern Listen to Dr. Rachael Hunter discuss the 3Ps on S4E67 Listen to Helen's podcast episode about Primary Progressive MS New to Overcoming MS? 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Every donation, however small, helps us to share the podcast with more people on how to live well with MS. Dr. Jonathan White's Bio Career: Jonathan went to the University of Glasgow Medical School, graduating in 2008 (MBChB). He completed a further five years of training in Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (MRCOG). He works at the Causeway Hospital, Coleraine and has a special interest in early pregnancy and recurrent pregnancy loss. In April 2022, Jonathan was awarded “Doctor of the Year” at the inaugural Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Awards. He contributed to the ‘Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Handbook: Roadmap to Good Health', by writing the chapter about medication. Overcoming MS and personal life: Jonathan was diagnosed with RRMS in October 2015 and has been following the Overcoming MS Program ever since.  Dr. White assists Overcoming MS as a medical advisor and event facilitator. He lives on the North Coast of Northern Ireland, is married to Jenny and father to Angus and Struan. His interests include the great outdoors, cycling and running (reluctantly), reading, rugby, film and spending time with his family. Professor Helen Rees Leahy's bio: MS and Overcoming MS Helen was diagnosed with Primary Progressive MS in 1997 when she was 37 years old. Being ineligible for any Disease Modifying Treatment (DMT) within the UK National Health Service, she began to explore holistic approaches to managing her condition. She discovered Overcoming MS in 2008 and has followed the Program ever since. She was previously a Trustee for Overcoming MS. Personal life and career Helen lives in Conwy, a small, medieval town in North Wales. In 2017, she took medical retirement from the University of Manchester where she was a Professor in the Department of Art History and Cultural Practice. As an Emerita Professor, Helen continues to research and teach doctoral students. She also spends time hand-weaving and learning Welsh, the language of her ancestors.

On Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I've interviewed guests on exciting new technologies like artificial intelligence, fusion energy, and reusable rockets. But today's episode explores another Next Big Thing: biotechnology. To discuss recent advances in CRISPR gene editing and their applications for medicine, I'm sitting down with Kevin Davies.Kevin is executive editor of The CRISPR Journal and author of the excellent 2020 book, Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing.In This Episode* CRISPR advances over the past decade (1:13)* What CRISPR therapies will come next? (8:46)* Non-medical applications of gene editing (13:11)* Bioweapons and the ethics of CRISPR (18:43)* Longevity and genetic enhancements (25:48)Faster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Below is an edited transcript of our conversationCRISPR advances over the past decadeWhen people talk about AI, for instance, they might be talking about different versions or applications of AI—machine learning being one. So when we talk about CRISPR, are we just talking about one technique, the one they figured out back in 2012? Are there different ones? Are there improvements? So it's really a different technique. So how has that progressed?You're right. CRISPR has become shorthand for genome editing. But the version of CRISPR that was recognized with the Nobel Prize three years ago in 2020 to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier was for one, we can call it the traditional form of CRISPR. And if I refer to it again, I'll call it CRISPR-Cas9. Cas9 is the shorthand name for the enzyme that actually does the cutting of the DNA. But we are seeing extraordinary progress in developing new and even more precise and more nuanced forms of genome editing. They still kind of have a CRISPR backbone. They still utilize some of the same molecular components as the Nobel Prize–winning form of CRISPR. But in particular, I'm thinking of techniques called base editing and prime editing, both of which have commercial, publicly funded biotech companies pushing these technologies into the clinic. And I think over the next five to 10 years, increasingly what we refer to as “CRISPR genome editing” will be in the form of these sort of CRISPR 2.0 technologies, because they give us a much broader portfolio of DNA substitutions and changes and edits, and give the investigators and the clinicians much more precision and much more subtlety and hopefully even more safety and more guarantees of clinical efficiency.Right. That's what I was going to ask. One advantage is the precision, because you don't want to do it wrong. You don't want mutations. Do no harm first. A big advantage is maybe limiting some of the potential downsides.In the ideal gene-editing scenario, you would have a patient with, say, a genetic disease that you can pinpoint to a single letter of the genetic code. And we want to fix that. We want to zero in on that one letter—A, C, T, or G is the four-letter alphabet of DNA, as I hope most of your listeners know—and we want to revert that back to whatever most normal, healthy people have in their genetic code at that specific position. CRISPR-Cas9, which won the Nobel Prize, is not the technology to do that sort of single base edit. It can do many other things, and the success in the clinic is unquestionable already in just a few years. But base editing and, in particular, prime editing are the two furthest developed technologies that allow investigators to pinpoint exactly where in the genome we want to make the edit. And then without completely cutting or slicing the double helix of DNA, we can lay up the section of DNA that we want to replace and go in and just perform chemistry on that one specific letter of DNA. Now, this hasn't been proven in the clinic just yet. But the early signs are very, very promising that this is going to be the breakthrough genome-editing technology over the next 10 to 20 years.Is CRISPR in the wild yet, or are we still in the lab?No, we're in the clinic. We are in human patients. There are at least 200 patients who have already been in or are currently enrolled in clinical trials. And so far, the early results—there are a few caveats and exceptions—but so far the overwhelming mood of the field is one of bullish enthusiasm. I don't want to complete this interview without singling out this one particular story, which is the clinical trial that has been sponsored by CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals for sickle cell disease. These are primarily African-American patients in this country because the sickle cell mutation arose in Africa some 7,000 years ago.We're talking about a pretty big share of the African-American population.This is about 100,000 patients just in America, in the US alone. And it's been a neglected disease for all kinds of reasons, probably beyond the scope of our discussion. But the early results in the first few dozen patients who have been enrolled in this clinical trial called the exa-cel clinical trial, they've all been cured. Pretty much all cured, meaning no more blood transfusions, no more pain crises, no more emergency hospitalizations. It is a pretty miraculous story. This therapy is now in the hands of the FDA and is speeding towards—barring some unforeseen complication or the FDA setting the bar so high that they need the investigators to go back and do some further checks—this should be approved before the end of this year.There's a catch, though. This will be a therapy that, in principle, will become—once approved by the FDA and the EMA in Europe, of course—will become available to any sickle cell patient. The catch will, of course, be the cost or the price that the companies set, because they're going to look for a return on their investment. It's a fascinating discussion and there's no easy answer. The companies need to reward their shareholders, their investors, their employees, their staff, and of course build a war chest to invest in the next wave, the next generation of CRISPR therapies. But the result of that means that probably we're going to be looking at a price tag of, I mean, I'm seeing figures like $1.9 million per patient. So how do you balance that? Is a lifetime cure for sickle cell disease worth $2, maybe $3 million? Will this patient population be able to afford that? In many cases, the answer to that will be simply, no. Do you have to remortgage your house and go bankrupt because you had a genetic quirk at birth? I don't know quite how we get around this.Different countries will have different answers with different health systems. Do you have a sense of what that debate is going to be like in Washington, DC?It's already happening in other contexts. Other gene therapies have been approved over the last few years, and they come with eye-watering price tags. The highest therapy price that I've seen now is $3.5 million. Yes, there are discounts and waiver programs and all this sort of stuff. But it's still a little obscene. Now, when those companies come to negotiate, say, with the UK National Health Service, they'll probably come to an agreement that is much lower, because the Brits are not going to say that they're going to be able to afford that for their significant sickle cell population.Is it your best guess that this will be a treatment the government pays for?What's interesting and what may potentially shift the calculus here is that this particular therapy is the disease affects primarily African-Americans in the United States. That may change the political calculus, and it may indeed change the corporate calculus in the boardrooms of Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics, who may not want the backlash that they're going to get when they say, “Oh, by the way, guys, it's $2 million or you're out of luck.”There are companies that are studying using CRISPR to potentially correct the mutations that cause genetic forms of blindness, genetic forms of liver disease.What CRISPR therapies will come next?And after this CRISPR treatment for sickle cell disease is available, what therapies will come next?Probably a bunch of diseases that most people, unless they are unfortunate enough to have it in their family, won't have heard of. There are companies that are studying using CRISPR to potentially correct the mutations that cause genetic forms of blindness, genetic forms of liver disease. It turns out the liver is an organ that is very amenable to taking up medicines that we can inject in the blood. The other big clinical success story has come from another company in the Boston area called Intellia Therapeutics. Also publicly traded. They've developed CRISPR therapies that you can inject literally into the body, rather than taking cells out and doing it in the lab and then putting those cells back in, as in the case of sickle cell.I'm not sure that was actually even clear: that you can do it more than one way.Yes.And obviously it sounds like it would be better if they could just inject you.Exactly. That's why people are really excited about this, because this now opens up the doors for treating a host of diseases. And I think over the next few years we will see a growing number of diseases, and it won't just be these rare sort of genetic diseases with often unpronounceable names. It may be things like heart disease. There's another company—they're all in Boston, it seems—Verve Therapeutics, which is taking one of these more recent gene-editing technologies that we talked about a minute ago, base editing, and saying that there's a gene that they're going to target that has been clearly linked with cholesterol levels. And if we can squash production of this gene, we can tap down cholesterol levels. That will be useful, in the first instance, for patients with genetic forms of high cholesterol. Fair enough. But if it works in them, then the plan is to roll this out for potentially thousands if not millions of adults in this country who maybe don't feel that they have a clearly defined genetic form of high cholesterol, but this method may still be an alternative that they will consider versus taking Atorvastatin for the rest of your life, for example.Where are the CRISPR cancer treatments?They're also making progress, too. Those are in clinical trials. A little more complicated. Of course, cancer is a whole slew of different diseases, so it's a little hard to say, “Yeah, we're making progress here, less so there.” But I think one of the most heartwarming stories—this is an n of one, so it's an anecdotal story—but there was a teenager in the UK treated at one of the premier London medical schools who had a base editing form of CAR T therapy. A lot of people have heard of CAR T therapy for various cancers. And she is now in remission. So again, early days, but we're seeing very positive signs in these early clinical tests.It sounds like we went from a period where it was all in the lab and that we might be in a period over the next five years where it sounds like a wave of potential treatments.I think so, yeah.And for as much as we've seen articles about “The Age of AI,” it really sounds like this could be the age of biotechnology and the age of CRISPR…I think CRISPR, as with most new technologies, you get these sort of hype cycles, right? Two and a half years ago, CRISPR, all the stocks were at peak valuations. And I went on a podcast to say, why are the CRISPR stocks so high? I wasn't really sure, but I was enjoying it at the time. And then, of course, we entered the pandemic. And the biotech sector, perversely, ironically, has really been hit hard by the economy and certainly by the market valuations. So all of the CRISPR gene-editing companies—and there are probably at least eight or 10 now that are publicly traded and many more poised to join them—their valuations are a fraction of what they were a couple of years ago. But I suspect as these first FDA approvals and more scientific peer review papers, of course, but more news of the clinical success to back up and extend what has already been clearly proven as a breakthrough technology in the lab with the Nobel Prize—doesn't get much better than that, does it?—then I think we're going to start to see that biotech sector soar once again.Certainly, there are a lot of computational aspects to CRISPR in terms of designing the particular stretches of nucleic acid that you're going to use to target a specific gene. And AI can help you in that quest to make those ever more precise.Non-medical applications of gene editingThere are also non-medical applications. Can you just give me a little state of play on how that's looking?I think one of the—when CRISPR…And agriculture.Feeding the planet, you could say.That's certainly a big application.It's a human health application—arguably the biggest application.I think one of the fun ones is the work of George Church at Harvard Medical School, who's been on 60 Minutes and Stephen Colbert and many other primetime shows, talking about his work using CRISPR to potentially resurrect the woolly mammoth, which sort of sounds like, “That's Jurassic Park on steroids. That's crazy.” But his view is that, no, if we had herds—if that's the technical term—of woolly mammoths—roaming Siberia and the frozen tundra, they'll keep the ground, the surface packed down and stop the gigatons of methane from leaching out into the atmosphere. We have just seen a week, I've been reading on social media, of the hottest temperatures in the world since records began. And that's nothing compared to what we're potentially going to see if all these greenhouse gases that are just under the surface in places like Siberia further leach into the atmosphere. So that's the sort of environmental cause that Church is on. I think many people think this is a rather foolish notion, but he's launched a company to get this off the ground called Colossal Biosciences, and they're raising a lot of money, it appears. I'm curious to see how it goes. I wish him well.Also, speaking of climate change, making crops more resilient to the heat. That's another I've heard…One of the journals I'm involved in, called GEN Biotechnology, just published a paper in which investigators in Korea have used CRISPR to modify a particular gene in the tomato genome to make it a higher source of vitamin D. And that may not seem to be the most urgent need, but the point is, we can now engineer the DNA of all kinds of plants and crops, many of which are under threat, whether it's from drought or other types of climate change or pests, bacteria, parasites, viruses, fungi, you name it. And in my book Editing Humanity, which came out a couple of years ago, there was a whole chapter listing a whole variety of threats to our favorite glass of orange juice in the morning. That's not going to exist. If we want that all-natural Florida orange juice, we're not going to have that option. We've either got to embrace what technology will allow us to do to make these orange crops more resistant to the existential threat that they're facing, or we're going to have to go drink something else.I started out talking about AI and machine learning. Does that play a role in CRISPR, either helping the precision of the technology or in some way refining the technology?Yeah, hopefully you'll invite me back in a year and I'll be able to give you a more concrete answer. I think the short answer is, yes. Certainly, there are a lot of computational aspects to CRISPR in terms of designing the particular stretches of nucleic acid that you're going to use to target a specific gene. And AI can help you in that quest to make those ever more precise. When you do the targeting in a CRISPR experiment, the one thing you don't want to have happen is for the little stretch of DNA that you've synthesized to go after the gene in question, you don't want that to accidentally latch onto or identify another stretch of DNA that just by statistical chance has the same stretch of 20 As, Cs, Ts, and Gs. AI can help give us more confidence that we're only honing in on the specific gene that we want to edit, and we're not potentially going to see some unforeseen, off-target editing event.Do you think when we look back at this technology in 10 years, not only will we see a wider portfolio of potential treatments, but we'll look at the actual technique and think, “Boy, back in 2012, it was a butchery compared to what we're doing; we were using meat cleavers, and now we're using lasers”?I think, yeah. That's a slightly harsh analogy. With this original form of CRISPR, published in 2012, Nobel Prize in 2020, one of the potential caveats or downsides of the technology is that it involves a complete snip of the double helix, the two strands of DNA, in order to make the edit. Base editing and prime editing don't involve that double-stranded severance. It's just a nick of one strand or the other. So it's a much more genetically friendly form of gene editing, as well as other aspects of the chemistry. We look forward to seeing how base and prime editing perform in the clinic. Maybe they'll run into some unforeseen hurdles and people will say, “You know what? There was nothing wrong with CRISPR. Let's keep using the originally developed system.” But I'm pretty bullish on what base and prime editing can do based on all of the early results have been published in the last few years on mice and monkeys. And now we're on the brink of going into the clinic.One medical scenario that they laid out would be, what if two people with a deadly recessive disease like sickle cell disease, or perhaps a form of cystic fibrosis, wanted to have a healthy biological child?Bioweapons and the ethics of CRISPRThis podcast is usually very optimistic. So we're going to leave all the negative stuff for this part of the podcast. We're going to rush through all the downsides very quickly.First question: Especially after the pandemic, a lot more conversation about bioweapons. Is this an issue that's discussed in this community, about using this technology to create a particularly lethal or virulent or targeted biological weapon?Not much. If a rogue actor or nation wanted to develop some sort of incredibly virulent bioweapon, there's a whole wealth of genetic techniques, and they could probably do it without involving CRISPR. CRISPR is, in a way, sort of the corollary of another field called synthetic biology or synthetic genomics that you may have talked about on your show. We've got now the facility, not just to edit DNA, but to synthesize custom bits of DNA with so much ease and affordability compared to five or 10 years ago. And we've just seen a global pandemic. When I get that question, I've had it before, I say, “Yeah, did we just not live through a global pandemic? Do we really need to be engineering organisms?” Whether you buy the lab leak hypothesis or the bioengineering hypothesis, or it was just a natural transfer from some other organism, nature can do a pretty good job of hurting human beings. I don't know that we need to really worry too much about bioweapons at this point.In 2018, there was a big controversy over a Chinese researcher who created some genome-edited babies. Yeah. Is there more to know about that story? Has that become a hotter topic of discussion as CRISPR has advanced?The Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, who performed those pretty abominable experiments was jailed for the better part of three years. He got early release in China and slowly but surely he's being rehabilitated. He's literally now moved his operation from Shenzhen to Beijing. He's got his own lab again, and he's doing genome editing experiments again. I saw again on social media recently, he's got a petition of muscular dystrophy families petitioning Jack Ma, the well-known Chinese billionaire, to fund his operation to devise a new gene editing therapy for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other forms of muscular dystrophy. I wouldn't want He Jiankui let within a thousand miles of my kids, because I just wouldn't trust him. And he's now more recently put out a manifesto stating he thinks we should start editing embryos again. So I don't know quite what is going on.It seems the Chinese threw the book at him. Three years is not a trivial prison sentence. He was fined about half a million dollars. But somebody in the government there seems to be okay with him back at the bench, back in the lab, and dabbling in CRISPR. And I don't know that he's been asked, does he have any regrets over the editing of Lulu and Nana. There was a third child born a few months later as well. All he will say is, “We moved too fast.” That is the only caveat that he has allowed himself to express publicly.We know nothing more about the children. They're close to five years old now. There's one particular gene that was being edited was pretty messed up. But we know it's not an essential gene in our bodies, because there are many people walking around who don't have a functional copy of this CCR5 receptor gene, and they're HIV resistant. That was the premise for He Jiankui's experiment. But he has said, “No, they are off limits. The authorities are not going to reveal their identities. We are monitoring them, and we will take care of them if anything goes wrong.” But I think a lot of people in the West would really like to help, to study them, to offer any medical assistance. Obviously, we have to respect their privacy. The twin girls and the third child who was born a bit later, maybe they're being protected for their own good. How would you like it if you grew up through childhood and into your teenage years, to walk around knowing that you were this human experiment? That may be a very difficult thing to live with. So more to come on that.There's no legitimate discussion about changing that in the West or anywhere else?Obviously, in the wake of what He Jiankui did, there were numerous blue ribbon panels, including one just organized by the National Academy of Sciences, just a stone's throw from where we're talking today. And I thought that report was very good. It did two things. This was published a couple of years ago. Two important things came out of it. One is this all-star group of geneticists and other scientists said, “We don't think that human embryo editing should be banned completely. There may be scenarios down the road where we actually would want to reserve this technology because nothing else would help bring about a particular medical outcome that we would like.” And the one medical scenario that they laid out would be, what if two people with a deadly recessive disease like sickle cell disease, or perhaps a form of cystic fibrosis, wanted to have a healthy biological child?There are clinics around the country and around the world now doing something called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. If you have a family history of a genetic disease, you can encourage the couple to do IVF. We form an embryo or bunch of embryos in the test tube or on the Petri dish. And then we can do a little biopsy of each embryo, take a quick sneak peek at the DNA, look to see if it's got the bad gene or perhaps the healthy gene, and then sort of tag the embryos and only implant the embryos that we think are healthy. This is happening around the country as we speak for hundreds, if not thousands, of different genetic diseases. But it won't work if mom and dad have a recessive, meaning two copies of a bad gene, because there's no healthy gene that you can select in any of those embryos. It would be very rare, but in those scenarios, maybe embryo editing is a way we would want to go. But I don't see a big clamor for this right now. And the early results have been published using CRISPR on embryos in the wake of He Jiankui did have said, “It's a messy technique. It is not safe to use. We don't fully understand how DNA editing and DNA repair works in the human embryo, so we really need to do a whole lot more basic science, as we did in the original incarnation of CRISPR, before we even dare to revisit editing human embryos.” Longevity is interesting because, of course, in the last 18 months there's a company in Silicon Valley called Altos, funded by Yuri Milner, employing now two dozen of the top aging researchers who've been lured away from academia into this transnational company to find hopefully cures or insights into how to postpone aging. Longevity and genetic enhancementsAnother area is using these treatments not to fix things, but to enhance people, whether it's for intelligence or some other trait. A lot of money pouring into longevity treatments from Silicon Valley. Do we know more about the potential of CRISPR for either extending lifespans or selecting for certain desirable traits in people?This sort of scenario is never going to go away. When it comes up, if I hear someone say, “Could we use CRISPR or any gene editing technology to boost intelligence or mathematical ability or music musical ability, or anything that we might want…”Or speed in the hundred meters.“…or speed in the hundred meters, to enhance our perfect newborn?” I would say, what gene are you going to enhance? Intelligence—are you kidding me? Half of the 10,000 genes are expressed in the human brain. You want to start meddling with those? You wouldn't have a prayer of having a positive outcome. I think we can pretty much rule that out. Longevity is interesting because, of course, in the last 18 months there's a company in Silicon Valley called Altos, funded by Yuri Milner, employing now two dozen of the top aging researchers who've been lured away from academia into this transnational company to find hopefully cures or insights into how to postpone aging. That's going to be a long, multi-decade quest to go from that to potentially, “Oh, let's edit a little embryo, our newborn son or daughter so they have the gift of 120 years on this decaying, overheating planet…” Yes, there's a lot to wade through on that.And you have another book coming out. Can you give us a preview of that?I'm writing a book called Curved Air, which is about the story of sickle cell disease. It was first described in a paper from physicians in Chicago in 1910 who were studying the curious anemia of a dental student who walked into their hospital one day. That gentleman, Walter Noel, is now buried back in his homeland, the island of Grenada. But in the 1940s, it was described and characterized as the first molecular disease. We know more about sickle cell disease than almost any other genetic disease. And yet, as we touched on earlier, patients with this who have not had the wealth, the money, the influence, they've been discriminated against in many walks of life, including the medical arena.We're still seeing terribly, tragically, videos and stories and reports of sickle cell patients who are being turned away from hospital rooms, emergency rooms, because the medical establishment just looks at a person of color in absolute agony with one of these pain crises and just assumed, “Oh, they want another opioid hit. Sickle cell? What is that?” There's a lot of fascinating science. There's all this hope in the gene editing and now in the clinic. And there's all this socioeconomic and other history. So I'm going to try to weave all this together in a format that hopefully everyone will enjoy reading.Hopefully a book with a happy ending. Not every book about a disease has a wonderful…I think a positive note to end on is the first American patient treated in this CRISPR clinical trial for sickle cell disease four years ago,Victoria Gray, has become something of a poster child now. She's been featured on National Public Radio on awhole series of interviews and just took her first overseas flight earlier this year to London to speak at a CRISPR gene editing conference. She gave a lovely 15-minute personal talk, shaking with nerves, about her personal voyage, her faith in God, and what's brought her here now, pain-free, traveling the world, and got a standing ovation. You don't see many standing ovations at medical conferences or genetics conferences. And if ever anybody deserved it, somebody like Victoria Gray did. Early days, but a very positive journey that we're on. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, we are sharing the highlights from our webinar ‘Living Well with Progressive MS' with Dr Phil Startin and Professor Helen Reese Leahy. Both Phil and Helen have progressive MS and follow the Overcoming MS Program. They discuss what progressive MS is and how the Overcoming MS Program can benefit people with progressive MS. This webinar was recorded in July 2021 as part of our Finding Hope with Overcoming MS webinar series. You can watch the whole webinar here or the podcast highlights on YouTube here. Keep reading for the key episode takeaways and bio information. Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to hear our latest tips and news about living a full and happy life with MS. And if you're new to Overcoming MS, visit our introductory page to find out more about how we support people with MS. Selected Key Takeaways Overcoming MS is for every type of MS Helen Rees Leahy: “Overcoming MS is really determined to be an inclusive space in which everybody's experience of MS is acknowledged and honoured. So, though we [people with progressive MS] may be small in number, our voice is growing, and we're very much being heard within the Overcoming MS conversation.” Exercise is still important with progressive MS but be gentle and kind with yourself Phil Startin: “Be kind to yourself, try not to judge [and] compare what you can do now to what you used to be able to do. I've certainly spoken to people who refuse to exercise saying exercising reminds them of what they now can't do and that's really upsetting. We still need goals but hold them more lightly [and] more gently.” Think of the Overcoming MS Program as a toolkit rather than a set of rules Helen Reese Leahy: “I started following the Overcoming MS Program in the 2000s. It's become a framework for my daily life. I've never been eligible for any disease-modifying therapy, so in a sense, Overcoming MS is my health care programme. I feel very empowered by following the Program. I am taking responsibility and managing my own health to the best of my ability. I always regard Overcoming MS not as a book of rules, but as a kind of toolkit and to be honest, I really enjoy following the Program.” More info and helpful links: Watch the original webinar here Try yoga with Overcoming MS facilitator Veronique Gauthier-Simmons here Read more about Progressive MS Join the Progressive MS Circle New to Overcoming MS? Visit our introductory page Visit the Overcoming MS website Follow us on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube Pinterest Don't miss out: Subscribe to this podcast and never miss an episode. Listen to our archive of Living Well with MS episode here. If you like Living Well with MS, please leave a 5-star review. Feel free to share your comments and suggestions for future guests and episode topics by emailing podcast@overcomingms.org. Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to hear our latest tips and news about living a full and happy life with MS. If you enjoy this podcast and want to support the ongoing work of Overcoming MS, you can leave a donation here. Dr. Phil Startin's bio: Career and Overcoming MS: After a DPhil in Quantum Physics, Phil left his academic roots for a more peripatetic career in management consulting, initially with Price Waterhouse. After years of travelling around the world for both work and pleasure, including a two-year assignment in Geneva, he was diagnosed with Primary Progressive MS (PPMS) in 2007.   Phil discovered Overcoming MS in 2011, and coupled with his earlier discovery of mindfulness meditation, it awakened a whole new area in his life. With training and supervision from Bangor University, he now teaches an eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course to people with MS and to the general community on a pro-bono basis. He is also a trustee for MS-UK.   Personal life: Phil lives in Arrochar, Scotland with his American wife, Cristina, whom he met over a weekend at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans. Phil's completely convinced that the Overcoming MS Program and mindfulness have positively affected the trajectory of his condition Professor Helen Rees Leahy's bio: MS and Overcoming MS: Helen was diagnosed with Primary Progressive MS in 1997 when she was 37 years old. Being ineligible for any Disease Modifying Treatment (DMT) within the UK National Health Service, she began to explore holistic approaches to managing her condition. She discovered Overcoming MS in 2008 and has followed the Program ever since. She was previously a Trustee for Overcoming MS. Personal life and career: Helen lives in Conwy, a small, medieval town in North Wales. In 2017, she took medical retirement from the University of Manchester where she was a Professor in the Department of Art History and Cultural Practice. As an Emerita Professor, Helen continues to research and teach doctoral students. She also spends time hand-weaving and learning Welsh, the language of her ancestors.

In this episode we chat to renowned epidemiologist, healthcare innovator, and educator Dr. Richard Garfein and social entrepreneur and infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Kelly Collins, as they share their journey of turning an idea from research in academia into a successful commercial enterprise. They discuss their experiences in starting SureAdhere, licensing the software from UCSD, and signing up health departments to use the technology. You'll also hear about their work in using Video Directly Observed therapy (VDOT) to transform tuberculosis (TB) treatment, and how they expanded their company's reach to cover diseases from hepatitis C to opioid use disorder. The episode highlights the importance of following evidence-based decision-making and empowering patients and healthcare workers alike by leveraging technology, innovation, and passion. Topics include: The development of Video Directly Observed Therapy (VDOT) technology The role of DOT and VDOT in healthcare interventions Telemedicine during COVID-19 and beyond Digital technology to support medication assisted treatment and opioid use disorder-The importance of evidence-based decision-making in developing and testing technology The decision to start a company to scale VDOT technology and make it more widely available The challenges of licensing the software from UCSD and signing up health departments to use the technology The impact of VDOT on improving patient experiences and healthcare provider efficiency. Lessons learned from the experience of starting and growing SureAdhere The decision to join forces with Dimagi Related Resources: SureAdhere: https://www.sureadhere.com / The Stop TB Partnership: https://www.stoptb.org  The UK National Health Service: https://www.nhs.uk  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov   Verizon Foundation: https://www.verizon.com/about/responsibility/grant-requirements Sign up to our newsletter, and stay informed of Dimagi's work :⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sites.dimagi.com/newsletter-sign-up⁠⁠⁠⁠  We are on social media - follow us for the latest from Dimagi: LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/dimagi⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/dimagi/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/dimagi.inc/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt8JcRhWywkVJRR_YWv4OhA⁠⁠⁠⁠  If you enjoy this show, please leave us a 5-Star Review and share your favorite episodes with friends. Hosts: Jonathan Jackson: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanljackson/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amie Vaccaro: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/amievaccaro/ ⁠⁠⁠

In this episode of the Inclusive Growth Show, I was joined by my colleague, Luis, and two clients, Mica and Jeremy who both work within EDI in the UK National Health Service known as the NHS.You can boost company productivity, avoid PR disasters, and build a thriving workplace that attracts the best talent by watching our webinar!

This episode launches a new pattern of inquiry with members of the HSD community. Our first special guest is Glenda Eoyang, Founder and Executive Director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Glenda Eoyang helps public and private organizations thrive in the face of overwhelming complexity and uncertainty. She is a pioneer in the applications of complexity science to human systems, and she founded the field of human systems dynamics (HSD) in 2001. As founding executive director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute she leads a global network of scholar-practitioners who use her models and methods to see patterns in the chaos that surrounds them, understand the patterns in simple and powerful ways, and take practical steps to shift chaos toward coherence. Her recent clients include the Finnish Research Institute (VTT), US Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, British Columbia Ministry of Health, Oxfam International, The International Baccalaureate Organization, The Sustainability Consortium, the Association for Medical Education in Europe, UK National Health Service, and Roffey Park Institute. Glenda received her doctorate in Human Systems Dynamics from the Union Institute and University in 2001, studying under Drs. Donald Klein and Kevin Dooley. There she discovered three fundamental factors that influence the dynamics of self-organizing change in human systems. This research forms the foundation for the body of work that helps individuals, institutions, and communities respond to complex change. With colleagues around the world, Glenda delivers a hybrid of education and consulting in the form of Adaptive Action Laboratories. Individuals and teams bring their most wicked problems, learn and practice human systems dynamics approaches, and leave with plans for next wise action. Groups from Vancouver to Sao Paulo and Boston to Delhi have used this method to break through apparently intractable issues. Her published works include scholarly articles in a variety of fields and Radical Rules for Schools: Adaptive Action for Complex Change (HSD Institute, March 2013), and Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools (Lagumo Press, 1996). Glenda's latest book, with co-author Royce Holladay, is Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization(Stanford University Press, April 2013). It is a roadmap for anyone who chooses to work at the intersection of order and chaos. Glenda grew up in the Texas Panhandle, where there is more sky than ground and the wind “has been blowing for a very long time.” She lives now near the headwaters of the Mississippi River, on a little lake in Circle Pines, Minnesota. Thanks to Zoom, she engages with global partners in local action. For more information about Glenda and the HSD Institute, visit www.hsdinstitute.org. You can reach Glenda via email @Geoyang@hsdinstitute.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hsdpatterns-possibilities/message

Global consulting firm McKinsey works all over the world, but in South Africa, it faces criminal charges for corruption. The case centers on its role in the country's biggest post-apartheid scandal, known as state capture. The firm has also consulted on everything from looking at privatizing the UK National Health Service to researching Saudi Arabian dissidents. So what exactly does McKinsey do, and why? In this episode:  Walt Bogdanich, investigative reporter at the New York Times and co-author of ‘When McKinsey Comes to Town' Episode credits: This episode was produced by Negin Owliaei with our host, Halla Mohieddeen. Ruby Zaman fact-checked this episode. Our production team includes Chloe K. Li, Miranda Lin, Ashish Malhotra, Negin Owliaei, and Amy Walters.  Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. Alexandra Locke is The Take's executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio. Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook

Psychologist Dr. Thomas Richardson (University of Southampton), and author and mental health advocate Cara Lisette speak on how to help maintain self-compassion, discuss perfectionism in bipolar disorder, and answer your questions drawing on their clinical and lived experiences. Hosted by Dr. Emma Morton. Dr. Thomas Richardson is a Clinical Psychologist working as an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology within the School of Psychology, University of Southampton. Thomas leads teaching about CBT for Bipolar Disorder on the CPT diploma and is actively involved in various research projects around Bipolar Disorder. Prior to this he worked for 8 years as a clinical psychologist in a community mental health team for adults within the UK National Health Service. He did his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton, qualifying in 2013. His doctorate thesis looked at if tuition fees increases impacted on student mental health, which led to his ongoing study of finances and mental health. Dr. Richardson also has lived experience of bipolar disorder. Cara Lisette is a mental health advocate, author and therapist. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder aged 25 and since then has been actively campaigning to reduce stigma around the illness and raise awareness of signs and symptoms to look out for. She runs a successful blog (www.caras-corner.com) about her experiences with mental illness, and is also active on Twitter (@caralisette) and Instagram (@caralisette), where she shares more about her journey and about mental health in general. She has recently written a self help book for people with bipolar disorder which is due out in June 2023, after her self help book for people with eating disorders became a best-seller. She hopes that her knowledge as both a therapist and somebody with lived experience have come together to create a resource that will help people to understand themselves and their illness better. #talkBD gathers researchers, people with lived experience, healthcare providers, and top bipolar disorder experts from around the world to discuss and answer the most important questions about living with bipolar disorder. Learn more about the talkBD Bipolar Disorder Podcast and upcoming episodes at https://talkBD.live

Walkouts by healthcare workers threaten to disrupt the lives of millions of people in the UK.The standoff between public service employees and the government shows no sign of abating.So, what's gone wrong with the UK's National Health Service? Join host Nastasya Tay. Guests: Oksana Pyzik - Pharmacist and Lecturer at UCL School of Pharmacy Jeff Lazarus -  Barcelona Institute for Global Health Jonathan Portes - Department of Political Economy at King's College London

Chinese Communist Party embraces the global “forever COVID” policy / Tens of thousands of UK National Health Service nurses strike for first time / Elon Musk's Twitter mass bans tech and left-wing reporters

"Party politics is broken. It's time for independents."—Paul Greenall We welcome to the programme the psychologist Dr Paul Greenall for an interview on his campaign to stand as an independent candidate for Member of Parliament here in the UK, and on the role of the so-called "pandemic" in shaping his current view of politics at Westminster. Earlier this year, Paul, who works in the UK National Health Service, was facing the very distinct possibility of job loss—even career termination—because of the UK government's insane threat to make covid-19 injections mandatory for health workers. Thankfully, along with so many tens of thousands of his colleagues, Paul stood his ground and refused to give in to the pressure, a collective resistance which ultimately led to the government backing down on the idea, and an important signal to the vaccinators not to extend their mandates to further sectors of society. As a consequence— his life having been significantly impacted, and his trust in business-as-usual, party politics having evaporated—Paul is now preparing to stand as a truly independent candidate for MP in the local by-election here in West Lancashire, UK. [For show notes please visit https://themindrenewed.com]

"Party politics is broken. It's time for independents."—Paul Greenall We welcome to the programme the psychologist Dr Paul Greenall for an interview on his campaign to stand as an independent candidate for Member of Parliament here in the UK, and on the role of the so-called "pandemic" in shaping his current view of politics at Westminster. Earlier this year, Paul, who works in the UK National Health Service, was facing the very distinct possibility of job loss—even career termination—because of the UK government's insane threat to make covid-19 injections mandatory for health workers. Thankfully, along with so many tens of thousands of his colleagues, Paul stood his ground and refused to give in to the pressure, a collective resistance which ultimately led to the government backing down on the idea, and an important signal to the vaccinators not to extend their mandates to further sectors of society. As a consequence— his life having been significantly impacted, and his trust in business-as-usual, party politics having evaporated—Paul is now preparing to stand as a truly independent candidate for MP in the local by-election here in West Lancashire, UK. [For show notes please visit https://themindrenewed.com]

On today's show Katherine McBean discusses the US Midterms, PHA and UK National Health Service. GUEST OVERVIEW: Katherine McBean is a representative for People's Health Alliance and People's Farm Alliance (UK).

Dr Ahmed Hankir wears many hats - psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service, survivor of psychological trauma, and author of ‘The Wounded Healer' - which all link to his work in mental health advocacy and earned him the World Health Organisation Director-General's Global Health Leaders Award 2022. In this episode of Because Feelings Matter, he shares about his personal and mental health struggles, and why he is championing a cultural revolution that normalises living with mental health conditions. ‘Because Feelings Matter' is a series that brings you the stories of people and their mental health issues. This series is produced in collaboration with Thrive Well.

Chris Roebuck's combination of personal leadership experience in the military, business, and public sector, gives him unique insight as a globally recognized expert speaker on delivering success. Through business case studies, psychology, neuroscience, and insights from his career Chris inspires leaders to unleash the power of their own experience and potential to deliver what their organisation needs immediately via a simple 3 step system. In over 200 keynotes he has shown over 21,000 leaders from over 650 organisations globally how they can be more successful to beat their objectives, beat their challenges and build the future, and, more recently, in a way that defuses their Covid Great Resignation “People Time Bomb” and optimises hybrid working to enhance performance, wellbeing & retention. In his role as Global Head of Leadership at UBS Chris worked on building a strategic leadership team of 500 for the newly created global bank which is now a Harvard Case study. He also led Management Development at HSBC Investment Bank and helped KPMG set up a leadership enterprise. Chris worked on the top team at London Underground, the London subway, leading the creation of a partnership culture during a part privatisation working with management, employees & Government. He subsequently helped the UK National Health Service, 1.4m staff, create the first nationwide talent and leadership identification systems and was commissioned to write a report for Government on developing leadership in NHS. Chris also helps even expert leaders get better by delivering a 1 Day Masterclass on “Leadership Integrity” to 300 senior military officers and civil servants at the UK Defence Academy and also to speak on leadership at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. During his military service, he developed the pipe fascine. He was co-author of his first book on strategic leadership development and has published a number of books on leadership one of which was translated into 11 languages, published over 100 articles, has been on the list of HR Most Influential Thinkers 10 times in past 11 years and taught senior executives as Hon Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Bayes Business School. Chris was on a Government Expert panel on boosting Employee Engagement across sectors via the Engage for Success report and initiative. Chris writes articles for Newsweek, has been quoted as a business leadership expert globally in the Harvard Business Review China, FT, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, Washington Post and many other titles. He has done over 350 TV interviews on leadership and business on BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC and other channels and regularly judges business awards.   Social Media Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-roebuck-ccmi-fcipd-70b1283/ https://www.youtube.com/user/chrisroebuck56/featured https://twitter.com/chris__roebuck

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally, but can nutrition play a role in reducing its prevalence? The UK National Health Service has identified CVD as the single biggest condition where lives can be saved over the next decade. It says, often, cardiovascular disease can be prevented by leading a healthier lifestyle. It is worth making that point again, the biggest cause of death in the world can be prevented through lifestyle choices.   It begs a couple of questions: how did we end up here in the first place? And what is preventing us from fixing it? It is obviously complex, something we don't shy away from on this podcast, but perhaps we need to look again at the science and what people are being advised to do.   What advice can modern nutritional science bring, with its understanding of macronutrients and whole-diet approaches?    And how important can diet be in reducing our personal risk factors? Thomas Sander, Emeritus Professor of Nutrition & Dietetics, King's College London Thomas Sander is a scientist who has spent his career working in the field of human nutrition. He was appointed to the established chair in Nutrition and Dietetics at King's College London in 1994 from which he retired at the end of September 2014.  He remains involved in research and publishing as well as TV, radio and consultancy. Thomas Butler, Senior Lecturer Nutrition and Health, Edgehill University. Dr Tom Butler joined the faculty in 2020 following previous appointments at the University of Chester and Manchester Metropolitan University. Tom completed his undergraduate degree in Human Biology at the University of Hull, before undertaking his PhD at the same university with a thesis titled "Impact of dietary manipulation on cardiac hypertrophy".  Following this, Tom completed a PD diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Chester, subsequently becoming a Registered Dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council and registered nutritionist with the Association for Nutrition.  Tom's research interests are broadly focussed on nutrition and cardiovascular health, including both primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.   Recent research projects have considered the impact of sarcopenic obesity on health, in addition to the role of portion distortion and energy intake of various breakfast cereals.  He has a special interest in the role of nutrition in the management of heart failure.

What is addiction? A paper released in 2019 says, 21 million Americans suffer from addiction and that's just one country. While not the only cause, addiction is a large contributor to the 350,000 people who die every year due to overdoses, and this stat doesn't include the number one drug related killer in the world; tobacco. How does addiction work and what can we do to solve it? Professor Robert West is the author of "Theory of Addiction," and he joined me today to help explain this phenomenon. Bio: Robert West is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, UK. Professor West is also co-director of the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Addiction. He is co-author of the English National Smoking Cessation Guidelines that provided the blueprint for the UK-wide network of stop-smoking services that are now an established part of the UK National Health Service. His research includes evaluations of methods of helping smokers to stop and population surveys of smoking and smoking cessation patterns. Book: An understanding of addiction theory is vital to understanding addiction itself. Theory of Addiction takes theory development from a simple ‘rational addiction model', adding elements such as compulsion, self-control and habit, to explain the ‘big observations' in the field. As well as explaining and evaluating the arguments of each of the prevailing schools of thought, the book develops a new, synthetic theory of addiction that brings together the diverse elements of current models. Designed to enable students, practitioners and researchers to establish a starting point in the labyrinthine world of addiction theory, Theory of Addiction supports abstract thinking with concrete and realistic scenarios, underlining the centrality of theoretical understanding to working with addiction. Book - https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Addiction-Robert-West/dp/1405113596 Website - http://www.rjwest.co.uk/index.php Artwork by Phillip Thor - https://linktr.ee/Philipthor_art The Way Podcast - www.PodcastTheWay.com - Follow at Twitter / Instagram - @podcasttheway (Subscribe/Follow on streaming platforms and social media!) To watch the visuals with the trailer go to https://www.podcasttheway.com/trailers/ Thank you Don Grant for the Intro/Outro. Check out his podcast - https://threeinterestingthings.captivate.fm Intro guitar copied from Aiden Ayers at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UiB9FMOP5s *The views demonstrated in this show are strictly those of The Way Podcast/Radio Show*

Can immersive learning help to upgrade human performance? In this latest episode of Digital Workplace Impact, Nancy Goebel talks with Dr Alex Young, founder and CEO of Virti, and uncovers crisp advice on engaging a digital workforce. A former trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, Alex built and sold his first company whilst at medical school. He scaled an award-winning medical education company while still training in the UK National Health Service. Virti, an employee training platform for the modern workforce, is Alex's most ambitious venture to date. In this discussion, Alex shares his energy, drive and insights as someone whose entrepreneurial mindset is grounded in a mix of science and innovation. As many digital workplace teams shift from the war-room mentality of the pandemic to the future of work, Alex and Nancy predict the next mega trends and opportunities. Can gamification and artificial intelligence help employees to fast-track their soft skills for today's digital workplace? What can actively encourage innovation within an organizational culture? And how can we really seize precious moments to engage increasingly busy people? The openings for intrapreneurship and innovation abound, so listen now and hear more on creating habits for optimal focus, performance and wellbeing. (Show notes, links and transcript for this episode.) Guest speakers: Dr Alex Young,former trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, founder and CEO of Virti Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Rachel Brown is a consultant psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service who is interested in LCHF/Metabolic Psychiatry. Low carb to keto to carnivore Training with Dr. Georgia Ede Functional medicine The existing western paradigm Carnivore giving “complete food freedom” Flaws in medical literature Doing your own research Quantifying the success of health interventions Rachel's book Metabolic Madness https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metabolic-Madness-Understand-Health-Success/dp/1739614704/ https://www.instagram.com/carnivoreshrink/ https://foodforthoughtpsychiatrist.com/

For many it means nothing at all, but to others it is the epitome of their identity. As humans, our appearance is often important to us and our hair plays a huge role. Whether you have long flowing locks or a swept back do, the way you wear your hair can say something about you. But what if you start to lose it?对许多人来说，这根本没有任何意义，但对其他人来说，这是他们身份的缩影。作为人类，我们的外表通常对我们很重要，我们的头发起着巨大的作用。无论你是飘逸的长发还是后掠的发型，你的发型都可以说明你。但如果你开始失去它怎么办？Forty per cent of men experience hair loss by the age of 35, according to the Belgravia Centre UK, one of Europe's largest hair loss treatment centres. This figure rises to 80% by the age of 80. And women are far from exempt from losing clumps of hair, with 50% of them suffering some form of hair loss in their life.根据欧洲最大的脱发治疗中心之一的英国贝尔格莱维亚中心的数据，40% 的男性在 35 岁时会脱发。到 80 岁时，这一数字上升到 80%。而且女性远不能免于脱发，其中 50% 的女性在生活中遭受某种形式的脱发。It starts with a receding hairline, followed by a thinning of hair on the crown of the head and temples and before you know it, your scalp is showing and you're completely bald. Every human naturally loses between 50 and 100 hairs a day, according to the UK National Health Service. Excluding hair loss caused by disease, baldness is genetic. It's related to the hormone testosterone, which causes a shrinking of hair follicles in susceptible adults. This results in the loss of so called 'terminal' adult hair and the production of much finer 'vellus' hairs – like those on the heads of babies.它从发际线后退开始，然后是头顶和太阳穴上的头发变薄，在你意识到之前，你的头皮已经显露出来，你完全秃了。根据英国国家卫生服务局的数据，每个人每天自然会掉 50 到 100 根头发。排除疾病引起的脱发，秃顶是遗传的。它与激素睾酮有关，睾酮会导致易感成年人的毛囊萎缩。这会导致所谓的“终末”成人头发脱落，并产生更细的“毳毛”——就像婴儿头上的头发一样。'It can cause considerable damage to emotional health, including loss of self-esteem and confidence.' a spokesman for the British Association of Dermatologists told the BBC. But if you can't hide it with a comb-over, or a wig, what can you do? Well, the ancient Greek medic Hippocrates recommended a mixture of pigeon droppings, mixed with horseradish, cumin and nettles liberally applied to the pate. Since then there has been a liberal dose of tonics, creams, pills and hair replacement surgery. All of which have had mixed results.“它会对情绪健康造成相当大的损害，包括丧失自尊和信心。”英国皮肤病学家协会的一位发言人告诉 BBC。但是如果你不能用梳子或假发来隐藏它，你能做什么？好吧，古希腊医生希波克拉底推荐了一种鸽子粪便的混合物，混合了辣根、孜然和荨麻，大量涂抹在颈部。从那时起，大量的补品、乳霜、药丸和头发置换手术开始出现。所有这些都有不同的结果。Now, a potential new cure has been found in a drug that was designed to treat osteoporosis. The research, published in PLOS Biology, states that the drug contains a compound that targets a protein which inhibits hair growth and plays a role in balding. In short, it stimulates hair to grow. Keep your hair on,though. Clinical trials need to take place to ensure the drug is effective and safe to give people.现在，在一种旨在治疗骨质疏松症的药物中发现了一种潜在的新疗法。这项发表在 PLOS Biology 上的研究表明，该药物含有一种化合物，该化合物靶向一种抑制头发生长并在秃顶中起作用的蛋白质。简而言之，它会刺激头发生长。不过，保持你的头发。需要进行临床试验以确保该药物对人体有效且安全。And besides, many would say that being bald improves a person's appearance. Researchers at The University of Pennsylvania asked male and female students to rate photographs of men according to their attractiveness, confidence and dominance. In all three categories, the bald men came out ahead - and not just by a hair's breadth.此外，许多人会说秃头可以改善一个人的外表。宾夕法尼亚大学的研究人员要求男女学生根据男性和女性的吸引力、自信和支配地位对他们的照片进行评分。在所有三个类别中，秃头男人都领先 - 而不仅仅是头发的宽度。So, whether you love it or hate it or whether it's happening to you right now, you aren't alone. A cure may very soon be on its way. Until then, relax and let your hair down.所以，无论你爱它还是恨它，或者它现在是否正在发生在你身上，你并不孤单。治疗可能很快就会出现。在那之前，放松一下，放下你的头发。词汇表locks 头发do （多指女性为特殊场合做的）发型hair loss 掉头发，脱发clumps of hair 一把一把的头发receding hairline 渐渐向后移的发际线，（男人）逐渐秃顶thinning hair 头发变得稀疏crown of the head 头顶scalp 头皮bald 秃头的baldness 秃顶hair follicle 毛囊comb-over 把两侧头发梳到秃头部位的发型wig 假发pate 头顶（谑称）keep your hair on 保持冷静，别生气a hair's breadth 以细微之差let your hair down 尽情地玩，放松下来

Today, I'm talking to Toni - The Binge Dietitian, a UK Registered Dietitian, who is based in Peru, and working with women all over the world who have binge eating behaviours. Previously, Toni worked within the UK National Health Service and has a range of experience with diabetes, weight management, learning disabilities and mental health. She now works online and is a weight inclusive and non-diet approach dietitian. Throughout her dietetic career, Toni has always been passionate in sharing her love for food, and helping people to realise, that even with chronic conditions like diabetes, there is no list of foods that they should or shouldn't be eating. She has always experienced there being so much confusion with food advice among her clients and consequently brings this passion to educating her clients and busting nutritional misinformation and fads. In the past, Toni wanted to be a dancer. When she was 18, she attended a dance college to pursue this dream. Unfortunately, her experience was far from positive, when Toni and her peers experienced teachers making unhelpful comments focusing on body image and appearance. In this environment, she also observed friends around her having a toxic relationship with food. These experiences understandably had a negative impact on her own self-esteem and body image. At this point, she made the courageous decision to leave this path. Following this period, Toni's relationship with food and body image was a struggle. Even as training to be a dietitian, she was stuck in diet culture and body dissatisfaction, which had a detrimental impact on her well-being and self-esteem. Today, Toni has left all of this behind and is now working in the non-diet space, online and is based in Peru. She started this work earlier this year following this exciting move with her husband. You can find Toni on Instagram as the @the.binge.dietitian and she is offering a free 30 minute call which you can book through her Instagram bio. In this episode, Toni talks about her journey in healing her relationship with food and body image. She explores the early triggers of body dissatisfaction, triggered by the dance world and diet clubs. Toni then talks about restriction and food rules; how these can hinder people's recovery and exacerbate binge eating. Toni explores how to break the rules and become freer with food. Toni also navigates emotional triggers and self-care and talks about the valuable work that she does with her clients today. I hope that you enjoy the conversation. To find more about Toni:- Website: thebingedietitian.com Instagram: @the.binge.dietitian

The pandemic challenged every health care system in the world. But what can we learn from one another aboutin the way we responded, and how we might improve for future threats?   In this episode we look up close at the experience of two large academic teaching hospitals embedded in two different health care systems – the Charité in Berlin, Germany's largest teaching hospital, and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, one of the UK's largest.  How do these two health care systems compare when dealing with the pandemic and its aftermath? And what can we learn?  Our Chief Executive Dr Jennifer Dixon is joined by:  Professor Heyo Kroemer, chief executive of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, one of the largest hospitals in Europe. A pharmacologist by trade, Heyo joined Charité in 2019 from the University of Göttingen's Medical Center, where he held the positions of Dean and Chairman of the Managing Board.  Professor Tim Orchard, chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare. NHS Trust. A consultant physician and gastroenterologist, Tim was appointed chief executive in June 2018 after having been the director of clinical studies at St Mary's Hospital.  Show notes How does the NHS compare internationally? big election questions (2017) The King's Fund  NHS hospital beds data analysis (2022) BMA  How does the UK compare internationally for health funding, staffing and hospital beds? (2017) The Health Foundation  Performance of UK National Health Service compared with other high income countries: observational study (2019) BMJ  What can England learn from the long-term care system in Germany? (2019) Nuffield Trust  Taxes and health care funding: how does the UK compare? (2021) The Health Foundation 

Director of the UBC Centre for Gambling Research Dr. Luke Clark (University of British Columbia) and clinical psychologist Dr. Thomas Richardson discuss the relationship between mental health and risk from gambling, research into bipolar disorder and impulsivity, and useful management strategies. Hosted by Dr. Erin Michalak. Dr. Luke Clark's research focuses on the psychology and neuroscience of risky decision-making, with a specific interest in gambling behaviour. His research around mood disorders dates back to his PhD at the University of Oxford, where he studied state and trait aspects of cognitive function in bipolar disorder. He also works with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center on cognitive function in late-life suicidality. Prior to moving to Vancouver in 2014, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology in Cambridge, U.K. At UBC, he teaches an undergraduate course on intro psychology and a third-year course on Gambling and Decision Making. He supervises graduate students in the clinical and cognitive programs in the UBC Department of Psychology. Dr. Thomas Richardson is a Clinical Psychologist working as an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology within the School of Psychology, University of Southampton. Thomas leads teaching about CBT for Bipolar Disorder on the CPT diploma and is actively involved in various research projects around Bipolar Disorder. Prior to this he worked for 8 years as a clinical psychologist in a community mental health team for adults within the UK National Health Service. He did his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton, qualifying in 2013. His doctorate thesis looked at if tuition fees increases impacted on student mental health, which led to his ongoing study of finances and mental health. Dr. Richardson also has lived experience of bipolar disorder. TalkBD is a series of online community gatherings to share support and tips for bipolar wellness. Learn more about the next event at www.TalkBD.live

In this episode, Graham R. Foster, FRCP, PhD, and Paul Y. Kwo, MD, share lessons learned in the management of HCC and liver transplantation the COVID-19 era, including:• Global impact of HCC and strategies for maintaining HCC care in the COVID-19 era• Characteristics of liver transplant recipients in the COVID-19 era• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic period on liver transplant outcomes• Impact of liver transplant status on COVID-19 outcomes• Strategies for providing streamlined care for patients with liver cancer or liver transplantation in the COVID-19 eraPresenters:Graham R. Foster, FRCP, PhD Professor of Hepatology The Liver UnitConsultant Hepatologist Queen Mary University of LondonLondon, United KingdomPaul Y. Kwo, MDProfessor of Medicine Director of HepatologyStanford University School of MedicinePalo Alto, CaliforniaFollow along with the slides at:https://bit.ly/3HQ6dZ5Link to full program:  https://bit.ly/3Bgyd5I

Compared to the automotive and aviation industries, railways can seem rather antiquated. But trains are actually vitally important for modern digital infrastructure. Rail systems can provide high-speed Internet connectivity to rural areas. They can help cut carbon emissions. And they can provide a surprising array of services to local communities. Take the Marsden train station in West Yorkshire as an example. When an impending disaster was expected to hit this area, companies like Cisco and Network Rail Telecom (NRT) teamed up to leverage government-owned fiber running through the station and third-party radios to provide communications and connectivity to the community. The UK National Health Service was then able to set up telehealth pods for remote consultations, testing, and diagnosis. And that's only one way rail technology is used for the greater good.  In this podcast, we examine all the opportunities rail technology offers, smart rail benefits for both employees and passengers, and ongoing collaborations to improve rail operations and management. Join us as we explore these ideas with: Greg Butler, Industry Lead for Rail for Cisco Simon Atterwell, Managing Director of Network Rail Telecom Kenton Williston, Editor-in-Chief for insight.tech Podcast Topics Greg and Simon answer our questions about: Biggest transformations in the rail industry How technology can meet new demands Importance of agile development and collaboration Rail technology benefits for both passengers and staff Smart rail possibilities from working with partners Using rail technology to reach carbon-neutral goals What global peers can learn from NRT and Cisco Related Content For the latest innovations from Cisco and NRT, follow them on Twitter at @Cisco and @NetworkRail, and on LinkedIn at Cisco and Network-Rail.

Digital communication technologies can transform interactions for children with severe speech and physical impairments and their social partners. In this podcast, we hear about how interdisciplinary perspectives can help to guide how we study these interactions by drawing on speech and language therapy practice, human computer interaction and multimodal communication. In this episode, we are joined by Dr Seray Ibrahim a collaborative social researcher who investigates the communication of children with severe speech and physical impairments. She asks how technologies can be designed in new ways to foreground the many different resources that people use to communicate. Her aim is to bring children's views into the design process to improve the communication technologies that are available to them. Before becoming a researcher Seray worked as a Speech and Language Therapist in UK National Health Service hospital and community settings. She was awarded her PhD at UCL in 2019, and in 2020 she received a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/collaborative-social-science-domain-podcasts Date of episode recording: 2021-11-30 Duration: 00:21:04 Language of episode: English Presenter: Lili Golmohammadi Guests: Seray Ibrahim Producer: Cerys Bradley

Empowerment is one of the strategic pillars of the Overcoming MS charity, and advocacy is a practical way in which we realize this goal. Living Well with MS is honored to welcome two of Overcoming MS's newest trustees – Prof. Helen Rees Leahy and Alison Marwick – for a special roundtable discussion on how advocacy is put in practice. This episode dives into the mission of advocacy and how we put it in play by developing tools and resources to enable OMSers to have confidence in talking about OMS to family, friends, health care professionals, and others.   Helen's Bio:   Helen was diagnosed with Primary Progressive MS in 1997 when she was 37 years old. Being ineligible for any Disease Modifying Treatment (DMT) within the UK National Health Service, she began to explore holistic approaches to managing her condition. She discovered OMS in 2008 and has followed the program ever since. In 2021, Helen joined the OMS Board of Trustees.   Helen lives in Conwy, a small, medieval town in North Wales. In 2017, she took medical retirement from the University of Manchester where she was a Professor in the Department of Art History and Cultural Practice. As an Emerita Professor, Helen continues to research and teach doctoral students. She also spends time hand-weaving and learning Welsh, the language of her ancestors. Helen has never taken medication for her MS and is committed to living well through active self-care.   Alison's Bio:   Allie is originally from Edinburgh but now lives in Surrey. While living in London in 2004 she had her first MS episode, but it was not until 2011 that she was formally diagnosed. Living in limbo for seven years, she buried her head in the sand and hoped nothing more would happen, but optic neuritis led to a formal diagnosis and the necessity to accept that MS was to be part of her life. Not willing to sit and wait for the next episode, she found Overcoming MS a few months later and has never looked back.   Since finding OMS Allie has supported the organization in many ways, and in 2018 became an ambassador for the OMS Circle in Surrey. Supporting the organization that has given her so much after diagnosis and enables her to live a full life is important to Allie, and why she applied to become an ambassador.   Allie lives with her partner, Neil, and is lucky to be able to work full time as a Salesperson for an IT consultancy. She enjoys spending time in her garden, running (slowly), and is looking forward to returning to Covent Garden Royal Opera House to enjoy the opera in the autumn.   Themes:   What is advocacy? What does it mean for the OMS community? How do we do out it in practice? What is the OMS Advocacy Group? Where can you begin? How do we measure success?   Empowerment begins with OMS listening to and learning from the diverse experiences of our community: we'd love you to help us shape this work. See below for more info on the advocacy section of the OMS website.   Recommended Links:   Check out Overcoming MS's new advocacy page on our website.   Coming up on our next episode:   Only three episodes left in Season 3! Next up: just in time for Giving Tuesday 2021 and starting November 29, meet Nicole Zobrist, the ambassador of the OMS Circle in Portland, Oregon, on Living Well with MS Coffee Break #25, part of our popular ongoing series introducing you to members of OMS's dynamic community from around the globe.   Don't miss out:   Subscribe to this podcast and never miss an episode. You can catch any episode of Living Well with MS here or on your favorite podcast listening app. Don't be shy – if you like the program, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you tune into the show.   S3E44 Transcript Empowering Advocacy   Geoff Allix (1s): Welcome to Living Well with MS, the podcast from Overcoming MS for people with multiple sclerosis interested in making healthy lifestyle choices. I'm your host Geoff Allix. Thank you for joining us for this new episode. I hope it makes you feel more informed and inspired about living a full life with MS. Don't forget to check out our show notes for more information and useful links. You can find these on our website at www.overcomingms.org/podcast. If you enjoy the show, please spread the word about us on your social media channels. That's the kind of viral effect we can all smile about. Finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast platform so you never miss an episode.   Geoff Allix (44s): Now without further ado on with the show. Today's podcast is different to every other one that we've had so far in that we have two guests, and we're going to discuss advocacy. And joining me today are Alison Marwick and Helen Rees Leahy. And I'm going to get Alison and Helen to introduce themselves. You may be familiar with Helen; she's already been a podcast guest. I believe it's season two, episode 30 off the top of my head. But there's a podcast about PPMS with Helen, but to start off with, would you like to, well, firstly, welcome and could you introduce yourself, Alison or Allie?   Alison Marwick (1m 31s): Thanks, Geoff. Yeah, delighted to be here on this podcast today and talking a bit about advocacy. So, my name's Alison or Allie Marwick, I have relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, and although I was formally diagnosed 10 years ago in September 2011, I had my first episode in 2004. So, I've been living with the disease for the past 17 years. I'm fortunate in that I found OMS within about a month of diagnosis, which was great because during that period, I was probably depressed having gone going through that grief cycle of being diagnosed and not really knowing what to do, but I was physically well, I was mentally well, but I had this, what I felt was, you know, a hideous disease and that my life was over.   Alison Marwick (2m 36s): So, finding Overcoming MS within a month was hugely empowering and gave me so much hope. And it enabled me to really take steps in my life that I had been afraid to before. I had been told in 2004 that I probably had MS, or it was highly likely, I think they phrased it, but I pretended that it wasn't there. And I just was living in denial and in fear. And what OMS gave me was that ability to not be fearful anymore, to have hope that I was able to manage my life and that it wasn't over. And I could do all the things that I wanted to do by following the program and have great health outcomes.   Alison Marwick (3m 19s): So that's, you know, that's kind of my story in terms of OMS and how I found it. And I, ever since then, I've been passionate in wanting to support the organization, support other people who are following the program or looking at or interested in following the program. So, I've been an ambassador for Surrey, which is where I lived for the last three years, which has been hugely rewarding. And, you know, we've got an active circle here, which has been great fun and, you know, helping and working with others who are following the program.   Geoff Allix (3m 52s): Excellent. So also joining is Helen Rees Leahy as mentioned. So, Helen, could we have a quick intro from you?   Helen Rees Leahy (3m 59s): Hi, Geoff. Hi, Allie. Hi, everybody. Thank you very much, Geoff, for asking both of us to come on to talk about advocacy today. I'm Helen, Helen Rees Leahy. I was diagnosed with primary progressive MS in 1997. So, I've been living with MS now for nearly 25 years. And as I had a diagnosis of primary progressive from the outset, I have had that course of increasing progression of my illness. I discovered OMS a long time ago, actually. I mean, I think it was something like 2008 when Professor George Jelinek published one of his very early books outlining the backbone of the OMS program.   Helen Rees Leahy (4m 46s): And I seized upon that. I have never been eligible for a disease modifying therapy under the UK NHS system. So, I've always been managing my MS through my own actions and agency, and like Allie discovering the Overcoming MS Program was a tremendous support for me and indeed it supported me throughout my time, my life with MS and continues to do so. So, I think I'm very touched by what Allie says about, you know, overcoming fear and anxiety. And that's something I'd like to come back to. I think in the course of this conversation, the importance of the program, not only in enabling us to lead very healthy lives, as healthy as we possibly can with this condition, but also the emotional, the mental, the psychological support that it gives us in terms of becoming less fearful, becoming less anxious about our conditions.   Helen Rees Leahy (5m 51s): And that's very much, I think, at the core of the advocacy initiative, the ways in which we can really realize the goal of empowerment, empowerment for ourselves and for each other as a community of people living with MS, following the OMS program.   Geoff Allix (6m 13s): Can we start out just as a basic, what is advocacy? To start off with. I think a lot of people won't have heard the term too much. So, could we just define advocacy and the types of advocacy as well? Who wants to take this one out?   Helen Rees Leahy (6m 29s): I'll kickoff, but Allie, I know will come in there as well. I mean, that's right. It's perhaps a rather abstract word. We relate it as I was suggesting a second ago, very much to our strategic goal of empowerment within OMS and really what it is, is making the case for the OMS program. So, if you think about it this way, I think as an organization, we're very good with information to go into the website. There's a massive amount of information about the program, how to implement it. You know, your questions are answered there, but we know that living with MS is challenging and convincing other people of the benefits of following a program like Overcoming MS.   Helen Rees Leahy (7m 16s): It can also be quite challenging. Maybe those, it could be family, friends, it could be your healthcare professional. They don't always understand the program, they don't always see the benefits that we ourselves perceive from it. So, it's making a persuasive argument and it's finding the words and the confidence to make the case for following the program. Sometimes in perhaps what might be quite difficult or challenging situations, you know, where you need to be persuasive. It's beyond information. It's a process of a persuasion. And I say, we can do it for ourselves. We can also do it for each other as well.   Geoff Allix (7m 58s): And Allie, do you have anything to add to that?   Alison Marwick (7m 60s): Yeah, I would agree with that. I think, you know, there are two keywords there that Helen references: empower and confidence. You know, giving people the tools and the techniques and the confidence to be able to talk about their own diagnosis, talk about their own choice to follow the program and the benefits that that's shown. We know from the community engagement survey data that was, you know, we're currently trawling through as an organization, that a lot of people struggle with talking to healthcare providers, talking to their friends and family, but having your friends and family on side is a huge support network.   Alison Marwick (8m 43s): It's really important. And we knew that you, having the confidence and the ability to be able to articulate what it is that you're doing and why, and not have to be defensive and constantly, you know, people going, oh, go on just to have a wee bit cheese or whatever. And so, it's about, we want to enable people to have that confidence, to have that ability, to have those conversations in any environment, whether it's friends, families, healthcare professionals, work, those sorts of areas that we'd recognize, but we maybe need to provide a bit, a few more tools, techniques, and support in order to be able to do that.   Geoff Allix (9m 20s): Absolutely. I think I bet anyone who's got MS and following OMS, I think will be familiar with this. I think, I consider myself very lucky in that my neurologist is very supportive, but I've certainly had many stories of-- probably isn't fair to say, old school neurologists, maybe more traditional, if you like, who really are very much of the opinion, you take the medication and you live life. Literally, I think the phrase did come up like, you know, you've got MS, you don't want to make things any worse and just enjoy life while you can.   Geoff Allix (10m 1s): And it was some really cutting remark like this I've heard, but actually when you look at some of the top neurologists, you know, some really leading neurologists, they are almost entirely of the opinion that lifestyle is a factor and living a healthy life will have an effect on your MS prognosis. So there is definitely, if you've got an up-to-date, if you like, neurologist, they seem to be very pro the OMS approach, but yeah, there are still some more traditionalist and equally person to person as well, because I think all of us will have come across someone who I think you said, why not just have a little bit of cheese, and that is absolutely the case with some people.   Geoff Allix (10m 49s): Again, I feel very fortunate. My family and friends are generally very supportive, but it still happened, you know, a little bit won't hurt sort of argument. So how is advocacy particularly important to the OMS community then? And to the broader MS Community?   Helen Rees Leahy (11m 14s): For me, that's all about individual and collective agency. So, when any of us has a diagnosis of a condition like MS, as Allie was saying, you know, there can be very devastating concerns. And, you know, people of course react in very different ways, but it's, you know, it's a profound change in anybody's life. And in fact, it can be a very traumatic period for people, but what the OMS program does not only, you know, is provide a toolkit to enable us to lead a healthy life.   Helen Rees Leahy (11m 56s): It's also a means of covering our own personal agency of taking control, of feeding that something that we can do and in time, you know, perceiving the tangible benefits of following the program. So, for me, it's that process of taking control, which I think is so incredibly powerful. That is why we believe, of course, the Overcoming MS Program is so valuable in all of our lives and combined elements of it is a kind of more than the sum of the parts. So, I think we know this as individuals, but perhaps as a community, we haven't been quite as clear in articulating that within the MS space more generally.   Helen Rees Leahy (12m 46s): So, I think it's about within the OMS community, becoming more empowered, connecting with each other. And as I say, becoming a stronger voice for the program within the MS space. So, as you say, Geoff, with a healthcare professional, who's a little bit skeptical, with a family member who, you know, is perhaps questioning why somebody with OMS needs to have time and space for meditation or stress reduction, why family food might need to change. So, I think it's about increasing confidence, increasing empowerment, and doing this collectively. We're not expecting, you know, sort of magic wand that any one individual can do this by themselves.   Helen Rees Leahy (13m 30s): So, it's one of the ways in which we want to become more connected as a community as well.   Geoff Allix (13m 40s): And how can you advocate by using your own experiences? What approaches have you had for that? Could ask that to Allie if--.   Alison Marwick (13m 53s): Yeah. Yeah. So, I think a lot of OMSers are naturally advocates because, and you've had many of them here doing podcasts and talking passionately about how following the program has transformed their lives. And as Helen said, not just from a physical perspective, but from a mental perspective, and how they feel about themselves and their own empowerment. So, we can all be advocates just by, you know, talking about our own experiences. And Helen, I'm sure you experienced this as well, but when I meet new people and you're having food in a restaurant or something, and everyone was like, "Oh, what can you eat?"   Alison Marwick (14m 37s): Why do you do that? Like, well, this is why, and this is, I've lived with this disease for, well, had a diagnosis for 10 years. I've followed this program for 10 years and I am in remission and everyone's like, wow. And they get it, you know, some people want to know more. Some people are like, oh, difficult subject, don't want to talk anymore. But I think everybody can be an advocate. We're not, what we're not saying here is everyone has to be. But I think by default, just by having conversations with your family and with your friends and by living your life, people will see that there's something there that you can, that you've got the confidence, you've got the ability and the, you know, you're managing your disease.   Alison Marwick (15m 22s): Helen, I don't know if you want to add to that.   Helen Rees Leahy (15m 26s): Yeah. I think you're absolutely right, Allie and I think the only thing I would add to that is for me, it's, as you say, our own kind of personal stories can be very powerful. And there's an idea which is becoming increasingly accepted and talked about within healthcare systems here in the UK, but also in other parts of the world as well. And this is the idea of experts by experience. It's the idea of the so-called patients being a kind of co-creator of their own kind of treatment plan and parts and acknowledging that alongside the medical model of medical knowledge and research, there are other forms of insight, knowledge, and understanding, which come from the lived experience of an individual and a group of individuals.   Helen Rees Leahy (16m 21s): And it's particularly true with kind of chronic conditions, such as MS. For me, it's more than just our own individual stories. It's actually reflecting on what we've learned, what we learned from those experiences and actually looking for what we have in common, because we know as we've said in this conversation already so far, each of us has a very distinctive experience of MS. And sometimes, you know, your experience is nothing like my experience. Let's put those differences to one side and focus more on what we have in common, what we learn, what we can learn jointly.   Helen Rees Leahy (17m 9s): And I should say, acknowledging both our vulnerability, but also our agency, our vulnerability I think, is what we get from MS. And I think our agency is what we get from OMS, from Overcoming MS.   Geoff Allix (17m 20s): And just as an aside, I mean, I find a lot of people who follow OMS and certainly myself, people always say, you look really healthy, and you look really well. And I've heard that from a lot of OMSers that people are always commenting. How well we look, and I said, I always say, well, yeah, apart from the obvious then yeah, I do actually feel, I think it does actually my sort of ex-- lived experiences that I am definitely healthier apart from the fact of MS. And that my healthcare providers are on board with that, and they said, yeah, I noticed that you're living a really healthy life.   Geoff Allix (18m 0s): You're doing exercise, you're eating a whole food diet, which is good, stress reduction, good. All those things are good things. It's not a, we're not doing some sort of really weird, out there, sort of unusual remedy. These are well founded, healthy things to do.   Helen Rees Leahy (18m 21s): Well. I think that's exactly right, Geoff. And if you had diabetes or a particular heart condition, much of the kind of advice that we follow in OMS would be recommended to you by your healthcare professionals, without any question at all. It's orthodox, it's standard practice. As you said, a few minutes ago, unfortunately, lifestyle management, let alone Overcoming MS isn't yet a kind of standard prescription for people with MS. But you're absolutely right, with-- and you also said something interesting a moment ago about, well, you've got MS so why not enjoy life, which kind of implies that somehow following the OMS program, you know, robs you of enjoyment, well far from it.   Helen Rees Leahy (19m 7s): You know, I think instead of thinking of it as a sort of rule space, sort of diktat, which, you know, is somehow a constraint. In fact, of course, it's a fa-- as you say, it's a foundation to be free and to lead a good life, a healthy life. And of course, to lead the best lives we can with MS.   Geoff Allix (19m 35s): And Allie, have you got a point as well? On that?   Alison Marwick (19m 37s): Yeah. I would add to that, just go back to your comment, Geoff, about people tending to comment that OMSers look well, I think the key thing though is that OMSers know that there are so many hidden aspects of MS. And so, you may look brilliant, you may-- you know, your skin, your hair, everything might be great, but you could be in a lot of pain or, you know, suffering from one of the many things that we know that are hidden to the wider world. So that, I guess, you know, one of the things that we do bring to bear in these kinds of conversations is that yes, we know that the health, the lifestyle and the-- is great.   Alison Marwick (20m 21s): And people comment that physically, we look like what they can see, we look well. But actually, those of us who live with the disease know that there's lots of hidden things there as well. So, we're not, we're not dismissing that, but acknowledging it, and you're working on, you know, helping people in, you know, who are struggling with some of those areas as well. So, there's, it's not, we're not all running marathons and all that kind of stuff. It's about empowering people wherever they are with their disease, and you know, where they are physically and mentally, even if everybody thinks we're all fine.   Geoff Allix (21m 5s): Yeah. We're like swans. We look great on the surface, but an awful lot of work underneath.   Alison Marwick (21m 8s): Absolutely. Absolutely. But, and to Helen's point, you know, I don't, I agree. I don't think that following OMS is a burden. I don't know if somebody told me I could eat meat tomorrow, I'm not sure that I would. I'm, you know, I have-- my life is much more enriched. I've had more confidence, I think, as a person to be able to do things, but I never thought prior to diagnosis that I would do, I guess I've taken life by the horns a little bit more than I would have done before. And certainly, living those years between 2004/5 and 2011. I lived in fear just waiting for the next relapse to happen and made some lifestyle or life decisions that I've completely reversed since following OMS, because I'm not afraid anymore.   Alison Marwick (22m 2s): And I think that's, I think, you know, giving people their hope back is such an important thing with OMS.   Geoff Allix (22m 13s): And so, we talked about advocacy a lot, now on to the OMS advocacy group. So, what is the advocacy group and why is it important to have this group?   Helen Rees Leahy (22m 26s): So, we created the advocacy group at the start of this year, starting 2021. And the importance of it is precisely that it's the goal of empowerment needs to start at home, i.e., within the OMS community. So, with all this discussion about advocacy, we're very clear about this guiding principle, that it must be a kind of community-led initiative. So, from the outset, we wanted to have the voices of OMS as around the table, helping us to start the conversation. And I would certainly want to emphasize that we're still very much at the beginning of this work, which is why it's so great to have this conversation today because we hope it might be a spur for more people to join in the conversation.   Helen Rees Leahy (23m 13s): So, so far, the advocacy group has met, I think, four or five times. It's a small group of OMSers. And we've really been just trying to kind of unpack this, just what we'll be doing today. Really just what this word advocacy means and what might it mean in practice with OMS. So there, the advocacy group is important because it's an initiative which is being led by OMSers. And as I say, we're certainly not complete as a group with small gathering so far. So, if anybody's listening to this podcast today and would like to become more involved, either by suggesting they might want to join the group, we meet every couple of months on Zoom and, or contributing to our advocacy thinking in any other way.   Helen Rees Leahy (24m 1s): If I may just say, Geoff, as soon as this podcast goes live, also going live will be a new advocacy page on the Overcoming MS website. So, if you're on the website and you type in advocacy, or if you're in Google and you type in Overcoming MS advocacy, you'll land on that page. It will give a bit more information about where we are so far, and they'll also be a kind of contact info there. So, you'll be able to get in touch with us if you'd like to be more involved in it, to find out more about what we're doing. And we'd really, really welcome that. As I say, we think sort of empowerment has to start within OMS and we're really determined that we sort of put that principle into practice.   Alison Marwick (24m 48s): Yeah. And just to add to that, Helen, I think is key for anyone that's listening, that we would love people to join the group because we do need more members, but also if you feel that joining the group is too much of a commitment and you don't, you know, you're not comfortable with that, but you want to share something, share an experience. You know, for OMS, the advocacy model we're seeing as being in three parts of self-advocacy being able to talk about it yourself, to your friends and family, and peers. So, talk to other OMSers or OMS or collectively as an organization, you know, to healthcare providers, if you have stories, or if you've got something that you want to share with us, you don't have to join the group.   Alison Marwick (25m 36s): But we're keen to hear, we're, as we mentioned earlier, we're looking at the community engagement survey that so many people responded to over the summer, which is great. And there's a huge amount of data in that, around how people feel empowered or not, some of the challenges that they have. And, you know, so there's some decent information that we can use that, but if, you know, if you haven't shared with us some of your experiences and you feel that, you know, it's something that the organization needs to be aware of because it could help other people, then, you know, the call to action is for those as well as, you know, other individuals, to join the group.   Geoff Allix (26m 20s): And if someone's not comfortable with joining a group, whether they don't have time or they're just, they're not comfortable with sharing, are there resources for people to help them with their advocacy journey?   Helen Rees Leahy (26m 38s): Definitely. Well, as Allie said, definitely there will be. What we did want to do is sort of go off and design those resources by ourselves without talking with our fellow OMSers. So that's exactly what we're planning to do. And as Allie says, people can contribute to that process in all sorts of ways. So, what we're aiming to do, and it will be something which I think you'll be able to see sometime in 2022, we want to take it carefully. We're developing resources, which will specifically be there to support people in as with talking, making the case, perhaps giving them some tools and tips for perhaps quite tricky conversations.   Helen Rees Leahy (27m 25s): When, you know, you're talking to somebody who's a little bit skeptical or resistant to your own kind of commitment to Overcoming MS. So, for example, some of the resources we might have might be frequently asked questions, we might play out some different scenarios, you know, how to cope with challenging or tricky conversations. We're having conversation starters, how do you kind of begin to talk to different people, family, friends, colleagues, healthcare professionals, about this? If you're going to see a healthcare professional, be it your family doctor, or hospital neurologist, or MS Nurse, for example, how might you prepare for that encounter?   Helen Rees Leahy (28m 11s): How might you prepare for that meeting? How might you begin to talk about Overcoming MS with a healthcare professional? And I think that can be quite a challenging meeting in some respects because we know that our expertise is the expertise of lived experience. And as you were saying a few minutes ago, that's neither better nor worse, but it's very different from sort of the medical model for medical expertise. So, we need to be clear about the insight and understanding that we bring to the conversation based on our lived experience and how that can communicate and become a conversation with a healthcare professional.   Helen Rees Leahy (28m 55s): So, we're thinking about these kinds of resources and that's sort of really a first step. So yeah, that's where we're thinking at the moment. But as Allie says, where we're really beginning is also a process of information gathering. So, looking really closely at the community engagement survey data, which is fascinating. And we might just take this moment to thank anybody and everybody who's listening, who participated in the survey because really, you know, your responses are providing really for the first time, I think for Overcoming MS, you know, statistically robust sample of data and findings, which are telling us so much already, and we've really want to root this initiative in that lived experience of the OMS community.   Geoff Allix (29m 55s): And could I ask, what do you think success would look like? How do you measure success, or what do you expect to be a successful outcome of the advocacy group in OMS?   Helen Rees Leahy (30m 14s): Do you want to have a go with that Allie?   Alison Marwick (30m 15s): Yeah. So, success, so we're going to measure success in a number of different ways. And I think we're going to, you know, we need to look to see if there's the global success in OMS being everywhere, but that's going to be quite a way off. So, let's look at it. The community engagement survey is going to be done on an annual basis. And so, we will be using the empowerment questions that are part of that to see whether or not we've shifted the dial on how empowered people feel and having control, how confident they are about talking to their healthcare providers, how supportive family and friends are. So, we're going to use that as a mechanism to be able to measure, but that's going to be another year before we do that.   Alison Marwick (30m 59s): So obviously we're not going to just sit back and wait to see what the results are, I think other success factors are going to be about how many people engage with this process that want to get involved. And we're going to look at success with, you know, some of the material that's going to be created in terms of, as Helen said, talking to healthcare providers, you're preparing for those kinds of conversations. How many of those items get downloaded from the website? What the kind of conversations are across the forum and the website, and looking at it, generally you know, how many more people are finding it, you know, finding the confidence and the empowerment.   Alison Marwick (31m 48s): So, we've not put together specific, eh, KPIs, success factors at the moment, not wanting to be too corporate about it, but, you know, because we are right at the very beginning. But we are, you know, we're looking at well, what do we want, what is success going to be in the next six, 12 months before we move into, you know, really accelerating us further down the line?   Geoff Allix (32m 12s): Helen, do you have anything to add to that?   Helen Rees Leahy (32m 16s): No, I think Allie outlined that very well. Again, if you're listening to this and you think, okay, I know something that will be a good measure of success. Let us know. You know, as I say, we really want this to be very much informed by anybody and everybody within the OMS community. So as Allie says, I'm reluctant to pin things down too hard and fast too quickly.   Geoff Allix (32m 42s): So, with that, I'd like to thank you very much for joining us on the podcast and encourage everyone to have a look at the OMS advocacy page and wish you every success for the OMS advocacy group. So, thank you very much for joining us, Helen and Allie.   Helen Rees Leahy (33m 1s): Thanks a lot, Geoff.   Alison Marwick (33m 3s): Thanks, Geoff.   Geoff Allix (33m 4s): And thank you for giving us this chance to wave the advocacy flag. Thank you.   Alison Marwick (33m 13s): Yes, thanks very much.   Geoff Allix (33m 14s): Thank you for listening to this episode of Living Well with MS. Please check out this episode's show notes at www.overcomingms.org/podcast. You'll find all sorts of useful links and bonus information there. Do you have questions about this episode or ideas about future ones? Email us at podcast@overcomingms.org and we'd love to hear from you. You can also subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast platform, so you never miss an episode. Living Well with MS is kindly supported by a grant from the Happy Charitable Trust. If you'd like to support the Overcoming MS Charity and help keep our podcast advertising free, you can donate online at www.overcomingms.org/donate.   Geoff Allix (34m 1s): Thank you for your support. Living Well with MS is produced by Overcoming MS, the world's leading multiple sclerosis healthy lifestyle charity. We are here to help inform, support, and empower everyone affected by MS. To find out more and subscribe to our email newsletter, please visit our website at www.overcomingms.org. Thanks again for tuning in and see you next time.

Dr. Asong has been a practicing GP in the UK National Health Service for years, and he will share tips on how to maintain your health and how to negotiate an at times cumbersome health service. His tips will enable you to take steps to investigate and improve your health issues and how to get the medical system to respond to your needs

Dr. Asong has been a practicing GP in the UK National Health Service for years, and he will share tips on how to maintain your health and how to negotiate an at times cumbersome health service. His tips will enable you to take steps to investigate and improve your health issues and how to get the medical system to respond to your needs

Dr. Asong has been a practicing GP in the UK National Health Service for years, and he will share tips on how to maintain your health and how to negotiate an at times cumbersome health service. His tips will enable you to take steps to investigate and improve your health issues and how to get the medical system to respond to your needs

Russell Masters, Director of IT and Analytics at DHU, a provider to the UK National Health Service, who formerly spent significant time at Rolls-Royce involved in digital innovation efforts, talks with Sarah about the call for leaders to become more digitally adept. They discuss what this does and doesn't mean, some of the key changes necessary, and what the future holds for leaders in the digital age.

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Donna Cryer joins the Surfers to discuss how the COVID-19 Delta Variant is affecting Fatty Liver Disease in 2021.  This discussion focuses on the case for post-jab immunologic testing for compromised patients and goes on to explore what the US can learn from the UK's experience with the COVID-19 vaccine.Donna Cryer starts this episode by discussing the vital importance of conducting post-vaccine immunologic testing in immunocompromised and liver transplant patients. As Stephen Harrison asking questions, Donna makes the discussion particularly powerful by sharing her own experience (zero immune response from her first two doses) and some of the emotional issues she experienced when thinking about testing. After this discussion, Louise Campbell discusses the UK vaccination program to date and lessons the US can learn from it.

Process Excellence is a proven way to cut costs, raise productivity, and improve service levels. PEx® combines the tools and methodologies of:      Six Sigma—measuring and reducing your error and defect rate Lean Thinking—eliminating waste to speed your workflow and deliver better value. Design Excellence—structuring a process from the outset so that it flows efficiently with minimal opportunities for waste or error This podcast will provide the tools to understand the benefit of Process Excellence in your Lab to achieve goals regarding efficiency and performance.   About our Speaker: Dr. Alistair Gammie holds a Diploma from the Royal College of Pathologists. He worked for 22 years in the UK National Health Service. In 2016 he joined Ortho Clinical Diagnostics as Senior Global Director ValuMetrix. He is Lean Healthcare accredited. Dr. Gammie has been involved with Laboratory Consulting Services for over 20 years looking at workflow, simulation, modeling, Lean 6 Sigma projects, laboratory design, automation, and re-organization. He has looked at the workflow in Laboratories throughout Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, the USA, and South America. He has been involved with Continuous Improvement and Top+ Business Excellence which places a high priority on ‘green' and sustainability. Dr. Gammie is an EFQM European awards assessor as he has observed the use of the EFQM model in multiple sectors.

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I was pleasantly surprised to hear from Suresh, an ex-student I've known for a long time. A U.S. citizen he was now the head of sales and marketing for a company in London selling medical devices to hospitals in the UK National Health Service. His boss had identified the U.S. as their next market and wanted him to set up a U.S. salesforce. Suresh understood that the U.S. health system was very different from the system in the UK, not just the regulatory regime through the FDA, but the reimbursement process and the entire sales process.

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Born in 1950, Dr Larry Culliford trained in medicine at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Guy's Hospital, London. He worked in hospital medicine and general practice in UK, New Zealand and Australia, and later qualified as a psychiatrist, working in the UK National Health Service until retirement in 2007. He is the author of a long-running blog on Psychology Today, plus numerous books and articles on topics such as happiness, psychology, mental health, spirituality and wisdom. His titles under the pen-name 'Patrick Whiteside' include: The Little Book of Happiness (Rider Books, 1998 pb, & 2018 hb) The Little Book of Bliss (Rider Books, 2000) Happiness - the 30 day guide (Rider Books, 2001) Larry's titles under his own name include: Love, Healing & Happiness (O Books, 2007) The Psychology of Spirituality (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011) Much Ado about Something (SPCK, 2015) Seeking Wisdom (University of Buckingham Press, 2017) The Big Book of Wisdom (Hero Press, 2020) The Little Book of Wisdom (Hero Press, due Aug 2021) Raised from childhood in the Anglican Christian tradition, Larry's religious development involved first leaving and some years later returning to Christian worship and practice. An independent and original thinker, having taken a close personal interest in many world faith traditions, he sometimes refers to himself as a 'Wisdom-seeker', being thoughtfully open to the teachings and practices of many religions and spiritually-minded secularist ideas and ideologies. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wawdh/message

Born in 1950, Dr Larry Culliford trained in medicine at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Guy's Hospital, London. He worked in hospital medicine and general practice in UK, New Zealand and Australia, and later qualified as a psychiatrist, working in the UK National Health Service until retirement in 2007. He is the author of a long-running blog on Psychology Today, plus numerous books and articles on topics such as happiness, psychology, mental health, spirituality and wisdom. His titles under the pen-name 'Patrick Whiteside' include: The Little Book of Happiness (Rider Books, 1998 pb, & 2018 hb) The Little Book of Bliss (Rider Books, 2000) Happiness - the 30 day guide (Rider Books, 2001) Larry's titles under his own name include: Love, Healing & Happiness (O Books, 2007) The Psychology of Spirituality (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011) Much Ado about Something (SPCK, 2015) Seeking Wisdom (University of Buckingham Press, 2017) The Big Book of Wisdom (Hero Press, 2020) The Little Book of Wisdom (Hero Press, due Aug 2021) Raised from childhood in the Anglican Christian tradition, Larry's religious development involved first leaving and some years later returning to Christian worship and practice. An independent and original thinker, having taken a close personal interest in many world faith traditions, he sometimes refers to himself as a 'Wisdom-seeker', being thoughtfully open to the teachings and practices of many religions and spiritually-minded secularist ideas and ideologies. Larry was a co-founder in1999 of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Spirituality and Psychiatry special interest group. He is a former Chair of the ‘Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland' and member of the 'International Thomas Merton Society'. He is a long-term member of both the ‘Scientific and Medical Network' and the ‘International Association for the Study of Spirituality' (formerly BASS), also a life-member of the ‘Movement for the Abolition of War'. He is a strong supporter of the World Wide Wave of Wisdom (www.wwwow.net). Larry is married and lives happily in West Sussex, UK. See his website www.LDC52.co.uk for more details. https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/6/1/19/htm Show some love by subscribing on Buy Me a Coffee or pledge a little bit of coin to the Go Fund Me. https://linktr.ee/Whatarewedoinghere https://www.buymeacoffee.com/WAWDH https://www.gofundme.com/f/what-are-we-doing-here-podcast?qid=72ce280096e5528e730558968fb5950d --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wawdh/message

 ‘Angels of Mercy’ produced by Grainne McPolin, which explores the story of the women who left Ireland to train and work as nurses in England across the second half of the 20th Century and were an often overlooked but important element in the development of the UK National Health Service.  We will hear how these young women began lives in a whole new world “I remember there were two Malaysian and three English girls living there as well, but the rest of us, we were from every corner in Ireland; we worked hard and we played hard and as a nurse you see life, you see death and also everything in between..” Angels of Mercy is a story told through the experiences of five Irish women of different generations who made their careers in nursing in England between 1950 and 1980.  In addition, historians Professor Louise Ryan, Professor Jennifer Redmond and Dr Sarah O’Brien give context to the women’s narrative Presenter and producer Grainne McPolin worked as a nurse herself in England and brings her own experience to the narrative. “Angels of Mercy” was produced by Grainne McPolin and funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Sound and Vision Scheme.

After 25 years as a physiotherapist in the UK National Health Service, Denise Cowle made a bold career move when she decided to quit her stable job without knowing where she was going. She then found her passion and purpose in editing and proofreading. Nine years and many milestones later, Denise talks about: what drove her to leave steady employment and leap into the unknown how to deal with fear by asking “What's the worst that could happen?” her passion for her new line of work and how she deals with imposter syndrome how professional trade associations and peer groups have proved invaluable customers as collaborators, not simply people who buy your services her ambitious plans for the future expansion of her skills and business advice for people wishing to move into this flexible and appealing career This is Denise's successful editing podcast: https://theeditingpodcast.captivate.fm/ (https://theeditingpodcast.captivate.fm/) And in this blog post Denise talks about the personal and professional skills which are transferable across seemingly very different lines of work: https://denisecowleeditorial.com/career-change-physiotherapist-to-editor/  (https://denisecowleeditorial.com/career-change-physiotherapist-to-editor/ ) Link to the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading: https://www.ciep.uk/ (https://www.ciep.uk/) --- Music: Pablito's Way by Paolo Pavan

Dame Jackie Daniel is Chief Executive of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Executive in Residence with Lancaster University Management School, and co-chair of the Shelford Group, being the ten largest teaching and research hospitals in the UK National Health Service. She started her career in the early 1980s as a nurse. After 10 years of clinical practice she moved into general management, and has now been a Chief Executive for almost 20 years. In addition to her Nursing degree and a Masters in Quality Assurance in Health and Social Care, Dame Jackie is a qualified business and personal coach: when she became a Trust board director she found that she was spending a lot of time in coaching conversations, and wanted to improve her skills in what she regards as a critical area. Studying coaching equipped her with a range of tools and techniques to support people to flourish in a tough environment. Healthcare is a “people-centric business” and over the last decade or so, Dame Jackie has developed a programme for supporting staff to liberate their full potential. She says it is important in healthcare that people have a “discovery mindset.” She encourages her staff (and there are 17,000 of them) to be authentic and the best possible version of themselves. In May 2019 the Care Quality Commission inspected the Royal Victoria Infirmary, the Freeman, and the Dental Hospital and returned an overall rating of ‘Outstanding.' In reaching that verdict it cited the quality of the Trust's leadership, an inclusive and supportive culture, and a commitment to innovation and learning. The Trust's ‘Flourish' programme provides a means of sustaining that success over the long term. The programme has three domains: leadership and people (noting that people at any level in the organisation can lead), governance and risk management (including prioritisation and performance management), and the “relational fabric” of the Trust (communities of interest/networks of activity). Dame Jackie and her team work in 12-weeks blocks, so are constantly looking ahead and back, reflecting and learning from what has gone well and what hasn't. Communication is central to her approach. The 12-week system owes its origins to Agile project management, and enables the Trust to adapt rapidly to changing circumstances. The challenges facing the NHS right now are well documented – an ageing population, budgetary constraints, increasing costs of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment. Dame Jackie believes that in addressing these it is essential to acknowledge the relationship between health, wealth, and wellbeing. The city is taking a systems perspective by including within ‘Collaborative Newcastle' The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHSFT, the City Council, the universities, the mental health trust, social care providers, and GPs. On a wider scale the trust also plays an important role in a “provider collaborative” of eight NHS Foundation Trusts within the region. She says “we have stepped through every week of this pandemic together over the whole year.” Dame Jackie's proudest achievements include leading, as Nurse Director, a campaign called “Improving Working Lives” in the Trent Region. She is also pleased with the six years she spent at Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (where failings at Furness General Hospital led to the avoidable deaths of at least 11 babies and one mother), leading the trust out of special measures, rebuilding the management team, improving care, and restoring trust within the local community. In Newcastle she is proud of raising the Rainbow Flag to celebrate LGBTQ staff and patients, and also being the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a Climate Emergency. Jackie's biggest mistake was to take on a Chief Executive role to turn around a financially challenged trust. Though she was successful in achieving her goal, the job did not resonate with her leadership style or values, and she reflects that...

Dr. Rupy Aujla is a General Practitioner for the UK National Health Service working in Emergency Medicine and completing a masters in Nutritional Medicine. He is the founder of ‘The Doctor’s Kitchen’, which strives to inspire and educate everybody about the beauty of food and medicinal effects of eating well.He is a Sunday Times bestselling author, with two cookbooks published by HarperCollins - The Doctor’s Kitchen and Eat to Beat Illness and a third book Doctor's Kitchen 3-2-1, due for release on 31 December 2020.He is also the founding director of Culinary Medicine, a non-profit organization which aims to teach doctors and medical students the foundations of nutrition, as well as teaching them how to cook. Listen as we discuss:Why does Dr. Rupy continue to practice in the NHS despite his successful franchise?His own journey of holistic recovery from a medical conditionHow so many diseases are preventable by healthy nutrition and lifestyleSeeing food as a gateway drug into lifestyle medicineThe incredibly impact of gratitude exercises, especially on bad daysDr. Rupy's brilliant "unfollow me" postThe key: lots fiber, quality fats, mostly plants, lots of colors, eating in time, eating wholeSalutogenesisWhy the microbiota is inseparable from healthThe critical importance of fiberIs it okay to eat unhealthy sometimes?Is a Raw Diet recommended?What is quality fat?His new book, Doctor's Kitchen 3-2-1What food does he include in every meal?Dr. Rupy's non-profit, Coloring MedicineInstagram: @mo_gawdatFacebook: @mo.gawdat.officialTwitter: @mgawdatLinkedIn: /in/mogawdatConnect with Dr. Rupy Aujla on Instagram @doctors_kitchen, on Facebook @thedoctorskitchen, on Twitter @doctors_kitchen, and on his website, thedoctorskitchen.comDon't forget to subscribe to Slo Mo for new episodes every Monday and Thursday. Only with your help can we reach One Billion Happy #onebillionhappy.

In this episode, we share beautiful life affirming messages from two righteous rabbis who provide Torah based arguments against the utilitarian approach to medicine taken by the UK National Health Service. They are quoted in a story about NHS providers' cost cutting measures in the time of Covid, forcing parents to withdraw life saving medical care from their children, as well as increased pressure to withdraw life saving medical care from their elderly parents.  Rabbi Moshe Avraham Halperin from the Science and Technology Torah Law Institute says, "Life is holy, the holiest thing in the world, because it is through life that we serve God. Therefore, no person can be the master over life; not his own and certainly not someone else's. Life belongs to God and He is the only one who decides over when it begins and when it ends." Rabbi Yosef Berger, rabbi of King David's Tomb on Mount Zion says,  “The purpose of life is to praise God. Anything that lessens life, reduces God's praises and delays the Redemption. Sacrificing the children and elderly in the name of survival is a trait of the godless and doing so certainly delays the Redemption. Regrettably, the majority of Jews remains uninformed of the life affirming principles upon which Judaism is based, believing that abortion and euthanasia are human rights. We reference a Pew poll showing this in slide #88,  83% Of Jews Believe That Abortion Should Be Legal In All Or Most Cases, and challenge this majority to look beyond secular ideology to their God given conscience in slide #66 The Questions We Must Ask Ourselves. Aired 5/13/20. UK HOSPITALS FORCE PARENTS TO CONDEMN CHILDREN TO DEATH: AKIN TO MOLOCH SAYS RABBI https://www.israel365news.com/149975/uk-hospitals-force-parents-to-condemn-children-to-death-akin-to-molloch-says-rabbi/ For Info, Help & Healing please visit jewishprolifefoundation.org.

Bio:   Helen was diagnosed with Primary Progressive MS in 1997 when she was 37 years old. Being ineligible for any Disease Modifying Treatment (DMT) within the UK National Health Service, she began to explore holistic approaches to managing her condition. She discovered OMS in 2008 and has followed the programme ever since.   Helen lives in Conwy, a small, medieval town in North Wales. In 2017, she took medical retirement from the University of Manchester where she was a Professor in the Department of Art History and Cultural Practice. As an Emerita Professor, Helen continues to research and teach doctoral students. She also spends time hand-weaving and learning Welsh, the language of her ancestors. Helen has never taken medication for her MS and is committed to living well through active self-care.   Questions:   Can you please tell us a bit about yourself, where you’re from, what you do, family, etc. Let’s understand a little bit about your MS journey – when were you diagnosed and how did you initially handle it? When did you discover OMS and why did you decide to follow the program? You’re a member of the OMS community with PPMS – can you shed some light on what PPMS is and what life is like with that specific type of MS? How does the OMS program fit into the realities of someone with PPMS? What are the biggest obstacles to someone with PPMS adopting the program? How do you personally suggest dealing with these obstacles? In your own experience with both PPMS and OMS, how do you measure progress? If you could articulate one specific outcome that five ago, looking forward, you can say you really wanted to achieve and which you’ve now really nailed through adopting OMS, what would that be and why? As someone with PPMS, what can you share with others that have PPMS that motivates or inspires you?   Links:   Follow Helen on Instagram Learn more about Feldenkrais in the UK and globally   Coming up next:   On our final Coffee Break installment for 2020, travel to the UK to meet Alexandra Storey and hear how she’s helping do her part to ensure OMS has a successful outing on Giving Tuesday, all on Living Well with MS Coffee Break #12, which premieres on Monday, November 30, just one day before Giving Tuesday. And to our friends and community members in North America, Happy Thanksgiving!   Don’t miss out:   Subscribe to this podcast and never miss an episode. You can catch any episode of Living Well with MS here or on your favorite podcast listening app. Don’t be shy – if you like the program, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you tune into the show.

Clinical Psychologist Dr. Thomas Richardson, and mental health educator and performer Victoria Maxwell discuss the topic of money in relation to bipolar disorder. They speak on how bipolar disorder can affect a person's finances and ways to plan for and manage these events. Hosted by Dr. Emma Morton. Dr. Thomas Richardson is a Clinical Psychologist working as an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology within the School of Psychology, University of Southampton. Thomas leads teaching about CBT for Bipolar Disorder on the CPT diploma and is actively involved in various research projects around Bipolar Disorder. Prior to this he worked for 8 years as a clinical psychologist in a community mental health team for adults within the UK National Health Service. He did his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton, qualifying in 2013. His doctorate thesis looked at if tuition fees increases impacted on student mental health, which led to his ongoing study of finances and mental health. Dr. Richardson also has lived experience of bipolar disorder. Since being diagnosed with BD, psychosis, and anxiety, Victoria Maxwell has become one of North America's top speakers and educators on the lived experience of mental illness and recovery, dismantling stigma and returning to work after a psychiatric disorder. As a performer, her funny, powerful messages about mental wellness create lasting change in individuals and organizations. By sharing her story of mental illness and recovery she makes the uncomfortable comfortable, the confusing understandable. The Mental Health Commission of Canada named her keynote That's Just Crazy Talk as one of the top anti-stigma interventions in the country. TalkBD is a series of online community gatherings to share support and tips for bipolar wellness. Learn more about the next event at www.TalkBD.live

In this episode, we talk with Ali Abdaal, a Cambridge university medicine graduate, a former doctor in the UK National Health Service and a prolific YouTuber, making videos about life as a medical student, productivity tips, tech, Roam Research, Notion and more.We talked about:Ali's note-taking origin story: From storing notes on close-up magic to seduction, medicine and now book notesHis information capture workflow, using Evernote, Notion and Roam for specific uses.Why Ali thinks he is not a creative personDefining creativity from remixing content as opposed to originalityPursuing the perfect note-taking app, and the similarities between note-taking apps and marriageand content creation, as well as the value that we can provide to others who we are trying to help defining the perfect note taking app. Ali talks to me about the similarities between a note taking app and marriage. Enjoy!Timestamps+1:091:09 Life after 9-53:09 Fulfillment from creative work5:21 Ali Abdaal's note-taking origin story8:09 When Building a Second Brain came into play9:30 "It was as if this guy was speaking to my very soul"10:18 Ali doesn't use PARA at all12:44 What is a project? Ali's use case as a YouTuber14:13 Evernote as a base for long-term memory15:53 Ali Abdaal's fluid information capture workflow17:17 Discovering Roam and the $250,000 missed opportunity19:17 Roam is unsatisfying so far, and the Nibble Framework21:49 How productive does Ali Abdaal want to become?25:00 What is enough? How much money is enough?26:46 "I'm not creative at all. I don't think I have any original ideas"30:46 Creativity does not come from originality33:40 First-brain breakthroughs and how Roam encourages that to happen35:13 We have observed X, therefore we think Y38:20 The flaw behind Roam Research, and Notion vs. Roam39:45 Roam vs. Notion followers on Ali Abdaal's YouTube channel40:23 Drafting a video: The Perfect Note-taking App41:27 There is no such thing as a soulmate43:43 Different people are attracted to different personalities46:43 Getting divorced is messy and expensive48:25 Meaningless sex with lots of people is unfulfilling51:41 Polyamorous note-taking relationships53:34 Why all these note-taking apps aren't competing against each other55:29 Labeling is simplifying and dangerous59:11 What system do I want? How do I know this app fits me?1:02:30 Talking with a creator vs. a consumer1:05:27 How does Ali handle parasocial interactions?1:06:23 Repeated value is value nonetheless1:08:21 Repeated vs. Original vs. Spontaneous value1:10:42 The Table of Contents Notes Game1:12:50 What Ali Abdaal would like to see from Roam1:19:40 Ali doesn't think about Motivation1:21:41 Editing our respective podcasts1:27:35 What Norman does1:29:18 How I explain myself to family1:30:56 [[How would you describe Roam to someone who hasn't started using it?]]1:32:07 [[What does Roam mean to you?]]LinksAli Abdaal's TwitterAli Abdaal's YouTube ChannelAli Abdaal's InstagramSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/normanchella)

14. #TSPSP14 (2/2) Julia Fullerton-Batten on Researching & Producing Personal Projects, Working With Casting Directors & Delivering Beyond the Brief.Julia Fullerton-Batten (www.juliafullerton-batten.com | @julia_fullertonbatten) Julia Fullerton-Batten is a worldwide acclaimed and exhibited fine-art photographer. Her body of work now encompasses twelve major projects spanning a decade of engagement in the field.The foundation of her success was 'Teenage Stories' (2005), an evocative narrative of the transition of a teenage girl to womanhood. This and sequel projects portray the difficult stages and life situations of an adolescent girl's transition to womanhood as she grapples with the vulnerability of her teenage predicament – adjustments to a new body, her emotional development and changes in her social standing. Julia's book ‘Teenage Stories' was published in 2007*.Julia admits to a pronounced semi-autobiographical influence in much of her earlier work, often falling back on recollections of her own early and teenage years, living in Germany, the USA and the UK, her parent's divorce, and her own early relationships.Her more recent projects consider social issues, frequently covering controversial subject matter. For example, in ‘Feral Children, 2015', Julia re-enacts fifteen reported historical cases of feral children. Using child actors, her re-enactments illustrate the tragic circumstances in which children were rejected or abused by their parents, got lost or were left in the wild, and yet others were captured by wild animals.Her most recent project, ‘The Act', shot in 2016, is a comprehensive study of the performing and private lives of fifteen women active in the UK sex industry. Her still images are enhanced by interviews with the ladies, captured both in video and text. ‘The Act' is now available in book form**.Fullerton-Batten was born in Bremen, Germany. Her early life was spent in Germany and the USA, but after her parent's divorce she and her siblings moved to the UK. There she completed her secondary education, then studied photography at college. Subsequently she assisted professional photographers for five years before a first commercial assignment kick-started her career in 1995, and first gained recognition as a fine-art photographer in2005.Julia's use of unusual locations, highly creative settings, street-cast models, accented with cinematic lighting are hallmarks of her very distinctive style of photography. She insinuates visual tensions in her images, and imbues them with a hint of mystery, which combine to tease the viewer to re-examine the picture, each time seeing more content and finding a deeper meaning. These distinctive qualities have established enthusiasts for her work worldwide and at all ends of the cultural spectrum, from casual viewers to connoisseurs of fine-art photography.Fullerton-Batten has won countless awards for both her commercial and fine-art work, and is a Hasselblad Master. She was commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery in London to shoot portraits of leading people in the UK National Health Service. These are now held there in a permanent collection. Other images are also in permanent collection at the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland. She is widely interviewed about her projects by professional photographic magazines from around the world and is sought after as a speaker at international events and as a judge for prestigious international photographic competitions.Julia lives in London with her husband and two young boys.Please enjoy!***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests.Follow Matthew:Instagram: instagram.com/matthewdawalkerTwitter: twitter.com/matthewdawalker

12. #TSPSP11 (1/2) Julia Fullerton-Batten on Producing Large Scale Personal Projects, Taking Notes & Learning Your TradeJulia Fullerton-Batten (www.juliafullerton-batten.com | @julia_fullertonbatten) Julia Fullerton-Batten is a worldwide acclaimed and exhibited fine-art photographer. Her body of work now encompasses twelve major projects spanning a decade of engagement in the field.The foundation of her success was 'Teenage Stories' (2005), an evocative narrative of the transition of a teenage girl to womanhood. This and sequel projects portray the difficult stages and life situations of an adolescent girl's transition to womanhood as she grapples with the vulnerability of her teenage predicament – adjustments to a new body, her emotional development and changes in her social standing. Julia's book ‘Teenage Stories' was published in 2007*.Julia admits to a pronounced semi-autobiographical influence in much of her earlier work, often falling back on recollections of her own early and teenage years, living in Germany, the USA and the UK, her parent's divorce, and her own early relationships.Her more recent projects consider social issues, frequently covering controversial subject matter. For example, in ‘Feral Children, 2015', Julia re-enacts fifteen reported historical cases of feral children. Using child actors, her re-enactments illustrate the tragic circumstances in which children were rejected or abused by their parents, got lost or were left in the wild, and yet others were captured by wild animals.Her most recent project, ‘The Act', shot in 2016, is a comprehensive study of the performing and private lives of fifteen women active in the UK sex industry. Her still images are enhanced by interviews with the ladies, captured both in video and text. ‘The Act' is now available in book form**.Fullerton-Batten was born in Bremen, Germany. Her early life was spent in Germany and the USA, but after her parent's divorce she and her siblings moved to the UK. There she completed her secondary education, then studied photography at college. Subsequently she assisted professional photographers for five years before a first commercial assignment kick-started her career in 1995, and first gained recognition as a fine-art photographer in2005.Julia's use of unusual locations, highly creative settings, street-cast models, accented with cinematic lighting are hallmarks of her very distinctive style of photography. She insinuates visual tensions in her images, and imbues them with a hint of mystery, which combine to tease the viewer to re-examine the picture, each time seeing more content and finding a deeper meaning. These distinctive qualities have established enthusiasts for her work worldwide and at all ends of the cultural spectrum, from casual viewers to connoisseurs of fine-art photography.Fullerton-Batten has won countless awards for both her commercial and fine-art work, and is a Hasselblad Master. She was commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery in London to shoot portraits of leading people in the UK National Health Service. These are now held there in a permanent collection. Other images are also in permanent collection at the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland. She is widely interviewed about her projects by professional photographic magazines from around the world and is sought after as a speaker at international events and as a judge for prestigious international photographic competitions.Julia lives in London with her husband and two young boys.Please enjoy!***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests.Follow Matthew:Instagram: instagram.com/matthewdawalkerTwitter: twitter.com/matthewdawalker

In this episode I speak to James Collier, James is probably best known as the co-founder of the successful complete food brand Huel – a company founded in June 2015 that has since sold over 100 million meals globally. He developed the original nutrition formula of Huel Powder and he continues to develop more innovative products. James has been involved in a number of projects, notably as co-owner of the successful bodybuilding and fitness website MuscleTalk. As a renowned nutrition consultant, he provided personalised dietary advice, wrote articles for the media, consumer press and websites, and gave seminars in a number of countries, along with other health-promoting activities. James also worked as a clinical dietitian in the UK National Health Service for several years. James has a degree in Nutrition from the University of Surrey, is a Registered Nutritionist and has twice been a finalist in national nutrition awards. He was born in August 1972 and resides in Northamptonshire, UK, with his wife, Mel. Find Out More About James: https://www.jcreason.com/about/ https://uk.huel.com/ A Contemplative Diet: https://www.jcreason.com/contemplative-diet/ The Meal Plan Site: http://mealplansite.com/ Books: Clean Meat: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clean-Meat-Growing-Without-Revolutionize/dp/1501189085 Sapiens: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=the+sapiens&adgrpid=104048377853&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy5eVtu336gIVA7DtCh1VCQfyEAAYASAAEgKR0_D_BwE&hvadid=448549878420&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9046180&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=6849321095376817030&hvtargid=kwd-317465461141&hydadcr=24397_1748849&tag=googhydr-21&ref=pd_sl_183yaxjsjr_e_p49 Waking Up: https://www.wakingup.com/ Behave: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/009957506X/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=56015268954&dchild=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0pOC1O336gIVj-3tCh3HpQa4EAAYAiAAEgJSpvD_BwE&hvadid=259063879676&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9046180&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1341931834069989373&hvtargid=kwd-307756015605&hydadcr=24397_1748849&keywords=behave+book&qid=1596534143&sr=8-1&tag=googhydr-21 The believing brain --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/helder-barroso/message

I recently sat down with Katherine Ward, Chief Commercial Officer and managing director for Healthy.io. She has worked in healthcare for 28 years — including 15 years with the UK National Health Service and 11 years with United Health Group where she was the Chief Executive with United Health UK and Chief Growth Officer with Optimum International. In this conversation, we cover what Healthy.io does for the broader healthcare community, lessons from the COVID-19 crisis, clinical-grade population health technology, decentralized remote diagnostic screening, and how their technology works with existing health systems. Interview Highlights with Katherine WardWho is Katherine and what is her background?What is Healthy.io and what challenges or problems do they solve for patients and clinicians?Why the time finally come for decentralized remote diagnostic screening, using urine testing as an example.Lessons on the importance of virtual testing from the COVID-19 crisis.How Healthy.io has approached the regulatory and reimbursement landscapes, including their clinical trial strategy.How their population health technology works together (with and within) existing healthcare systems.Katherine’s favorite genre of books, the leader she most admires, and the advice she’d give to her younger self.See more...

How are children, including the most vulnerable, coping with the covid19 pandemic and home schooling? Will the covid-19 pandemic have longer term effects on our education systems? What impact has the pandemic had on adolescents' rites of passage? This week, our host Dr Rob Doubleday sits down with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Professor of Psychology and Paul Ramchandani, LEGO Professor of Play in Education, to discuss how the pandemic is impacting on the learning, wellbeing and mental health of children and adolescents. CSaP's Science and Policy Podcast is a production of the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge. This series on science, policy and pandemics is produced in partnership with Cambridge Infectious Diseases and the Cambridge Immunology Network. -- Our guests this week: Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and decision making in the human adolescent brain, and adolescent mental health. She is a member of the Royal Society Public Engagement Committee, and Chair of the Royal Society of Biology Education and Science Policy Committee. Professor Paul Ramchandani is LEGO® Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning at Cambridge University, UK. He leads a research team investigating the role of play in children's early development. He also works as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service. -- This series is hosted by CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday, and is edited and produced by CSaP Communications Coordinator Kate McNeil. If you have feedback about this episode, or questions you'd like us to address in a future week, please email enquiries@csap.cam.ac.uk .

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Disco Elysium: An award-winning and groundbreaking role-playing game, now available on Mac. Get 25% off until May 1 on Steam. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in iTunes/Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they’re available. Stories discussed in this episode:   UK National Health Service releasing coronavirus contact tracing app ... without using Apple API HBO Max details: Current HBO Now subscribers billed through Apple upgraded at no cost, more iPhone SE lacks support for Haptic Touch on notifications, and it's not a bug Enjoy the podcast?: Shop Apple at Amazon to support 9to5Mac Daily! Follow Chance: Twitter: @ChanceHMiller Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Overcast RSS Stitcher TuneIn Google Play Share your thoughts! Drop us a line at happyhour@9to5mac.com. You can also rate us in Apple Podcasts or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show!

In this episode, I interview Thomas Rid about his illuminating study of Russian disinformation, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare. It lays out a century of Soviet, East European, and Russian disinformation, beginning with an elaborate and successful operation against the White Russian expatriate resistance to Bolshevik rule in the 1920s. Rid has dug into recently declassified material using digital tools that enable him to tell previously untold tales – the Soviets' remarkable success in turning opposition to US nuclear missiles in Europe into a mass movement (and the potential shadow it casts on the legendary Adm. Hyman Rickover, father of the US nuclear navy), the unimpressive record of US disinformation compared to the ruthless Soviet version, and the fake American lobbyist (and real German agent) who persuaded a German conservative legislator to save Willy Brandt's leftist government. We close with two very different predictions about the kind of disinformation we'll see in the 2020 campaign. In the news, David Kris, Nick Weaver, and I trade perspectives on the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari on the question when it's a crime to access a computer “in excess of authority.” I predict that the Justice Department's reading of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act will lose, but it's far from clear what will replace the Justice Department's interpretation. Remember when the House left town without acting on FISA renewal? That's looking like a worse and worse decision, as Congress goes weeks without returning and Justice is left unable to use utterly uncontroversial capabilities in more and more cases. Matthew Heiman explains. In Justice Department briefs, all the most damaging admissions are down in the footnotes, and it looks like that's true for the inspector general's report on the Carter Page FISA. Recently declassified footnotes from the report make the FBI's pursuit of the FISA order look even worse, in my view. But at the end of the day, the footnotes don't add much to suspicions of a partisan motivation in the imbroglio. Speaking of IG reports, the DOD inspector general manages to raise the possibility of political skullduggery in the big DOD cloud computing award and then to offer a way to stick it to Amazon anyway. Meanwhile, the judge overseeing the bid protest gives the Pentagon a chance for a do-over.  Matthew covers intel warnings about China-linked ‘Electric Panda' hackers and that the Syrian government is spreading surveillance malware via coronavirus apps. And David notes that a Zoom zero-day is being offered for $500,000.Nick and I mix it up, first over the Gapple infection tracing plan and their fight with the UK National Health Service and then over Facebook's decision to suppress posts about demonstrations that protest the lockdown by violating the lockdown. Download the 312th Episode (mp3). You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

London lockdown sound recorded by Andy Popperwell. "At 2000BST on Thursday 2nd April 2020, people all over the UK joined in with clapping and cheering to thank those working in the UK National Health Service and also those in the other emergency services, carers, supermarket workers and many others.   "This event began on Thursday 26th March 2020 and looks set to be a weekly event. This soundwalk in Mulberry Way, London E18 was made using a stereo pair of Rode M5 microphones on a 2-metre boom connected to a Zoom H6 digital recorder.  "To observe the two-metre separation requirement, people stood on their doorsteps, at windows or on balconies." Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds

Dr Nate Regier is a trained clinical psychologist who has built a business on a beautiful idea. Diversity is a fundamental characteristic of the human race and an inevitable consequence of that diversity is conflict. He discovered in the work of Michael Meade that compassion is the mechanism that transforms conflict from a destructive force into a creative force. Nate is Founder and CEO of Next Element, a global advisory firm specializing in leadership communication, and author of two books: Beyond Drama: Transcending Energy Vampires, and Conflict Without Casualties: A Field Guide for Leading With Compassionate Accountability. In the 11 years of his clinical practice, Nate never quite came to terms with “diagnosing, pathologizing and setting myself up as the expert.” He much preferred coaching methodologies, consultation, liaison and training. So in 2008 he set up Next Element with some colleagues, to bring what they had learnt in the clinical space to the corporate world. His interest in compassion stems from his upbringing in Africa with parents who belonged to a Christian denomination that focuses on pacifism and non-violence. He became interested in how we might bring compassion not just to war-torn areas but also into the corporate workplace. Next Element has 80 certified coaches and trains, coaches and certifies people in healthy conflict communication skills so that companies can build cultures of “Compassionate Accountability.” He maintains that compassion without accountability isn't sufficient for navigating complex differences, whilst accountability without compassion – focusing solely on results and the bottom line – fosters alienation. A culture of compassionate accountability has three features – it's safe, it's curious, and it's consistent. Whilst some of Nate's clients are on the journey from good to great, for the most part, the executives Nate works with come to Next Element “because they want the suffering to go away”: they're tired of dealing with conflict within the organisation, they wish their staff would become more autonomous and capable, they wish people could deal with their own problems. The backbone of Next Element's approach is ORPO – open, resourceful, persistent and open. For example, if someone has said something that you consider offensive in a meeting, you might approach them later and start by disclosing how you are feeling (open). Then you share what you heard, how you interpreted it, and ask them for their intention (resourceful). The ‘persistent' element might involve explaining why it is important that we support an environment of safety and open-mindedness in our meetings. Then you could close by asking them how they feel about what you have said (open). ORPO is based on the idea that we are each responsible for our behaviours and we are not trying to fix each other but struggle together towards a common outcome. So far Next Element has worked with the leaders of organisations, but they have plans for making their training more accessible and affordable. Their theme for 2020 is “compassion reimagined.” They have a 2-hour webinar “Conflict and You” and they have just launched “Compassion Mindset”, a virtual learning course in compassion. “Leading out of Drama” is their compassionate accountability model. The UK National Health Service (in Wolverhampton) is already working with Next Element. Next Element has developed measures for compassion - “the drama resilience assessment” – that measures the capacity of an individual to resist drama and, instead, to turn it into something constructive. Nate rejects the idea that there is a giving and receiving end to compassion. In his view it is co-created between parties. Next Element practices compassionate accountability within their own organisation. They are a firm based on people skills and cultures and from the beginning they decided that they would be a laboratory. They've developed specific applications of ORPO for meetings,

The number of people taken to hospitals for dog-related injuries has increased in England. According to the UK National Health Service, roughly 8,000 people in the country were hospitalized for dog bites and other dog-related injuries between 2017 and 2018. This figure is a 7% increase from the previous year, in which the number of recorded cases was just less than 7,500. Some of these injuries were minor, while others were more serious. The Royal College of Surgeons presume that the increase may be due to two factors. One is the possibility that people now take dog bites more seriously. Once bitten, people immediately go to a medical professional to have the bite checked. Another is the fact that smaller dog breeds, such as the French Bulldog, have become more popular as pets in England. The Royal College of Surgeons explained that owners tend to overlook the ability of smaller dog breeds to cause injury. When this happens, pet owners may not take precaution when interacting with their pets and later on pay the price by getting injured. To prevent more cases of dog-related injuries, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals released an infographic on dogs' body language. It includes warning signs of a dog's incoming attack, such as the dog showing its teeth, tucking its tail between its legs, and growling. Additionally, a professor from the University of Liverpool advised people planning to own dogs to choose their pets carefully. This can be done through buying dogs only from trustworthy breeders and getting acquainted with the dog before they take it home.

This episode is the first in a series where Kathy talks to MSers from around the world about their diagnosis and treatment experiences, to see how they differ from our own. The first guest in the series is Steve Woodward, who lives in England. He and Kathy had a lot of fun recording this, even if some parts were proof that the US and the UK are still "two nations divided by a common language"! Topics covered include: Steve's diagnosis story His experience of treatment through the UK National Health Service or NHS How the NHS is funded and what it means for people with MS Social security benefits and working with a chronic condition in the UK   Resources mentioned in this episode (clickable links): Steve's article about the UK National Health Service Steve's blog It's a Shit Business All of his articles on MultipleSclerosis.net Steve's blogs about applying for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) - part one and part two Steve on Twitter An explanation of the term "Heath Robinson" which Steve uses in the chat! ** Sign up for the FUMS Friday Night 6 Pack at FUMSnow.com. And for more information about Patients Getting Paid, please visit FUMSnow.com/PatientsGettingPaid. **If you get value from the FUMSnow Podcast Show, please consider leaving a rating or review wherever you get your podcasts. Reviews are really important and help to spread the word about what we do. It's quick and easy to do and we have some instructions here. Thanks for your time and support! **Don’t forget to join us on the FUMS Facebook Page and on Twitter at FUMS. Have an idea for a topic or someone to interview? Perhaps YOU?? Send me an email at Kathy@FUMSnow.com. And remember to speak to this stupid disease as it deserves: tell it FUMS every day!!

Can Ai predict death? Turns out maybe yes... Welcome to AI Death Panels.  Listen in to find out more. From Delivery to Herding we have reached a new era in the use of Drones.  Who will win Apple or The Mouse?  Its Devices over Content in the battle over TV.  Find out more at Craig's 1000th week of podcasting. For all this and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment; it might contain errors. Airing date: 03/30/2019 Using Two Factor Authentication - Drones Delivering Blood Samples And Barking At Animals Craig Peterson 0:00   Hello, everybody, we are getting close. My goodness, I can't believe it has been that long. We're almost at show 1000. I think today is 999. I'll have to check. But man, I guess we should do something soon. I just been so busy for all you guys because that means 1000 weeks of shows. Some weeks I put out as many as 12 podcasts. I've put out. I've been on the air 5, 6, 7 times in a week. So it has been a very busy time. So I'm not talking about 1000 podcasts or I'm talking about 1000 radio shows, and literally tens of thousands of podcasts. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, over 10,000 actually, podcasts. I added it up, five years ago, and I had interviewed more than 7,500 C-level executives. Yeah, it's just nuts. Of course. Lately, it's been primarily just me right here on the radio, sharing what I've learned over the years online, or the guy that's been kind of out front, getting all the arrows in my back, putting together internet protocols, implementing them helping businesses get online. Man, I've been doing that since 91, when it first came became legal to do business on the internet. And I quickly ended up getting into security within a couple of years because of what happened to me and my business. And so I had to become an expert in security and now i"m known as America's leading security coach, which is really kind of cool when you get right down to it. But has been a long road. Let me tell you. Craig 2:03  Well, today we are going to go through a couple of really cool articles. This one's a little disconcerting. This is from NBC News. We're going to talk about AI, artificial intelligence. And they talked about how artificial intelligence when fed the right data, and when programmed the right way. They call it AI, right? But you and I know it's really machine learning. But in the United Kingdom, they were able to use it to predict when someone was going to die. And that's part of the National Health Service, which I guess shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, right? Government running the health care, they want to know when you're going to die so they can, you know, get someone else ready to go into your bed. Craig 2:51 Is personal data safer when it's stored on your own computer, your company's computer, your company's network or on a private network? Some interesting stats that came out and published in Forbes this week. Craig 3:04 Apple's finally showed off its plan to conquer TV this week. So we'll talk a little bit about that. I signed up for their News Plus service. And it's not bad, but it's still a little disappointing, frankly. But you know, we'll give it some time. We'll talk about that as well. Craig 3:25 Now UPS This is one of the first real uses of drones for delivery. You might remember that we had the 711 people working on using drones for delivery. And we've had Amazon working on using drones for delivery. Now, UPS has launched a new service using drones to transport blood and other medical samples between various buildings at WakeMed Raleigh's medical campus, North Carolina. And the speed that the drones can deliver these samples could literally be the difference between life and death. A great article from Futurism, which you'll see in today's show notes that we sent out this morning. But it's kind of cool here. They're using an autonomous drone developer called Matternet. And they've got something called an M2 quadcopter, and it can carry a payload up to five pounds, approximately 12 miles. So the medical professionals, there at WakeMed's nearby facilities are loading the drone's containers get a secure container, so that if it crashes, that, you know, people are going to be able to steal what's in it, or get contaminated because they're putting blood samples and other medical specimens into the drone. And then the drone follows a fixed path over to the healthcare system's main hospital there on the campus. And it goes right to the pathology lab who then unload it. Now Business Insider had a good article about it as well. And they're saying that this trip can take a driver up to 30 minutes. Yeah, that's how big this whole campus is. Plus, you know, some of the buildings aren't getting directly attached. And when you're talking about traffic, it can get terrible, and if you've ever been down there in the triangle, it's absolutely terrible in Raleigh, some of the traffic. But these unmanned drones that are being run and managed by UPS can cut the delivery time down to just three minutes and 15 seconds. So that's why they're saying this could really save some lives. So for now, UPS is expecting the drones to make fewer than 10 deliveries a day on the campus. But that could increase in the future, especially as there's services that are considered to be beneficial. And of course, UPS is expecting that to happen. This is very cool. So there you go. Kudos to UPS for doing that. Craig 6:01 I've also got a whole thing here on two-factor authentication we'll get to in a second. But barking dogs, this is kind of cool. You know, for years, we've had shepherds using dogs. At my house, you know, I have chickens, right. I have bees and chickens. And we have a dog, we have a Great Dane. And it's a rescue Dane, we've had four of these Danes over the years. And she is about four years old now. We got her when she was three and a half. But she has been kind of a couch potato. And we were really surprised the other day when her instincts kind of kicked in. And we were out taking care of the chickens. And we had the coop door open, actually was one of my daughters, and the coop door was open. And one of the chickens decided to come running out which we let them do, right. We pasture raised them. So they go out into the pastures and they find all of the horsey stuff and everything and they tear it all up and have fun with it, eat all the bugs that are in it. So, it's okay if they get out. But we don't just want one out, we want to be able to kind of keep an eye on them. This time of year, there's a lot of predators. We've seen some hawks going around, we saw an eagle the other day coming by and sitting there, and you can hear them shrieking very loudly as they're right near us. And of course, that just freaks the chickens out who when they're out wandering around, spend most of the time under the bushes. But, and By the way, we have seen one of these birds of prey take one of our chickens before. We've seen a fox took one of our pet cats as well ran off the property with the cat in its mouth. And a little distressing. But I guess it's good for the foxes and the birds of prey this time of year. So we wanted to keep her in. And our Great Dane, Velma. She didn't like that chicken coming out because my daughter, you know, tried to shoo the chicken back in. And so Velma took care of it, and rounded her up and got her right back there into the run. Or actually, I guess she came out of the coop door. So back into the coop. And that surprised me but not terribly, because I know dogs have this instinct to do hurting. And we have dogs specifically bred for herding, right, you know about sheep dogs and things. So in this case, with a Great Dane that was bred to hunt wild boar, I wasn't sure what she'd do. Craig 8:32  She also, this was a month or two ago, she also helped with one of these birds. Because we had some the chickens were out. And we have an outdoor roosting section for them. So if it gets raining, they can just go sit in there and enjoy being outside a little bit but at least be covered. And we're trying to get the chickens out of this roosting stuff. And so she saw what we were doing. And she, she grabbed one of them by the wing and carried her back. She was being gentle. The chicken wasn't harmed at all. But it's really kind of cool to see.  Craig 9:14 Well, farmers have relied on dogs for a long time. And real farmers have multiple animals that all kind of help out each other, you have the cats to keep the field mice down, or heaven forbid the rats down, right, or the squirrels or the chipmunks which we have here as well. And they stay out of the feed and they're not spreading disease amongst your herd. And then you have the chickens too because you have horses or cattle, you have the chickens to break up all of that excrement, right, and then eat all the bugs from it. So you don't get the huge populations of flies or beetles or things. So they keep that population down. And then you have pigs. And they'll eat all of the scraps from the other animals what they don't want to eat, as well as from your table. And then you have goats because they'll eat the stuff that the cows and the horses won't eat, the particularly stuff and the lower nutrition things. So you have all of these animals and it's kind of a roundabout isn't it all the way around. And then you have the dogs out protect all of these animals, you have the sheep as well. So it's really quite an ecosystem if you've ever seen it work and have you ever sat down to think about a farm and how this all works. And course you have kids to help out on the farm, as well. Now we don't have these little farms like that anymore. Really, we don't. We take the manure from the chickens after a couple of years of its sending out and we use it in our own personal garden. And just it's phenomenal. We have some of the best flowers and, and vegetables around. But that's the way it used to be. Craig 10:52  Well now here's somebody getting rid of the dogs as part of that whole, a whole environmental loop on the local farm. And this is an article that came out of New Zealand. There is a company in Christchurch, New Zealand, it's called DJI Ferntech. And they have a special set of drones that are specifically designed for agricultural uses. And we've seen stuff kind of like this before will though, they'll survey the land to look for blight or maybe insects, problems that are occurring in your field. So that's what this company is doing down there New Zealand. And it's kind of cool because they have these kinda like county fairs. They call them agricultural field days, down there in New Zealand. And he's saying for the past two years we've seen farmers embrace drone technology to help with those jobs that are dirty, dangerous, or just plain dull he said. So what one of their new drones and this is on a cattle farm is set up with speakers on it where it can bark like a dog. Craig 12:06 So they've got this 3,500 New Zealand dollar drone and the New Zealand dollars worth about 50 cents give or take. Not sure what it is today. But you know, so it's basically what may be a $2,000 drone at the most. It's called the DJI Mavic Enterprise and you can record sounds and play them over a speaker. So you can put a dogs bark or other noises there and it projects them wherever you want, very loudly across a paddock. And he said this feature helped him move livestock along faster during mustering while stressing the animals a lot less than a dog could because of course the dog is going to kind of nip at their legs, even though it's not going to bite them to get them to move and that's very stressful. And that means some of your cattle aren't going to give the milk that they could, etc, etc. Some cows are going to get very protective of their calves. When you have a dog out there. You might have seen that before, where they lunge at the farm dogs and they get too close. So it's really kind of cool to think about that. A drone instead of a dog. Oh, obviously a drone can't do everything a dog can do. It's not going to be completely autonomous. And someone's going to have to kind of watch it and man it. But over time that it will become more autonomous. But then what are we going to do? We're going to have dogs out of work, right? Craig 13:30 Well, two-factor authentication. Craig 13:34 This is a key part of security. This week, I put together a module on website security and one of the things I brought up is because so many business websites are getting hacked. And if you have a business, man, could you get hacked, so there's a lot to be concerned about. But using two-factor authentication on your website, for you, as an administrator to be able to login can save you know, end of grief. And security and on the internet just in general has gotten more important. And we're seeing it with built in security things now into our web browsers. Google has been protecting their stats are showing 1 billion websites that they are providing blockage to every day. Now it's not websites, but it's actually warnings to people who are using Google. And if you get blacklisted by Google, you will lose 95% of your traffic to your business website on average, which is just huge. So I explained that this week in that module on website security, what to do, how to do it and everything. But that number surprised me. 95% of your traffic and it can take you months to get back. And in most cases, the businesses never are able to get that traffic level back up because Google just doesn't trust them anymore. Craig 15:03  So having two-factor authentication can be a huge win. And that is where you have something you know, along with something you have in order to keep your logins safe. And when we're talking about something, you know, it's your password, right? It's your username and password, which is why I know I gave some tips on what to do there in this module. But basically, don't use admin as the admin user account. But there's some other things too. And then something you have, which is the two-factor authentication. Craig 15:38 You guys know, I recommend 1Password, LastPass as good as well. But I think one passwords definitely the best, especially for businesses. So you should look at tying that into your website login, as well. Craig 15:56 And if you do that, if you have the two-factor authentication using an authentication app, and you can get these for free Google Authenticator is a free app available on iOS or Android. And you can tie it into your website to allow you basically exclusive access to the administrative functions, you are and or other people within your organization that have to do the maintenance on the website. SMS messages are just not secure. We know about and I've talked on this show before about people hijacking your phone number, all kinds of nasty things that can help. Craig 16:39 Apple has two-factor authentication built right into iOS and Mac OS. They do little differently than pretty much everybody else. They're using the Apple ecosystem. So when you try and log in on your Mac, and it doesn't know that you are who you say you are, the Mac will automatically pop something up on your iPhone and say is that you and you get a six-digit Pop-up code. Craig 17:06 And you know, that happens when you log into iCloud and various other things. But there are a bunch of different ways that you can do it. Apple does make it easy. SMS messages really aren't secure. But I do like Google Authenticator and 1Password. They both, 1Password has the Authenticator built right into it. But it's absolutely fantastic. It's $60 per year for 1Password for the family plan. And you can have a shared vault where you keep the password that everybody in the family needs to access like your bank logins or, or other things that you might need, you know, the website for your kid's homework, all of that stuff for 60 bucks a year. It's just crazy. It also has one time passwords built into the app and everything. It's phenomenal nominal, these two-factor authentications. Craig 18:03 Authy's. Another one, you might want to look at. A-U-T-H-Y, if you don't use 1Password. It is a very good two-factor authentication app. It's better than Google Authenticator. It's a little broader. But it is easier to use in, In fact, one of the two-factor authentication is all it does. So it's very straightforward, very easy. You can scan a QR code that the site is giving you and use that then to use Authy or Google Authenticator or 1Password in order to be able to get in. Google Authenticator, I should mention, it's basically been the default solution for a lot of two-factor deployments over the last few years. And man, I, I can't remember the first time I used it. It was a lot of years ago. And I think it was Google, it was prompting me to try it out and use it. Microsoft now has theirs as well, Microsoft Authenticator. They've done a good job on this, I've got to say, Microsoft, with the exception of Windows, well, even with Windows, it's really been pulling up its socks lately. Windows is still terrible. Craig 19:15 But it is much better than it used to be. And if you use Microsoft products heavily, particularly if you're using Office 365, these authenticators are going to work really well for you. And in fact, that's exactly what we use to manage not only our deployment of Office 365 for internal company uses at Mainstream, but we also use it in order to authenticate ourselves to all of our partners, because we manage so many sites, all of their emails, we manage all of their networks, all of their security and everything. So you can bet we use the best of this two-factor authentication stuff. Craig 20:02 Apple, of course, had their big show this week. And one of the things that they released was information on its plan, where it is trying to take over the TV business. And this is from an article I have up on http://CraigPeterson.com from Business Insider. There's still a whole lot of questions that are answered after the event that happened just this week, it unveiled a new subscription service in the US. It covers TV, gaming and news markets. As I mentioned earlier, I signed up for the news stuff called News Plus, it's like 10 bucks a month and you get the first 30 days for free. And I kind of like it. There's some good magazines and stuff in it. I think they've got to clean their interface up a little bit more. And I wish there were more newspapers in that there's very few newspapers, but it'll you know, it'll get better. And Apple really is trying to get more into services because they're making a ton of money from their services sector already. And they're very good. And have you seen the new ads from Apple, the latest ones, where they're really touting security? They're touting the fact that they're not giving all of your information away, that they're not selling it to the highest bidder like Facebook has been doing. You heard me talk about WhatsApp, I have a great article up on my website about the guy who developed WhatsApp, and then sold it to Facebook. And he's now telling people to delete WhatsApp and never use it again. So if you want to find out more about that, and why that's up on my website, as well. But it's all because our friends and Facebook are really messing with people, which is kind of a shame. Craig 21:50 That used to be this article from again Business Insider goes through some of the older events and things that they've done. So they're calling it TV Plus, and a number of people are really kind of underwhelmed by it. But it's going to add more stuff in. What's going to make this very interesting is what the mouse has been doing. Disney. Have you seen what they've been doing they just a couple of weeks ago, got final approval, inked the deal with buying all of Fox's content and production. Fox Studios. No, we're not talking about the news network that's separate. But all of the movies and so think about this, basically, Disney now owns all of the top names out there all the Star Wars brand, and completely owns now, of course, all the standard Disney stuff. And now it's got Marvel under its belt. It even has Spider Man now, which used to be exclusively Sony's property. So the mouse, you know, if you can get them in onto your streaming network, you're in big trouble. And Disney, aka the mouse, is in direct competition with Apple for this stuff. Craig 23:09 So I don't know what that's what's going to happen here. Apple has always made its money off of selling the devices and selling us some services never selling your information. Disney is not the same. And I don't know that the two will be able to come to terms or not, I guess, guess we'll see. Craig 23:30 Your personal data, according to Forbes, is 99.99% safer on a major cloud service than it is on the average companies private network. Isn't that amazing? This is an article in Forbes and they're taking a quote from the site called Quora. And it's really kind of a cool one. Matthew Lodge wrote this. He's a tech executive. And he's talking about, frankly, the fact that most businesses aren't storing the data properly. They're not backing it up properly. They're not securing it properly. Hence my course, right, that I just finished delivering or actually I'm finishing just this week delivering all of the final components as I go through all of that, right. The integrity of the data of the fact that you get bit rot, that companies don't keep track of it. They don't have proper multigenerational backups. They're not pushing the backups off site. They don't have it on on different types of media. They don't have active defenses that don't have security monitoring, right. So duh. Yeah, it's 99.999% safer if you put it up on Dropbox. And so that's really interesting. They, he goes through and he talks about Google as well. And Amazon and what they're doing, they'll have stored stuff. Dropbox is what I recommend for businesses. And in fact, I put together in my last coaching call a whole thing about Dropbox and which version to get because I got like a million of them. But that's I find that to be just fascinating. Craig 25:15 And then our last article here this week is all about artificial intelligence, and the National Health Service over in the United Kingdom. If you've been listening for a while, you know that I and my family have suffered under the Canadian healthcare service for years, and the Supreme Court in Canada finally rolled that you can buy private health insurance, you don't have to get stuck with it. Well, much the same has happened in the UK because the healthcare, public health care is just so bad. It's just terrible. You know, everybody gets it. Craig 25:51 But it's all terrible, right, kind of the bottom line, and I can tell you horror stories from every member of my family that's still in Canada. But in the UK, they've been using some artificial intelligence algorithms. They looked at a half a million people in the UK and then they task this AI with predicting of individuals who were at the risk of dying prematurely. In other words sooner than the average life expectancy from chronic disease and they had three different models that they task the AI with. And this article up on http://CraigPeterson.com that is originally from NBC News, I think you're really gonna like this is they look at different things with each one of the models. They looked at things like well they had the random forest model, which looked mostly a body fat percentage, waist circumference, amount of fruit and vegetables of people ate. They had the deep learning model, top factors there included exposure to job-related hazards, air pollution, alcohol intake, use of certain medications. You had another model called the Cox model that lean heavily on ethnicity and physical activity. So they took those three models, they looked at it, and they found that the best and most accurate predictions that correctly identified 76% of the subjects who died during the study period. Wow, okay. 84% accuracy on predicting Alzheimer's, the onset of autism and six months old babies. So all of this work by the UK National Health Service to figure out you know, basically death panels. Who should we spend money on? And who shouldn't we spend money on? Which is what that's what's happened I Obamacare ended up with death panels. Of course, they don't call them death panels, any of these cases, but you know, the panels that decide whether or not you're worthy to receive medical treatment, I think you can tell which side of the market come down on with that. Craig 28:03 Alright, so this next week, of course, we're going to have some podcasts, probably only one because I am out of town. Very busy. But I'm releasing some stuff to those of you who signed up for my DIY cybersecurity course. And we will be back next Saturday. http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes, to sign up for the podcast. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye. ---  Related articles: Health Industry Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Predict When Someone Will Die With Unsettling Accuracy Is Personal Data Safer When It’s Stored On A Company’s Private Network? 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Today Maria’s guest is Chris Roebuck. Chris has vast experience as a leader. He was Global Head of Leadership at UBS during the implementation of one of the most successful corporate transformations. This period now forms a Harvard Business School case study on transforming organisational performance. Chris has also worked in government and public sector on major change and leadership projects, from UK National Health Service and local government to London Underground PFI partnership. Chris is currently visiting professor of transformational leadership at Cass Business School in London. In addition, he has served as a military officer and now works as an executive coach and mentor across a range of different sectors, helping senior executives to be more successful. Recorded on: 5th July 2018 In this week’s show, Chris Roebuck shares how you can start your career managing catering services, including the bars for about 8000 undergraduates to being in the Army, to then becoming Global Head of Leadership at UBS.  Can everyone be a Leader? Chris believes they can and shares just what it takes to be a great leader in today’s fast changing world.  All this and more… Links: More about Chris Roebuck More about Maria Franzoni Ltd Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Significant quotes: “70% of the leaders out there have not been taught how to delegate effectively day to day, when that's exactly what they're supposed to do for their job.” Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be Sports Presenter and Communications Trainer, James Pearce.

In this episode I speak with Joe Connor, Founder of Experto Crede. Joe’s been listening to the podcast for a while and he and I connected after he reached out to discuss an article I wrote regarding AI in the healthcare space. In this conversation, we explore his experiences bringing AI powered healthcare projects to market in collaboration with the UK National Health Service and its clinicians. We take a look at some of various challenges he’s run into when applying ML and AI in healthcare, as well as some of his successes, such as tackling effective triage of mental health patients using emotion recognition within a chatbot environment. We also discuss data protections, especially GDPR, and the challenges that come along with building systems that are dependent on using patient data under these restrictions. Finally we take a look at potential ways to include clinicians in the building of these applications. The complete show notes can be found at https://twimlai.com/talk/169

This week, we interview Dr Russell Razzaque. Dr Razzaque currently works as a consultant psychiatrist and associate medical director in east London and, together with colleagues, he is leading a pioneering multi-centre Open Dialogue pilot in the UK National Health Service. In 2014 he released his book ‘Breaking Down Is Waking Up’ in which he explores alternative views of mental distress, their relationship to consciousness and comparisons to forms of spiritual awakening. In this interview, we discuss the relationships between mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Open Dialogue and how the UK NHS is approaching the worlds first randomised controlled trial of Open Dialogue interventions for people struggling with emotional or psychological distress. In this episode we discuss: What led Dr. Razzaque to his interest in psychiatry and in particular some of the more unconventional aspects of the profession. How beginning to practice mindfulness nearly 20 years ago led to Russell starting to feel an incongruence between the dominant philosophy in psychiatry and what he was learning from his own mindfulness practices. That the dominant philosophy is one of trying to help people remove their pain and remove them from difficult and uncomfortable experiences, but in his own personal development, he was learning to sit with the pain and finding that valuable. How this led to an interest in novel therapeutic approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, originally pioneered by professor Stephen Hayes. That Russell felt disillusioned with the way that UK mental health services and systems were organised and realised that creating better outcomes for people would require system-wide change. How Russell came to be one of the leading figures in the worlds first multi-centre, fully randomised Open Dialogue Trial which seeks to establish the evidence base for Open Dialogue. That the trial involves eight NHS Trusts across the UK and that several hundred practitioners have already been trained in Open Dialogue therapy. That during the trial there will be randomly selected postcodes receiving Open Dialogue interventions compared with randomly selected postcodes receiving treatment as usual and that the results will be compared after three years. That this trial will allow us to answer questions about the efficacy of Open Dialogue because we will have built a strong evidence base. How colleagues have reacted to the Open Dialogue trial and why some might be threatened by the need to change. That Open Dialogue is a need adapted approach, so it is not fundamentally against any of the conventional interventions, but it encourages people to make their own choices, so medication use tends to significantly reduce. That it is necessary to change the power dynamic in current systems and approaches because the current methods lead to dependency, whereas Open Dialogue is about empowering and liberating the individual. That Russell is encouraged to find that many psychiatrists are willing to open up to new ways of thinking about mental and emotional distress. How spirituality and psychiatry can work hand-in-hand and how accepting spiritual explanations can sometimes lead to better understanding of personal experiences. That, in future, the system needs to change such that interpersonal relationships are put first and are seen as the key to successful outcomes. That we also need to adapt so that clinicians are trained to be present with distress and not just try to remove it.  How people can hear Russell speak at the upcoming Compassionate Mental Heath event in South Wales, being held on April 25th and 26th 2018. Relevant links: Russell Razzaque Breaking Down is Waking Up Open Dialogue trial Developing Open Dialogue Compassionate Mental Health

Red Wine Headaches: Ideas On Causes and Remedies (but sadly not real solutions…) Nearly every time I do a speaking event, a familiar scenario transpires. After the wine class, a person who seemed very interested in what I had to say approaches me with a sad look on his or her face and says, “I love the taste of wine. I’m so fascinated by the subject but I just can’t drink that often. I get a horrible headache every time I drink, especially with red wine. Is there anything I can do?”   My heart always breaks a little for that person and I hope that despite my obvious lack of expertise in health matters (here’s my caveat, I’m an MBA, not an MD so I am only offering this article second hand) that I can solve the problem and get the person back on track to enjoy wine, headache-free.   Before I go down this path, I want to be really clear about the information that’s widely available and that’s repeated over and over again in major wine outlets and news publications. I scoured scientific journals and I found an even better source – a scientist who scoured scientific journals[1] – to see what conclusive evidence there is on this topic. What I and they found was a lot of half studies without a statistically significant result in most cases. The bottom line is that no one has funded a large-scale study on this topic. (And I get it: really, who is going to fund something like this, which is what it comes down to? Wine companies have other priorities and they would be the most likely cash source…).  So as I share this info, I want to tell you now that except for two of these solutions, one which I can vouch for and another which has scientific proof behind it, the rest is pure conjecture.   Still, we’re not operating in the dark. There are some strong contenders for what is causing that nasty pounding after drinking wine or more specifically, red wine. And, better yet, if you’re not averse to taking an over-the-counter medicine, you could solve the problem fairly easily in many cases.   Let’s run through the different potential causes and give ideas on how to tackle them.   The first thing that is killing most heads… I’m not going to hold you in suspense. I want to tell you the number one thing that is probably causing your headache: alcohol. It dehydrates the body, or to quote the UK National Health Service:   “Dehydration can also occur as a result of drinking too much alcohol. Alcohol is a diuretic, which means it makes you wee more.” (insert immature chuckle here).   And what a lot of us fail to realize is that most wine is somewhere between 12.5% and 14.5% alcohol by volume. That means that for a 5 ounce glass of wine, 12.5% to 14.5%, more or less, is made up of alcohol. Contrast that with beer, which is more like 3-4% alcohol by volume and you see that wine is not as innocuous as it seems.   So if you happen to have one or two glasses of wine, especially red, which tends to be higher in alcohol (because the grapes are riper and picked later, thus upping the sugar), AND you have no water in between and no food or nibbles, you are robbing your body of water. Dehydration gives you a headache, so there you go!     The Solution? First, try wines with lower alcohol content. If you can drink around 10% or 11% ABV versus 14%, that could help. Look on the bottle for the percentage – it’s required by law in most countries. Lower alcohol means more bang for your buck – 1 glass of this stuff won’t wallop you like one glass of a 14%’er will.   Alternately you can take a page out of the professional drinkers’ book people in the wine industry’s book. We’re usually downing water in between glasses or eating food to mitigate the effect of the high alcohol. It seems like our tolerances are off the charts (and they probably are to some extent) but a lot of that comes from experience and lots and lots of water.   Ok, that’s the number one cause of headaches. But there are several others, so don’t think I’m about to dismiss you if you’ve tried to drink water and it doesn’t work!   Next are the mean amines. Wines that go through malolactic fermentation release amines in the process, and have levels that can be 200% higher than in wines that don’t go through malo. There’s been some research done on the effect of the “amines” but nothing super conclusive. [2]   The second thing we’re pretty sure is causing pain: Histamines[3] Histamines are compounds that exist in wine at varying levels. Red wine and bubbly tend to be higher in these pesky enzymes. That means if you have a sensitivity, you may have a terrible allergic reaction, e.g., a headache, rash, even sneezing. This is especially true for people with a diamine oxidase deficiency (you can take a probiotic to help that problem, incidentally). The National Institute of Health in the US has shown that high levels of histamine in blood plasma can create bad allergic reactions, including allergy headaches. Since alcohol increases histamine in blood plasma, you could wind up suffering with a headache.   The Solution? Pop the anti-histamine of your choice about an hour before you drink wine. Still drink the water to prevent dehydration, but see if this helps you out. Again, no conclusive studies on this one, but it has some research behind it, so I’d give it a try (just check the interactions with alcohol before you take anything).   And the less proven amine… Some doctors posit that high levels of the amino acid tyramine, which can cause migraines, is the main cause of headache pain from wines. If stuff like processed meats (think pepperoni or hot dogs), tofu, soy sauce, miso, and cheeses like blue, brie, cheddar, Swiss, or Roquefort give you a headache, you may have an issue with tyramine. Although the levels are lower in red wine than in these foods, they go hand in hand. You’ll need to skip the wine and cheese pairings and stick to one small glass of wine if you think this may be your issue. That said, apart from a few doctors saying they think this is the problem, I couldn’t find any studies to back it up.   Tannins often take heat for causing headaches. And they do change serotonin levels, which can cause migraines. They ARE more prominent in reds than in whites, so that could explain the issue for people who have problems with red and not white. Tannins also can release fatty acids (prostaglandins) that can cause headaches and pain.   But again, this is all conjecture. We don’t have much to back this up. Still, it’s a theory posited by headache specialists, so if you think this is your problem, take some kind of headache medicine – ibuprofen, Tylenol, aspirin, whatever. Again, watch out for the interaction between the wine and the drug.     What is probably NOT causing your headache? Sulfites Sulfites/sulfur dioxide/sulphites are a naturally occurring byproduct of fermentation and are added to wine to prevent spoilage and browning. They are also in dried fruit jam, molasses, bottled lime and lemon juice, sauerkraut, lunchmeat, and gravy. Although wine is singled out as a product that has sulfites, plenty of others have equal or higher levels.   Unless you are part of the 1-5% of the population that has a sulfite allergy, this isn’t your problem. If you have severe asthma or allergies, this could be a huge issue and you’ll know it’s a problem because the result is not a headache, but an asthma attack or something worse. If you don’t have these issues, dismiss this one.  It’s better you move on and try to find the real cause.   The Wrap After all this, I will repeat what I said at the beginning: the issue with a red wine headache or any wine headache is most likely dehydration or histamine issues or a combo of a few of these things. Try a few solutions and see if they work. And make sure you chug water. If it’s still an epic fail, I guess you’ll have to wait until I report back with some new, exciting finding that solves this really annoying problem!   [1] http://www.wineinformationcouncil.eu/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1835:can-wine-trigger-migraine-attacks?&Itemid=640 [2] http://www.yalescientific.org/2009/10/everyday-qa-what-causes-the-red-wine-headache/ [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8005453

In today's podcast, we hear that ISIS-affiliated hackers deface UK National Health Service sites with propaganda. Turkish Islamists DDoS Austria's parliament. Poorly crafted, but troubling, Mac malware seems linked to Iran. Criminals follow the money into the cloud. Salient buys Triple I, Malwarebytes picks up Saferbytes, and Sophos buys Invincea. Pala Alto Networks' Rick Howard walks us through the adversary playbok. The author and purveyor of the Dendroid RAT gets probation.

This week I welcome Gordon Donovan on to the Art of Procurement.  Gordon is a presently a member of the procurement leadership team at Metro Trains Melbourne, and he has a broad range of experiences as a practitioner including Head of Procurement roles, consultant and training. Gordon's career spans both the UK and Australia, and includes roles at organizations such as the UK National Health Service, Transport for London, Healthscope, ArcBlue and The Faculty. Today, we are going to discuss influence and I’m willing to say that there are few, if any, who have studied the topic of influence and procurement as thoroughly as Gordon.  He wrote a 20,000 word dissertation for his Masters Degree on the topic of the development of influencing skills within the Australian procurement community, and he frequently weaves the topic into his procurement learning and development programs. Areas we cover include: The need to demystify procurement The difference between functional influence and influencing skills. The importance of facilitation skills An overview of different influencing styles and how to determine which style you should use depending on who you are seeking to influence Why kids are the best influencers and what we can learn from them Key traits of a successful influencer The power of inspiration Gordon’s tips for building trust, which is the foundation of building influence. For more information, visit: http://artofprocurement.com/influence 

Andrew MacPherson of the UK National Health Service talks about the organization's Friends and Family Test (15:12), the challenges of measuring customer service in healthcare (17:36) and what's next for its Net Promoter program (46:34).

For SPP listeners only, the first 100 people to purchase a book via www.leadtosucceed.me will receive a signed copy of "Lead to Succeed". Order now and thank us later :) Chris Roebuck  - Everyone, everywhere is under pressure to work harder.  Many of us work to survive and get paid.  Bored and trapped, performance is low, family relationships suffer and organizational performance deteriorates.  To deliver real success, people must be inspired to be their best.  Whether you're an individual leader, a boss, a manager, an HR professional or a CEO, you must know how to transform both your own and your employees' performances.  So I guess it's a good thing that this week we are interviewing the guy who wrote the book (literally) on leadership. Chris Roebuck is the author of the new bestselling book, Lead to Succeed: The Only Leadership Book You Need. Based on over 30 years of being a leader and developing, assessing and coaching leaders around the world, Chris explains the tried and true basics of leadership and describes them in engaging, useful details. His book has been described as a “breakthrough” in thinking about leadership. Chris takes a view of leadership that can help you or other leaders be effective, ethical, entrepreneurial and engaging. The principle is simple – just two steps – one, maximize the effort your people give, then focus that on what really matters for the organization. In this episode, Chris lays out the first step – maximizing the effort of people – Mach 1 leadership as he calls it. Chris is a visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School in London and advises major global organizations on improving performance through their people. The UK National Health Service, top legal firms, global investment banks, SMEs and even the Red Cross in Myanmar and Chinese Space Program have all relied on his expertise. He has held senior leadership roles at UBS, HSBC, KPMG & London Underground and has served in the British Army. While Chris was the Global Head of Leadership at UBS the bank won the title Best Company for Leaders in Europe and the story of the organizational success is now a Harvard Business School case study. "Leadership is about making a difference and transforming lives, nothing less. Sadly too few leaders even think that, let alone do it.” - Chris Roebuck Quotes from Chris: What we learn in this episode: What's going on currently in organizations? What is the "new world of work"? What do we all truly want from our boss? How can you maximize the effort your employees want to give you? What is leadership at its most basic level? Resources: To learn more about Chris ideas, blogs, media interviews: www.chrisroebuck.net To learn more about the book and the 2nd step (focus onto what matters - Mach 2): www.leadtosucceed.me To follow Chris on Twitter : @Chris__Roebuck To join the Lead To Succeed Online Community:  http://linkd.in/1sOnSHZ -- This episode is brought to you by: Igloo: Go to igloosoftware.com/smartpeople to use Igloo for free with up to 10 of your favorite coworkers or customers!

DOWNLOAD HEREPOSITIVE POLITICS PODCAST EPISODE 4: POLITICS, DEMOCRACY, AND REPRESENTATION.In this episode, Joel and Neil explore the parlous state of democracy in Britain and the United States today. Joel talks about money and power in British politics, giving the example of the recently passed Health and Social Care Act that effectively condemns the UK National Health Service to privatisation. With help from David Cameron, Neil reflects on how politics today is little more than a 'spectacle'. Prof Inderjeet Parmar highlights the limits to American democracy, emphasising the anti-democratic consequences of highly concentrated wealth. Finally, Prof Archon Fung offers hope by giving examples from around the world of pro-democratic changes that have been both driven from below and implemented from above.TRACKLISTING:Radiohead - ElectioneeringErnst Busch and Group - Hans BeimlerElvis Costello - Oliver's Army

Dr. Linda Sharples gives an insight into the workings of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and how new medical treatments, drugs and procedures are analysed and assessed for use within the UK National Health Service... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Dr. Linda Sharples gives an insight into the workings of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and how new medical treatments, drugs and procedures are analysed and assessed for use within the UK National Health Service... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists