3.16 Non-Drug Interventions with Dr. Margaret McCartney & Cancer Biology with Dr. Jason Sheltzer

Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH

Health, Medicine, Policy, Oncology, Science & Medicine

4.7 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 144 minutes

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We start this week's episode off with a monologue covering a few current events, notably the recent editorial on the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA published by the New England Journal of Medicine titled "Dying in a Leadership Vacuum". From there we interview Dr. Margaret McCartney on her recent opinion piece in the BMJ titled "We need better evidence on non-drug interventions for covid-19"; we talk about masks, schools, the need for randomized trials, and more. Finally, we interview Dr. Jason Sheltzer on his recent papers on cancer biology and the implications of his findings on clinical medicine. NEJM editorial: doi.org/10.1056/NEJMe2029812 Non-Drug Interventions: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/08/28/margaret-mccartney-we-need-better-evidence-on-non-drug-interventions-for-covid-19/ Dr. Sheltzer's research: https://www.sheltzerlab.org/research You can reach Dr. Sheltzer at sheltzer at cshl dot edu. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew

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0:00.0	Welcome. I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm a hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In my professional life, I see patients, I teach trainees, and I do research in health care policy. This is Plenary Session.
0:22.9	Plenary Session is a podcast at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy,
0:27.5	and you're listening to Season 3. On this week's episode, I'm joined by Margaret McCartney.
0:35.2	She is a GP in the UK and she is renowned for thoughtful columns on evidence-based medicine.
0:40.9	And she's going to be talking about the pandemic and non-pharmacologic interventions to stop
0:46.0	the spread of COVID-19.
0:47.7	We didn't really do a lot of randomized control trials.
0:50.2	Was that a smart strategy?
0:52.1	And next, I'm joined by Jason Seltzer.
0:54.6	Dr. Seltzer is at Cold Spring Harbor.
0:56.7	He is a cancer biologist, and he's going to talk about some of the intricacies in cancer biology.
1:01.4	He is one of the most thoughtful, basic scientists out there in cancer biology, and I really think the world of him, and I think you're going to enjoy this discussion.
1:08.6	But first, I'm going to have a bit of a podcast dialogue
1:11.2	about some of what's in the week's news.
1:14.0	So stay tuned. If you like this podcast and want more content, follow me on Twitter at Viprasad MDMPH.
1:30.0	Check out the YouTube channel, Vinay Prasad, MDMPH.
1:34.3	Patreon backers will get access to the slides for lectures I give on plenary session.
1:38.8	Want to hear from us?
1:40.1	Email us your question at plenary Session Podcast at gmail.com.
1:55.9	So this week, the New England Journal came out guns blazing.
2:01.0	They joined Scientific American, and they took a stand on an issue they don't normally take a stand on, which is the presidential election. But they didn't do it in the classic way. They didn't
2:05.0	come straight out and say, we don't like Trump, we like Biden. They did it in a roundabout way.
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