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Removing race as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease?
The AHA has announced a new “race-free” assessment tool, but eliminating this variable carries the potential to increase – rather than decrease – racial disparities in healthcare
#278 ‒ Breast cancer: how to catch, treat, and survive breast cancer | Harold Burstein, M.D., Ph.D.
“We’ve completely flipped the outcomes for HER2-positive breast cancer, where it has gone from one of the most feared types of breast cancer to one of the most successfully treated types of breast cancer.” —Harold Burstein
Genetic similarities between unrelated look-alikes
With a world population of nearly 8 billion, there’s a good chance you have a doppelgänger, but might you share more than just appearances?
#268 ‒ Genetics: testing, therapy, editing, association with disease risk, autism, and more | Wendy Chung, M.D., Ph.D.
“There are literally tens of thousands of genetic variants in your genome, and what they mean and whether or not they do anything whatsoever is hard to know.” —Wendy Chung
#266 – AMA #50: Genetics: how they impact disease risk, what you can do about it, testing, and more
“With how much uncertainty there is in genetic testing, I just think everybody needs to be thoughtful about it before they do it.” —Peter Attia
Twenty Years of the Human Genome: Growing Older and Wiser
In the 20 years since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, we’ve dramatically expanded our understanding of the impact of genetics on human health, but the work is far from finished.
#244 ‒ The history of the cell, cell therapy, gene therapy, and more | Siddhartha Mukherjee
“I liken the human genome to a score of music, but a score is lifeless. There’s no music in a score, it’s just a code. You need a musician to bring it to life, and the cell is that musician.” —Sid Mukherjee
Why does Alzheimer’s disease affect more women than men?
This clip is from episode #138 – Lauren Miller Rogen and Richard Isaacson, M.D.: Alzheimer’s disease prevention—patient and doctor perspectives,…
Peter on what to ask when gathering a family medical history
This audio clip is from AMA #15: Real-world case studies, originally released on August 17, 2020.
Qualys #241 – The genetic gift of centenarians
This episode of The Qualys is from podcast #35, Nir Barzilai, M.D.: How to tame aging, which was originally released on January 7, 2019.