Smoking changes your immune system, even years after quitting
00:45 Smoking's long-term effects on immunityIt's well-known that smoking is bad for health and it has been linked to several autoimmune disorders, but the mechanisms are not fully understood. Now, researchers have investigated the immune responses of 1,000 people. Whilst some effects disappear after quitting, impacts on the T cell response lingers long after. The team hopes that this evidence could help better understand smoking's association with autoimmune diseases.Research article: Saint-André et al.News and Views: Smoking’s lasting effect on the immune system07:03 Research HighlightsWhy explosiv...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 14, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 1055: Vermont viridae
Vincent travels to the University of Vermont to speak with Jason, Emily, Jessica, and Dimitry about their careers and their work on SARS-CoV-2, hantaviruses, poliovirus, influenza virus, and the involvement of viruses in the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Jason Botten, Emily Bruce, Jessica Crothers, and Dimitry Krementsov Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Spike shirts at vaccinated.us (promo code Microbetv) Research assistant position in Ros...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - October 22, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 1040: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the public health significance of finding autochthonous melioidosis cases in the continental United States, human neural larva migrans caused by Ophidascaris robertsi ascarid, Project nextgen awards over $1.4 billion to develop the future of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, excess all-cause mortality in China after ending the zero COVID policy, international pediatric COVID-19 severity over the course of the pandemic, differences in SARS-CoV-2 specific humoral and cellular immune responses after contralateral and ipsilateral COVID-19 vaccination, Pfizer and BioNTech ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 2, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 1020: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses guidance on measles during the summer travel season, the Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines on the diagnosis of COVID-19: antigen testing, SARS-CoV-2 variants and age-dependent infection rates among household and nonhousehold contacts, effect of COVID-19 vaccination on household transmission of SARS-COV-2 in the Omicron era, incidence of myopericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, intrinsic and effective severity of COVID-19 cases infected with the ancestral strain and Omicron BA.2 variant in Hong Kong, safety, immunogenicity and protection of heterol...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 1, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 1001: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses an update on vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks, how the dream of wiping out polio might need a rethink, risk of death in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 vs seasonal Influenza in fall-winter, French Mpox cluster includes fully vaccinated patients, two individuals with potential Mpox virus reinfection, epidemiologic and clinical features of Mpox-associated deaths, FDA authorizes changes to simplify use of bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, SARS-CoV-2 during Omicron variant predominance among infants born to people with SARS-CoV-2, severe maternal morbidity and mortalit...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 23, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

Immunosuppressive treatment for people with proliferative lupus nephritis
Systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, is an autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the body. About half the people with it develop lupus nephritis. In the June 2018 update of their Cochrane Review, David Tunnicliffe from the Centre for Kidney Research in the Children ’s Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney’s School of Public Health in Australia and colleagues brought together the studies that have tested a range of treatments. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - May 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of May 1, 2017
This week’s topics include managing preeclampsia, diet soft drinks and stroke, autoimmune conditions and malaria, and fecal immunochemical testing and colorectal cancer. Program notes: 0:36 Malaria, lupus and MS 1:36 B-cell activating factor or BAF 2:34 Sickle cell anemia also 3:16 Diet soft drinks and stroke 4:16 Three fold increased risk of stroke and Alzheimer’s […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - April 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Alzheimer's Disease And Dementia Chronic Disease Colon And Rectal Cancer Genetics Geriatrics High Blood Pressure Neurology And Neurosurgery PodMed Pregnancy Source Type: podcasts

How Do Autoimmune Diseases Affect CLL?
Dr. Nicole Lamanna, a CLL specialist at Columbia University Medical Center, answers a question about treatment options for CLL patients with autoimmune diseases in this Ask the Expert segment. Dr. L... Author: patientpower Added: 09/08/2016 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - September 8, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 345: How a vaccine got the nod
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler The TWiVonauts review how the weather affects West Nile virus disease in the US, benefit of B cell depletion for ME/CFS patients, and an autoimmune reaction induced by influenza virus vaccine that leads to narcolepsy. Links for this episode Virology faculty position, University of Toledo Weather and West Nile virus disease (AJTMH) B cell depletion benefits ME/CFS patients (PLoS One) Antibodies to influenza nucleoprotein cause narcolepsy (Science Transl Med) Letters read on TWiV 345 This episode is sponsored by ASM GAP - turn your s...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 12, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

Do Autoimmune Diseases Begin in the Gut?
Dr Stephen Paget discusses the role of the gastrointestinal microbiome in rheumatologic disorders. (Source: Medscape Rheumatology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Rheumatology Podcast - December 17, 2014 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts

Kenneth C. Gorson, MD - Improving Outcomes in Individuals With Autoimmune Neuromuscular Diseases: Practical Considerations for Identification, Differential Diagnosis, and Management
Improving Outcomes in Individuals With Autoimmune Neuromuscular Diseases: Practical Considerations for Identification, Differential Diagnosis, and Management (Source: PeerView Press CME/CE International Audio Podcast - Internal Medicine)
Source: PeerView Press CME/CE International Audio Podcast - Internal Medicine - November 10, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: podcasts

Treatment for lupus nephritis
Systemic lupus erythematosus, or SLE, is an autoimmune disease that can affect any part of the body, and about half the people with it develop lupus nephritis. In a Cochrane Review that was updated in December 2012, Lorna Henderson from the University of Sydney at Westmead in Australia and colleagues, brought together the studies that have tested a range of treatments. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 22, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: The Cochrane Collaboration Tags: Issue 10 to 12, October to December 2012 Source Type: podcasts