Best Elsevier Podcasts (2025)

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🔥 What if electricity could calm chronic pain—without drugs? A new university-led study, published in Elsevier UK’s peer-reviewed journal Multiple Scl... 13:18

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🔥 What if electricity could calm chronic pain—without drugs? A new university-led study, published in Elsevier UK’s peer-reviewed journal Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, just proved it might. 📘 Who did it? Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai University of Sport reviewed 10 clinical trials with 315 people living wit…

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Amplifying Physician Voices Online: Dr. Kevin Pho, Founder of KevinMD 24:41

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“I realized that rather than talking one-to-one with patients in the exam room, you could talk one-to-many on social media,” says Dr. Kevin Pho, explaining the origins of KevinMD, the highly influential information sharing site he created for physicians, medical students and patients twenty years ago. Since then, KevinMD has become a valuable space…

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A High-Tech Smile: The Rise of Digital Dentistry | With AK Khater at iTXPros 40:44

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In this episode, we sit down with Ahmad "AK" Khater, Founder and CEO of iTXPROS, to explore the rise of digital dentistry and what it means for the future of dental care. Tune in to discover how technology is helping dentistry move from classical to digital...one byte at a time. Watch the full video here. You'll learn: What digital dentistry really…

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Using Social Media to Rebuild Trust in Nutrition Science: Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN 24:06

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“We’ve created this ecosystem where the vast majority of information on social media, particularly in nutrition science, is inaccurate or misleading,” says Dr. Jessica Knurick, a registered dietitian and Ph.D. in nutrition science specializing in chronic disease prevention. As you’ll learn on this episode of Raise the Line with host Lindsey Smith, …

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Can Long-Term Electrical Stimulation Boost Nerve Regrowth by 45%? Insights from Ukraine’s 2024 Study 14:28

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Ukrainian scientists studied how gentle electrical pulses help nerve recovery. They used 28 rabbits with controlled sciatic nerve injuries. Half received daily stimulation for eight weeks using NeySi-3M devices. Pulses ranged from 2 to 120 hertz at 8–20 volts. After three months, stimulated nerves grew 45% more fibers. Muscles became 270% larger an…

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Is there new hope for stroke and spinal cord recovery? University of Torronto says yes 13:57

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Imagine losing the simple ability to hold a cup — then learning it all over again with a spark of gentle electricity. ⚡ That’s exactly what scientists in Canada have been helping people do. At the University of Toronto’s Rehabilitation Institute, researchers worked with people who’d lost movement in their arms after a stroke or spinal injury. Inste…

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What Restoring Extinct Species Means for Modern Medicine: Dr. Beth Shapiro, Chief Science Officer at Colossal Biosciences 31:00

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Could studying the DNA of extinct animals – or even bringing them back to life – help us save today’s endangered species and inform modern medicine? That may sound like the premise for a Hollywood movie, but it’s work that our Raise the Line guest, Dr. Beth Shapiro, is actually engaged in as Chief Science Officer at Colossal Biosciences, which desc…

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Can Gentle Electrical Pulses Help Broken Nerves Heal? 18:10

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If you’ve ever had nerve pain that just wouldn’t go away, this will give you hope. A study from The Ohio State University found that gentle electrical pulses can help damaged nerves reconnect faster — even after injury or surgery. ⚡without pills or needles. Learn more - full study digest: https://bit.ly/3Lip31M…

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Breaking Barriers to Leadership for Women in Medicine: Dr. Roopa Dhatt, Co-Founder of Women in Global Health 34:28

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According to the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, women make up 70% of the global healthcare workforce but hold only about 25% of leadership positions. Our guest today on Raise the Line, Dr. Roopa Dhatt, has been a leading voice in the movement to correct that imbalance through co-founding an organization called Women …

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#121: "People, product, process, platform" - Cindy Turner, Chief Product Officer at Worldpay 54:13

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Join us this week for The Tech Leaders Podcast, where Gareth sits down with Cindy Turner, Chief Product Officer at Worldpay. Cindy talks about Worldpay’s current priorities, the trade offs between structure and agility, and how Stablecoins can help make international payments quicker and easier. On this episode, Cindy and Gareth discuss the benefit…

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Expanding the Clinical Toolkit for Better Patient Care: Dr. Lanae Mullane, Head of Clinical Strategy at Joi + Blokes 30:11

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“They say it takes a village to raise a child. I really think it takes a village to treat a patient,” says Dr. Lanae Mullane, a naturopathic doctor and clinical strategist who has spent years at the forefront of bridging functional medicine, nutraceutical development, and digital health. In this episode of Raise the Line, host Lindsey Smith explore…

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Big Data, Big Questions of Bioethics in Healthcare | With Dr. Lindsey Jarrett, PhD, VP at Center for Practical Bioethics 41:44

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Featuring Dr. Lindsey Jarrett, PhD, Vice President at the Center for Practical Bioethics. Watch the full video here. How can healthcare organizations create responsible policies for AI and emerging technologies so innovation doesn't outpace ethics? In this episode, we dive into the world of practical bioethics, exploring how it can help healthcare …

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The Story Behind the ‘Miracle’ of GLP-1 Medications: Dr. John Buse, Chief of Endocrinology at University of North Carolina School of Medicine 31:33

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“It’s kind of a miracle, frankly,” says Dr. John Buse, a distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, referring to the effectiveness of GLP-1 receptor agonist medications such as Ozempic in treating type 2 diabetes, promoting significant weight loss, and reducing cardiovascular risk. As a physician scientist for t…

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A Global Perspective on Reshaping Psychiatric Care: Dr. Nasser Loza, Director of The Behman Hospital and Maadi Psychology Center 29:00

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“It wasn’t a profession, it was a way of life,” observes internationally respected psychiatrist Dr. Nasser Loza, reflecting on a century-long family legacy in mental health care that began when his grandfather founded The Behman Hospital in Cairo. In this candid Raise the Line conversation with host Michael Carrese, Dr. Loza traces the transformati…

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Can gentle electricity make weak knees stronger? New 2025 Study – University-backed Evidence 14:06

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Tired of weak, sore knees that slow you down?A brand-new 2025 study just found a simple way to help you move stronger — without extra pain. Researchers reviewed 11 clinical trials (571 people) with front-of-knee pain to test if adding Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES is a niche of EMS) to normal exercise could make a difference. Here’s wh…

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Can EMS help to reduce pain and restore function? Is TENS or EMS better? 12:42

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TENS vs EMS — Which Works Better for Pain? ⚡ If you’ve tried TENS and still live with pain, this might surprise you. Researchers from the University of Texas Health San Antonio and the University of the Incarnate Word reviewed 23 years of research to find out which electrical therapies truly help people in pain — and which don’t. Their study, publi…

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An Era of Progress in Pediatric Neurodegenerative Diseases: Dr. Mary Kay Koenig, UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School 27:59

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“When I was in medical school, no one had even heard of mitochondrial disease. Today, every student who graduates here knows what it is and has seen a patient with it,” says Dr. Mary Kay Koenig, director of the Center for the Treatment of Pediatric Neurodegenerative Disease at UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School. That remarkable change in awar…

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How Immersive Technology Is Changing Medical Education: Sean Moloney, CEO and Founder of EmbodyXR 33:39

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“Giving learners options gives them a better learning experience. It’s more holistic and more comprehensive,” says Sean Moloney, CEO and founder of EmbodyXR, an extended reality platform focused on the use of immersive technologies in medical education. In this eye-opening Raise the Line conversation, Moloney explains how AI-powered extended realit…

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Can gentle EMS really help older people stay strong — even if they can’t train hard? 13:27

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A team of doctors from Nagoya University Hospital in Japan ran one of the most important studies on this question. It’s called the ACTIVE-EMS Trial, published by Oxford University Press in 2022 — and it changed what we know about aging and mobility. The scientists worked with patients over 75 years old who had heart problems and weak muscles. Many …

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The Human Side of AI in Perioperative Nursing | With Janice Kelly, President of AORN Syntegrity 32:29

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Janice Kelly, President of AORN Syntegrity (Association of periOperative Registered Nurses) joins us to explore how Artificial Intelligence is changing nursing practice. We discuss how nurses can build trust in AI, overcome integration challenges, and use technology to deliver safer, smarter patient care. Watch the video version of this episode her…

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Can muscle contractions really ease pain — even when you don’t move? 12:36

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A group of Japanese scientists decided to find out. 🇯🇵 At Kobe Gakuin University, researchers tested gentle electrical muscle contractions on healthy adults to see if muscles could trigger their own “pain off” switch. No pills. No workouts. Just twenty quiet minutes of controlled muscle activity. What happened? 👉 Pain tolerance increased by 26% in …

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Centering Harm Reduction in Addiction Treatment: Dr. Melody Glenn, Associate Professor of Addiction and Emergency Medicine at University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson 27:02

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Why has America struggled so much to effectively manage the opioid use crisis? One of the answers, as you’ll learn in this eye-opening episode of Raise the Line, is rooted in laws and attitudes from the early 20th century that removed addiction from the realm of medicine and defined it as a moral failing. “The federal Harrison Act of 1914 forbade a…

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A New Model for Chronic Pain Treatment is Needed: Dr. Jacob Hascalovici, Co-Founder and Medical Director of Bliss Health 28:45

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“We don't view a person with chronic pain as someone who has a chronic illness and the effect of that is we can't follow patients continuously over prolonged periods of time,” says Dr. Jacob Hascalovici, a neurologist and pain specialist based in New York City. In co-founding Bliss Health, Dr. Jacob, as he is known, has set out to create a continuo…

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A Challenging Time for Public Health: Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association 25:22

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By Dr. Georges Benjamin, Lindsey Smith

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A Transformational Time for Rare Disorders is Coming: Dr. Jessica Duis, VP of Clinical Development at GondolaBio 31:23

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“Probably the most exciting thing I've seen in gene therapy over the last ten years is we now have a lot of tools for selective delivery, which will hopefully make treatments more safe and a lot more successful,” says Dr. Jessica Duis, a geneticist and pediatrician focused on the management of individuals with complex, rare disorders. Dr. Duis, who…

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How Much Can EMS Change Muscles in 2 Months? 11:35

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MRI-Measured Results, 2024 Japanese ResearchBy Leo and Eva

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Why B2B brands fail without trust (and how to build one that lasts) with Jigsaw’s Head of Marketing, Jason Miller 34:38

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In this episode of B2B Marketing: The Provocative Truth, Benedict talks with Jigsaw's Head of Marketing, Jason Miller about the renewed importance of brand in B2B marketing. Once seen as “fluffy” or reserved for consumer giants, brand is now the foundation for differentiation, trust and long-term growth. Jason argues that lead gen and performance m…

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Can Stretching Alone Match EMS? 12:54

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Nagoya University: +14% Flexibility, +22% StrengthBy Leo and Eva

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EMS in 25 minutes vs. gym in 90: which builds more strength? 15:24

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An international Elsevier journal, the Journal of Exercise Science & Fitness, put it to the test in a 20-week trial.By Leo and Eva

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Migrating Healthcare Out of the Data Center Business | With Dr. Tim Calahan, CTO at Michigan Medicine 29:40

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Healthcare is in the middle of a great migration, moving out of traditional "on-prem" data centers and into the cloud. What does that mean for health systems, clinicians, and ultimately patients? Dr. Tim Calahan, Chief Technology Officer at Michigan Medicine, shares a bold vision about how cloud migration is reshaping healthcare infrastructure and …

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In conversation with ... Dawn Freshwater 50:19

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In this episode of Not Alone: Leaders in Conversation, host Rafael Bras speaks with Prof Dawn Freshwater, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The conversation covers Prof Freshwater’s unique journey, from leaving school early to becoming a prominent academic leader across multiple continents. They delve into the challenges o…

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Advances in Medicine Require More Specialization for NICU Nurses: Lindsay Howard, NICU RNC-NIC at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital 34:24

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With nearly one in ten newborns in the US requiring care in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the importance of NICUs has never been more clear. On today's episode of Raise the Line, we're shining a light on the extraordinary world of NICUs with Lindsay Howard, a veteran nurse with over 17 years of experience caring for premature and critically ill i…

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#120: "Just because AI can do something, doesn’t mean it should" - Lara Lewington, Writer and Broadcaster 1:04:47

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This week on The Tech Leaders Podcast, Gareth sits down with Author, BBC / ITV Presenter, and AI Agony Aunt Lara Lewington. They discuss how AI will revolutionise personalised medicine, its impact on wearable health trackers, and what “Health-span” really means. Join us to hear Lara talk about fist bumping card machines, wireless urine monitoring, …

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🚨 Can sitting still really make your blood flow 3× faster? 13:37

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Sounds impossible, right? But that’s exactly what a team of scientists at Karolinska Institutet (the Nobel Prize medical university in Sweden) discovered.By Leo and Eva

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Which EMS Frequencies Work — and Which Won’t Help Trained Athletes? (Waseda Univ, Japan) Put It to the Test. 13:36

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2 Hz, 4 Hz, 7 Hz, 7.5 Hz, 10 Hz, 20 Hz, 30 Hz, 35 Hz, 45 Hz, 50 Hz, 55 Hz, 60 Hz, 75 Hz, 80 Hz, 80.5 Hz, 85 Hz, 100 Hz, 125 Hz, 150 Hz? Waseda University study: Not all frequencies worked — at least on Japanese athletes.By Leo and Eva

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What’s At Stake In Changes To Medicare and Medicaid: Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation 32:39

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“When you think about where we were as a country before Medicare and Medicaid were created and where we are now, it’s an incredible story,” says Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, who until earlier this year was the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In a recent essay for The Century Foundation, where she is now a senior f…

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The Evolution of Patient Safety: Preparing for a Post-AI Era | With Leah Binder, CEO at The LeapFrog Group 36:04

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Featuring Leah Binder, CEO of The Leapfrog Group. Watch the full video version here. "Patient safety is not plug and play." Leah takes us through the fascinating evolution of patient safety standards and the critical role of healthcare IT. We discuss lessons from early CPOE systems, best practices for clinical decision support, and how continuous t…