Podcasts

Diabetes is arguably one of Australia's greatest health challenges and fastest-growing chronic conditions. But landmark research shows that type 2 diabetes could be preventable at any life stage - whether you are still young, starting a family, or middle-old age.

Science, including health research, has been particularly susceptible to “Truth Decay” – the increasing reliance on opinion over fact.This talk will unravel the role of corporate interests in influencing public perception of science, particularly health research.

A Sydney Ideas event for Innovation Week 2018, exploring the possibility that storytelling is exactly what science needs, with a view to answering the question: Is storytelling bad for science?

Research indicates that dog owners are happier. Could having a dog indeed help combat depression? In this talk, hear Dr Sandra Barker discuss how therapy dogs help people in a variety of settings, such as therapy, in the workplace, patient recovery and during student exam periods.

Hear from endocrinologist and researcher, Professor David S Ludwig, who was described as an “obesity warrior” by Time Magazine. Dr Ludwig is author of the recent #1 New York Times bestseller 'Always Hungry? Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently'.

It'd time to wake up to the importance of sleep. Join Professor Allan Pack, Chief of the Division of Sleep Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania as he discusses sleep disorders with a particular focus on diagnosis and management of obstructive sleep apnea.

The capacity to make precise genome edits is slowly changing our approach to medicine, agriculture and our planet. This event discussed fundamental science and applications of genome editing.

What if getting old didn’t mean getting ill? Professor Dame Linda Partridge FRS is the Director of the Institute of Healthy Ageing at University College London, and a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, Germany. Hear her talk about the potential for intervening in the ageing process.