Car Crash Injury Risk

Car Crash Injury Risk

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 197 , Segment 4

Episode: Religion and Globalization, Math Stories, Car Crash Risks, Nigeria

  • Dec 15, 2015 10:00 pm
  • 17:11 mins

Guest: Ashley Weaver, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University Center for Injury Biomechanics Crash test dummies make for dramatic car commercial images, but they are so last decade. The latest research shows computer simulations of car accidents are a much better way to predict injuries. For one thing – you can’t tell by looking at the state of a dummy post-crash whether or not real-life victim might have suffered damage to internal organs. You can with a computer simulation.

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Medical Side Effects on Women

19 MINS

Guest: Alyson McGregor, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University, Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, Attending Physician at Rhode Island Hospital, Co-founder of the Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative When your doctor says, something like “this medicine has been shown to work well in 60% of patients,” you probably think – “Well, hey, I’ve got a pretty good chance it’ll work well for me.” But, now let’s say you’re a woman and the doctor said, “this medicine has been shown to work well in 60% of men.” Then you’d be thinking – yeah, and…what about women? And here’s the thing – your doctor probably won’t have the answer. Because, drugs are mainly tested on men – or cells that came from men. It’s been that way for decades, but there is growing interest in addressing “gender blindness” in the drug mark

Guest: Alyson McGregor, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University, Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, Attending Physician at Rhode Island Hospital, Co-founder of the Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative When your doctor says, something like “this medicine has been shown to work well in 60% of patients,” you probably think – “Well, hey, I’ve got a pretty good chance it’ll work well for me.” But, now let’s say you’re a woman and the doctor said, “this medicine has been shown to work well in 60% of men.” Then you’d be thinking – yeah, and…what about women? And here’s the thing – your doctor probably won’t have the answer. Because, drugs are mainly tested on men – or cells that came from men. It’s been that way for decades, but there is growing interest in addressing “gender blindness” in the drug mark