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As artificial intelligence progresses, healthcare providers are exploring how the technology can be used to offer personalized care at scale. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Dr. Laurie Santos sits down with Alice Crisci, co-founder and CEO of fertility-care provider Ovum Health.

They discuss the barriers to healthcare access, the ways in which AI can be leveraged to expand the reach of healthcare providers, and how Ovum Health’s partnership with IBM and their use of watsonx has been enhancing the patient experience.

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UN doctors were granted access to the hospital in southern Gaza, days after it was raided by Israeli forces. Also: Pakistan political parties reach formal coalition agreement, and does exercise have the same benefits for both men and women?

Krystal and Saagar discuss the Russian space nuke psyop sweeping DC, Morning Joe pushes Russiagate to smear Ukraine aid skeptics, former Trump Biden voters on RFK Jr support, The View panics after Jon Stewart Biden age criticism, Israel storms largest remaining Gaza hospital, Haaretz runs IDF lifestyle piece on soldiers cooking in Gazans kitchens, Ukraine forces troops to die to prevent retreat, and Ryan James Girdusky on Taylor Swift psyop conspiracy plaguing Republicans.

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In this episode, Tom Catena, a missionary physician who runs Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, describes some of his extraordinary work as the only doctor in a remote, war-torn region of Africa. In terms of individual lives saved, you could argue that there is no other person on the front lines doing more than Tom. Additionally, we explore the manner in which the Nuba people die, which is in striking contrast to the ubiquity of chronic disease and self-harm in the West, despite the extreme poverty and unimaginable suffering experienced by the Nuba people. Lastly, we discuss the lessons to be gleaned from the Nuba people, who, despite their suffering, live so harmoniously, happily, and resiliently.

We discuss:

• Background, medical training, and early days of missionary work in Africa [5:15];
• Tom arrives at Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, civil war breaks out, and his staff evacuates [12:30];
• Learning surgery on the job and earning the trust of the community [37:00];
• The amazing people of Nuba, and why Nuba feels like home to Tom [47:45];
• NY Times article about Tom’s work, and Tom’s new venture on the board of the Aurora Prize Foundation, raising awareness and funds for other missionaries [59:45];
• Tom’s mind-blowing ability to deal with chaos while seeing hundreds of patients per day [1:12:00];
• The most afraid Tom has ever been, and how he copes with the emotional trauma of his daily experiences [1:19:45];
• The basic tools, technologies, and medicines that Tom is lacking that could save many lives [1:30:00];
• The logistical challenge of helping Tom’s hospital, and what Tom really needs [1:35:15];
• Diseases in the adult population [1:38:30];
• Living without possessions, finding meaning, and being a missionary [1:55:45];
• Happiness, sense of purpose, and suicide: contrasting the US with Nuba [2:07:15];
• Other than donations, is there a way people can help Tom and other similar causes? [2:15:15];
• The food in Nuba [2:18:30];
• Tom’s annual bout of malaria [2:23:45];
• Patients Tom will never forget [2:26:00];
• Resources for people wanting to get involved in helping Tom’s work [2:31:00];
• Peter tells a story that defines Tom [2:32:00]; and
• More.

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Day 536.

Today, we discuss another attack on the Kerch bridge, more drones fired at Russia, and the service "GP Now", that offers an online tele-medical service for people affected by the war in Ukraine.

Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Host, Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.

Robert Hicken (CEO, GP Now)

Dr Gogna (Former Surgeon General in Australia, GP Now).

Extras:

To listen to David's interview with celebrated Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy, scroll to the bottom of this article and hit play on the audio player: Serhii Plokhy interview: ‘Putin wants control of Ukraine – but he is prepared to go for plan B’, by David Knowles

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In today's bonus episode and after the BBC's Panorama ADHD clinics programme this week, I wanted to share as much practical and up-to-date information from Vicki George, a clinical specialist nurse, independent nurse prescriber and founder of The ADHD Nurse.

• Who can diagnose ADHD?
• How Vicki works as an ADHD clinical and prescriber nurse
• The ADHD diagnosis process and the frustration with the NHS waiting lists
• What happens to us with medication and titration after an ADHD
• The referral and assessment process
• Gaslighting ourselves with ADHD
• Fears around medication
• The support we can access from the NHS and privately
• Red flags to look out for if we're questioning an ADHD diagnosis.

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In the final days of Marleny Mesa’s pregnancy, she could not shake the feeling that something was wrong. She could barely breathe, for one thing. For another, her anxiety and physical discomfort were approaching what felt like an unbearable peak. A week or so later, she delivered a tiny, squirming boy with jet black hair and soft, curious eyes. She and her husband, Andrés Noscue, named him Eliad. Marleny thought he was perfect, but her mother, a retired midwife, insisted that the placenta contained a hint of trouble. It was far too big, she said, and Eliad was too small, probably because he did not have enough room in her womb to grow. His grandmother thought he might need an incubator. Marleny thought he was fine, but when the baby was a few days old, she and Andrés traveled from the Jerusalén-San Luis Alto Picudito Indigenous reservation in Putumayo, Colombia, to take him to Villagarzón for a checkup, just to be safe.

This proved harder than they expected. The baby could not be seen at the hospital there until he had a civil identification or registration number, which he could not get without a birth certificate, which the hospital could not provide because the baby was born at home. Go to the registrar’s office, the nurses told Marleny and Andrés. But the registrar’s office only sent Andrés back to the hospital, where a different nurse told them to try the notary’s office instead. By then it was almost noon. The only bus of the day would be heading back to San Luis soon; if Andrés and his family missed it, they would have to cough up more money for room and board in town than they normally spent in a week. So they went home.

The problem of inadequate registries is most pressing in the low-income nations of Africa and Southeast Asia. But it is not confined to those regions. In Colombia, birth and death registration is especially spotty in Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, where the national government tends to have little presence and registrars and notaries tend to apply the rules arbitrarily. A program known as Colombia Rural Vital was created to simplify and democratize this process.

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The average life expectancy of Americans is shrinking at an alarming rate.

Between 2019 and 2021, a staggering 2.7 years has been shaved off, leaving the revised figure at 76.1 years - the lowest it’s been in more than two decades.

It also sees the U.S. rank 46th in the global life expectancy charts, behind Estonia and just a nose ahead of Panama.

Paul Connolly is joined by John Burn Murdoch, Mary Pat Campbell and Dr Nick Mark to discuss why, on average, citizens of the world’s richest country are dying so young.

On tonight's episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Piers gives his verdict on Gary Lineker comparing the government migrant policy to Nazi Germany and whether he should be sacked by the BBC. Piers discusses whether we should celebrate International Women's Day, as the people who cheering for it won't say what a woman is? Also Gene Simmons and Jerry Springer go head to head over how young is too young to run a country.

Watch Piers Morgan Uncensored at 8 pm on TalkTV on Sky 522, Virgin Media 606, Freeview 237 and Freesat 217. Listen on DAB+ and the app. 

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After their last live show before their holiday, Jane and Fi discuss smuggling diet coke into the studio and bad directions from the production team.

They were also joined by Professor Dame Lesley Regan who is the UK's first women's health ambassador.

If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio

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The Supreme Court decision on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade sent abortion clinics into a tailspin.

That day Rosenda, a receptionist at a family planning clinic in Arizona, spent eight hours on the phone telling women the clinic could no longer help them.

“I wanted to hug her, I wanted to help her but I know I can’t,” she said of one patient she called. “I wanted to scream.”

In the hours after the decision, we spoke to clinic doctors and staff members trying to make sense of the news.

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Background reading: 

• The overturning of Roe set off waves of triumph and of despair, from the protesters on either side massing in front of the Supreme Court, to abortion clinics and crisis pregnancy centers.
• Over the weekend, anti-abortion forces vowed to push for near-total bans in every state in the nation, and abortion rights groups insisted they would harness rage over the decision to fight back in the courts. See our updates from Sunday.

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Throughout the pandemic, long Covid — symptoms that occur after the initial coronavirus infection — has remained something of a medical mystery.

Now, amid the latest surge of infections, a series of major studies are shedding light on the condition.

Guest: Pam Belluck, a health and science reporter for The New York Times.

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Background reading: 

• Long Covid has become one of the most daunting legacies of the pandemic.
• Some research has shown that lingering symptoms are more prevalent in people in their 30s and 40s — when workers are often in the prime of their careers.

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