MEDICUS - the Podcast by Duke-NUS Medical School
MEDICUS – the Podcast shines a spotlight on the people whose very ideas are shaping the future of science and medicine. Produced by Duke-NUS Medical School, a landmark collaboration between Duke University and the National University of Singapore, the podcast shares the stories of scientists who are working on the Little Red Dot to transform medicine and improve lives for people in Singapore and around the world. We cover what we know best--from COVID-19 science to neurological conditions and end-of-life care, and from diabetes and heart disease to sleep disorders and cancers. We make the science relevant and easy to understand. Never want to miss an episode? Subscribe to MEDICUS now: https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/medicus/subscribe
Episodes
17 episodes
Matters of the mind: transforming mental health care globally
Beyond resting enough, eating healthily and staying active, the famous saying “health is wealth” also emphasises the importance of our mental wellbeing. Yet, it still remains misunderstood and neglected globally, leading to a concerning lack of...
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Episode 17
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Anatomy of innovation: teaching with purpose
From virtual reality to 3D-printed tonsils and spines and even digitised human cadavers, the classroom of tomorrow is already here at Duke-NUS. But beyond the cool factor, how do these tools and innovations actually help medical students learn—...
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Episode 16
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First call: From medical student to emergency doctor
The moment you graduate from medical school, a thousand questions and more rush in. “Will I be ready?” “What’s life like as a junior doctor?” “Did I pick the right specialty?” These are questions that Dr Jeremy Pong, a Class of 2020 gradu...
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Episode 15
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In the blood: Catching cancer before it strikes again
Cancer recurrence is often deadlier than the original disease, especially when it spreads undetected. Yet for survivors, post-treatment monitoring can be a financial, emotional and mental burden—relying on costly, invasive tests with no guarant...
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Episode 14
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39:06
Blue Zone 2.0: In search of the blue tick of long life
Can simply desiring a longer, healthier life help make it a reality? The concept of “manifesting”—the Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year for 2024—suggests it might. But as we explore Singapore’s transformation into the world’s first ...
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Episode 13
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41:06
From Asia’s frontline: Managing the ever-present risk of H5N1
In Episode 12 of MEDICUS – the podcast, we sit down with immunologist Rukie de Alwis from Duke-NUS’ Centre for Outbreak Preparedness, and virologist Erik Karlsson from the Institute Pasteur in Cambodia, to discuss the threat of bird fl...
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Episode 12
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36:34
Restoring humanity in the age of AI
In Episode 11 of MEDICUS – the podcast, we sit down with Devanand Anantham, who leads the new SingHealth Duke-NUS Medical Humanities Institute, to take stock of how far medicine has come, the potential of AI and why it is high time we ...
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Episode 11
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29:34
From burnout to balance: How to adopt a sustainable fitness routine
In Episode 10 of MEDICUS – the podcast, we went on a search for a scientist who has woven fitness into his work and family life routine so well that it looks effortless to find out how he does it. With January over, we’re already one m...
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Episode 10
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16:42
Collaborations that click: the secret behind the perfect research partnership
In Episode 9 of MEDICUS – the podcast, we’re talking to two scientists about what makes for a perfect collaboration. In modern translational science, new breakthroughs more often that are the product of a multidisciplinary and multi-in...
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Episode 9
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13:17
Creative connections: Drawing inspiration from science and art
In the latest episode of MEDICUS – the Podcast, three scientists talk about what art brings to their lives, how the two interplay for them, and whether they really are two sides of the same coin.In the history of science, Leonardo da Vin...
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Episode 8
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16:35
Fishing for telomeres: two scientists are measuring how fast our biological clocks tick
In this episode of MEDICUS – the Podcast, we meet two scientists to go fishing. But instead of heading out to sea to cast their lines, their “ocean” is a small tube in which they fish for specific genetic sequences that mark the ends of our chr...
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Episode 7
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15:42
From ragweed to dust mites: we navigate the sneezes and wheezes of allergies
As part of this issue of MEDICUS’ wider focus on how the environment affects health, the MEDICUS team is taking a deeper look into what’s going on when the body perceives t...
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Episode 6
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12:15
Sleeping your way to better health
“Only sleep when dead.” That’s the rationale that tribes of people, from party animals to early morning exercise devotees, have used to explain their sleep habits. But we may be putting more at stake than we realise when we regularly cut our Zs...
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Episode 5
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29:15
Tangoing with mosquitoes to end dengue's deadly dance
In this episode, we venture into a veritable mosquito haven—the Duke-NUS insectary, where healthy mosquitoes are grown to help researchers shed light on how new vaccines and even treatments impact the dengue virus when the virus is inside the m...
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Episode 4
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12:52
Dying for a good death: having the conversations we dread most
In this episode of MEDICUS - the Podcast, we talk about the conversation that we dread having the most, one of society’s biggest taboos: death.Joining us on this episode are:
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Episode 3
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16:34
MEDICUS - the Podcast: Episode 1
Scientists from Duke-NUS and the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) found that 2003 SARS survivors who have been vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine produced highly potent functional antibodies that are capable of neutr...
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Episode 1
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7:55
MEDICUS - the Podcast: Episode 2
In this episode of MEDICUS – the Podcast, we hear from three intrepid virus hunters from Duke-NUS Medical School who travel around the region to study what viruses lurk in bats and small mammals and could just possibly become the next ...
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Episode 2
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