‘I still believe with the right dose in the right patient, there could be a way forward where there is less bleeding and preserving the ischemic benefit in a potent fashion.’ said Dr. Roxana Mehran in a conversation with Dr Vishal Rastogi at the annual India Live 2024.

Here are the top 5 takeaways:

1. Tailoring antiplatelet therapy: no one-size-fits-all
2. Drug-coated balloons may reduce dual antiplatelet therapy duration.
3. Thinking beyond antiplatelet therapy: managing LDL and A1C is crucial.
4. Drug-coated balloons: not for everyone, but useful in selected cases.
5. Aspirin-free strategies and factor XI inhibitors show promise.

Dr. Vishal Rastogi: 

Dr. Vishal Rastogi is a prominent interventional cardiologist and currently serves as the Director of Interventional Cardiology and the Head of the Advanced Heart Failure Program at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute in New Delhi. With over 20 years of experience, he specializes in complex coronary interventions, including techniques such as Rotablation, carotid intervention, and percutaneous aortic valve implantation.

Dr. Rastogi is particularly noted for his expertise in implanting the Impella Left Ventricular Assist Device, making him one of the most experienced practitioners in this area in India. He is also a national proctor for advanced coronary imaging techniques like IVUS (Intravascular Ultrasound) and OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography), as well as for dedicated bifurcation stents.
Dr. Rastogi is actively involved in clinical research, serving as a principal investigator for various interventional and heart failure trials, and he contributes to the academic community as a member of the editorial board of the Indian Heart Journal. His commitment to advancing cardiovascular care is reflected in his leadership roles and ongoing involvement in training other healthcare professionals.

Website: https://www.fortishealthcare.com/doctors/dr-vishal-rastogi-737

Dr. Roxana Mehran: 

Dr. Roxana Mehran is a distinguished Iranian-American cardiologist and the Mount Sinai Endowed Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She is renowned for her expertise in interventional cardiology and her significant contributions to cardiovascular clinical research.
As of 2021, Dr. Mehran has been recognized for her extensive research, with over 200,000 citations and an h-index of 163, highlighting her influence in the field. She has served as a principal investigator for numerous clinical trials and is known for her work on outcomes research, particularly related to acute coronary syndromes and the prevention of acute kidney injury in cardiac patients.
Dr. Mehran is also an advocate for women in medicine, co-founding the organization Women as One, which aims to support female physicians. 

Website: https://profiles.mountsinai.org/roxana-mehran

Choosing the Right Antiplatelet Therapy: No One-Size-Fits-All

In this episode, Daisy, Charlotte and Olivia discuss some Ss in the history of medicine: scurvy, sympathetic medicine and snuff. 

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Ep.19 - Scurvy, Snuff and Sympathetic Medicine

Chances are, you've been reminded to do your kegels by someone on social media recently. You may have also been wondering what on earth they're talking about. Luckily, on this week's episode, we break down everything pelvic floor related, from what the anatomy of that region does, why it's of particular concern for people with female anatomy, how disorders in that area happen, and how to treat them, including, yes, the exercises. Our guest, Dr. B. Star Hampton, MD, FACOG, is a board certified Ob/Gyn Physician, Pelvic Surgeon, and Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.  As one of the leading experts on pelvic floor disorders and reconstruction, she had an amazing discussion with us on the subject that is bound to be essential conversation for you or someone you love. 
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Host: Alexander Joseph - MS2
Guest: Dr. B. Star Hampton, MD, FACOG

Season 2 Episode 5: What Even is a Kegel? Ft. Dr. Hampton, MD, FACOG

On Friday, February 2, 2024, TMC hosted Finnegan-Hosey for this virtual seminar titled, "Stewarding Sacred Stories: A Shared Vocation."

David is the author of "Christ on the Psych Ward" and "Grace is a Pre-Existing Condition: Faith, Systems, and Mental Healthcare." He currently serves as the minister of Bon Air Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), having previously worked in a variety of campus ministry, non-profit, and congregational settings. He holds an M.Div. from Wesley Theological Seminary and a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

"Stewarding Sacred Stories: A Shared Vocation" with David Finnegan-Hosey

"To Change the World of Medicine- Lawndale Health Center as a Model of Christian Presence" with Wayne Detmer, MD

On February 17, 2024  Dr. Andrew Michel, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Belmont University, presented "Toward a Neo-Salesian Spirituality for Students of Medicine." In it, he hopes that DeSales, the doctor of divine love, might inflame a Neo-Saleisan Pentecost in contemporary medicine. He invites healers to take a posture of humility and others-centered surrender in their practice of healing. In so doing, healers could also become agents of social change sent out as apostles into the contemporary healthcare ecosystem.

He goes on, "In the solidarity of missional friendship, such a Neo-Salesian physician-apostle might reawaken justice alongside healing in a land parched and fragmented by inequities, caught up in the spirit of a neocapitalist age that has forgotten the true ends of healing and wholeness for all people.

In becoming physician-apostolates in these secular spaces, each Neo-Salesian medical practitioner would be a little brother or sister of Jesus of Nazareth–heart on fire, with divine love, in mission to reenchant medicine like yeast worked all through the dough."

Andrew Michel, M.D. is Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Integrated Medical Education at the Frist College of Medicine at Belmont University, where he currently serves as the curriculum committee chair.  Dr. Michel earned his M.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program; Dr. Michel is a board-certified psychiatrist. Dr. Michel’s scholarship has focused on the interface of philosophy (virtue ethics), theology, contemplative spirituality, and clinical psychiatry.  Dr. Michel’s academic ventures are heavily informed by clinical experience in caring for persons who suffer with a range of mental health challenges, including trauma, addiction, and disruptions of mood and cognition.  Dr. Michel’s style of practice has a contemplative foundation, centered in being deeply present in solidarity with persons who suffer with psychiatric illness, with the aim of healing and flourishing in the context of vulnerability.

"-Vive Jésus!- Toward a Neo-salesian Spirituality for Students of Medicine" with Andrew Michel, MD

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School hosted this TMC seminar, "Whose Body is This: A Theological Anthropology for the Care of the Sick and Dying" on March 1, 2024. The Reverend Dr. Esther E. Acolatse is a professor of pastoral theology and world Christianity at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She has wealth of experience in teaching and academic scholarship at the intersection of psychology and Christian thought in aid of human flourishing, with interests in the gendered body, cultural anthropological dimensions of medicine, health, and healing, and their implications for suffering, death, dying, and care at the end of life.

"Whose Body is This- A Theological Anthropology for the Care of the Sick and Dying" with Esther Acolatse M.T.S. Ph.D

Dr. Matthew Rubach, Associate Professor in the School of Medicine & Associate Research Professor in the Global Health Institute at Duke, offered a TMC seminar in March, 2024.

Dr. Rubach is a specialist in clinical infectious diseases with medical specialty training in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine and Medical Microbiology. Since November 2015, he has been based full-time as a clinical researcher and clinician in Moshi, Tanzania where he serves as Co-Director of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC)-Duke Health Collaboration. He conducts clinical research on causes of severe febrile illness, sepsis management, vascular pathology of severe malaria, and zoonotic disease epidemiology. In addition to clinical research, he serves as Medical Director of the laboratory that supports clinical investigation at KCMC and he provides medical care & training in the HIV clinic and Medical Ward of KCMC.

In this TMC seminar, "Colonialism, Global Health & Catholic Social Teaching: Notes from a Decade at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre," Dr. Rubach presents his work and experience at KCMC through the lens of Catholic social teaching.

"Colonialism, Global Health, and Catholic Social Teaching- Notes from a Decade at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre" and Matthew Rubach, MD

@nikaojyoti

Aqui na Terra means “Here on Earth”—a reminder that healing doesn’t ask you to rise, but to land in presence, to let your voice belong.

This piece is an offering.
A tender opening of an intimate space — raw, present, and true.

Born in one take, unpolished and whole, this recording invites the listener not into performance, but into presence. It is a sacred sharing, not to impress — but to express what is real, felt, and true in the moment of sound.

It’s a field, a feeling, a place to come home to.

A deeply personal offering meant to be shared communally—to resonate in the hearts of others, not held alone. It is medicine in the form of music, and it longs to be received in stillness, in ritual, or in everyday moments where truth is welcome.

Here on Earth
Where the voice finds root, and the heart finds rest.

If this touched you, let it touch someone else too.
The song wants to be heard. The space wants to be shared.



Niko & Tom - Aqui Na Terra

We sit down with Billy Hatzichristos from Native Ceuticals to talk about the real, science-backed benefits of plant-based wellness….for arthritis, cancer support, PTSD, dementia, skin conditions, and even pets. 🐾

This isn’t just about products, it’s about hope, healing, and giving people real options to feel better.

Billy Hatzichristos from Native Ceuticals Returns to LI Patriot Radio

Sound Carrier · Architect of Resonance 𓂀 Archivar

Xuqutopi doesn’t make music —
he opens fields.

At the threshold between downtempo, techno, and medicine sound,
his work isn’t a genre.
It’s memory—folded into tone.

Each piece is a resonance chamber:
not for entertainment, but remembrance.
Not to impress — to return.

Woven with frequencies from sacred sites,
tuned through stillness across India, Portugal, and Ecuador,
his sound isn’t performed.
It’s allowed.

Born in Austria, based near Graz,
but the field is nonlocal.
It activates wherever listening becomes presence.

Whether in ceremony, on the dancefloor,
or at the final stage of mastering —
he listens for one thing:
the tone that helps you remember who you are.

“I don’t create music.
I open sonic space—
where memory becomes tone.”

This fortnightly podcast from the Physicians' Gallery at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh presents stories from medicine, past and present

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative invites participants to reimagine and to reengage contemporary practices of health and medicine in light of Christian tradition and the practices of Christian communities.

Healthcare can be confusing to navigate, luckily our team are experienced tour guides. Join us, a team of medical students, as we deep dive into the healthcare topics captivating the nation's attention and hopefully make it a bit more palatable. Welcome to Aletheia, the show that makes healthcare user friendly.

New tracks tagged #MEDICINE