Chronic Kidney Disease: Early Detection and Risk Stratification
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Release Date: 05/11/2026
Sex Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease: Risk Factors and Biomarkers
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this first deep dive, Rachel Buckley joins host Catherine Glass to explore how Alzheimer’s disease risk can be detected before symptoms appear. From blood-based biomarkers like p-tau217, to AI-driven models of cognitive resilience, the episode examines how risk, progression, and protection can be better understood and predicted over time. Timestamps: 00:00:57:11 – Phosphorylated tau and amyloid-PET 00:08:15:05 – Biomarkers, risk, and progression 00:11:18:04 – Brain resistance and cognitive resilience 00:15:23:23 – AI biases
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Quickfire: Sex Differences in Alzheimer's Disease
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this rapid-fire episode, Rachel Buckley answers key questions on Alzheimer’s disease, covering sex differences in risk, early predictors of progression, brain resilience, and the most actionable prevention strategies. A concise overview of the evolving science behind personalised Alzheimer’s care.
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Combatting Food Allergies in Children: Guidelines and Inequalities
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In the final episode, host Saranya and Helen Brough examine the key gaps in allergy care across prevention, diagnosis, and long-term management, and how these challenges impact families in practice. It explores barriers to early peanut introduction, highlights inequalities in allergy care and the populations most affected, and looks at how digital tools, education, and outreach could help improve access to evidence-based care. Timestamps: 00:43 – Gaps in allergy care 04:07 – Early peanut introduction ...
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Combatting Food Allergies in Children: The Skin Barrier
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In Part 2, we explore the role of the skin barrier in food allergy development, from how environmental allergen exposure can drive sensitisation to whether early skincare can help prevent disease. Drawing on studies such as SEAL and recent European eczema guidelines, it also tackles common misconceptions and parental concerns, including topical steroid withdrawal and how best to provide reassurance. Timestamps: 00:54:02 – Skin allergen exposure 03:50 – Optimising the skin barrier 06:46 – Proactive treatment of...
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Combatting Food Allergies in Children: Paediatric Peanut Allergies
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Helen Brough joins the Saranya to reflect on her work in paediatric food allergy, from personal experiences that shaped her career to landmark studies like LEAP, EAT, and ProNuts that transformed prevention and management. This episode explores early allergen introduction, evolving approaches to treatment, and what’s driving the rise in food allergies in children. Timestamps: 00:53 – Raising children with atopy 02:18 – Antibiotic exposure at birth 03:08 – Prevention of...
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Quickfire: Combatting Food Allergies in Children
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this short rapid-fire episode, Helen Brough answers key questions on food allergy, covering common triggers, peanut allergy myths, early allergen introduction, and whether allergies can be outgrown. It also touches on immune development, common mistakes, biomarkers, and future breakthroughs.
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Infant Nutrition and Lifelong Immunity: Science into Support
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Description: Meghan Azad discusses the challenges of translating microbiome science into public health strategies. From policy gaps to social inequalities, this episode explores how evidence can be turned into meaningful support for families. Timestamps: 02:20 – Critical windows 04:50 – Health inequalities 07:30 – Policy interventions 10:10 – Future directions
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Infant Nutrition and Lifelong Immunity: The Infant Microbiome
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
This episode examines how infant nutrition influences microbiome development and links to asthma risk. Azad discusses key discoveries from cohort studies and the role of early-life exposures in shaping disease trajectories. Timestamps: 02:40 – Microbiome development 05:10 – Asthma risk link 07:50 – Feeding transitions 10:20 – Clinical counselling
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Infant Nutrition and Lifelong Immunity: Nutrition and Human Milk
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Azad explores the biological complexity of human milk and its role in shaping infant immunity. From immune-active components to variation in milk composition, this episode examines how early nutrition programs long-term health outcomes. Timestamps: 02:30 – Milk composition explained 05:20 – Immune components role 08:10 – Variation in milk 10:40 – Growth and outcomes
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Quickfire: Infant Nutrition and Lifelong Immunity
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this rapid-fire episode, Azad addresses common myths around breastfeeding, microbiome development, and infant feeding practices. A concise overview of the key factors shaping early immune health.
info_outlinePranav Garimella joins host Catherine Glass to explore why early detection of chronic kidney disease remains challenging. From high-risk populations to emerging plasma and urine biomarkers, this episode examines how earlier diagnosis and improved risk stratification can transform patient outcomes.
Timestamps:
00:59 – Challenges of early detection
05:12 – Populations for intensive screening
09:08 – Plasma and urine biomarkers
13:45 – Biomarker-driven risk stratification