Ira Flatow
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1,345 appearances
25 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Ira Flatow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What's it been like to see these kinds of positive results for patients as you ran the clinical trials?
Because people with advanced pancreatic cancer really have very short life expectancies, don't they?
If the drug gets approval from the FDA, would this then become frontline treatment for pancreatic cancer or would patients need to try chemo first?
I want to thank you for taking time to be with us and good luck with it.
Dr. Zev Weinberg is the co-director of UCLA Health's GI Oncology Program based in Los Angeles, California.
After the break, another story of a promising drug.
This one is for ALS.
Stay with us.
ALS is a degenerative and ultimately deadly disease.
Patients lose their ability to walk, swallow, and eventually breathe.
But now there's a drug for a rare genetic form of ALS able to stop or even reverse some of these symptoms.
My next guest, Pam Bellick, a health and science reporter for the New York Times in New York, reported on this development.
Pam, welcome back to Science Friday.
Thank you so much.
Tell us about this drug, Tofersen.
How does it work?
Who is it for?
So then we're very hopeful about this drug.
Tell us how effective it is.
Yeah, it must have been incredible for them, I mean, to see their own improvements.
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