Before We Die
Ariel Nachman & Joey Brenneman
Before We Die follows the stories of the brave, audacious, and stubbornly persistent problem-solving gizmologists from the Med-Tech world. Join us as top doctors, scientists, bio-designers, and entrepreneurs share their stories of unimaginable successes and heartbreaking failures as they strive to bring their life-saving technology and diagnostic innovations to the patients who need them the most. The Med-Tech industry is booming, but the obstacles and delays are an endless challenge. Can healthcare catch up with innovation? With an emphasis on the patient perspective, hosts Joey Brenneman, Sandra Miller, John MacMahon, and Craig Ullman lend their humor and expertise to explore the stories behind the people and companies driving a billion-dollar healthcare market. In addition to Before We Die, you'll also have access to Lab Before Slab, the tangential conversation mini-podcast where Sandy, John, and Craig geek out about the latest happenings in the med-tech field
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04/25/23 • 13 min
Sandy brings up an Austrian health device from Breatheilo.com, that uses breath to analyze the menstrual cycle during the entire month and makes recommendations to boost one's daily health. This leads to personal revelations on the part of our panel and a discussion of raspberries. (Encore)
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03/07/23 • 12 min
20-50% of all prescriptions are off-label — prescribed by doctors for conditions that the drug wasn’t approved for. Doctors don’t want to talk about off-label prescriptions because insurance companies would have an excuse not to pay for it. Are we trusting our doctors too much? Or is something more basic wrong with the system? (Encore)
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03/21/23 • 14 min
The pandemic forced people to use telehealth — and they liked it. Now that we’ve decided to live with the pandemic, a number of states are going back to banning out-of-state doctors. Is this good because states are licensing doctors, and they should be licensed to protect the public? Or is it bad because people need access to specialists in other states? What do we do if both are true? (Encore)
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02/07/23 • 12 min
Car T-cells are a type of white blood cell that scientists are trying to manipulate to empower the immune system in the fight against cancer, but clinical trials typically rely on the most willing population — white males, who aren’t representative of anyone other than white males. So how do you broaden the trial population to be more representative? It ain’t easy. (Encore)
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02/21/23 • 13 min
Med tech companies live or die based on approvals by the FDA. Hosts John MacMahon and Sandy Miller relate from their own experiences how previous FDA management was hard to predict and decisions often seemed erratic. This led to many companies moving their testing to Europe enabling Europe to bring new medical technologies to patients much sooner than the US. But a more effective, better informed FDA has reversed this trend and the United States has risen to the top for medical device testing and treating of patients. (Encore Edition)
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02/14/23 • 38 min
Patients with Glioblastoma brain tumors, require more than just brain surgery. After the procedure they have a high likelihood of recurrence at the same site of the original tumor. The standard of care to slow this recurrence is a series of in-hospital radiation treatments, limiting the patient's quality of life without providing the expectation of a cure. Enter the amazing Gamma Tile -- a collagen-based tile carrying gamma-ray emitting isotopes. Think of it as a radioactive postage stamp that surgeons can place during the initial surgery, eliminating the need for returning to the hospital as well as being more convenient and effective. A win for the patient's quality of life, reducing costs, and in the early series so far, improving survival by 7 months. Joining us to discuss this amazing advancement is Matthew Likens, CEO of GT Medical. Matt shares the success story of Gamma Tile and the struggles in bringing a new product to market during a pandemic. (Encore)
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Jodi Akin and The Hawthorne Effect Inc. (Encore)
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05/23/23 • 41 min
Clinical trials are the backbone of medical innovation. In order to receive funding, get FDA approval, and reach patients, accurate data is critical. With so many barriers to completing data procedures, The Hawthorne Effect Inc. recognized the numerous pitfalls and has transformed clinical trials to be more efficient, and representative, and even brought follow-up care to the patient's home. With Jodi Akin's vision and determination, they began taking innovative, accessible, and inclusive clinical trials to patients, regardless of where they live or the complexity of the trial. (Encore)
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05/16/23 • 18 min
We couldn't finish our season without discussing Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, Inc. Even if you aren't in the med tech industry, you probably watched the Netflix series, "The Dropout" or the HBO documentary, "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley." The Before We Die team chimes in and adds their insider's perspective to this unfolding story. (Encore)
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05/02/23 • 30 min
A failure analysis meeting, where 30 top surgeons came together to discuss their biggest catastrophes, was the seed that built the Jacobs Institute for Medical Innovation in Buffalo, New York. The Jacobs Institute (JI) is a multi-disciplinary vascular center that fosters collisions among professionals of different disciplines in order to develop new ideas, technologies and systems. The building itself has won numerous architectural awards and was designed to force interactions among the various specialties. You want a fancy coffee? You're gonna have to mingle to get it. (Encore)
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A Little About Lab Before Slab! (Encore Edition)
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01/24/23 • 2 min
Lab Before Slab is the mini-pod companion to the Before We Die Podcast. These are the conversations that happen around our virtual production table when we should be doing other things. But often, these seemingly random conversations lead to interesting thoughts and topics and we wished that we recorded them. One day we did and thus, the Lab Before Slab mini-pod emerged.
Join us as Sandy Miller, John MacMahon, Craig Ullman and Joey Brenneman geek out about happenings in the med-tech world. You never know where the Lab Before Slab conversation is gonna go!
Often fascinating, always a little bit quirky, Lab before Slab is a bite-sized episode that drops between the full length Before We Die interviews.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Before We Die have?
Before We Die currently has 22 episodes available.
What topics does Before We Die cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Biotech, Startup, Med Tech, Medicine, Podcasts, Technology, Innovation and Healthcare.
What is the most popular episode on Before We Die?
The episode title 'Lab Before Slab: Our Two Cents about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, Inc. (Encore)' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Before We Die?
The average episode length on Before We Die is 24 minutes.
How often are episodes of Before We Die released?
Episodes of Before We Die are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Before We Die?
The first episode of Before We Die was released on Jan 6, 2023.
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