Special Episode: Hep B Stigma & Discrimination
Blood tests and liver function results can only tell us part of the story when it comes to the impact that hepatitis B has on people living with the virus. Far too often overlooked is how stigma and d...
1 Helmi 202244min
Ep 89 Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2
This week, we’re dipping a toe back into the vast waters of hepatitis viruses, this time with a focus on hepatitis B. The hepatitis B virus, though second to be named, was first to be discovered, and ...
25 Tammi 20221h 30min
Ep 87 C. diff: Fighting poop with poop
In this week’s episode, we cover a bacterium whose recent emergence and rapid spread has been largely an epidemic of our own making. Clostridium difficile isn’t your typical pathogen - in many cases i...
28 Joulu 20211h 51min
Ep 86 Typhus: Another lousy episode
We’re back with our first episode of Season 5, and we’re starting off with a bang! Epidemic typhus, that friend of war and famine, may have caused more wartime deaths than all battles combined, and th...
14 Joulu 20211h 49min
Ep 85 Alcohol: Beer for Thought
To say that alcohol is a part of human culture is a bit of an understatement. The relationship our species has with alcohol can be traced so far back that we see evidence of it in our DNA, in the way ...
2 Marras 20211h 49min
Ep 84 West Nile virus: The Crow in the Coal Mine
It’s the summer of 1999 in New York City, and everyone's looking towards the future, towards millennium parties and potential Y2K catastrophes. But if they turned their eyes to the streets around and ...
19 Loka 20211h 46min
Ep 83 Diabetes: Short & Sweet
Almost everyone is familiar with diabetes mellitus in some way. Whether we know family or friends that have been diagnosed with the condition or we’re directly impacted ourselves, diabetes mellitus ha...
5 Loka 20211h 51min
