Ep 162 Allergies Part 2: Shots, pills, & pens

Ep 162 Allergies Part 2: Shots, pills, & pens

Yes, the world may be out to get us with allergens around every corner, but we’ve got some tricks up our sleeve to help us cope. Our allergy treatment toolkit includes an impressive suite of tools, and in the second episode of our two-part series on allergies, we focus on three in particular: antihistamine medications, allergy shots, and the epinephrine auto-injector (aka the EpiPen). We take you through how exactly each of these work, trace their development from concept to product, and highlight some of the most promising areas of allergy treatment research today. Have you ever wondered why we have so many different types of antihistamines? Or thought about what the Cold War has to do with the EpiPen? Then this is the episode for you.

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Ep 21 Measles: The Worst Souvenir

Ep 21 Measles: The Worst Souvenir

You’ve seen the recent headlines and heard the news reports, but they’re only part of this deadly virus’s story. This week we’re covering the rest. We take you on a one-of-a-kind tour of measles, expl...

5 Maalis 20191h 13min

Ep 20 Prions: Apocalypse Cow

Ep 20 Prions: Apocalypse Cow

This week's episode is nothing like any of our past episodes, and there will never be another quite like it. How can we be so sure, you ask? Because this week, we're covering prions, the terrifying, g...

19 Helmi 20191h 26min

Ep 19 Scurvy: Thanks a lot, evolution.

Ep 19 Scurvy: Thanks a lot, evolution.

Arr, mateys, climb aboard for a swash-buckling tale of when the high seas were full of disease! Today we’re covering a non-infectious but no less terrifying scourge that has wrecked millions of lives ...

5 Helmi 20191h

Ep 18 Hantavirus: The Real Rat Race

Ep 18 Hantavirus: The Real Rat Race

What do Korea, Slovenia, Finland, and the southwestern US all have in common? If you guessed Hantaviruses, you’d be quite correct. Today we bring you all the details on hantaviruses, from the deadly a...

22 Tammi 20191h 3min

Ep 17 Oh No Tetrodo: Crossover w/ TBOSP

Ep 17 Oh No Tetrodo: Crossover w/ TBOSP

Are you hungry for braaaaiiiinnnnssss? Or for fugu at the very least? We hope so, because this week we’re talking zombies and tetrodotoxin. In this crossover episode with Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton fro...

8 Tammi 20191h 6min

Ep 16 Scratch and Sniff Diphtheria Membrane

Ep 16 Scratch and Sniff Diphtheria Membrane

This episode is so good that we’re putting it out a full day early. Pour yourself a quarantini and cozy up with us as we tell you a story of a bacterium that slowly strangles children to death, a scie...

24 Joulu 201858min

Ep 15 MRSA: Make Resistance Susceptible Again

Ep 15 MRSA: Make Resistance Susceptible Again

We've gotten pretty graphic on this podcast before, but this episode takes it to a whole new level. The omnipresent Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that wears many faces. Often that face is harml...

11 Joulu 20181h 3min

Ep 14 Rabies: Don't dilute me, bro

Ep 14 Rabies: Don't dilute me, bro

After a long hiatus we are back with a much anticipated look at one of the most feared diseases of all time: rabies. We cover everything from its evolutionary history to its massive case fatality rate...

27 Marras 20181h 4min

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