Ep 64 Rubella: Timing is Everything

Ep 64 Rubella: Timing is Everything

For many of us, rubella has simply come to mean the R in MMR, the routine childhood measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. But that hasn’t always been the case. There was once a time when the rubella virus routinely made front page news and was at the center of countless legal discussions. This week, we explore everything you’ve ever wanted to know about this virus. We start off by asking what this virus does to your body and how it can cross the placenta, leading to congenital rubella syndrome. Then we journey through the short but impactful history of this disease, from the discovery of the effects the virus can have on a developing fetus to the widespread epidemics that spurred on the development of a vaccine. Finally we wrap up with some much-needed good news about the global decline of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome.

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Ep 157 Retinoids Part 2: …how it’s going

Ep 157 Retinoids Part 2: …how it’s going

That same little bottle of retinol serum sitting on your bathroom counter - how does it work? Does it actually work? Those are the questions we’re taking on in part two of our retinoids two-parter. Th...

12 Marras 20241h 2min

Ep 156 Retinoids Part 1: How it started…

Ep 156 Retinoids Part 1: How it started…

That little bottle of retinol serum sitting on your bathroom counter - what do you know about its history? This week, we’re digging deep into the man behind the medicine, renowned dermatologist Dr. Al...

5 Marras 202457min

Special Episode: Kate Zernike & The Exceptions

Special Episode: Kate Zernike & The Exceptions

When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted in 1999 that they had discriminated against women on its faculty, it sent shockwaves throughout institutions of higher learning across the count...

29 Loka 202455min

Ep 155 Stiff Person Syndrome: A rare disease in the spotlight

Ep 155 Stiff Person Syndrome: A rare disease in the spotlight

Stiff person syndrome, like many rare diseases, does not get nearly the same amount of screen time or name recognition that other, more common diseases do. For many people, Celine Dion’s announcement ...

22 Loka 20241h 23min

Ep 154 Ask The Erins (Again!)

Ep 154 Ask The Erins (Again!)

Five years ago, we asked you all to ask us anything, and you delivered. We answered dozens of listener questions, like how we first met, our favorite quarantinis, where we were in our career journeys,...

15 Loka 20241h 20min

Special Episode: Dr. Charan Ranganath & Why We Remember

Special Episode: Dr. Charan Ranganath & Why We Remember

How is it that we can’t remember where we put our keys or the name of the person we just met, but we can recall in excruciating detail the embarrassing interaction we had at the grocery store ten year...

8 Loka 202457min

Ep 153 Alpha-Gal Syndrome: A tick bite gone bad

Ep 153 Alpha-Gal Syndrome: A tick bite gone bad

One day, you’re enjoying a beautiful hike through the tall grass. A few months later, you find yourself in anaphylaxis from a post-hike hamburger. The culprit: a tick bite. In this much-requested epis...

1 Loka 20241h 9min

Ep 152 Hemochromatosis: Ironing out the details

Ep 152 Hemochromatosis: Ironing out the details

For life on this planet, iron is not optional. It is essential. When our iron levels are low, we can get sick, and when they get really really low, we can even die. But you know what they say, too muc...

24 Syys 20241h 13min

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