The Medical Laboratory profession: A discussion with Dr Rodney Rohde
According to the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS), Medical laboratory science professionals, often called medical laboratorians, are vital healthcare detectives, uncovering and...
24 Helmi 201846min
Thoughts on the eradicator of smallpox: 'You can argue that he's may of saved more lives than any other single human being in human history'
"If you induce a back of the envelope calculations given the hundreds of thousands of people who died every year of smallpox prior to when the campaign was started and looking at it now that its gone,...
23 Helmi 20182min
Naegleria fowleri: A personal story
In 2009, infectious disease physician and University of South Florida professor, Dr. Sandra Gompf and her husband lost their son Philip to the parasite , Naegleria fowleri. In this 2015 interview, Dr ...
23 Helmi 201832min
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: A short history and lessons learned
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1918 influenza pandemic--history's worst epidemic which killed more people than World War I and World War II combined. Historian and author of the book, Th...
22 Helmi 201827min
Cystoisospora belli: The least common of the three intestinal coccidia
On today's show we talke about a 3rd intestinal coccidian parasite and least common (remember we already discussed Cryptosporidium and Cyclospora), Cystoisospora belli, or you may remember it as Isosp...
21 Helmi 20188min
Yellow fever in the US: A short history
Writer and author, Bob Arnebeck once wrote in A Short History of Yellow Fever in the US--From 1793 to 1822 yellow fever was one of the most dreaded diseases in the port cities of the United States. St...
20 Helmi 201824min
Gnathostomes and Asian swamp eels in the US
During 2005–2008, more than 1 billion live animals were legally imported into the United States for food or pet trade markets. One such animal, the swamp eel, can carry parasites (worms) called gnatho...
17 Helmi 20189min
DVT and pulmonary embolism
An average 274 people in the US die from blood clots each and every day, according to data on the National Blood Clot Alliance (NBCA) website. Former Chair of Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital and Profess...
17 Helmi 201821min
