Drug-resistant Gonorrhea: An urgent threat to public health worldwide
Drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae (the bacterium that causes gonorrhea) has become one of the most urgent antimicrobial resistant threats to public health worldwide. Clinicians expect to be confron...
19 Aug 32min
Outbreak News This Week: Ebola, swine flu, dengue, malaria and more
I look at outbreaks around the world over the past week from every continent: Ebola in DRC, malaria in DRC, Lassa in Nigeria, JE in Nepal, polio in Afghanistan, Legionnaires' disease in France, Sri La...
17 Aug 32min
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo continues to spread at an 'alarming and unprecedented rate'
In this news video, I go over the latest numbers from the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition, I look at what some major health organizations, like MSF, WHO ...
8 Aug 19min
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) and the increased risk of sexually transmitted infection (STI) coinfections
Women who test positive for bacterial vaginosis (BV) were over three times more likely to also test positive for one or more non-viral sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than women who test negati...
6 Aug 17min
Psilocybin-assisted therapy and severe PTSD
The first U.S. clinical trial of psilocybin-assisted therapy in veterans with PTSD who got no relief from conventional treatments has established that the protocol is safe, causing no serious adverse ...
5 Aug 25min
Heartland virus disease
In this April 2014 interview, Daniel Pastula, MD, MHS, EIS Officer & Neurologist with CDC's Arboviral Diseases Branch discusses the new Heartland virus disease with Outbreak News This Week Radio Show ...
2 Aug 7min
Kidney stones: The tiny concretion that causes so much pain
On today's show, I'll be looking at is very common medical problem- kidney stones- a problem so common that about 1 in 10 people in the United States suffer from them over their lifetime. Joining me...
23 Jul 31min
Naegleria fowleri awareness: Kyle Lewis and Heidi LaMeyer
In this September 2013 radio interview, I talk to Jeremy Lewis of Kyle Cares Amoeba Awareness and Heidi LaMeyer of Swim Above Water, about their personal stories with the tragic deaths of their respec...
18 Jul 24min
