27 - The First Opiate Epidemic
The United States is in the midst of an epidemic of addiction and overdose deaths due to opiate painkillers. Its causes are varied, but there's no question that physicians share a large part of the bl...
6 Okt 201728min
Summer Shorts #2 - Corrupted Blood
In 2005, a mysterious plague called Corrupted Blood hit the online denizens of World of Warcraft, ripping through cities and decimating player characters. After the smoke cleared, it became clear that...
9 Sep 201713min
26 - The God Squad
The invention of dialysis -- essentially artificial kidneys for people with kidney failure -- revolutionized medicine. It also started a debate about medical rationing and ethics that rages to this da...
31 Aug 201738min
Summer Shorts #1 - The Eclipse
The eclipse is coming! Get out your eclipse glasses (or your camera obscura, if you didn't prepare like me), and enjoy a review of the medical literature on eclipses with our guest Dr. Avi O'Glasser i...
18 Aug 201712min
25 - Salt Water
Intravenous or IV fluids are a ubiquitous treatment in medicine, and one of the most cost-effective treatments that we have, costing less than a cup of coffee in the developing world. But it wasn't al...
1 Aug 201721min
#TipsforNewInterns and Introducing Summer Shorts (NOT AN EPISODE)
In this month's #AdamAnswers, he discusses his #TipsforNewInterns (seriously, it's trending on Twitter). And we introduce the Summer Shorts for this summer -- and discuss how you can contribute and be...
28 Jun 20176min
24 - W56.22xA (The Making of A Disease)
What makes a disease? And who gets to decide? Producer Cam Steele brings us a story that spans migrating uteruses in ancient Egypt, a disease that makes slaves want to run away in the antebellum south...
22 Jun 201734min
23 - Bone Portraits
A darkened laboratory with an eerie green glow; a photograph of the bones of a woman's hand published on the front pages of newspapers throughout the globe; mysterious rays that promise to change medi...
31 Mai 201719min
