Healing Back...maybe? with Jonathan Cohn
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised action on President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, a sweeping package of legislation that would transform the American social experience. Along wit...
21 Dec 202142min
Patent Pending with Prof. Jorge Contreras
Imagine someone could patent your arm, or your mouth. Well, for a long time, someone could patent a part of the human body, a DNA sequence. That all ended in 2013 with a landmark supreme court case. B...
14 Dec 202132min
Uh-Omicron
Omicron has now made landfall in the US. We are learning more about the variant every day—good, bad, and ugly. We turn to Dr. Angie Rasmussen, America Dissected’s resident virologist to get into the n...
7 Dec 202131min
Teeth with Mary Otto
Because of an accident of history, we think of our teeth as being wholly separate from the rest of our bodies. They even have different doctors. But teeth really are the entryway to the body, and the ...
30 Nov 202137min
Cannabis Capitalism with Prof. David Jernigan
The movement to legalize cannabis has marked some major wins, helping us better understand its benefits and addressing the way it's been used to systematically over-police and incarcerate Black and br...
23 Nov 202134min
The Last Best Chance with Prof Jisung Park
Our health is inevitably tied to the health of our planet. At COP26, the world’s leaders tried to save it—but did they do enough? We speak to Prof. Jisung Park, an environmental economist, about how c...
16 Nov 202149min
The Contagion Next Time with Prof Sandro Galea
Were we set up to fail? And how does our failure affect the most vulnerable people in society? Abdul reflects on the nature of prevention itself. He speaks with Prof. Sandro Galea, Dean of the Boston ...
9 Nov 202134min
Be-JUULed with Lauren Etter
Decades of public health efforts turned America’s young people against smoking. And then JUUL made it cool again. Abdul speaks with Lauren Etter, author of “The Devil’s Playbook,” about how a tool des...
2 Nov 202141min
