Ebola outbreak declared over, Chapare virus human-to-human transmission
In this episode, I look at two of the biggest stories (outside of COVID-19) during the past week. The first is the 11th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was declared over a...
25 Nov 202011min
Hepatitis A and the Hep A vaccine
In a topic that has not received nearly enough attention-- since 2016, the US has seen the largest person-to-person Hepatitis A virus outbreak in the post-vaccine era. About two thirds of the states h...
18 Nov 202024min
Atrial fibrillation and other heart arrhythmias
An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of your heartbeat. It means that your heart beats too quickly, too slowly, or with an irregular pattern. There are many types of heart arrhythmias, w...
17 Nov 202042min
Florida COVID-19 death certificates examined
Are the COVID-19 deaths undercounted, as many believe, or are they overcounted, as others think? My guest today had the opportunity to look at a sample of death certificates in Florida and she is here...
6 Nov 202016min
Chagas disease treatment research with Rick Tarleton, PhD
Chagas disease is a potentially life-threatening parasitic disease that affects up to 300,000 people in the United States and millions in South America. The current treatment regimen is--oral benznid...
5 Nov 202013min
Kedrab: 1st pediatric trial for Human Rabies Immune Globulin
Rabies post exposure prophylaxis, or PEP, consists of a rabies vaccine series and human rabies immune globulin (HRIG). Kedrion Biopharma's human rabies immune globulin, Kedrab, was FDA approved in 201...
2 Sep 202010min
SARS-CoV-2 is NOT transmitted by mosquitoes: A talk with Dr Stephen Higgs
The World Health Organization (WHO) previously stated "To date there has been no information nor evidence to suggest that the new coronavirus could be transmitted by mosquitoes". Now researchers from ...
27 Juli 202012min
Cancer screening in the time of COVID-19: Prevent Cancer Foundation's 'Back on the Books' campaign
In a recent Op-Ed, Pacific Research Institute President, Sally Pipes asked--Will COVID-19 launch an epidemic of cancer as the pandemic stay-at-home orders have caused patients to put off routine cance...
17 Juli 20208min
