Ep 122 Asthma: A phlegmy episode
Most of us are familiar with asthma. Maybe you have the disease yourself or maybe a friend, family member, or coworker has it. Or maybe you’ve just watched a tv show or movie featuring a character wit...
8 Aug 20231h 32min
Special Episode: Ed Yong & An Immense World
Our final TPWKY book club selection of the season will test the limits of your imagination by asking you to consider what it might be like to smell the world through the nose of a dog or to see flower...
1 Aug 202356min
Ep 121 Tularemia: Hare today, gone tomorrow
The CDC’s list of highest priority bioterrorism agents is a short one, with only six pathogens making the cut. Among the more familiar names on the list, such as anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, a...
25 Juli 20231h 21min
Special Episode: Deborah Blum & The Poison Squad
Oh, to taste the food of the past. Strawberry jam made from farm-fresh strawberries. Milk straight from the cow. Cookies baked with freshly churned butter and brown sugar. Because that’s how it was, r...
18 Juli 20231h 5min
Ep 120 Acetaminophen/Paracetamol: Pain. Killer.
It’s safe to assume that the vast majority of you have a bottle or blister pack of acetaminophen/paracetamol/Tylenol/Panadol in your home medicine cabinet, and an even vaster majority of you have take...
11 Juli 20231h 29min
Special Episode: Dr. Andrew Wehrman & The Contagion of Liberty
Riots over inoculations. Large-scale quarantines and lockdowns. Criticisms of government action (or inaction) during disease outbreaks. The spread of mis- and disinformation about the safety of immuni...
4 Juli 202357min
Ep 119 Marburg virus: Too fast, too furious
In early February and late March of this year, separate outbreaks of Marburg virus were declared in Equatorial Guinea and in the United Republic of Tanzania. For several months, news of these outbreak...
27 Juni 20231h 17min
Special Episode: Dr. Steven Thrasher & The Viral Underclass
Are viruses the “great equalizers” that some people claim them to be? Are we all similarly susceptible not only to infection from viruses but also to the consequences from infection? The short answer ...
13 Juni 20231h 4min
