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884 - Why Biosafety Standards Vary Around The World
Season 11 Episode 884
About this episode:
News about HKU5, a new bat coronavirus with the ability to spread to humans, was met with concerns in the scientific community—mo…
1 year, 5 months ago
883 - How An Advocate is Thinking About Family Planning
Season 11 Episode 883
About this episode:
Innocent Grant is a family planning advocate from Tanzania. In this episode: How Grant’s experiences approaching mis- and disinfo…
1 year, 5 months ago
882 - Personnel Cuts at the CDC
Season 11
About this episode:
In the early months of the new administration, several thousand CDC employees were dismissed, were asked to leave, or resigned. I…
1 year, 5 months ago
881 - The Building H Index: Ranking Consumer Products By Their Impacts On Our Health
Season 11 Episode 881
About this episode:
Consumer products from auto makers to housing developers to streaming and food delivery services all have impacts on our health. …
1 year, 5 months ago
880 - “The FDA As We’ve Known It Is Finished”
Season 11 Episode 880
About this episode:
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services abruptly fired around 10,000 employees, 3,500 of which were within the FDA…
1 year, 5 months ago
879 - The Impacts of Terminating COVID-era Funding for States
Season 11 Episode 879
About this episode:
The Department of Health and Human Services’s abrupt termination of $11 billion in health funding to states has interrupted proje…
1 year, 5 months ago
878 - Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in the ER
Season 11 Episode 878
About this episode:
People come to the emergency department seeking all kinds of urgent care. What if they could also get treatment for opioid addict…
1 year, 5 months ago
877 - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Season 11 Episode 877
About this episode:
For 25 years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has been a global effort to purchase and distribute lifesaving vaccines to the poorest o…
1 year, 6 months ago
876 - Preventing Mpox Transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Season 11 Episode 876
About this episode:
Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly clade of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Johns Hopkins Center for Commun…
1 year, 6 months ago
875 - Tradeoffs: Why Many Republicans Think Shrinking Medicaid Will Make It Better
Season 11 Episode 875
About this episode:
As a follow up to our recent episode titled The Potential Impacts of Cuts To Medicaid, we’re partnering with our friends at the T…
1 year, 6 months ago