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799 - How An Online Gaming Community Is Helping To Prevent Veteran Suicides
Season 10 Episode 799
About this episode:
Playing video games has long been seen as an isolating activity, but the world of online gaming is anything but. Platforms like T…
2 years ago
798 - When Should I Get My COVID/Flu Shot? And Other Queries To Kick off Respiratory Virus Season
Season 10 Episode 798
About this episode:
When should you get your COVID/flu shots? How long can a COVID vaccine really protect you from infection? Why do we have summer w…
2 years, 1 month ago
797 - A Fall Look-Ahead With School Nurses: More Than Just Band-Aids and Ice Packs
Season 10 Episode 797
About this episode:
School nurses are charged with helping to maintain the health and well-being of every student in their care which goes way beyond…
2 years, 1 month ago
796 - An Update on PEPFAR And The Reality of Ending HIV
Season 10 Episode 796
About this episode:
Now in its 21st year, PEPFAR—the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief which launched in 2003 under President George W. Bush…
2 years, 1 month ago
795 - The Discovery of a New Clade of Candida Auris—A “Critical Pathogen”
Season 8 Episode 795
About this episode:
The discovery of a new clade of C. auris—a fungus the WHO has declared a “critical pathogen”—has ignited new fears about the fung…
2 years, 1 month ago
794 - Does A Really Cause B? How a Biostatistician Thinks About Causality
Season 10 Episode 794
About this episode:
When evaluating programs, policies, and interventions, how do you know if they’re working? In today’s episode: The science (and a…
2 years, 1 month ago
793 - What It’s Like To Be America’s Chief Health Diplomat
Season 9 Episode 793
About this episode:
Health diplomacy is how countries work together to advance global health. What does health diplomacy look like in 2024—a post-pan…
2 years, 1 month ago
792 - World Mosquito Day: Gene Drives and CRISPR Technology
Season 10 Episode 792
About this episode:
World Mosquito Day, observed annually on August 20th, commemorates British doctor Sir Ronald Ross's discovery in 1897 that female…
2 years, 1 month ago
791 - Tradeoffs —The Fifth Branch: Transforming The Way Communities Respond to People in Crisis
Season 10 Episode 791
About this episode:
Since 2015, 1,939 individuals experiencing mental health crises have been killed during encounters with police in America, accoun…
2 years, 1 month ago
790 - How Violence Reduction Councils Can Prevent Homicides and Shootings
Season 8 Episode 790
About this episode:
Violence Reduction Councils review huge quantities of data to pinpoint how homicides and shootings can be prevented. They include…
2 years, 1 month ago