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605 - World Immunization Week: The Big Catch-Up and Preventing a Large-scale Global Outbreak of Measles
Season 7 Episode 605
World Immunization Week is the last week in April and this year’s theme is The Big Catch Up. Vaccine expert Dr. Bill Moss returns to the podcast to t…
3 years, 5 months ago
604 - Malaria Advocates Go to D.C.: Meet the Americans Passionate About Ending Malaria For Good
Season 7 Episode 604
Malaria infects hundreds of millions of people around the globe each year and kills more than 600,000. But the disease has been eliminated in many of…
3 years, 5 months ago
603 - Adjusting for Reality: Rethinking Goals to Address Climate Change
Season 7 Episode 603
In the 1980s and 90s, the world came together to successfully address a major environmental problem: a growing hole in the ozone layer. So why hasn’t…
3 years, 5 months ago
602 - How The Use—and Overuse—of Antibiotics is Making Us Sicker
Season 7 Episode 602
Antibiotics are marvels of modern medicine but overuse has created deadly strains of bacteria that can’t be treated. Where and how could prescription…
3 years, 5 months ago
601 - How Health Care Algorithms and AI Can Help and Harm
Season 7 Episode 601
Algorithms—formulas that do everything from suggesting Netflix shows to streamlining Google results—are increasingly used in health care settings. Bu…
3 years, 5 months ago
Public Health in the Field: What is the Black Maternal Health Crisis and How Can It Be Solved?
Season 7 Episode 600
Dire statistics about birth outcomes for Black people in the U.S. have become front-page news in recent years. But this problem isn’t new—in fact, it…
3 years, 5 months ago
599 - Book Club—“Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and the Health of Our Nation” with Linda Villarosa
Season 7 Episode 599
This week is Black Maternal Health Week in the US and to kick off the conversation, Dr. Josh Sharfstein speaks with author and New York Times contrib…
3 years, 5 months ago
BONUS: Mifepristone On Trial: An Unprecedented Overreach
Season 7
Dr. Raegan McDonald Mosley, an obstetrician-gynecologist and CEO of Power to Decide, returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about th…
3 years, 5 months ago
598 - A Court Decision Reducing Access to Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act
Season 7 Episode 598
A U.S. district court in Texas issued a ruling limiting the scope of the Affordable Care Act’s requirements for coverage of preventive services. On t…
3 years, 5 months ago
597 - Intimate partner violence, guns and the courts
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allowed a man subject to an intimate partner violence restraining order to keep hi…
3 years, 6 months ago