Journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about the unique challenges of addressing the coronavirus – and about the urgency for local, state and federal governments to figure out ways to coordinate their plans.
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Journalist Ed Yong joins us to talk about the unique challenges of addressing the coronavirus – and about the urgency for local, state and federal governments to figure out ways to coordinate their plans.
Read moreProPublica reporter Nina Martin joins us to talk about the critical links between maternal mortality and Medicaid and why limited to no access means pregnant and new mothers are dying at an alarming rate.
Read moreScience writer James Nestor joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how clues on better breathing can be found not in research labs, but in choir rooms, smoggy streets and even centuries-old practices.
Read moreFilmmaker Sasha Achilli joins us to tell the story of one ER doctor in Nothern Italy and her battle to save a daily swarm of incoming patients inside a besieged hospital.
Read moreDr. Saul J. Weiner, professor of medicine, pediatrics, and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, joins us to talk about practicing medicine that goes beyond medical charts.
Read moreAnna Mehler Paperny she joins us to talk about investigating the complex world of depression treatment in order to save herself.
Read moreEva Holland, correspondent for Outside magazine, joins us to talk about her own battle with fear and the methods she employed to overcome it.
Read moreProPublica reporter Lydia DePillis joins us to talk about how we’ve been shut-out of the production of one of the most important components of our modern world — and how that’s currently impacting healthcare.
Read moreCathy Park Hong, poetry editor of the New Republic and a professor at Rutgers-Newark University, joins us to talk about the stereotypes, suspicions, successes and fears wrapped up in her identity.
Read moreMuhammad H. Zaman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University, joins us to talk about antibiotic-resistant superbugs and why he’s worried we could face yet another public health threat.
Read moreShayla Love, a senior staff writer at Vice, joins us to talk about the psychology of why we’re all a little disoriented since our 9-to-5 routine disappeared.
Read moreDaniel Levitin is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University, and he joins us to talk about what he calls human life’s two stages: “healthspan” and “diseasespan,” and explain how brain science can promote the former.
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