America Dissected

Wellness isn’t just about mindfulness, exercise, or the right skin routine. Science, politics, media

Episodes

Total: 268

Episode Description: Mosquitoes are responsible for upwards of half of all deaths in human history.

Public health is really cool! Ok … maybe it’s cool to all of us who do it for a living. But to be ho

The truth should speak for itself. The problem is that it just doesn’t speak very loudly — we have t

Public health has never been more political than it is today — and unfortunately, that’s often made

Mailbag!

2023/9/26

How worried should you be about B.A.2.86? When is it time to get another COVID shot? Is there any fu

 Tuberculosis is one of the worst murderers in the history of the world. It remains that way today —

Dialysis is a medical miracle — vastly extending the lives of people with kidney disease. When it wa

COVID was a generation-defining global trauma. Though the virus itself hit seniors hardest, the pand

Drowning is an epidemic in America. And like so many other public health challenges, it’s what happe

We’ve all lived through a pandemic now. But did you know that so much of our pre-pandemic lives was

Dying … is not a topic most of us like to talk about. But we probably should, considering that all o

One of the biggest mistakes we make in health is to mistake healthcare for public health. More tests

You can’t miss them, HOKAs — those clunky athletic shoes with the thick foamy sole — are everywhere.

Think about your favorite place. Chances are you thought about how it looks — but not necessarily ho

What is gender-affirming care — and why is the far right trying to ban it? Abdul reflects on the way

For most of America’s medical history, the idea of a doctors’ union has been an oxymoron. Doctors we

Putting a taste-less, odorless, colorless chemical in our water is among the most effective public h

We don’t have definitive proof of how COVID-19 emerged. But several agencies in the US Intelligence

DrGPT with Dr. Eric Topol

2023/6/13

ChatGPT set off a flurry of excitement — and anxiety — over the impact Artificial Intelligence will

The pandemic took a major toll on the mental health of young people. But truth be told, mental illne