America Dissected

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

Episodes

Total: 287

Health insurance in America is anything but “sure.” Most Americans under Medicare age rely on their

What would happen if you just … stopped showering? After all, we spend way more time washing than ou

Did you know that modern emergency medical services owe their origins to an all-Black paramedic team

Public Health was on the ballot in the 2022 midterm elections — and public health won! Abdul reflect

RSV! Flu! COVID! It’s fall, and respiratory illnesses are raging. RSV, in particular, is filling up

America Dissected comes to you LIVE from Boston at the American Public Health Association Annual Mee

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 wasn’t the only thing going viral. In fact, mis- and di

Dissecting Dr. Oz

2022/10/25

Nobody quite represents the seedy underbelly of American medicine like Dr. Oz. His career is a livin

So much of public health revolves around collective action — that is government working on our behal

Following the murder of George Floyd in the context of the pandemic, communities across the country

More than 50% of the thinking part of the human brain is dedicated to processing visual information.

Green juices, skincare, yoga. We all want to keep up with our health. But what happens when corpora

What would have happened if, like flouride, the COVID vaccine would have just been in the water? Tha

Organ transplantation is one of the miracles of modern medicine. And yet the system that we use to m

Quack to the Future

2022/9/6

Traditional science-based medicine has some gaps—but what happens when grifters and scammers take ad

The pandemic drove major increases in depression, anxiety, and ADHD. But rates of ADHD–and its treat

The anti-abortion movement notched a terrible win six weeks ago. But reasserting the right to a safe

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is a lot of things…including a healthcare reform bill. Along wit

It’s early August–it’s hot and sunny. And for many people, it’s sunburn season. But the long-term co

50 years ago, it was discovered that the United States Public Health Service and the CDC–the federal