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America Dissected

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

Episodes

Total: 295

It’s cold and flu … and RSV, and COVID season. But vaccinations are down this year — and we haven’t

Ady Barkan was a lion for healthcare justice. After his diagnosis with ALS, he spent his final years

One of the hallmarks of living in a high-income country is that we can usually take food safety for

America Dissected comes to you LIVE from Atlanta at the American Public Health Association Annual Me

In 2019, the Mexican government instituted a new rule that took mascots like El Tigre Toño off of hi

You are what you eat, right? If so, then our guest has a message for us: we’re “ultra-processed peop

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