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America Dissected

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

Episodes

Total: 295

Becoming a doctor is hard. Becoming a doctor when you face discrimination because of your race AND g

Caffeine is the most important drug that no one is willing to label. Across its forms–whether coffee

Last month, as millions watched a Monday Night Football game, Damar Hamlin, a safety on the Buffalo

The rightwing ecosystem went up in flames a couple of weeks ago over gas stoves. Beyond the fact tha

Obesity has tripled since 1970. And since, it’s spawned all sorts of trends, ostensibly to help folk

People of color, and particularly Black folks, suffer higher rates of disease in America. That has l

Imagine setting a New Year’s Resolution — and actually achieving it! Living healthier and losing wei

Holiday Mailbag!

2022/12/20

The weather outside is frightful! But the fire is so delightful! Since we’ve no place to go … Abdul’

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