December 10, 2024November 6, 2024Season 7 Ep 160 Appendicitis: Don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone? For decades, it seemed like the appendix would go the way of 8-track players, pagers, and the phonograph. Outdated, obsolete, not worth […]
December 3, 2024December 13, 2024Season 7 Ep 159 Scabies: Tiny but Mite-y Among the many conditions that creep under your skin and make scratching irresistible, scabies alone holds the honor of being called simply […]
November 26, 2024October 17, 2024Season 7 Episode 158 Scarlet Fever: You’ve changed A mere 150 years ago, uttering the words “scarlet fever” was enough to strike fear into the hearts of many, especially parents […]
November 19, 2024October 17, 2024Season 7, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Dr. Emily Monosson & Blight We really don’t give fungi the credit they deserve. Over the years of this podcast, we’ve covered only a handful of fungal […]
November 12, 2024October 9, 2024Season 7 Episode 157 Retinoids Part 2: …how it’s going That same little bottle of retinol serum sitting on your bathroom counter – how does it work? Does it actually work? Those […]
November 5, 2024October 9, 2024Season 7 Episode 156 Retinoids Part 1: How it started… That little bottle of retinol serum sitting on your bathroom counter – what do you know about its history? This week, we’re […]
October 29, 2024October 17, 2024Season 7, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Kate Zernike & The Exceptions When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted in 1999 that they had discriminated against women on its faculty, it sent shockwaves throughout […]
October 22, 2024October 9, 2024Season 7 Episode 155 Stiff Person Syndrome: A rare disease in the spotlight Stiff person syndrome, like many rare diseases, does not get nearly the same amount of screen time or name recognition that other, […]
October 15, 2024October 9, 2024Season 7 Episode 154 Ask The Erins (Again!) Five years ago, we asked you all to ask us anything, and you delivered. We answered dozens of listener questions, like how […]
October 8, 2024September 24, 2024Season 7, TPWKY Book Club Special Episode: Dr. Charan Ranganath & Why We Remember How is it that we can’t remember where we put our keys or the name of the person we just met, but […]