For the past few months, measles has been in regular rotation in the news cycle here in the US, with outbreaks occurring […]

Tuberculosis, or consumption as it was once known, might conjure up images of huge sanitoriums or writers and artists from the late […]

For much of history, female reproductive anatomy has been studied only in the context of or in comparison to male reproductive anatomy. […]

Everyone’s got a favorite disease movie. What’s yours? Does it feature zombies like 28 Days Later (2002), or is it more grounded […]

In February 2012, Paul Volkman was sentenced to four consecutive terms of life imprisonment for his role in illegally prescribing and dispensing […]

We really don’t give fungi the credit they deserve. Over the years of this podcast, we’ve covered only a handful of fungal […]

When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted in 1999 that they had discriminated against women on its faculty, it sent shockwaves throughout […]

How is it that we can’t remember where we put our keys or the name of the person we just met, but […]

Phosphorus is an element that wears many faces. Its overuse as a fertilizer has polluted freshwater ecosystems, transforming rivers and lakes from […]

In the pre-antibiotic era, tuberculosis was one of the biggest killers humanity ever faced. The specter of the ‘great white plague’ hung […]