Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, intestinal worms were ubiquitous companions. Only in the twentieth century did sanitation campaigns and deworming programs scrub them from the bodies of people in wealthy nations. But some researchers now suspect that in eliminating these parasites, we may have also dismantled part of our immune system's essential operating instructions.

Code Switch

Why so many Americans never learned to swim

In the US, about eight out of 10 children from households with incomes below $50,000 a year have few to no swimming skills. That's according to the American Red Cross. About 64% of black children have few to no swimming skills. For Latino children, it's 45%. For white kids, it's about 40%. And you know, not to get all heavy, but these disparities around swimming line up with drowning deaths in the US, which are most likely to affect poor kids and kids of color.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Alex Karnal - The Trillion-Dollar Health Revolution - [Invest Like the Best, EP.467]

most of the diseases that will claim most of our lives are already addressable with medicines that exist today

Radiolab

Antibiotic Apocalypse

searching for answers to an alarming threat to humanity's existence as we know it: antibiotic resistance in bacteria