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This Podcast Will Kill You

by Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. They do the scientific research, so you don’t have to.   Since 2017, Erin and Erin have explored chronic and infectious diseases, medications, poisons, viruses, bacteria and scientific discoveries. They’ve researched public health subjects including plague, Zika, COVID-19, lupus, asbestos, endometriosis and more. Each episode is…

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This Podcast Will Kill You presents a book club episode featuring award-winning author Robert Kolker discussing his work 'The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia.' The episode centers on frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a hereditary neurodegenerative disease that can affect multiple family…

Worth it if you're interested in dementia, hereditary disease, or narrative-driven science storytelling, or if you've read Kolker's book.

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