Is life about to get CRISPR? with Carl Zimmer
CRISPR is one of those bio-scientific breakthroughs that has the potential to change society. Abdul talks about what makes CRISPR so important and spe...
America Dissected with Abdul El-Sayed
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What really is up with anti-vaxxers? Can crystals actually heal you? Is loneliness making us sick? And who does our healthcare system really serve? In a new ten-part series from Crooked Media called America Dissected, host Dr. Abdul El-Sayed goes beyond the headlines to explore what really matters for our health.
Health in Concrete with Katrina Forrest & Chrissie Juliano
Densely-populated with lots of turn-over, cities are perhaps the worst place to be in a pandemic. And yet in the latter half of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Getting PrEP’d with James Krellenstein
PrEP — or “pre-exposure prophylaxis” — has been a game changer in HIV prevention, that is, for people who can access it. But Big Pharma has, once agai...
Texas v. Roe with Alexis McGill Johnson
Abortion bans don’t stop abortions, they just make them less safe. Not only does Texas’s Draconian new abortion ban violate the reproductive rights of...
Food, Drugs, and Rock & Roll
The COVID-19 vaccines have put the FDA front-and-center in our national COVID-19 response. Between the lag for full COVID-19 vaccine approval, the app...
Rights & Responsibilities on the Res with Rebecca Nagle
Native American tribes were among the hardest hit by COVID-19, losing tribal elders to the virus—and with them irretrievable pieces of their culture a...
The 20 Year War with Zarlasht Halaimzai
This week, we commemorate the 20th anniversary of September 11. The securitization at home and the “war on terror” that followed fundamentally reshape...
A Labor of Love with Randi Weingarten
As children head back to school, masks should be on the shopping list. But, despite CDC recommendations, in many states they won’t be. Abdul talks abo...
Football on the Brain with Dr. Kathleen Bachynski
As football season approaches, Abdul talks about his years on the field and his growing ambivalence to the sport in the face of new research about its...
A Second Opinion with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Nobody has come to represent the role of science in taking on this pandemic quite like Dr. Anthony Fauci. He joins Abdul for their second conversation...