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This Podcast Will Kill You

This Podcast Will Kill You


This Podcast Will Kill You

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Length:
39 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

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 accompanied by a creative quarantini cocktail recipe and a non-alcoholic placeborita.

Erin Welsh, Ph.D. is a co-host of the This Podcast Will Kill You. She is a disease ecologist and epidemiologist and works full-time as a science communicator through her work on the podcast. Erin Allmann Updyke, MD, Ph.D. is a co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You. She’s an epidemiologist and disease ecologist currently in the final stretch of her family medicine residency program.

This Podcast Will Kill You is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including science, true crime, comedic interviews, news, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, Buried Bones, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast and more.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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Ep 138 Fever: Take it to the limit

A dull pounding headache. Body aches that come and go. Chills that set your teeth to ch...

84 minutes
Apr 30, 2024

Special Episode: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens & Medical Bondage

The TPWKY book club is back in action, and we’re thrilled to be starting this season’s ...

72 minutes
Apr 23, 2024

Ep 137 ME/CFS: What’s in a name? (A lot, actually)

In many ways, this week’s episode on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome...

104 minutes
Apr 16, 2024

Ep 136 Long Covid: A long time coming

We’re back with our season 7 premiere, and we’re kicking things off with a topic that w...

97 minutes
Apr 09, 2024

Ep 135 Menopause is whatever you want it to be

For our season 6 finale, we’re spending some time with menopause. How many nicknames ca...

131 minutes
Feb 13, 2024

Ep 133 Parvoviruses: Who let the dogs (and their viruses) out?

This one’s not just for the dogs. It’s also for the cats, the raccoons, the wax moths, ...

112 minutes
Jan 16, 2024

Ep 132 Osteogenesis Imperfecta: All bones about it

Often, the more we learn about a disease, the more we learn about ourselves and the wor...

90 minutes
Jan 02, 2024

Ep 131 Parkinson’s Disease: Dopamine & discoveries

Parkinson’s is a disease of many dimensions. On the shelves of any bookstore or library...

108 minutes
Dec 12, 2023

Ep 130 Cocoliztli: We do love a salty dish

In the 16th century, a series of deadly epidemics swept through much of the region of M...

118 minutes
Nov 28, 2023

Ep 129 Lymphatic Filariasis: Hiding in plain sight

With a history extending back millennia, with a biology that leads to permanent disabil...

86 minutes
Nov 14, 2023