Episode 18 - Health Updates You May Have Missed: Outbreaks, Food Safety & Medical Breakthroughs

<p>In this episode of <i>From Bench to Bedside</i>, Dr. Zachary Rubin and Dr. Melanie Matheu take a rapid-fire look at some of the biggest recent developments in health, medicine, and public health.</p><p></p><p>They discuss the ongoing Cyclospora outbreak and delays in tracing its source, a major beef recall involving products that bypassed import inspection, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, H5N1 bird flu in Australia, extreme heat, flesh-eating bacteria, and the changing geography of tick-borne diseases.</p><p></p><p>They also examine an important ruling involving emergency pregnancy care in Idaho before turning to several promising scientific developments, including mRNA influenza vaccines, a new mechanism-based approach to treating narcolepsy, evidence showing the health benefits of reducing air pollution, and a new PET imaging tool for evaluating Alzheimer’s disease.</p><p></p><p>It’s a wide-ranging health news roundup featuring both reasons for concern and reasons for optimism, with the science, context, and occasional chaos you expect from <i>From Bench to Bedside</i>.</p><p>Hosted by Dr. Zachary Rubin and Dr. Melanie Matheu, PhD.</p><p></p><p>Subscribe and let us know whether you’d like to hear more rapid-fire health news episodes like this one.</p>