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Special Episode: David Quammen & Breathless
Feb 14, 2023What do you get when you combine a love of reading with an interest in biology/public health/medical history and a background in podcasting? The TPWKY book club, of course! This season’s miniseries of...
Ep 112 Epilepsy: It’s always the phlegm
Feb 07, 2023Only our second episode of the season and we’re already getting in over (and inside) our heads with one of the biggest topics we’ve taken on yet: epilepsy. In this episode, we navigate the constantly ...
Ep 111 RSV: What’s syncytial anyway?
Jan 24, 2023We’re kicking off our sixth season in the same way we ended our fifth: with another headline-making respiratory virus. But as our listeners know, not all respiratory viruses are the same, and it’s oft...
Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play
Nov 22, 2022Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Sitting Ducks; Fowl Play Over five years ago, on October 31, 2017, the very first episode of This Podcast Will Kill You premiered, an action-packed (and mildly disorganized) ...
Ep 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?)
Nov 08, 2022Somehow it’s taken us until the penultimate episode to cover this season’s first mosquito-borne virus. But we assure you, this episode is well-worth the wait. Although Chikungunya virus is often lumpe...
Ep 108 Gout: Toetally fascinating
Oct 25, 2022Although today we tend to think about diseases in terms of signs and symptoms, tests and treatments, that hasn’t always been the case. For much of history, diseases carried with them a deeper meaning ...
Ep 107 Sepsis: It's a mess
Oct 11, 2022Over the years of the podcast, we have often struggled with questions of why: why pathogens act the way they do, why certain people get sick while others don’t, or why we know little about some diseas...
Ep 106 Turner Syndrome: Let's talk about X
Sep 27, 2022Are you in the mood to chat chromosomes, specifically the X chromosome? If so, have we got the perfect episode for you! You may have come across the definition of Turner syndrome as a genetic conditio...
Ep 105 Down in the Mumps
Sep 13, 2022We’ve covered measles, we’ve taken on rubella, and now we’re finishing up the classic MMR vaccine by exploring the other M: mumps. To some listeners, mumps may be a painful childhood memory while to o...
Ep 104 The Bends: Industrial Revolution, baby
Aug 30, 2022Don your wetsuit, grab your oxygen tank, and securely fasten your mask, because this week we’re going on our deepest dive yet. In this episode, we’re plumbing the depths of decompression sickness, aka...