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In this episode of “Intention to Treat,” host Rachel Gotbaum explores the story of a teenager who’s now in remission from previously relapsed lymphoblastic leukemia and talks with the investigator who developed the “off-the-shelf” CAR T cells that made her treatment possible. A f ...  Show more

This episode of “Intention to Treat,” explores the crisis in primary care in the United States, as increasing numbers or primary care physicians leave the field — driven out by corporatization, growing time pressure, and the inability to form the relationships that enable good ca ...  Show more

This episode considers what happens when the rigors of training and the pursuit of excellence in in medicine collide with the mental health needs of trainees.

A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400698.

In this edition of The Naked Scientists: A meeting of minds: scientists show that when two people talk, their brains really do sync up. Also, bird flu is now spreading among cattle via their milk. What are the implications? And, a new scientific twist for better, more efficient f ...  Show more

An outbreak of bird flu has been tearing through the nation’s dairy farms and infecting more and more people.

Now there are troubling signs that the United States may be closer to another pandemic, even as President Trump dismantles the country’s public health system.

Bird flu has been in the headlines for ages, with scientists warning that we could be headed for a pandemic. But we’ve been hearing about this H5N1 virus for so long that it’s kind of starting to feel like the boy who cried wolf. So — what’s really going on with H5N1 bird flu? Ho ...  Show more