Why Doctors Need to Talk about Death

This episode of “Intention to Treat” tells the story of the Freedom House Ambulance Service — a group of Black laypeople in Pittsburgh who underwent intensive training to become the first paramedics in the United States. [Originally aired on May 4, 2023.] A full transcript of thi ...  Show more

In this episode, parents who have lost children to gun accidents and physicians working for gun safety discuss the number-one killer of U.S. children and what doctors can do about it. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2314002. 

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