What Puts Patients at Risk

Scientists are facing unparalleled pressure to provide information about the coronavirus as quickly as possible. And when every day brings forth new data, what was clear one day may be confusing the next. Guidance has shifted rapidly about the benefits of wearing masks, how the v ...  Show more

Health-care workers are under threat from more than just the coronavirus itself: The mental health effects of the work are grave. Doctors and nurses fighting Covid-19 are watching patients die at rates rarely seen in civilian medicine; and they’re delivering the news to family me ...  Show more

There are many issues that can spark a heated controversy in the US, one of them being our for-profit healthcare system. Each year, our country spends $4 trillion on healthcare, yet we’re sicker than ever. When you go to the doctor with a symptom, you’ll most likely walk out of t ...  Show more

Host: Elizabeth Esty, MD.

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Smoking is known to increase both susceptibility and severity of all manner of colds and pneumonias, so you'd think the world's 1.1 billion smokers would be at risk in this pandemic of what at fi ...

How would the free market have handled a respiratory illness? After a year of evidence, including my personal experience with the illness, we discuss the effectiveness of individual and public health precautions and interventions.

We examine the difference in approach th ...

La liste des symptômes ressentis par les patients infectés par les diverses formes de virus de la Covid-19 ne cesse de s'allonger. Comme les autres variants, le variant omicron se manifeste d'une manière spécifique. Les patients qui en sont atteints souffrent en particulier de ...