The View from Africa

The diabetes drugs that transformed weight loss may be key to treating addiction, too. Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with Dr. Dhruv Khullar about how GLP-1s affect the brain, its reward system, and maybe even addiction. This episode was produced by Jennifer Lai with assistance from Sof ...  Show more

An FDA panel has recommended allowing compounding pharmacies to make six unapproved peptides. Dr. Sanjay Gupta and CNN Health's John Bonifield discuss their popularity, safety concerns and what comes next. This episode was produced by Madeleine Thompson and Leying Tang. Medical W ...  Show more

While the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc throughout the world, Africa defies expectations by keeping COVID-19 relatively contained, partly due to its previous pandemic experience. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/ ...  Show more

As countries have struggled with disease and death throughout the coronavirus pandemic, one part of the world seems to have been mostly spared: central and western Africa.

South Africa was deeply affected by waves of the coronavirus, as were countries in East Africa like ...

Across the continent, Covid-19 cases rose by 36% on average last week. Those figures might have sounded scary a couple of years ago. But the World Health Organization expects Covid related deaths to drop by 94% this year. Many countries have dropped restrictions related to the pa ...  Show more

Many governments around the world have been questioning how prepared they were for covid- 19 and discussing what they might do in another pandemic. But what about Africa? One of the most interesting and significant things happening on the continent is an early warning system in N ...  Show more