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Over the next five years, millions of more Americans are expected to take Ozempic and other GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, which are rapidly being recognized as the miracle drugs of this century. If you’re not on them, you’ll probably know someone who is. What are the implications of the widespread use of these drugs, both on our bodies and our society? In this show, you’ll meet people across America who are either taking the jab or thinking about it, and the shocking intentional and unintentional results they are seeing.

For years the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security has curated an interactive online tool for professionals that identifies the activities involved across all phases of an outbreak. The Georgetown Outbreak Activity Library (GOAL) captures what needs to get done, when, and by whom. Now, in The Outbreak Atlas, Rebecca Katz and Mackenzie S. Moore have translated this complex material into a book designed for a public audience.

Der Winter 2020 ist durch polarisierende Weltpolitik, neue gefährliche Virusmutationen, geschlossene europäische Grenzen und endlose Katastrophen in Sachen föderaler Bildungspolitik (dem KMKismus) geprägt. Viele gefundene Fressen für die Comedians der Republik. Mitten im gesellschaftlichen und politischen Tumult der zweiten Corona Welle beginnt für eine Handvoll internationaler Berliner*innen eine neue Ausbildung zu Lehrkräften an öffentlichen Schulen.

Biomedical researcher Professor John Tregoning tells the unlikely story of how, against all odds, we manage to stay alive. Taking an organ-by-organ tour of the human body, Tregoning embarks on his own experimental quest, testing "life-extending" diets and exercise regimes to separate fact from fad. Exploring the multitude of ways our bodies can kill us, from inherited genetic conditions, through heart attacks, arrythmias and angina, onto the delicate workings of the brain, Live Forever? offers compelling insight into how our bodies work, how we can best look after them.

In the vein of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Dorothy Roberts's Fatal Invention, Infected is the epic story of white supremacists, compromised doctors, racist politicians, and the heroes who challenged them.

In late 2019, Dennis Oya's persistent cough was just the beginning of a harrowing tale of neglect and systemic failure in a Washington prison. Diagnosed eighteen months later with tuberculosis (TB), Oya's case sparked one of the largest prison TB outbreaks in decades, affecting over 3,000 contacts. This outbreak, and others like it, exposes the glaring weaknesses in prison healthcare systems. In Outbreak Behind Bars, Homer Venters reveals the grim realities of how communicable diseases thrive in the overcrowded, unsanitary conditions of correctional facilities.

In Change Is Possible, public health legend William H. Foege and five coauthors chronicle the failures and successes of global health through the modern age, including the massive impacts of colonialism, religious groups, philanthropies, politics, NGOs, and more. Foege, who has served in local, national, and international public health contexts is uniquely qualified to reflect on the history of global health. He and his Rollins School of Public Health coauthors explain why colonialism has been the greatest disaster for global health, whereas military medicine may have been its greatest asset.

"10 Points in Public Health" is a comprehensive audiobook designed to empower public health professionals, policymakers, and students with essential insights and strategies for effective health advocacy and intervention.

The mesh scandal that injured thousands. The ‘love doctor’ who performed nonconsensual vaginal surgeries. Over and over again, Emma heard stories of women in pain, bleeding, dying, failed by the professionals who were supposed to help them. Medical misogyny kills, and leaves many more in agony, unable to live full lives. The Stitch-Up tells their stories, and calls for better research, healthcare options, language and treatment, arguing that being female should never be a death sentence.

Do you trust the American healthcare system? In Ripple of Change, physician Todd R. Otten, M.D., and patient Joshua J. Judy share their journeys through a fractured system, showing how trust and hope can be restored. Through their combined experiences, they offer a fresh vision for transforming healthcare, introducing Our Quadruple Aim (OQA)—a four-part framework focused on Patient Experience, Quality Care, Lower Costs, and Provider Wellness.

Drawing from the wisdom of celebrated authors, Tang illustrates how we can move forward through crises with compassion, vulnerability, risk-taking, and learning. With this memoir as our guide, we can lead wholeheartedly no matter what challenges come our way in the uncertain future ahead. In times of great change, Tang's story is a reminder to embrace the journey and make courageous decisions. It is an inspiring call to action for all of us in this next normal beyond the pandemic.

In Health-Care and the Church: A Shared Focus, Phyllis C. Riles draws upon her extensive experience and specialized background in both arenas to reveal the complimentary parallels between the operation and goals of the Church and healthcare to promote health and wellness for spirit, soul, and body. God’s covenant promises of health to Abraham and his provision of healing through redemption by Jesus Christ are activated by a collaboration of belief and action. God and man working together has always been the divine intent.

Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting health into one book, providing many examples of practice. It starts with understanding ourselves and our health, and continues with chapters on working in health promotion and public health.

In Navigating the Challenges of Concussion, expert clinicians and researchers in the fields of neurology and neuropsychology teamed together to provide up-to-date and evidence-based information for patients and families affected by concussion or those at increased risk of sustaining concussions.

From the suburbs of Washington, DC, and northern Virginia to the bat-infested caves of Wuhan, China, Dr. Ravi Iyer traces the myriad networks of the virus that brought the entire world to its knees for 24 months and decimated the lives of millions in its path.

In 2006, after years of feeling powerless to help those addicted to opioids, benzodiazepines, and stimulants, general practitioner Dr. Arun Gupta joined the American Society of Addiction Medicine and earned his certification to treat patients with addictions. Now, in his eye-opening new book, after decades of research and first-hand experience, he tells us how to end this crisis that is destroying so many lives.

Die weltweit renommierte Virologin Isabella Eckerle über die Sprengkraft von Virus-Infektionen - ein hochaktuelles Wissenschafts-Sachbuch über Zoonosen, Pandemien und die globale Gesundheit. AIDS, Ebolafieber, Rinderwahn, Vogelgrippe, Affenpocken, SARS-CoV-2 – allesamt gefährliche Virus-Erkrankungen. Und jedes Mal wurde das Virus von wildlebenden Tieren wie Fledermäusen auf Menschen übertragen, um dort sein zerstörerisches Werk zu beginnen.

Gabrielle Blair propõe uma mudança fundamental no debate sobre a gravidez indesejada e, consequentemente, sobre o aborto. O raciocínio é simples: a maioria esmagadora dos abortos decorre de uma gravidez indesejada, e todas as gestações indesejadas são causadas por homens. Uma nova maneira de pensar Em 28 argumentos, Blair defende que o foco dessa discussão deve deixar de ser o controle do corpo feminino e se voltar para a responsabilidade masculina.

An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society. The evolution of the cell phones we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can increase while prices fall. Why doesn't healthcare also get better and cheaper? In Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer offer an answer to this question. Bringing together research on incentives, social norms, and market competition, they argue that the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation.

Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of covering pandemics—how governments react to them, how the media covers them, how they are exploited, and what we can do to prepare for the next one....