Episode 18 - Health Updates You May Have Missed: Outbreaks, Food Safety & Medical Breakthroughs

In this episode of From Bench to Bedside, Dr. Zachary Rubin and Dr. Melanie Matheu take a rapid-fire look at some of the biggest recent developments in health, medicine, and public health.They discuss the ongoing Cyclospora outbreak and delays in tracing its source, a major beef recall involving products that bypassed import inspection, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, H5N1 bird flu in Australia, extreme heat, flesh-eating bacteria, and the changing geography of tick-borne diseases.They also examine an important ruling involving emergency pregnancy care in Idaho before turning to several promising scientific developments, including mRNA influenza vaccines, a new mechanism-based approach to treating narcolepsy, evidence showing the health benefits of reducing air pollution, and a new PET imaging tool for evaluating Alzheimer’s disease.It’s a wide-ranging health news roundup featuring both reasons for concern and reasons for optimism, with the science, context, and occasional chaos you expect from From Bench to Bedside.Hosted by Dr. Zachary Rubin and Dr. Melanie Matheu, PhD.Subscribe and let us know whether you’d like to hear more rapid-fire health news episodes like this one.