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This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

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This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. They do the scientific research, so you don’t have to. Since 2017, Erin and Erin have explored chronic and infectious diseases, medications, poisons, viruses, bacteria and scientific discoveries. They’ve researched public health ...
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Advances in Care

NewYork-Presbyterian

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On Advances in Care, epidemiologist and science communicator Erin Welsh sits down with physicians from NewYork-Presbyterian hospital to discuss the details behind cutting-edge research and innovative treatments that are changing the course of medicine. From breakthroughs in genome sequencing to the backstories on life-saving cardiac procedures, the work of these doctors from Columbia & Weill Cornell Medicine is united by a collective mission to shape the future of health care and transform t ...
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In this riff on personality driven current events radio shows, a la Howard Stern, veteran radio personality/talk show host Brett DeMott (played by Jon Mackey of Big Grande) and his sidekick, Buddy (played by David Brown of UCB) rundown current events in news and pop culture, and explore the most off-the-wall headlines from around the world submitted by their listeners. Each week they're joined by a rotating cast of recurring characters, as well as guests ripped straight from those headlines ...
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For any patient diagnosed with depression for the first time, the recommended course of treatment is the same: a medication like a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), an evidence based psychotherapy, or both. But there is a large group of people for whom these treatments simply won't work. That’s where Dr. Conor Liston and his team focus…
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This week is a guest-o-rama of sorts! Brett and Buddy called in all their favors to pack the show with guests-- a plumber talking about Brown Friday, an Italian man pretending to be his dead grandma, Batman (yeah, Batman), and Tundo Bowl, an altruistic criminal! Join us over on Patreon for a ton of great bonus content! Hosted on Acast. See acast.co…
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We ended last week’s episode on a bit of a cliffhanger: is salt actually bad for us and if so, why does there still seem to be a debate? This week’s episode holds all the answers. We’re sifting through the noise to figure out what salt actually does in our bodies, how it might impact our health, and why we crave this delicious substance. If you’ve …
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Have you ever thrown a pinch of spilled salt over your left shoulder? Or said to someone “well, take his opinion with a grain of salt”? Or looked up the potential salary of a job listing? Salt is so deeply embedded in our cultures, our languages, our history as a species that we often take its influence for granted. We may forget (or perhaps we nev…
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This week the fellas audition for a very lucrative job in China, and they also try their hand at spoken word poetry! They're also joined by Chip Anzee (John David Williams) a returning guest who is a monkey that always seems to know what's going on when monkey's go missing/escape. Follow us on social media @BrettDeMottShow and join us over on Patre…
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In an anatomy and physiology class, you may learn how the different heart valves work to circulate your blood, how the structure of your kidney helps to maintain electrolyte levels, and how the expansion and contraction of your lungs sets off a carefully orchestrated cascade of gas exchange and transport. The human body is an endlessly fascinating …
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In this episode from the Advances in Care archives, Dr. Pierre Elias sits down with Catherine Price to talk about how utilizing technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning can help diagnose patients even before symptoms develop, and support doctors by freeing them up to focus on providing personalized care to their patients. They…
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This week the fellas attempt, with questionable success to be whole while discussing Oprah's Favorite Things 2025 List, as well as the love story of the oldest couple alive (thanks to Longeviquest magazine). They also speak to a elementary school music teacher whose solo camp singing triggered a search and rescue operation! Follow the show on socia…
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If you were asked to describe necrotizing fasciitis in three words, you might choose: rapid, deadly, and rare. The third of those adjectives may provide some comfort, but the first two are the clear inspiration for this infection’s more lurid nickname: flesh-eating bacteria. In this episode, we get up close and personal with necrotizing fasciitis a…
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This week the fellas discuss the unlikely origin of our human fingers, the 2025 Word of the Year, and also talk to an animal communicator, Dori Blowen (John Milhiser) who tells us all about her terrifying experience talking to a demonic cat! Join us over on PATREON for a bunch of awesome bonus content! And follow us on social media @BrettDeMottShow…
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It’s the stuff nightmares are made of. A fly lands on an open wound and lays hundreds of eggs, from which hatch countless ravenous maggots. There they writhe, devouring flesh, insatiable and relentless. Every minute they dig deeper and deeper until flesh gives way to bone. Even the species name of these maggots inspires a shiver of fear: Cochliomyi…
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With perspectives spanning hepatobiliary, gynecologic, and cardiac surgeries, NewYork-Presbyterian’s Dr. Jason Hawksworth (Columbia), Dr. Tamatha Fenster (Weill Cornell Medicine), and Dr. Arnar Geirsson (Columbia) describe how they each came to incorporate robotics into their practices. One of the biggest takeaways: robotic surgeries allow for more…
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This week, the BSNBs chat about a new science that makes it possible to breath through your butt, and also check in on everyone's favorite billionaire who is trying to make himself immortal. They're also joined by Squirrel (Paul Welsh), a squirrel that is making headlines in San Francisco for being "very mean". Join us on PATREON and follow us on s…
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Science doesn’t always get it right the first time (or the second, or the third, or even the ninety-ninth!). And while we may chuckle at the outlandish things people believed or the goofy experiments they tried, we forget two things: 1) those failures helped us get where we are today and 2) a hundred years from now, people will probably be laughing…
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This week the fellas are joined by a ghost named Andy Plink (Lauren Knutti) who had a threeway with his LIVING widower, and her new girlfriend! What a treat! The fellas also attempt to get to the deBottom of this jewelry heist at the Louvre! Follow us on social media @BrettDeMottShow and join us over on PATREON for a weekly bonus episode and MUCH M…
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As we learned last week, starvation extends far beyond hunger and what a lack of food does to the human body. Similarly, famine is much more than a food shortage and starvation on a population-level scale. This week, we’re picking up where we left off last episode to explore the definitions, drivers, and many dimensions of famine. We trace famines …
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Catherine Price and Dr. Emile Bacha, Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia discuss the history of heart surgery, ventricular assist devices, and a new frontier in cardiac surgery: The Total Artificial Heart. Dr. Bacha tells the groundbreaking story of successfully fitting a pediatric patie…
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This week the fellas are blindsided by the list of eligable podcasts for the Golden Globes, and Brett plays a piece of radio journalism he recorded at the World Worm Charming Championships in the UK. And the boys are joined by Caroll Myers (Joe Weber), a man who got stuck in a playground tube slide for hours. Join us over on PATREON and follow us o…
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Deprived of food, our bodies do the best they can to keep us alive and functioning as long as possible. As the days pass, the rhythms of our lives change: our metabolism, our heartbeats, our hormones, even our thoughts shift to adjust to this period of scarcity. This response is evolutionarily engrained, following a variable but fairly prescribed p…
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Dr. Chris Ahmad knows firsthand how devastating an untimely injury can be for a young athlete. In this episode from the Advances in Care archives, Dr. Ahmad discusses how his own college soccer injury led him to fall in love with orthopedics. He tells the history of the infamous baseball injury that resulted in the invention of Tommy John surgery, …
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