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When does 20 seconds feel like foooooreeeeevvvveerrrrrr? When you're washing your hands for the umptyumpth time today, and is it really all that important to wash them AGAIN??? Yes. Yes, it is. To make it easier, a group of writers and podcasters have put together these 20-second stories to get you through the Lather, Rinse, and Repeat stages. So, crank up a story, lather up, and be well.
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Welcome to Healthcare Stories, where history meets medicine in a gripping exploration of the people, events, and breakthroughs that have shaped healthcare as we know it. From medical mysteries to groundbreaking discoveries, we uncover the untold stories that defined moments of crisis, innovation, and ethical challenges in the U.S. healthcare system.
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The SmartSign Podcast is a series at the intersection of safety, transportation, and e-commerce. Each month we interview a different expert in one of these industries. Look for our podcast in the iTunes Store.com, or, at SmartSign.com
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The Optimist Podcast is a series of interviews with inspirational people making a difference all over the world. From Uganda to Indonesia to Paraguay The Optimist Podcast tells funny stories, explores different cultures, and features the projects and people that are making real change across the globe.
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In the mid-19th century, as hospitals teemed with life-threatening infections and childbirth often ended in tragedy, one man emerged as an unsung hero. His name was Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis. Operating in Vienna, Austria, in 1846, Semmelweis was stationed at the city's general hospital, which housed two maternity wards: one run by medical students and t…
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Welcome back to Healthcare Stories, where we explore captivating healthcare stories from history. In this episode, we'll delve into the fascinating tale of Johns Hopkins Hospital's founding, a pivotal moment that revolutionized American medicine, research, and medical education. Journey with us to late 19th-century Baltimore, where visionary philan…
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Welcome and get ready to delve into captivating healthcare stories that have shaped our world. In today's episode, we journey back to the early 1900s, a time when the state of medical education in the United States was in disarray. Back then, numerous for-profit medical schools were more interested in making money than properly training doctors, le…
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The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, one of the deadliest in human history, stems from its profound impact on global health and its often-overlooked significance. With soldiers moving across borders and sharing cramped, unsanitary conditions, the 1918 pandemic claimed more lives than World War I, affecting one-third of the world's population and killing …
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Today's story begins in 1951 with the life-transforming journey of Henrietta Lacks, a young African American woman and mother of five from a tobacco farm in Virginia. Diagnosed with an aggressive form of cervical cancer, she underwent treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Here, unbeknownst to her, a biopsy of her cancer cells …
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In the early 1960s, United States riddled with a health care crisis where millions of Americans lacked insurance and adequate medical care. Amid rapidly advancing healthcare, the elderly were left particularly vulnerable, with private insurance companies often not covering them. Witnessing the plight of senior citizens unable to afford basic medica…
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In the early 1900s, as New York City teemed with life and growth, it also grappled with the dark shadow of disease. At the heart of a typhoid fever outbreak, a mysterious illness causing fever, abdominal pain, and sometimes death, was an unsuspecting woman — Typhoid Mary. Unbeknownst to her, she was a healthy carrier of Salmonella typhi, the bacter…
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In this episode of Naked Genetics: The risk factors between schizophrenia and substance use disorder have had a fresh genetic examination; I put Illumina to the test and ask, 'what difference does washing our hands really make?' And, the the extraordinary way in which dung beetles use the night sky to orientate themselves... Like this podcast? Plea…
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In this month's edition of Naked Genetics: Why a genetic bottleneck created decades ago means some whales are in deep water; how wastewater is helping genetic sequencer track down deadly diseases; And, surf's up! how one beach dwelling creature is shredding the gnar in order to find food... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked …
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