87 Episoder

  1. The Economics of Everyday Things: Animal Urine

    Udgivet: 21.7.2023

  2. Tom Brady, A.D.H.D., and a Really Bad Headache (Bonus)

    Udgivet: 11.7.2023

  3. 78. Do Kids Cause Divorce?

    Udgivet: 31.3.2023

  4. 77. They Make Minimum Wage. They Could Save Your Life.

    Udgivet: 24.3.2023

  5. 76. Is a Spoonful of Sunlight the Best Medicine?

    Udgivet: 17.3.2023

  6. 75. What Is Sugar Really Doing to You?

    Udgivet: 10.3.2023

  7. 74. How Does Playing Football Affect Your Health?

    Udgivet: 3.3.2023

  8. 73. Who Pays for Multimillion-Dollar Miracle Cures?

    Udgivet: 17.2.2023

  9. 72. What’s Stopping Us From Curing Rare Diseases?

    Udgivet: 10.2.2023

  10. 71. What Do COVID-19 and Cancer Have in Common?

    Udgivet: 3.2.2023

  11. 70. Why Are There Still So Few Female Surgeons?

    Udgivet: 27.1.2023

  12. 69. Home Sweet … Hospital?

    Udgivet: 20.1.2023

  13. 68. The E.R. Doctor’s Dilemma

    Udgivet: 13.1.2023

  14. What Can We Do About the Hardest Patients? (Ep. 51 Replay)

    Udgivet: 6.1.2023

  15. 67. Why Did This 60-Year-Old Man Collapse at the Supermarket?

    Udgivet: 30.12.2022

  16. 66. Does Health Insurance Make You Healthier?

    Udgivet: 23.12.2022

  17. 65. How Do Pandemics Change Health Care?

    Udgivet: 16.12.2022

  18. 64. Is Facebook Bad for Your Mental Health?

    Udgivet: 9.12.2022

  19. 63. What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race

    Udgivet: 2.12.2022

  20. Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s? (Ep. 49 Update)

    Udgivet: 25.11.2022

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Each week, physician, economist, and author of "Random Acts of Medicine" Dr. Bapu Jena will dig into a fascinating study at the intersection of economics and healthcare. He takes on questions like: Why do kids with summer birthdays get the flu more often? Can surviving a hurricane help you live longer? What do heart surgery and grocery-store pricing have in common?

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