154 Episodes

  1. Episode 155: Probiotics and AI Chatbots

    Published: 4/28/2025
  2. Episode 154: Gun Violence and Maternal Morbidity

    Published: 4/11/2025
  3. Episode 153: Time Waits for No One

    Published: 3/27/2025
  4. Episode 152: Is Dark Chocolate Good for You? Really?

    Published: 3/13/2025
  5. Episode 151: The Role of Advocacy and Activism in Public Health

    Published: 1/17/2025
  6. Episode 150: Menopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Role of Activism

    Published: 12/23/2024
  7. Episode 149 - Outdoor Light Pollution and Alzheimer’s disease

    Published: 11/19/2024
  8. Episode 146 - The effects of early cessation of oxytocin

    Published: 5/21/2024
  9. Episode 145 - Tweets and changes in racial sentiments

    Published: 4/23/2024
  10. Episode 144 - Human mobility and economic segregation

    Published: 3/26/2024
  11. Episode 143 - Workplace interventions for cardiometabolic health

    Published: 2/27/2024
  12. Episode 142 - A blood-based screening for cancer?

    Published: 1/30/2024
  13. Episode 141 - Do taxes and warning labels affect meat purchases?

    Published: 1/2/2024
  14. Episode 140 - Neighborhood environment and childhood physical fitness

    Published: 12/5/2023
  15. Episode 139 - Wildfires and medical visits

    Published: 10/3/2023
  16. Episode 138 - Can hearing aids prevent dementia?

    Published: 9/5/2023
  17. Episode 137 - A breakthrough for meningitis vaccination?

    Published: 8/1/2023
  18. Episode 136 - The Best of Amazing and Amusing V (Chris Gill Edition)

    Published: 6/27/2023
  19. Episode 135 - Is coffee bad for your heart?

    Published: 5/30/2023
  20. Episode 134 - Did we have any effect on COVID?

    Published: 5/2/2023

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Free Associations is about using a critical eye when reading journal articles or news coverage about research breakthroughs. With a sense of humor and a healthy dose of skepticism Boston University School of Public Health faculty Matt Fox, Jessica Leibler, and guests talk us through popular health studies and hyperbolic news headlines while teaching us how to ask the right questions. Music: "Duress" by Ketsa under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.