251 Episodes

  1. Hunting For the Virus in Sewage

    Published: 4/9/2020
  2. A Mental Health Crisis Worsens

    Published: 4/8/2020
  3. How to Wear a Mask

    Published: 4/7/2020
  4. This is How We End It

    Published: 4/6/2020
  5. What Germany Did Right

    Published: 4/3/2020
  6. The Case For Writing Every American a Check

    Published: 4/2/2020
  7. When Will We Have a Vaccine?

    Published: 4/1/2020
  8. When You Can't Go See the Doctor

    Published: 3/31/2020
  9. This is How the Virus Kills

    Published: 3/30/2020
  10. Prognosis Daily: The Coronavirus Detectives

    Published: 3/27/2020
  11. Special Episode: Understanding Pandemics

    Published: 3/26/2020
  12. Prognosis Daily: What Went Wrong With Testing

    Published: 3/26/2020
  13. Announcing Prognosis Daily: Coronavirus

    Published: 3/24/2020
  14. Introducing Deep Background with Noah Feldman: Civil Liberties in the Time of COVID-19

    Published: 3/17/2020
  15. Superbugs' Natural Predator (Rebroadcast)

    Published: 2/27/2020
  16. Superbugs Force a Deadly Choice for Cancer Patients (Rebroadcast)

    Published: 2/20/2020
  17. The Skinny on Diet and Health Apps (Rebroadcast)

    Published: 2/13/2020
  18. Engineering Your Own Pancreas (Rebroadcast)

    Published: 2/6/2020
  19. How to Buy a Better Birth

    Published: 1/30/2020
  20. Fixing Health Care for the People It Often Fails

    Published: 1/23/2020

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For much of human history, we’ve turned to diets to lose weight and improve our health. But it’s mostly been in vain. No matter how much the number on the scale drops begins to go down, chances are that the weight will come back. That’s just what the science says. But when it comes to weight, the facts just don’t seem to matter. Losing It, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, looks at how we got weight loss so wrong — and whether there’s a better way forward.