Prognosis: Losing it
A podcast by Bloomberg
251 Episodes
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Hunting For the Virus in Sewage
Published: 4/9/2020 -
A Mental Health Crisis Worsens
Published: 4/8/2020 -
How to Wear a Mask
Published: 4/7/2020 -
This is How We End It
Published: 4/6/2020 -
What Germany Did Right
Published: 4/3/2020 -
The Case For Writing Every American a Check
Published: 4/2/2020 -
When Will We Have a Vaccine?
Published: 4/1/2020 -
When You Can't Go See the Doctor
Published: 3/31/2020 -
This is How the Virus Kills
Published: 3/30/2020 -
Prognosis Daily: The Coronavirus Detectives
Published: 3/27/2020 -
Special Episode: Understanding Pandemics
Published: 3/26/2020 -
Prognosis Daily: What Went Wrong With Testing
Published: 3/26/2020 -
Announcing Prognosis Daily: Coronavirus
Published: 3/24/2020 -
Introducing Deep Background with Noah Feldman: Civil Liberties in the Time of COVID-19
Published: 3/17/2020 -
Superbugs' Natural Predator (Rebroadcast)
Published: 2/27/2020 -
Superbugs Force a Deadly Choice for Cancer Patients (Rebroadcast)
Published: 2/20/2020 -
The Skinny on Diet and Health Apps (Rebroadcast)
Published: 2/13/2020 -
Engineering Your Own Pancreas (Rebroadcast)
Published: 2/6/2020 -
How to Buy a Better Birth
Published: 1/30/2020 -
Fixing Health Care for the People It Often Fails
Published: 1/23/2020
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.