This Podcast Will Kill You

A podcast by Exactly Right Media – the original true crime comedy network - Tuesdays

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213 Episodes

  1. Special Episode: Dr. Paul Offit & Tell Me When It’s Over

    Published: 6/4/2024

  2. Ep 141 Maggots: Such noble work

    Published: 5/28/2024

  3. Ep 140 Nipah virus: Of Fruit and Bats

    Published: 5/21/2024

  4. Special Episode: Dr. Sara Manning Peskin & A Molecule Away from Madness

    Published: 5/14/2024

  5. Ep 139 Supplements: “This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA”

    Published: 5/7/2024

  6. Ep 138 Fever: Take it to the limit

    Published: 4/30/2024

  7. Special Episode: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens & Medical Bondage

    Published: 4/23/2024

  8. Ep 137 ME/CFS: What’s in a name? (A lot, actually)

    Published: 4/16/2024

  9. Ep 136 Long Covid: A long time coming

    Published: 4/9/2024

  10. Ep 135 Menopause is whatever you want it to be

    Published: 2/13/2024

  11. Ep 134 Tonsils: Underestimated and underappreciated

    Published: 1/30/2024

  12. Ep 133 Parvoviruses: Who let the dogs (and their viruses) out?

    Published: 1/16/2024

  13. Ep 132 Osteogenesis Imperfecta: All bones about it

    Published: 1/2/2024

  14. Ep 131 Parkinson’s Disease: Dopamine & discoveries

    Published: 12/12/2023

  15. Ep 130 Cocoliztli: We do love a salty dish

    Published: 11/28/2023

  16. Ep 129 Lymphatic Filariasis: Hiding in plain sight

    Published: 11/14/2023

  17. Ep 128 Skin Cancer: We love and fear the sun

    Published: 10/31/2023

  18. Wondery Presents: MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

    Published: 10/18/2023

  19. Ep 127 Bhopal: The 1984 Union Carbide Disaster

    Published: 10/17/2023

  20. Ep 126 Migraine: A Cacophony in Four Movements

    Published: 10/3/2023

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This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. They do the scientific research, so you don’t have to.   Since 2017, Erin and Erin have explored chronic and infectious diseases, medications, poisons, viruses, bacteria and scientific discoveries. They’ve researched public health subjects including plague, Zika, COVID-19, lupus, asbestos, endometriosis and more. Each episode is accompanied by a creative quarantini cocktail recipe and a non-alcoholic placeborita. Erin Welsh, Ph.D. is a co-host of the This Podcast Will Kill You. She is a disease ecologist and epidemiologist and works full-time as a science communicator through her work on the podcast. Erin Allmann Updyke, MD, Ph.D. is a co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You. She’s an epidemiologist and disease ecologist currently in the final stretch of her family medicine residency program. This Podcast Will Kill You is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including science, true crime, comedic interviews, news, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, Buried Bones, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast and more.