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COVID Chronicles | Quarantined Happiness: The Pandemic’s Effects on Young Adults & Teens

In this episode, host Matt Guerette aims to set the stage on the conversation around mental health and the effects of the pandemic on society’s most fragile, yet influential group – the youth.

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Health Beyond the Blog: A rough week for mask mandates

Vix's podcast "Today, Explained" takes up the changes to federal mask policies.

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Dr. Andrew Miller: Part 2 – Inflammation and Depression

In this Part 2 episode with Dr. Andrew H. Miller, we explore why humans have an inflammatory bias, why the link between inflammation and depression likely enhanced survival and reproduction across human evolution and why the absence of co-evolved bacteria, viruses and worms in the modern world is making both inflammation and depression worse.

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COVID Chronicles | The NeuroTech Talk: Neurotechnology & the Impacts of COVID-19

In this episode, host JuanMartin Abreu-Melon interviews four people from different walks of life and different stages in their neurotechnology careers to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted their work as scholars and researchers – as well as the future of the field.

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COVID Chronicles | College Campus Hookup Culture During a Pandemic

In this episode, host Rachel Broun unpacks the misconceptions of hookup culture on college campuses, especially at Emory.

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Atlanta: “The Public Health Capital of The World”

April 21, 2022
News Team
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Thanks to the presence of the CDC and other agencies, Atlanta is the capital of public health in America – but that position obscures how racism and inequality affected the evolution of public health.

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Health Beyond the Blog: Author Q&A Series Features Dr. Emily Willingham

The Health Storytelling series of livestreamed Q&As with authors of provocative new books returns with Dr. Emily Willingham and her new book, The Tailored Brain.

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Incarceration, Mortality, Race: Health Impacts of Prison for Black Americans

April 14, 2022
Annika Urban
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In the US, unequal incarceration rates exact a cost on Black Americans that have long-lasting health implications.

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Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapies: The Future of Cancer Medicine

April 12, 2022
Jessica Maaskant
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The field of CAR-T cell therapies has skyrocketed in the past decade. What are the implications for these novel cancer treatments?

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Health Beyond the Blog: To DST, or Not To DST. That Is The Question

Recommendation: The NPR podcast Short Wave dives into the controversy around making daylight saving time permanent.

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