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Iron Deficiency and Anemia May Be More Common Than We Know
Friday, December 6, 2024 • Duration 10:59
Low iron levels can cause fatigue and impact mental health, but doctors often miss cases of iron deficiency and anemia. Pediatric hematologist Angela Weyand, a clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, points to one population that could be at a higher risk—young women with heavy menstrual bleeding. In one study from a national database, nearly 40 percent of otherwise healthy adolescent women were iron-deficient, and 6 percent were additionally anemic. Awareness and self-advocacy could help people receive accessible and inexpensive treatments for low iron levels.
Recommended reading:
“Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in US Females Aged 12–21 Years, 2003–2020,” by Angela C. Weyand et al., in JAMA, Vol. 329, No. 24; June 27, 2023
What Is Implicit Bias, and How Might It Affect Your Next Medical Visit?
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Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Fonda Mwangi, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.
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Anthony Fauci Is Worried about Bird Flu—And How Our Divisions Could Help It Hurt Us
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 • Duration 21:34
Anthony Fauci speaks with Tanya Lewis, senior editor for health and medicine at Scientific American, about his remarkable career, as detailed in his new book On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service. They discuss the experiences he faced while guiding the U.S. through the pandemic, the lessons learned by public health practitioners and the challenges posed by future threats, such as bird flu and other potential pandemics.
This episode is part of “Health Equity Heroes,” an editorially independent special project that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
Recommended reading:
New Bird Flu Cases in Young People Are Raising Concerns about Mutating Virus
What Bird Flu in Wastewater Means for California and Beyond
H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet
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Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was reported and co-hosted by Tanya Lewis. Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck fact-check our show. Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.
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Why Weight May Not Be the Whole Story on Health
Friday, November 8, 2024 • Duration 24:41
Could our fixation on weight actually be harming, rather than helping, people’s health? Host Rachel Feltman is joined by Ragen Chastain, a writer, researcher and board-certified patient advocate, to discuss how weight stigma could be fueling many of the negative health outcomes we commonly link to weight gain.
This episode is part of “Health Equity Heroes,” an editorially independent special project that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
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Recommended reading:
People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Understanding Obesity
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. Sabrina Strings. NYU Press, 2019
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. Da’Shaun L. Harrison. North Atlantic Books, 2021
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Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. Emily Makowski, Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck fact-check our show. Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.
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Humans Find Total Eclipses Startling. What About a Komodo Dragon?
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 • Duration 11:01
Eclipses can affect animals, and biologists are preparing to see what happens during totality on April 8.
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You Live in a Strange Solar System
Wednesday, January 10, 2018 • Duration 03:08
Astronomers found that other star systems tend to host similarly sized exoplanets—far different from ours. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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Glow Sticks Help Ecologists Study Amphibians
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 • Duration 03:59
Ecologists needed a way to more easily keep track of populations of amphibians, and green glow sticks lit the way.
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Air Force Tracks Final Frontier
Wednesday, January 3, 2018 • Duration 03:27
General Jay Raymond, Commander of Air Force Space Command, talks about keeping watch over space and cyber.
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You Traveled Far Last Year
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 • Duration 02:43
Getting around the sun in 2017 was a memorable trip.
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Finches Can Learn to Sing Differently Than Their Genetics Dictate
Friday, December 29, 2017 • Duration 04:02
The song training that Bengalese finches received appeared to overcome tempo tendencies baked into their genes. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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Baby Bats Can Learn Different Dialects
Thursday, December 28, 2017 • Duration 04:28
Fruit bats raised hearing different pitches of sounds vocalized in keeping with their aural environment as they matured.
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