Distillations podcast

Research on the deadly disease progressed dramatically after the 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge, but a huge blow came when the most recent treatment was taken off the market.

Seen as outcasts, some persistent scientists went against the grain to study viruses they suspected caused cancer.

The weight-loss drug has become well known, but many others have come before, often with horrific results.

The first antipsychotic was discovered through a series of mistakes, starting with—of all things—a breakthrough dye.

For centuries people have been fascinated by the potential healing powers of color, but is there any truth to it?

With a new public interest in health equity research, who is actually receiving recognition and funding in the field?

Why are Black women in America three times more likely to die during childbirth than White ones?

A group of medical students wants to take racial bias out of the equation.

When the plague struck San Francisco in 1900, public health officials blamed Chinatown, as if the disease itself had a racial component.

If there’s no such thing as biological race, why would the FDA approve a drug just for Black patients?

The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?

When yellow fever struck the city in 1793, faulty race logic almost destroyed it.

Vox’s ‘Unexplainable’ podcast interviews ‘Distillations’ about how Alzheimer’s research has stubbornly focused on a single theory for decades.

When an invisible threat plagued rural 19th-century New England, the evidence pointed to the supernatural.

“I just feel broken.”

From Paracelsus to OSHA.

The biochemical engineer and entrepreneur on her hopes for a better postpandemic society.

The MIT chemical engineer and entrepreneur talks about Moderna Therapeutics, a company he helped start, and his work developing a way for vaccines to self-boost in the body.