# Episode 18 - Health Updates You May Have Missed: Outbreaks, Food Safety & Medical Breakthroughs

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Published: 2026-09-01T13:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode of From Bench to Bedside , Dr. Zachary Rubin and Dr. Melanie Matheu take a rapid-fire look at some of the biggest recent developments in health, medicine, and public health. They discuss the ongoing Cyclospora outbreak and delays in tracing its source, a major beef recall involving products that bypassed import inspection, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, H5N1 bird flu in Australia, extreme heat, flesh-eating bacteria, and the changing geography of tick-borne diseases. They also examine an important ruling involving emergency pregnancy care in Idaho before turning to several promising scientific developments, including mRNA influenza vaccines, a new mechanism-based approach to treating narcolepsy, evidence showing the health benefits of reducing air pollution, and a new PET imaging tool for evaluating Alzheimer’s disease. It’s a wide-ranging health news roundup featuring both reasons for concern and reasons for optimism, with the science, context, and occasional chaos you expect from From Bench to Bedside . Hosted by Dr. Zachary Rubin and Dr. Melanie Matheu, PhD. Subscribe and let us know whether you’d like to hear more rapid-fire health news episodes like this one.

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