(Sep 26, 2019) When infected, your tonsils may be useful to doctors to keep up their bottom line, and to Popsicle vendors to provide the means to soothe recovering children. But when healthy, they also have a use as part of the front-line in the human immune system.

Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss an oft-removed portion of the human anatomy.

(Sep 26, 2019) When infected, your tonsils may be useful to doctors to keep up their bottom line, and to Popsicle vendors to provide the means to soothe recovering children. But when healthy, they also have a use as part of the front-line in the human immune system. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss an oft-removed portion of the human anatomy.

Are your tonsils as useless as they seem?

Conversations about the natural world with Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley, from member-supported North Country Public Radio.

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Are your tonsils as useless as they seem?

Are your tonsils as useless as they seem?