EvolutionMedicine

Are we a mammal-microbial collective? Is our interaction with our resident microbes as a harmonious, mutually helpful partnership, or a relationship gone sour?

Does poop from farm animals protect Amish kids from asthma? Apparently so. Too much hygiene is a bad thing

Can an evolutionary approach save us from the the epidemic of opioid overuse? Evolutionary medicine dovetails with evidence based medicine to provide a compelling case for change?

For doctors and nurses taking care of sick patients: can evolution inform the question: “when to intervene, and when to leave alone?”

Eli Lilly had a blockbuster drug for sepsis that would save millions of lives. 10 years later, the FDA recommended that Xigris be withdrawn from the market. Remarkably, Eli Lilly profited from this ineffective drug most of the time it was under patent. What lesson from Xigris’s failure can we learn about the immune system, about sepsis, and evolution?

Here is the inaugural EvolutionMedicine ‘cast: The State of the Science of Evolutionary Medicine. Many more to come.