Harlan answers questions about the cardiac arrest suffered by Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin in a nationally televised football game; Howie reports on the rapid spread of the XBB 1.5 variant of COVID-19. And they are joined by F. Perry Wilson, a Yale nephrologist and an expert in the translation of medical research into clinical care, to discuss his new book, How Medicine Works and When It Doesn’t: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy.

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“Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin suffers a cardiac arrest during Monday's game”

“What Is Cardiac Arrest? What to Know About Why Damar Hamlin Collapsed”

F. Perry Wilson: How Medicine Works and When it Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy

“Exposed: conman's role in prayer-power IVF ‘miracle’”

“The MMR vaccine and autism: Sensation, refutation, retraction, and fraud”

“Omicron offshoot XBB.1.5 could drive new Covid-19 surge in US”

Eric Topol: “A new variant alert”

Eric Topol on Twitter: “Why hasn't Paxlovid implementation lived up to its expectations?”