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Conversations on Health Care — 100 episodes

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MAHA & the Midterms: Insights From Axios Health Reporter Caitlin Owens

2

One of Our Most Heated Programs: Medicare for All’s Pros & Cons

3

Reporters’ Roundtable: Julie Rovner, KFF Health News & Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill

4

Psychedelics: Can They Help Treat PTSD? Researcher Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D. Explains

5

Community Health Center Legends Richard Bohrer & James W. Hunt, Jr.: Lessons for Today

6

High Cost of Losing Weight With GLP-1s: Researcher Kosali Simon, Ph.D., Explains

7

Dr. Reed Tuckson: Health’s Truth Evangelist on MMR, COVID & Flu Vaccines

8

Here Comes the Sun — And Is Too Much Exposure a Worry?

9

Countdown to Crisis? The Looming Community Health Center Budget Threats

10

Who Are the Health Influencers Influencing? New Research Explains

11

How Health Care Makes the Climate-Health Connection

12

How Dr. Céline Gounder Reports the Stories Shaping Our Health

13

We Have to Fight Back’: Bush NIH Dir Dr. Zerhouni on Challengers

14

Which U.S. Senator in His Early 20s Helped Save a Community Health Center?

15

Can AI Find Medicaid Fraud? That’s the Mission of Stephanie Carlton, Dep. Admin, CMS

16

Insights & Inspiration: Building the Community Health Center’s Next Chapter

17

America’s Health Story: 250 Years of Innovation

18

HIV Funding in Jeopardy: What’s at Stake

19

GLP-1 Therapies: Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going

20

How a Bill on Capitol Hill Spurred a Health Revolution

21

Red, White & You: Your Health & How America’s Founding Made It Better

22

‘Fur’ Our Health: New Pet-Human Bond Research

23

Hot Dogs, Jello, Waffle House: Time to Rethink ‘Bad’ Foods?

24

How a West Virginia Community Health Center Leader Inspires the Country

25

What Fmr. President Obama Told Our Guests About His Big Health Care Misstep

26

The Nurse at the Laundromat: An Innovative Model

27

Kathleen Sebelius Ran HHS. Now, She’s Tackling Rural Health

28

Why CNBC’s Becky Quick is Bullish on Rare Disease Cures: Her Family’s Story

29

Why is a Health Innovator Growing Fresh Veggies Year-Round? Mark Masselli’s Next Big Vision

30

The New Yorker’s Dr. Khullar: Restoring Trust in CDC Could Take “Decades”

31

Mobile Health Care Works, Why Don’t We See More of It? Answers & Opportunities

32

Your Role in Truth Initiative’s New Vape Battle

33

Reefer Madness? Ex-Drug Czar Sounds Alarm on Marijuana Legalization

34

Reporters’ Roundtable: High Cost of Health Care

35

Alzheimer’s: New Research on When Symptoms Start & Prevention

36

Long COVID Latest: What are the Unique Patterns?

37

Rural Health Transformation Program: Latest Details

38

3D Models to Guide Surgery: Not Science Fiction

39

Dr. Zeke Emanuel: Tough Talk on Living Longer

40

Is Parkinson’s Preventable? Our Guest Says Yes

41

2026 Health Care Predictions: Do You Agree?

42

KFF Health News Covers $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation: Latest Details

43

Happy, Healthy New Year: What the Future Holds

44

2025 Rewind: Our guests recount the promises and hurdles

45

“Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America”: Author Conversation

46

Congress Races to Find Obamacare Subsidy Solution: Reporters Examine the Efforts

47

Flu Cases Rising: “It’s Not Good,” Says Former CDC Dir. Dr. Tom Frieden

48

Can You Have a ‘Healthy’ Thanksgiving? How the Food Industry Conspires Against Us

49

How Dr. Sanjeev Arora Helped Improve Care for 200 Million Patients

50

“Cash for Moms and Babies”: How it Works & Why

51

Intimate Partner Violence: Health Care Providers’ Role

52

Shutdown Threatens Food Benefits: Family Physicians Leader Urges Resolution

53

New Research Bolsters Model for Preventing Infant Mortality

54

Preventing Veteran Suicides: Strategies & Tactics

55

Government Shutdown Stalls Drug Discount Program 340B

56

How Govt. Shutdown Affects Telemedicine

57

The 16th Anniversary Show: Our First Guests Are Back!

58

‘How Healing Works’ Author Dr. Wayne Jonas Explains His Approach

59

‘Next Week Will be Telling’: Reporters Prepare for Ex-CDC Dir. Testimony

60

RFK, Jr.’s Vaccine Fight: ‘Threat to Good Public Health’

61

Mayo Clinic Doctor Leads The Patient Revolution: Insights & Tools to Improve Health Care

62

“Father of Aerobics” at 94: Dr. Cooper’s Unrelenting Health Advocacy

63

America’s Mental Health Crisis: Philanthropy’s Bold Action Plan

64

Food is Medicine Advocate Urges Evidence-Based Solutions Amid SNAP Cutbacks

65

60 Years of Medicaid & Medicare: Health Care Challenges & Opportunities

66

NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow: Curing Addiction a Real Possibility

67

Pretend You Have Millions to Fix Health Care: What Would You Do? A Doctor Gives His Answer

68

Dr. Oz’s Second-in-Command Explains Need for Medicaid Reimbursement Cuts as “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes

69

How Realistic is Super Aging? Research-Based Answers (Encore)

70

Youth Mental Health Crisis: Can a New Corps Create a Solution?

71

400 Million+ People Globally With Long COVID: A Top Researcher Seeks Solutions

72

Dr. Leana Wen Grades RFK Jr. on Health Care: What Does She Say?

73

Breaking News: House Budget Hawks Victorious Over Medicaid Defenders

74

Unlocking Long COVID Mysteries: Dementia-Like Symptoms & Pre-Existing Conditions

75

Menacing Melanoma: Marc Hulbert, PhD on How You Can Fight Back

76

Healthcare Disability Advocate, Fueled by Personal Experience: Megan Morris

77

Breaking News: Food Dye Ban: Support But More Needed, Says Dr. Marion Nestle

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Breaking News: Food Dye Ban: Support But More Needed, Says Dr. Marion Nestle

79

“ChatGPT, MD”: Author Says AI-Empowered Patients, Doctors Take Control

80

Mystery No More: Howard Hughes’ Legacy Advances Science

81

‘If Ryan Reynolds doesn’t get you to do it…’: Colorectal Cancer Alliance CEO talks screening

82

Food is Medicine: How Young Changemakers are Transforming Healthcare

83

Hon. Mary Bono, Mothers for Awareness and Prevention of Drug Abuse

84

Michael J. Fox’s Foundation Makes Parkinson’s Breakthrough

85

Colorectal Cancer Rising for Millennials & Gen Z: How to Reverse the Trend

86

Alzheimer’s Researchers Under Fire: Acclaimed Journalist Explains Why

87

Former Republican HHS Secretary Offers Bipartisan Wisdom

88

Egg Prices Up: Hear From Experts About Why

89

Guardrails for Health AI: How, Why and When

90

Do Your 2025 Healthcare Predictions Match Up With What an Expert Says?

91

Health Care & President Trump: What’s Happened So Far

92

NEJM’s 1st AI Editor on Tech’s Pluses & Minuses

93

Healthcare Providers & ChatGPT Will See You Now: Our Brave New World

94

2024 Rewind & Look Ahead for Health Care Issues

95

Holidays, Headaches & Heartache: Best Advice from the “Happiness Doctor”

96

What Elon Musk & Peter Thiel Invest In to Make Lives Longer

97

Nurse Practitioners: A Growing Opportunity

98

Pres. Trump’s HIV/AIDS Record: A Look Back & Ahead

99

“Dr. Happiness” on Surviving Family Discussions at Thanksgiving

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Did the millions spent matter? Election ’24 Health Care Ads