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MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss our editor-in-chief's conversation with Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH , how physician groups responded to RFK Jr.'s inflammatory comments about AI giving better care than doctors, and why some patients email CEOs over insurance denial...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss an artificial intelligence research boot camp that promises a finished paper in 2 days, a physician's response to potentia rollbacks to resident work-hour protections , and a potential new definition for measles . Episode produce...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss a boycott of the American Diabetes Association , and two lawsuits that paint different pictures of the residency application landscape . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss why a physician group is suing the government over the most recent dietary guidelines , an expensive new NIH policy , and a pediatrician running to succeed Lindsay Graham . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss what we know about 'The Pitt' season 3 , evolving definitions of gain-of-function research , and a former CDC director's advice for the new director . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how public health groups across the country are monitoring infectious disease threats during the World Cup, another clash between physicians and private equity , and behind-the-scenes on how we broke news about ADA kicking out di...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss what you need to know about a new rule politicizing grants , lessons from the 2014 Ebola care teams , and updates on the hantavirus situation. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss what you need to know about the hantavirus situation , how CMS is considering auto-enrolling some patients in MA , and new research on Mel Gibson's ivermectin influence. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound en...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss what you need to know about RFK Jr.'s "hearingpalooza," how the majority of articles published in a guest-edited BMJ journal edition were retracted, and new research on "superretractors." Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Ro...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how “The Pitt” has handled the pervasive "ortho bro" stereotype and what doctors want to see next season , how some states are working to make it easier for foreign-trained doctors to practice in the U.S, and healthcare professio...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA is handling Medicare and Medicaid fraud , Match Day 2026 trends , and a rare disease that may be popping up tied to increasing vaccine hesitancy. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Rob...

What makes The Pitt feel different from other medical dramas? In this 53-minute MedPage Today special dispatch , Jeremy Faust, MD, speaks with Joe Sachs, MD, emergency physician and executive producer of the hit series, about how the show balances clinical accuracy with storytelling, and why it’s resonating with both clinicians and the public. From meticulous on-set medical consulting to storyline...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss a battle in Oregon over local versus corporate emergency room ownership , what ob/gyns have to say about so-called trimester zero , and which public health figures the public actually trusts . Episode produced and hosted by Racha...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss the revolving door leadership at NIH's Institutes and Centers , UnitedHealthcare's controversial new Medicare Advantage policy , and a bill that would erase two decades worth of certain types of state nursing board discipline . E...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti , what doctors think about ChatGPT Health , and RFK Jr.'s claims about fermented food and weight loss . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss changes to the childhood immunization schedule , the controversial new dietary guidelines' , and a MedPage project tracking the spread of measles . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss a conspiracy theory about the origins of Lyme disease , ob/gyns' reactions to 'wild pregnancies' and 'freebirths' , and the struggles facing a CMS Diabetes Prevention Program . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . S...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss a scoop on new CDC leadership , the different facets of the MAHA empire , and how some see echoes of eugenics in MAHA. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how the decision to remove the black box warning on menopause hormone therapy products, how and why some GLP-1s will now be covered by Medicare , and new research on butt breathing . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Roberts...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how the reductions-in-force at CDC and the surrounding chaos, FDA’s crackdown on the unapproved weight-loss drug retatrutide, and which hospitals are performing the most, unnecessary spine surgeries . Episode produced and hosted...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how the government shutdown may affect healthcare, the debate on whether physician paid expert witnesses can ever be truly impartial, and what we know about HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s CDC contact, Dr. William Thompson...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss the latest RFK Jr. news , Florida's announcement it would end vaccine mandates , and the top research from the European Society of Cardiology annual meeting. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how the public health community is responding to the shooting at CDC , why nutrition and obesity experts are worried about upcoming dietary guidelines , and how an executive order putting political appointees in charge of reviewi...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss an FDA official's abrupt exit and the future of USPSTF , a major publishing slowdown at MMWR , and why FDA's so-called 'expert panels' are raising red flags . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering b...

MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how the federal government has been targeting gender-affirming care for youth, which states have passed laws making ivermectin available over-the-counter (OTC), and highlight some under-the-radar provisions in the so-called "Big...