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The Preprint with Dr. Neel Shah

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Every person should be able to grow their family with dignity. For most people, it’s not that simple—but we believe it should be. Hosted by Dr. Neel Shah, former academic OB/GYN and current Chief Medical Officer of Maven Clinic, The Preprint considers the realities of reproductive, maternal, and family healthcare through conversations with the people working to improve it. It studies the systems that bring people into the world, and the ones that let them down. Inspired by the scientific term for earlier research before it’s been peer-reviewed, each episode of The Preprint explores the gaps in...

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Addressing Dogma with Dr. Dorothy Fink 25.06.2026 29:12

Women’s health has moved from the margins of healthcare policy to the center of the national conversation. Fertility rates are falling. GLP-1 medications are reshaping how we think about metabolic disease. Maternal mortality remains unacceptably high. Rural hospitals are struggling to keep maternity services open. And all of these challenges are competing for attention at the same time. At the sam...

Who Deserves a GLP-1? with Dr. Janelle Duah 27.05.2026 35:54

GLP-1 medications seemed to appear overnight: suddenly everywhere from physicians’ offices to TikTok feeds to dinner table conversations. But for obesity and lifestyle medicine specialist Dr. Janelle Duah, the story started long before the headlines. In the first episode of The Preprint, Dr. Neel Shah and Dr. Duah unpack what GLP-1s actually are, how they affect nearly every organ system in the bo...

Introducing: The Preprint with Dr. Neel Shah 14.05.2026 0:46

Every person should be able to find their shortest and easiest path to parenthood. But that’s not the world we live in yet. Introducing The Preprint with Dr. Neel Shah: a monthly podcast hosted by Dr. Shah, an OB/GYN and Chief Medical Officer at Maven Clinic, the world’s largest virtual clinic for women and families. Dr. Shah explores the systems that bring people into the world, the ones that let...