Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast

In the final episode of our four-part series “Hot Topics in Neonatology” we explore neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a byproduct of prenatal drug exposure — one of the fastest growing public health problems in the world. In the U.S., the most recent data from the CDC indicate that the number of pregnant people with opioid-related diagnoses documented at delivery increased by 131% from 2010 to 2...

In the third of our four-part series “Hot Topics in Neonatology” we talk with health care providers who are on the frontlines working to prevent adverse outcomes and improve the quality of care for the most vulnerable babies. SEGMENT 1 : Necrotizing enterocolitis  (NEC) is the most common and serious intestinal disease among premature babies. It’s so dire that preventing it has become the life’s w...

We continue our four-part series “Hot Topics in Neonatology” with Part 2 that explores the latest in neonatology-related research and education with experts from across the United States. SEGMENT 1 : Amniotic fluid is the liquid that surrounds a baby during pregnancy, and it plays a key role in the development of the fetus. According to the March of Dimes, in the early weeks of pregnancy, the amni...

We begin our four-part series “Hot Topics in Neonatology” with the story of author and preemie family advocate Deborah Discenza . Deb was 30 weeks pregnant when she gave birth to her daughter, Becky.  In this episode she shares their NICU story of persistence, resilience, and how she is paying it forward by helping and supporting other pregnant people and their pre-term babies. Find resources and...

New research indicates that injecting neuroblastoma tumors with Zika virus can shrink or eliminate those tumors in mice, suggesting that the virus could someday serve as an effective cancer therapy. This is newly published in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Research Communications , from the American Association for Cancer Research. On this week's episode, we hear from the study's lead,...

SEGMENT 1:  Culinary medicine is an evidence-based medical practice that affirms the saying "You are what you eat." One part food, one part cooking, and one part medical science, culinary medicine aims to help folks make the right decisions about food to help prevent and treat disease. Pediatric gastroenterologist Dr. Maria Mascarenhas with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia co...

SEGMENT 1: We're exploring the world of pediatric anesthesiology and the pressures and stresses of being an anesthesiologist with Dr. Destiny Chau, Dr. Meera Gangadharan, and Dr. Meenakshi Atteri. SEGMENT 2: It's a trip to Philadelphia Marathon Weekend to learn more about the mentorship work of Students Run Philly Style with its Executive Director Lauren Kobylarz . Host/Producer : Carol...

It's a pediatric health care innovation episode of Well Beyond Medicine covering two new tools applicable to improving the health and health care experience of the smallest of babies. SEGMENT 1: It was a casual exchange between two colleagues that proved to be the point of conception for an infant positioning cradle, dubbed SmolTap, a simple medical device designed to safely, comfortably and...

You've probably heard the news: an FDA-approved treatment for sickle cell disease applying the gene-editing tool CRISPR is now available in the U.S. It's a landmark moment in medical science on two fronts: the treatment - called Casgevey - is the first FDA-approved regimen to utilize CRISPR technology to treat any genetic disease. And it's a huge leap forward in the treatment of sic...

SEGMENT 1:  Orange County, California is home to nearly 3.2 million people. Its 42 miles of beachfront and major attractions such as Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm, and Mission San Juan Capistrano, make it a major West Coast tourist destination. Orange County is also home to the Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), where Dr. Sandip Godambe is the Chief Medical Officer. In a wide-...

SEGMENT 1: The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that in 2022, one in every five children in the United States was unsure where, when, or even if they would get their next meal. Childhood food insecurity significantly impacts physical, social, cognitive, and behavioral development. Blessings in a Backpack has become a national leader and model for fighting food insecurity in kids and working...

Healthcare has always been a hotbed of innovation, though it seems today to be moving forward at light speed, with a wide range of advancements to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness, safety, accessibility, and quality of healthcare services at the bedside and behind the scenes. We're talking healthcare innovation today with two national experts whom we met up with at HLTH 2023, including N...

Dr.  Stephen Klasko is a dynamic healthcare visionary who led Jefferson Health in Philadelphia as its President and CEO during much of the COVID-19 pandemic and currently serves as Executive in Residence for the venture capital group General Catalyst (GC).  GC made news when they announced their intention to create the Health Assurance Transformation Corporation, through which they plan to buy an...

Dr. Garth Graham, the Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health Partnerships at YouTube, has long espoused the belief that information is a social determinant of health. We had the chance to talk with Dr. Graham at HLTH 2023 in Las Vegas about this concept, as well as the topics of medical misinformation, health literacy, and the role, influence, and responsibility of YouTube - the...

Medical misinformation is a serious issue that is on the radar of policymakers, public health officials, pediatricians, and parents alike. It's so prominent that in 2021, with the COVID-19 pandemic raging and an undercurrent of medical misinformation working against public health efforts at vaccination, the Office of U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory on the deadly conse...

If you are serious about pushing boundaries and transforming health and wellness, HLTH is the place to be. The 2023 edition of HLTH, held earlier this month in Las Vegas, united more than 10,000 senior executives, decision-makers, and innovators across the healthcare spectrum whose common goal is to discuss the trends and strategies needed to create health's future and move them forward. This...

AI will NOT replace the work of a skilled, trained, experienced human clinician. Yet AI, in all its formulations and manifestations, has the potential to bring revolutionary change and improved outcomes on a global scale. So, what's next for AI in pediatric cardiology? Our AI experts weigh in. Featuring: Dr. Scott Anjewierden, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota Dr. Rima Arnaout, Assistant Prof...

Dr. Pei-Ni Jone is Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory a the Heart Center of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Dr. Jone also leads an artificial intelligence workgroup for the American College of Cardiology. The group was established to help fill an education gap for her fellow member physicians regarding the fast-paced changes that AI is bringing to the fi...

Dr. Babar Hasan is an Associate Professor and a Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist at the Department of Pediatric and Child Health, Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. We sat down with him at the World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in Washington DC recently to talk about artificial intelligence from a global perspective:  development, research, and clinical implementati...

Dr. Rima Arnaout is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a member of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, and her area of expertise is as an adult cardiologist. Yet her work in artificial intelligence has spilled into the pediatric world. Her vast knowledge base includes research and background with AI as a predictive tool. We began our conv...

For all the hope that artificial intelligence (AI) brings to healthcare, there are perils, patient privacy concerns, public trust, legal and ethical considerations, the fear of biased algorithms, and how to handle the need for massive amounts of the right data to feed AI algorithms.  We'll discuss that with experts from across the world of pediatric cardiology. Featuring: Dr. Rima Arnaout, As...

It seems we've been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence (AI) lately: It’s how Netflix knows what to recommend you watch next.  From ChatGPT to Netflix, AI is everywhere - and it's changing healthcare in all its aspects. The promise, the peril, and the prophecy of AI in healthcare are what we are going to examine in our next three podcast episodes. We’ll be talking with pediatric...

Seemingly everywhere we turn, we hear about artificial intelligence - AI, and healthcare is no exception. In fact, it appears that healthcare and medicine are at the beginning stages of an all-encompassing AI revolution.  Let's set the stage, though, about what AI in healthcare is with two experts from Nemours Children's Health: Pediatric cardiologist Dr. Devyani Chowdhury and Dr. Shubhi...

Dr. Mark Friedberg is a Pediatric Cardiologist at the Labatt Family Heart Centre, in the Division of Cardiology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. He's also a senior associate scientist at the research center there. When we met up to talk with him at the World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in Washington, DC recently, we started our discussion with the...

Dr. Charitha Reddy joins us for this episode. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardology, Stanford Medicine, Palo Alto, CA. We sat down to talk at the recent World Congress of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery about a wide range of topics regarding artificial intelligence in medicine and healthcare, including deep learning, which she'll explain more fully in relation to the ech...