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Healthy Dialogue
Go beyond the latest discoveries with nuanced, in-depth conversations in Healthy Dialogue, a podcast from the JAMA Network. Host and JAMA Senior Editor, Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, sits down with the world's leading experts to explore the most pressing issues in health and health care.
Episodes
Healthy DialogueUSPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
Interview with Martha Kubik, PhD, RN, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation…
Healthy DialogueAddressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Care and Medicine
While health disparities have gained growing attention in recent years, much work is still needed, as inequities continue to have a direct and measurable…
Healthy DialogueNoninvasive Ventilation of COVID-19 Patients
Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) may help COVID-19 patients in respiratory failure avoid invasive mechanical ventilation but may also lead to delays in intubation…
Healthy DialoguePrecision Dosing—A Clinical and Public Health Imperative
Interview with Kimberly Maxfield, PhD, author of Precision Dosing—A Clinical and Public Health Imperative
Healthy DialogueUSPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults
Interview with Chien-Wen W. Tseng, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults
Healthy DialogueA Conversation About Structural Racism in Medicine and Health Care
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, of Northwestern University, and David R. Williams, PhD, MPH…
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Update With Carlos del Rio and Preeti Malani
Coronavirus trends, variants, vaccines, treatment, and more. JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ, also from the University of Michigan, and Emory…
Healthy DialogueNational Initiatives to Prevent Myocardial Infarction and Stroke
Interview with Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, author of National Initiatives to Prevent Myocardial Infarction and Stroke
Healthy DialogueUSPSTF Recommendation—Screening for Lung Cancer
Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, author of USPSTF Recommendation—Screening for Lung Cancer
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Variants With John P. Moore
Genetic variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are emerging but so far do not seem to have caused breakthrough infections in people with previous infection or in…
Healthy DialogueWill COVID-19 Become a Recurrent Seasonal Disease?
Interview with Christopher J.L. Murray, MD, DPhil, author of The Potential Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Will SARS-CoV-2 Become a Recurrent Seasonal…
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Vaccine Update From the CDC With Nancy E. Messonnier, MD
Nancy E. Messonnier, MD is director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Healthy DialogueFunding of Pharmaceutical Innovation During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Interview with James C. Robinson, PhD, author of Funding of Pharmaceutical Innovation During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Healthy DialogueRemoving One Barrier to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment—Is It Enough?
Interview with Richard Saitz, MD, author of Removing One Barrier to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Is It Enough and with Yngvild Olsen, MD, author of…
Healthy DialogueNew Insights Into Plaque Erosion as a Mechanism of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Interview with Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD, author of New Insights Into Plaque Erosion as a Mechanism of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Update With CDC Director Rochelle Walensky - February 17, 2021
CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, returns to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the agency's response to emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, implications for the…
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Vaccine Update With Paul Offit – February 11, 2021
Paul A. Offit, MD, of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia returns to JAMA's Q&A series to provide an update on the emergence of COVID-19 variants and their…
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Vaccination in Pregnant and Breastfeeding Individuals
As US vaccine distribution expands to include younger healthier populations, questions about vaccine safety in women of childbearing age have become more…
Healthy DialogueMandating COVID-19 Vaccines—Ethical and Legal Considerations
Interview with Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, author of Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Variants - What They Mean
2021 has brought news of emerging SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants that increase transmissibility. Will they diminish vaccine efficacy and lead us to lose pandemic…
Healthy DialogueThe Triple Aim Applied to Correctional Health Systems
Interview with Donald Berwick, MD, author of The Triple Aim Applied to Correctional Health Systems
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Update With Anthony Fauci – February 3, 2021
NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, MD, returns to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss Shifts in the US pandemic response under the Biden administration Emerging genetic…
Healthy DialogueWhen Physicians Engage in Practices That Threaten the Nation's Health
Interview with Philip A. Pizzo, MD, author of When Physicians Engage in Practices That Threaten the Nation's Health
Healthy DialogueEnsuring Quality in the Era of Virtual Care
Interview with Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, author of Ensuring Quality in the Era of Virtual Care and Abraham Verghese, MD, author of Virtual Care and Real…
Healthy DialogueUSPSTF Recommendation: Carotid Artery Stenosis
Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of USPSTF Recommendation: Carotid Artery Stenosis
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Update With Peter Piot, MD, PhD
Peter Piot, MD, PhD, director of The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is a legend in global health, having been involved in identification of…
Healthy DialogueThree Interventions to Address the US Pandemic of Firearm Injury and Death
Interview with Frederick P. Rivara, MD, author of Three Interventions to Address the Other Pandemic—Firearm Injury and Death
Healthy DialogueHealth Care Reform in the Biden Era
President Biden has released a health care plan that proposes reducing the age of eligibility for Medicare to 60 years and introducing a public option. Larry…
Healthy DialogueRecalibrating the Use of Race in Medical Research
Interview with John P A Ioannidis, MD, DSC, author of Recalibrating the Use of Race in Medical Research
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Update With CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
Incoming Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, returns to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss her vision and…
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Vaccine Update with Paul Offit and Robert Wachter
To get more vaccine to more people more efficiently, UCSF School of Medicine's Robert M. Wachter, MD, recently urged giving a single dose now and deferring the…
Healthy DialoguePublic Health Messaging in an Era of Social Media
Interview with Raina M. Merchant, MD, author of Public Health Messaging in an Era of Social Media
Healthy DialogueThrombolysis Before Thrombectomy for Stroke
Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) and endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) both improve outcomes for patients with acute ischemic stroke. Jeffrey L. Saver, MD…
Healthy DialogueUSPSTF Recommendation: Tobacco Cessation in Adults
Interview with Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of USPSTF Recommendation: Tobacco Cessation in Adults
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Critical Care Update With Lennie Derde and Christopher Seymour
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted scientists to use adaptive research designs to evaluate potential treatments simultaneously and efficiently, increasing the…
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Vaccine Update With Arnold S. Monto, MD
Arnold S. Monto, MD, chaired the US Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meetings in December…
Healthy DialogueDiversifying Medical Education
Increasing the number of physicians who are Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous benefits everyone in the US, but it cannot be the sole responsibility of…
Healthy DialogueTo Err Is Human: 20 Years of Health Care Quality
The National Academy of Medicine's 2000 report "To Err Is Human" launched the health care quality movement in the US. Victor Dzau, MD, president of the…
Healthy DialogueDigital Health—The Need to Assess Benefits, Risks, and Value
Interview with Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, MD, PhD, author of Digital Health—The Need to Assess Benefits, Risks, and Value
Healthy DialogueCOVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity
With coronavirus vaccines now available, what are the timeline and prospects for "herd immunity" and return to a new normal? Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, of Harvard…
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Vaccine FDA Update
Peter W. Marks, MD, PhD, and Stephen M. Hahn, MD, return to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines: the data, the weekend's EUA…
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Vaccine Update With Anthony Fauci
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, returns to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines: the public data, deliberations at Thursday's FDA…
Healthy DialogueTrust in Health Care in the Time of COVID-19
Interview with David W. Baker, MD, MPH, author of Trust in Health Care in the Time of COVID-19
Healthy DialogueUSPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults
Interview with Chyke A. Doubeni, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Adolescents and…
Healthy DialogueThe COVID Tracking Project
The COVID Tracking Project, launched by The Atlantic, collects and publishes data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the US, including data on…
Healthy DialogueAsthma Guidelines Update 2020 - Diagnosis and Management
The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) of the NIH has updated its guideline recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of asthma…
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Vaccine Update With Paul Offit
With the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines reportedly under review at the US FDA for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), Paul A. Offit, MD, of the…
Healthy DialogueHealth Policy in the Supreme Court and a New Conservative Majority
Interview with Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, author of Health Policy in the Supreme Court and a New Conservative Majority
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Update with Nicholas Christakis
Yale Sterling Professor Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, returns to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the surge in US cases and other recent pandemic…
Healthy DialogueHealthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Interview with Martha Y. Kubik, PhD, RN, USPSTF member and coauthor of Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults With…
Healthy DialogueCOVID-19 Update—Critical Care and Pandemic Response
In the midst of rising COVID-19 case rates globally, Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, and Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, return to JAMA's Q&A series to update viewers…
Healthy DialogueOlder Adults and the Mental Health Effects of COVID-19
Interview with Ipsit V. Vahia, MD, author of Older Adults and the Mental Health Effects of COVID-19 Related Article(s): Older Adults and the Mental Health…
Healthy DialogueHeritable Human Genome Editing (HHGE)—The International Commission Report
Interview with Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS, author of Heritable Human Genome Editing: The International Commission Report
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus and US State Departments of Health
Ngozi O. Ezike, MD, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, discusses state and regional management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recorded November…
Healthy DialogueHerd Immunity as a Coronavirus Pandemic Strategy
Would letting coronavirus infect the broad US and global population be a safe and effective means of ending the COVID-19 pandemic? Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD…
Healthy DialogueUSPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Hypertension in Children and Adolescents
Interview with Michael Silverstein, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Hypertension in Children and Adolescents
Healthy DialogueLong-term Health Consequences of COVID-19
Interview with Carlos del Rio, MD, author of Long-term Health Consequences of COVID-19 Related Article: Long-term Health Consequences of COVID-19
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Update With Anthony Fauci - October 28, 2020
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, returns to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the latest developments in the COVID-19 pandemic, including the continued importance of…
Healthy DialogueCoronavirus Vaccine Update With Paul A. Offit, MD
Paul A. Offit, MD, of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, returns to JAMA's Q&A series to provide an update on progress in COVID-19 vaccine development…
Healthy DialogueClinical Genome Sequencing—The Importance of Implementation Data
Interview with Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD, author of Expanding Use of Clinical Genome Sequencing and the Need for More Data on Implementation Related content…