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 first day of the of CDC's vaccine advisors, interesting from ADA, and unpacking on the USMLE Step 2. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting this week by are Kristina Fiore, Kristen Monaco/a>, and Cheryl Clark ....
Jun 27, 2025•14 min
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 at ACIP, whether it's time to say , and highlight some from ASCO. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting this week by are Kristina Fiore, Jennifer Henderson/a>, and Charles Bankhead ....
Jun 13, 2025•13 min
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 first FDA-approved , HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s about , which GLP-1 receptor agonist has the . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting this week by are Judy George, Kristina Fiore/a>, and Kristen Monaco ....
May 23, 2025•13 min
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 Jeremy Faust's with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, Trump's executive order , and how HICPAC's days was axed. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Our guests this week are Jeremy Faust, Kristina Fiore/a>, and Cheryl Clark ....
May 09, 2025•14 min
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 letters the , a Supreme Court case that could change what services the , and how the team behind a was axed. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Our guests this week are Rachael Robertson, Joyce Frieden , and Cheryl Clark , with additional reporting from Kristina Fiore ....
Apr 25, 2025•11 min
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 fallout from major , a study on how many immigrant HCPs under Trump, and how sweeping tariffs . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Our guests this week are Nicole Lou , Cheryl Clark , and Kristina Fiore ....
Apr 11, 2025•15 min
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 disturbing story of a hospital their loved ones had died, as well as the latest and Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Our guests this week are Jennifer Henderson , Cheryl Clark , and Kristina Fiore ....
Mar 28, 2025•14 min
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 deluge of healthcare news updates out of Washington from the past month. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Our guests this week are Jennifer Henderson , Cheryl Clark , and Kristina Fiore ....
Mar 07, 2025•14 min
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 deluge of healthcare news updates from the first few weeks of the second Trump presidency. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Our guest this week was Kristina Fiore ....
Feb 07, 2025•9 min
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 growing 'medical freedom' movement , another way that private equity harms patients , and the latest updates on the USMLE cheating scandal . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Jennifer Henderson, Kristina Fiore , and Rachael Robertson ....
Jan 17, 2025•11 min
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 murder of United Healthcare’s CEO raised questions about the risks healthcare leadership faces , RFK Jr. health-related conspiracies , and 'gold card' laws . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Michael DePeau-Wilson, Joyce Frieden , and Shannon Firth ....
Dec 13, 2024•14 min
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 happens to healthcare under Trump, including what actions he'll take and how he'll handle the Federal Trade Commission . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Joyce Frieden and Shannon Firth ....
Nov 15, 2024•11 min
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 allegations of a toxic work environment at the University of Virginia, new recommendations for additional COVID vaccines for older adults , and how some medical schools are giving credit for parenting and caregiving' . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Kristina Fiore, Sophie Putka, and Jenn...
Nov 01, 2024•11 min
We are back for another episode of our medical podcast, which we hope isn't really a podcast about medicine, but a podcast about life, death, dilemma, the challenges, and sometimes the joys of medicine. But what gets us going at Anamnesis isn’t that black and white discussion of medicine, but the parts of medicine that are gray. It’s what makes medicine an art, a practice, an experience. So we have in this episode not only three physicians, but three physician/authors who have discussed these ve...
Oct 25, 2024•33 min
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 medical education rundown , the first doctor of chiropractic program , and why MedPAC is questioning the value of 'extra benefits' . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Rachael Robertson , Sophie Putka, and Cheryl Clark ....
Oct 18, 2024•15 min
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 new COVID variant , why the FDA is concerned about amniotic fluid in eyedrops , conversations happening in California about certified registered nurse anesthetists’ scope of practice . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Kristina Fiore , Sophie Putka, and Jennifer H...
Sep 27, 2024•11 min
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 Tennessee is trying to fill their physician shortage and why they’re facing some hurdles . Plus, we dive into the question: how addictive is ketamine, the drug that killed Matthew Perry ? And lastly, a new off-Broadway musical about antimicrobial resistance . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineer...
Sep 13, 2024•13 min
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 major medical journals' highly varried conflict of interest policies . Plus, one doctor's fight for insurance coverage for her baby daughter's cancer . And lastly, the CDC's updated contraceptive guidance . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Cheryl Clark , Sophie Put...
Aug 16, 2024•13 min
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 new AIDS research, including an apparently cured AIDS patient and the PURPOSE 1 trial . Plus, the risks of swimming in dirty water (yeah...we're looking at you, Olympic swimming in the Seine). And lastly, whether slushies are dangerous for children. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg La...
Aug 02, 2024•14 min
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 administrative harm , why there is no alternative to IVF despite what some GOP lawmakers say , and some zebra tales . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Rachael Robertson , Kristina Fiore , and Michael DePeau-Wilson....
Jul 19, 2024•13 min
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 results of a survey that MedPage Today conducted among ob/gyns in abortion-restrictive states , a controversial BMJ paper that got an expression of concern after public outcry , and a Texas doctor accused of illegally accessing child health records . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Gr...
Jun 28, 2024•10 min
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 FDA advisory committee meeting on MDMA for PTSD treatment , how MedPage Today's reporting helped reverse NEJM's embargo policy that limited access for physician-focused publications , and the unexpected skin risk of margaritas by the pool this summer . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by ...
Jun 07, 2024•11 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discus RFK Jr.'s brain worm and creaky, strained voice , as well as how the doctor who said COVID vaccines could magnetize people got her license back and some medical tourism stem cell shots that didn't go as planned. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Rachael Robertson , K...
May 17, 2024•11 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discus H5N1 updates , including testing , vaccines , and antivirals , as well as a case that could change whether emergency departments can offer abortions and NEJM's rolled back embargo policy that will mostly impact medical publications. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by ...
May 03, 2024•15 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters dive deep into the world of for-profit nursing programs based on MedPage Today reporter Shannon Firth's series "What's the Matter With For-Profit Nursing Programs?" Here's part one (context), part two (Stratford University), part three (HCI College), and part four (Aspen University) of that series. Episode produced and hosted by Rachae...
Apr 22, 2024•19 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters dive deep into the world of for-profit nursing programs based on MedPage Today reporter Shannon Firth's series "What's the Matter With For-Profit Nursing Programs?" Here's part one (context), part two (Stratford University), part three (HCI College), and part four (Aspen University) of that series. Episode produced and hosted by Rachae...
Apr 19, 2024•17 min
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 an anti-DEI legislator has not been disinvited from speaking at a medical conference , a Senate investigation into some private equity companies that own emergency department staffing firms , and why we still haven’t seen the “Best Medical Schools” rankings yet . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engi...
Apr 12, 2024•11 min
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 international medical graduates and residency , a Miami doctor facing complaints related to a Brazilian butt lift gone wrong , and new research on gender and sexual harassment during internship and the gender pay gap in medicine . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by R...
Mar 29, 2024•14 min
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 leaked emails from the AAMC that reveal concern about an exodus from the standard residency application pathway, the APA’s thoughts on the rise of ketamine clinics , and a conversation about Medicare Advantage she had with Don Berwick, MD Rachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Rachael Robertson , Chery...
Mar 15, 2024•13 min
By way of introduction, here at Anamnesis — this is a medical podcast, but its one that isn’t about the pure medicine. Because sometimes medicine — the practice of medicine — is actually kind of simple. There’s drugs, there’s labs, there’s imaging, there’s research studies, trials, evidence-based medicine. Even if the actual content isn’t perfectly simple, there is a paradigm for the practice of medicine that is actually, in many ways, quite black and white. But what gets us going at Anamnesis i...
Mar 01, 2024•46 min
