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MedPod Today is a podcast from MedPage Today where leading healthcare professionals and our seasoned reporters discuss the latest news and trends in the medical world. The podcast will feature diverse content, from our poignant medical story-telling show, Anamnesis, to reporter roundtables where our writers dive deeper into some of our most compelling healthcare stories. The podcast will also spotlight clinician conversations with our Editor-In-Chief, Jeremy Faust, MD.

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MedPod Today is a podcast from MedPage Today where leading healthcare professionals and our seasoned reporters discuss the latest news and trends in the medical world. The podcast will feature diverse content, from our poignant medical story-telling show, Anamnesis, to reporter roundtables where our writers dive deeper into some of our most compelling healthcare stories. The podcast will also spotlight clinician conversations with our Editor-In-Chief, Jeremy Faust, MD.

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English


Episodes
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MedPod Today: RFK Jr. Rundown; Florida Axes Vax Mandates; New Cardiology Research

9/12/2025
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 Cardiologyannual meeting. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Kristina FioreRachael Robertson Nicole Lou

Duration:00:11:51

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MedPod Today: CDC Shooting; Diet Guidance Retractions; Political Control of Grants

8/15/2025
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 reviewing grants from federal agencies will impact medical research. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Kristina FioreRachael Robertson Joyce Frieden

Duration:00:13:39

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MedPod Today: More HHS Personnel Changes; MMWR Slowdown; 'Expert Panels'

8/1/2025
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 by Kristina FioreRachael Robertson Joyce Frieden

Duration:00:13:05

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MedPod Today: Trans Healthcare Targeted; OTC Ivermectin; Low-Key BBB Provisions

7/18/2025
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 Beautiful Bill" that haven't gotten much media attention. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Kristina Fiore, Rachael Robertson Joyce Frieden

Duration:00:12:09

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MedPod Today: A New ACIP; Diabetes Meeting Update; USMLE Score Creep

6/27/2025
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 Kristina Fiore, Kristen Monaco/a>, and Cheryl Clark

Duration:00:13:32

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MedPod Today: ACIP Firings; Goodbye, Benadryl? Practice-Changing ASCO Studies

6/13/2025
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 Kristina Fiore, Jennifer Henderson/a>, and Charles Bankhead

Duration:00:12:53

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MedPod Today: Alzheimer's Blood Test; Vax Claims Debunked; Top GLP-1 for Weight Loss

5/23/2025
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 Judy George, Kristina Fiore/a>, and Kristen Monaco

Duration:00:13:09

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MedPod Today: Makary Interview; DEI Order Targets Medical Education; HICPAC Ends

5/9/2025
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 Jeremy Faust, Kristina Fiore/a>, and Cheryl Clark

Duration:00:13:51

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MedPod Today: DOJ's Med Journal Letters; Supreme Court Hears ACA Case; More HHS

4/25/2025
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 Joyce FriedenCheryl ClarkKristina Fiore

Duration:00:11:10

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MedPod Today: Inside HHS Cuts; Immigrant HCPs at Risk; Tariffs' Impact on Healthcare

4/11/2025
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 Nicole LouCheryl ClarkKristina Fiore

Duration:00:14:57

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MedPod Today: Hospital Hoarded Corpses; Washington Rundown; Match Day Trends

3/28/2025
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 Jennifer HendersonCheryl ClarkKristina Fiore

Duration:00:14:07

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MedPod Today: This Week's Top D.C. Healthcare News

3/7/2025
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 Jennifer HendersonCheryl ClarkKristina Fiore

Duration:00:14:15

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MedPod Today: Healthcare Policy in the Second Trump Administration

2/7/2025
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 Kristina Fiore

Duration:00:08:41

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MedPod Today: 'Medical Freedom'; More Private Equity Harms; USMLE Cheating Scandal

1/17/2025
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 Kristina FioreRachael Robertson

Duration:00:11:29

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MedPod Today: CEO Murder Shows Industry Risks; RFK Jr. Conspiracies; Gold Card Laws

12/13/2024
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 Joyce FriedenShannon Firth

Duration:00:13:50

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MedPod Today: What Happens to Healthcare Under Trump?

11/15/2024
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 Shannon Firth

Duration:00:11:21

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MedPod Today: Upcoding Concerns; COVID Vax Recs; Med School Credit for Parenting

11/1/2024
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discussallegations 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 Sophie Putka, and Jennifer Henderson

Duration:00:11:07

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A Moral Code: Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine

10/25/2024
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 very sorts of moral codes and ethical dilemmas in their books to share some of the intricacies of these decisions in the life-changing and sometimes life-ending impact of these decisions. And that’s what this episode is about: We’re actually covering both the voices of patient and healthcare worker — and what happens when one voice crosses into the other role — because the theme of this episode is “A Moral Code: Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine.” Chapter 1: His Death Would Not Be a Good Death (2:31) — One patient case has this doctor rethinking what separates a good death from a bad death. Chapter 2: Should I Offer My Patient the Option to End His Life? (12:32) — A doctor's internal debate on whether it's appropriate to provide her patient with legal options. Chapter 3: We Don't Always Know What's 'Best' for Our Patients (21:09) — When doing the right thing for our patient sometimes feels wrong. Episode produced by Genevieve Friedman Sound engineering by Greg Laub Theme music by Palomar

Duration:00:32:35

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MedPod Today: Med Ed Drama; Chiropractic in Academia; MA 'Extra Benefits' Worth It?

10/18/2024
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discussa 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.

Duration:00:15:01

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MedPod Today: New COVID Variant; FDA Eye Drop Warning; CRNA Scope Creep?

9/27/2024
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discussa 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 Henderson.

Duration:00:11:00