Urban Health Weekly

By Urban Health Weekly

The Urban Health Weekly Podcast: Medical News That Matters to You

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The podcast currently has 119 episodes available.

Urban Health Weekly episodes:

March 15, 2025 Conversations with Patient Advocates - Episode #98
Bernie Williams is a former MLB star, a musician (a Latin Grammy award nominee), and an Interstitial Lung Disease advocate. He talked to Urban Health Today, in recognition of Rare Disease Day, about his father, whom he lost to Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, a rare ILD responsible for over 40,000 US Deaths annually that is often tragically misdiagnosed. Bernie also discussed raising ILD awareness, his partnership with Tune In To Lung Health, and the healing power of music.
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17min
March 08, 2025GLP-1 Side Effects; Ultra Processed Food & Alcohol Use All Good? - Episode #97
Tamara Thomas and Dr. Monique Nugent Discuss:
A study reveals that GLP-1s have concerning side effects;
Writers Downplay Ultra Processed Food & Alcohol Use
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36min
February 28, 2025 Conversations with Patient Advocates - Episode #96
Gaylyn, an Inflammatory Bowel Disease and ostomy advocate, was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease at only 14 years old. Initially, her family thought it was anything but an IBD, but once it was clear something serious was wrong, they rallied around her. Today, Gaylyn is an IBD Social Circle partner. She discusses the importance of IBD representation and awareness in the Black community. Gaylyn also talks about normalizing and being a model with an ostomy bag.
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44min
February 21, 2025 Former US Surgeon General's Parting Words of Advice - Episode #95
Tamara Thomas and Dr. Monique Nugent discuss:

*Supreme Court's decision to take up a case challenging the Affordable Care Act's preventive coverage requirements
*Former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's strong recommendations for US alcohol warning labels to help raise awareness of alcohol's relationship to cancer.
*Murthy's wise words about our physical and mental health.
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38min
February 07, 2025 Conversations with Patient Advocates - Episode #94
It took 10 years before Cedric Pulliam, Ph.D, received a diagnosis and treatment for his Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Throughout college, as he suffered debilitating bouts of bowel distress, doctors advised him everything from managing his stress and improving his diet to decreasing alcohol consumption. No one bothered to dig deeper into the pain and frequent diarrhea. Now an Inflammatory Bowel Disease patient advocate and partner with IBD Social Circle, Dr. Pulliam shares his journey from struggling with unmanaged illness to firing his provider to get properly diagnosed and treated.
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40min
February 01, 2025 What PCPs Want from a Trump Presidency - Episode #93
Welcome to Season 2 of Urban Health Weekly!

Tamara Thomas, editor-in-chief of Urban Health Today, is joined by new guest host, Hospitalist, speaker, and author Dr. Monique Nugent, to discuss:

-The Primary Care Physician shortage and what the AAFP wants from the incoming Trump Administration.
-Whether a 3-year medical school program is as rigorous as the traditional 4-year program
-What makes health care so expensive?
-What will America's health landscape look like under RFK Jr. as US Secretary of Health?
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1h 3min
January 17, 2025 Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #92
Von Nguyen, MD, MPH, Chief Clinical Officer at Evolent, discusses AI's use in medicine and population health.
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36min
January 10, 2025 Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #91
Julie Schulz, MD, MPH, Physician Executive, Product leader, and VP of Product, and Michael Dovidio, PharmD, Product Manager at Avalon Healthcare Solutions, discuss why leveraging cardiometabolic lab values instead of BMI to determine coverage for GLP-1 drugs would improve prescription availability for diabetic and obese patients.
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1h 2min
January 03, 2025 Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #90
Kamal Golla, MD, MPH, a Board-Certified Urologist, Senior Medical Director for Value Transformation at Evolent, and the lead architect of the new Navigation Support program, offers recommendations to improve specialist engagement with primary care physicians, which will lead to seamless, high-quality, whole-person care for patients.
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42min
December 21, 2024 Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #89
Patient Advocate and influencer Alisha Bridges talks about her experience living with scalp and plaque psoriasis as a person of color and how patients can advocate for themselves to receive the care they deserve.
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22min

FAQs about Urban Health Weekly:

How many episodes does Urban Health Weekly have?

The podcast currently has 119 episodes available.