It's New Year's Eve, which is as good of a time as any to check in on your own mental health as we enter 2024. Care Counseling's Dr. Heidi Bausch joins Susie Jones to talk about how you can help care for yourself and when you might need additional help.

Dr. Susan Palchick, Public Health Director for Hennepin County Public Health and Dr. Emily Escue of Hennepin Healthcare join Susie Jones to talk about vaccination. From an effort to boost immunity from the county to what the benefits of vaccines are and the differences between COVID, flu and RSV. 

Dr. Gavin Bart MD, PhD at Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute joins Susie to talk about addiction. From the rising threat of Meth amidst and Opioid addiction epidemic to causes and treatment, Dr. Bart talks all things addiction.

Dr. Clarence Shannon, Assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and an anesthesiologist with M Health Fairview joins Susie to talk about chronic pain and answer your questions. From how the cold effects joints, to acupuncture, injections and medications, Dr. Shannon answers what you need to know.

Thanksgiving is behind us and we are in the thick of the holiday season. So on today’s show we talked with Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, founder and director of the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing at the University of Minnesota about mindful eating and how to better serve your health with eating and the ability to choose what you eat and how emotional reactions affect our eating habits.

Physicians Assistant at Allina's Bariatric Medicine Department, Andrea Brody, joins Susie to discuss the newest FDA approved weight loss drug, how it works, side effects and how this one could be a game-changer.

Deputy Chief of Hennepin Healthcare EMS Operations, Charlie Sloan, joins Susie to talk about all things 911, from weird calls, when to call, the opioid epidemic and how the system all works.

Allina Health and Astrin Biosciences Dr. Badrinath Konety discusses a new clinical study looking at early detection of cancers. If you're interested in becoming a part of the study, you can call the number 612-863-8716

This week we talked to Dr. Nick Schneeman, a Geriatrician with LifeSpark, (Senior Care Group) about prescriptions, specifically with seniors taking too many medications due to overprescribing and utilizing "deprescribing" to better improve the health of many. 

Minneapolis based artist Barbara Porwit talks about her project to draw breast cancer survivors as superheroes. From resilience to hurt and perseverance, Barbara as well as one of her subjects Katie Tessman and writer Kevyn Burger talk about it.