Healthy Dialogue

Menopause Part 2: Why Are So Many Physicians Unprepared to Treat This Natural Transition?

In episode 2 of our Healthy Dialogue on Menopause, Rebecca Thurston, PhD, discusses the lack of clinician training and research investment in menopause, as well as new tr

Menopause Part 1: Beyond Hormones and Hot Flashes

Menopause affects half the population yet is critically understudied and often overlooked or misunderstood by much of the medical profession. In episode 1 of our Healthy

Breast Cancer Part 2: The Reality of Breast Cancer Screening and Care Today

In part 2 of this Healthy Dialogue on breast cancer, Nancy E. Davidson, MD, discusses changes in screening, the patient journey, and what may lie ahead with advances in A

Breast Cancer Part 1: From Deadly to Manageable Disease

Breast cancer has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past several decades. Five-year survival rates are now 92% compared with 76% in 1975. In this special 2-par

Providing Rural Health Care Is Really Hard; 60 Million Americans Rely on It

Approximately 1 in 5 Americans live in rural areas, and in the coming years they will see dramatic shifts in their health care options due to the One Big Beautiful Bill A

Long COVID: the problem society wants to forget

Long COVID is a debilitating condition impacting millions of people around the world, but is still poorly understood, poorly defined, and poorly treated. In this episode

Everyone Will Feel the $1 Trillion Cut in Medicaid

Medicaid provides health insurance for 1 in 5 Americans and plays a crucial role in US health care infrastructure. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is estimated to

Should Everyone be on GLP-1s?

GLP-1 receptor agonists are one of the most revolutionary new classes of drugs in decades. In this episode of Healthy Dialogue, host Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, sat down wit

Food Politics, Obesity, and the "Wicked Mess" We're In

The United States has witnessed a staggering rise in obesity beginning in the early 1980s, leading to a wide array of important health consequences including heart diseas

Why and How Should the Government Fund Biomedical Research?

This episode of Healthy Dialogue explores the history and future of science funding in the US in light of recent changes, and proposed changes, from the federal governmen

Social Media Use by Children – wonderful, hazardous, or something in-between?

In this episode of Healthy Dialogue, host Derek Angus, MD, MPH sits down with Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH, to discuss whether social media use disorder is a real phenomen

Unpacking the Increase in Early-Onset Cancer

A growing number of young adults are being diagnosed with cancer, particularly colorectal cancer, but the underlying cause remains unclear. In this episode of Healthy Dia

Private Equity's Growing Presence in Health Care: Promise or Peril?

Private equity investment continues to expand across US health care. Current estimates put private equity ownership at almost 10% of hospitals and more than one-fifth of

A New Era in Dementia: Advances in Diagnostic Blood Tests, Novel Drugs, and the Power of Lifestyle Changes

Dementia affects millions of people globally, causing profound memory loss and cognitive impairment and compromising the ability to function independently in day-to-day l

AI Scribes Are Here, but Is Health Care Ready?

The rise in use and function of ambient AI scribes is arguably one of the fastest technologic changes ever seen in health care. In this episode of Healthy Dialogue, host

Rethinking the Autism "Epidemic": What's Driving the Rise in Diagnosis

What is behind the rise in autism diagnoses? Join Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD, professor of developmental neuropsychiatry at Columbia University, and JAMA Psychiatry

Introducing 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, M

From the JAMA Network: JAMA Research of the Year With Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

In this episode, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, and Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi discuss the journal's inaugural Research of the Yea

The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA)-2 Score

SOFA-2, validated in more than 3 million intensive care unit (ICU) patients, incorporates contemporary organ support treatments, showing strong predictive validity for IC

From the JAMA Network: Acetaminophen Use in Pregnancy and Risk of Autism

Epidemiologist Brian Lee, PhD, discusses his study on acetaminophen use during pregnancy and children's risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders in this inte