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Urban Health Weekly

Urban Health Weekly

119 episodes

4 months ago

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

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Episodes (20/119)

Urban Health Weekly

Food Myths - Episode #108

Tamara Thomas and Dr. Monique Nugent tackle whether the popular saying "If you can't pronounce it, don't eat it," still holds value for mindful eating.

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4 months ago

54 minutes 34 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #107

Cory Rice, DO, a practitioner specializing in Functional Medicine and anti-aging medicine, and Chief Clinical Advisor for Biote Medical, talks about the next steps for patients who have discontinued GLP-1s but still require assistance with reversing their health conditions.

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4 months ago

32 minutes 26 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #106

Dr. Alessandra Maleddu, a Medical Oncologist and Sarcoma Specialist at the University of Colorado, talks about desmoid tumors. She highlights methods for enhancing patient diagnosis through imaging techniques and the importance of referring patients to a sarcoma specialist.

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5 months ago

12 minutes 56 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

Conversations with Patient Advocates - Episode #105

After years of misdiagnoses and, later, infertility, April Christina was diagnosed with stage four endometriosis. She talks about the challenges of getting properly diagnosed as a Black woman, the emotional toll of infertility, and her experience with IVF. April Christina also emphasizes the importance of support systems, faith, and advocacy, as well as the resources available through Fertility Out Loud.

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5 months ago

27 minutes 20 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #104

Gregg Sylvester, MD, Chief Health Officer of CSL Seqirus, details why this year’s flu season is particularly severe.

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6 months ago

30 minutes 36 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #103

Dr. Andrew Hertler, Senior Advisor / Chief Medical Officer – emeritus for Evolent, explains ODAC’s September 2024 vote to support the FDA’s decision to restrict the use of PD-1 inhibitor drugs such as Opdivo, Keytruda, and Tevimbra for PD-L1-negative stomach cancer and esophageal cancer, and his support of using biomarkers to predict outcomes.

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6 months ago

43 minutes 35 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #102

Dr. Bruce Dorr, MD, FPMRS, FACOG, discusses menopausal women who possess gene mutations, such as BRCA1/2 or PTEN, and what they need to know about Hormone Replacement Therapy.

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6 months ago

36 minutes 23 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

FDA GRAS Loophole - Should Buyers Beware? - Episode #101

Tamara Thomas and Dr. Monique Nugent debate whether the FDA should actively inform the public that its FDA GRAS loophole allows companies to test and report on their food products.

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6 months ago

45 minutes 19 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders – Episode #100

Terra Wonsettler, PharmD, Vice President of Clinical Evidence, Policy, and Oncology Pharmacy at Evolent, discusses the cardiotoxicity of many cancer drugs, cancer patient awareness of these risks, and the accelerated cancer drug approval process.

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7 months ago

27 minutes 39 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

Hospice Secrets, Colorectal Cancer at 20 - Episode #99

Tamara Thomas and Dr. Monique Nugent Discuss:

Behind the Scenes of a recent Hospice Meeting;
A 20-year-old diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer (CRC)

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7 months ago

38 minutes 36 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

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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8 months ago

16 minutes 13 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

GLP-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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8 months ago

35 minutes 32 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

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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8 months ago

43 minutes 15 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

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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8 months ago

37 minutes 12 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

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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9 months ago

39 minutes 59 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

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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9 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes 44 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

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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10 months ago

35 minutes 9 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

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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10 months ago

1 hour 1 minute 17 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

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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10 months ago

41 minutes 16 seconds

Urban Health Weekly

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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11 months ago

21 minutes 52 seconds