Why You Should Care About Public Health

The diabetes drugs that transformed weight loss may be key to treating addiction, too. Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with Dr. Dhruv Khullar about how GLP-1s affect the brain, its reward system, and maybe even addiction. This episode was produced by Jennifer Lai with assistance from Sof ...  Show more

An FDA panel has recommended allowing compounding pharmacies to make six unapproved peptides. Dr. Sanjay Gupta and CNN Health's John Bonifield discuss their popularity, safety concerns and what comes next. This episode was produced by Madeleine Thompson and Leying Tang. Medical W ...  Show more

Whether you're aware of it or not, public health messaging shapes many aspects of our lives. The way medical institutions and the government communicate messages to do with our health (like when to get the flu shot or how often to wash your hands) is often the link between scienc ...  Show more

Imagine a world where health agencies serve people, not profits…could that be the key to ending America’s chronic disease epidemic? In this episode of the Ultimate Human Podcast, I sit down with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), HHS Secretary and the leader of the Make America Hea ...  Show more

In this episode, my guest is Dr. Vivek Murthy, M.D., the acting U.S. Surgeon General who earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his M.D. from Yale School of Medicine. We discuss nutrition, food additives, social media and mental health, public health initiatives to comb ...  Show more

Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University School of Public Health, discusses his book Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time. Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Paul Brennan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.