Plus: Going deeper in climate change The number of online companies offering mail-order invisible aligners is booming. But orthodontist Dr. Ingrid Murra says some are ruining people’s teeth and harming their overall health. In episode 51, we discuss her thoughts on venture-backed dentistry and how student debt forces dentists to…

Plus: meet the abortion doctor who used to be pro-life — Greetings from NYC where I’m teaching my course on digital health at Columbia Business School. I love being in the classroom and am grateful to be back after a long hiatus! 🎧 We had a full month of new episodes in August, here’s the d/l: Did you know? Did you know family surprises…

Do you know a healthcare non-profit positively impacting the lives and health of everyday Americans? 🎉 I’m thrilled to share The Heart of Healthcare Grant Challenge to give one deserving organization $25,000 and a full feature episode on the podcast. We’re looking for organizations positively impacting the lives and health…

Plus: the repeal of Roe v Wade, teen health, poop, toxic positivity, anti-asian racism, and the shigella smoothie This month we celebrate ONE YEAR of The Heart of Healthcare Podcast… and today we released our 40th episode (!!!), with the Founder of Impossible Foods. Patrick Brown doesn’t care about food…

For decades, the U.S. has been forcibly sterilizing women of color, taking away their basic human right to become a parent. It’s happening in prisons and immigration detention centers across the United States, where doctors are performing unwarranted hysterectomies and bilateral tubal ligation without proper consent. Last year, California announced…

A shorter version of this piece was published in Fortune. In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) has come a long way since the first IVF baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in 1978. Thirty years ago, your chances of bringing home a baby with each IVF try was 5%. Today, that number…

In episode 16 of The Heart of Healthcare Podcast, we talk to Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton who is advocating for a more equitable healthcare system. — Health disparities run so deep in this country, that your zip code is a better predictor of your health than your genetic code. …

In episode 15 of The Heart of Healthcare Podcast, we talk to transportation and safety expert Debbie Hersman about why women are more likely to die in car crashes, why traffic deaths increased during COVID, and if autonomous cars will save us. — Car Crashes Are No Accident In this episode, we talk with transportation and safety expert Debbie Hersman about how car crash deaths increased…music.amazon.com

In episode 14 of The Heart of Healthcare Podcast, we discuss how women’s needs are too often ignored in healthcare, and how we can upend the paternalistic system to achieve health equity. — Women control 80% of healthcare decisions in the US. At an individual level, studies have shown that women utilize more healthcare services — in fact, we are 76% more likely than men to have visited a doctor within the past year. At the family level, women are more likely…