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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 Dialogue on Menopause, Rebecca Thurston, PhD, explains the physiology, symptoms, and health risks associated w ... Show More

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 AI, cancer vaccines, and preventive medicine. Correction: a previous version of this podcast incorrectly identi ... Show More

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-part episode of Healthy Dialogue, Nancy E. Davidson, MD, oncologist and chief academic officer and executive vice ... Show More

Resident candidate, IMG, and AMA Research Challenge finalist Dr. Naga Ganti discusses her research on the prevalence of lung disease among e-cigarettes users, especially given that more than 2 million US youth use e-cigarettes. Poster: Epidemiology and prevalence of lung disea ... Show More

A few years ago, vaping was at the top of every parent’s list of worries — including Sanjay’s. But in just a few short years, the landscape has shifted again. Teen vaping rates have dropped, but new nicotine products have quickly taken their place. Dr. Pamela Ling, a professor at ... Show More

Nicotine is everywhere - but not in the way we once knew it. It’s not just in cigarettes anymore. It’s in sleek vapes, tiny pouches, lozenges, gum, even diffusers marketed as 'wellness'. And somewhere along the way, it stopped feeling like a vice and started looking... aesthetic. ... Show More

This is a revised version of an earlier episode and clarifies the position of Zyn in the US market.As the popularity of cigarettes has slid in the past couple decades, Big Tobacco has been searching for a new hit product. Now, they think they’ve found it: nicotine pouches. FT rep ... Show More

E-cigarettes and vapes have exploded in popularity in the last decade, especially among youth and young adults -- from 2011 to 2015, e-cigarette use among high school students in the US increased by 900 percent. Biobehavioral scientist Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin explains what you're ... Show More

Nicotine replacement therapy is an important tool in helping our patients quit smoking. There are lots of clinical pearls involving the pharmacology of nicotine patches and I explore them in this episode. Nicotine patches differ from the gum and other acute relief forms in that t ... Show More

Drs. Baraki and Feigenbaum discuss the effect of nicotine on health and performance. Papers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9622611/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2267009/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3391001/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21821089/ https://ww ... Show More

More and more people are using snus. Maybe you’ve noticed this where you live: people walking around with circular plastic tubs in their pockets and slipping small white parcels into their gums? There are two types: brown snus and white snus. Brown snus has been around for a whil ... Show More

In 1964, the release of the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health prompted one of the largest public health behavior change success stories of the 20th century. Before and since this groundbreaking report’s release, psychology has been at the forefront of smoking ce ... Show More