Nemours Children's Health
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Exploring people, programs and partnerships addressing whole child health.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Well Beyond Medicine connects pediatric care to the policies, technologies, and social conditions that shape children's health beyond the clinic.
Carol Vassar keeps returning to a useful question: what shapes children's health before and after a clinical visit? Produced by Nemours Children's Health, Well Beyond Medicine uses expert interviews to connect pediatric care with policy, technology, family life, and conditions…
A teen's phone and Medicaid policy walk into the same pediatric conversation; you get the bigger picture.
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A steady look at how public data is shaped, checked, and made usable.
Richard Coffin and USA Facts make a solid case for why public data earns trust. The focus stays on the organization’s goal of giving people nonpartisan information they can use, and the details are practical: collecting data, adding metadata, making it interoperable, using AI…
A practical guide to conversations adults keep putting off.
The episode focuses on the conversations adults often put off with teenage boys: health, emotions, relationships, love, ethics, and how to help them move toward adulthood in a world shaped by tech and social media.
A grounded look at childhood loneliness, early warning signs, and the limits of AI support.
Carol Vassar and Lucy Rose keep the focus on what chronic loneliness can look like in children: a sudden drop in school performance, new clinginess or withdrawal, constant scrolling, and a loss of interest in activities that once mattered.
A clear look at CMV, hearing loss, and why early testing matters.
The episode makes CMV feel concrete rather than abstract. It connects the virus to hearing loss, timing, and diagnosis in a way that is easy to follow, and it handles the pediatric angle clearly.
A steady case for meeting people where they already are online.
Dr. Bio Curry Winchell and Carol Vassar frame a practical question: how health information can travel beyond the exam room and still land in a form people can use.
A careful look at pediatric obesity care, GLP-1s, stigma, and the limits of pediatric long-term data.
This episode frames pediatric obesity care as a real-world access problem as much as a clinical one. Dr. Angela Fitch talks through virtual care, size stigma, and GLP-1 use, while keeping one eye on the gap between what the larger retrospective data have not shown and what…
A policy conversation that stays focused on children, families, and the trust that holds care together.
This conversation with Dr. Joseph Bettencourt keeps coming back to a plain but stubborn question: what happens to children when coverage and policy shifts hit their families.
A practical listen on grooming, online risk, and prevention-minded questions.
Carol Vassar and Erin Williamson treat child human trafficking as a practical prevention problem, not a distant headline. They start with the warning messages now appearing on air, rail, and bus systems, in airports, stations, and even bathroom stalls, then follow the trail into…
Birth choices, argued in plain language.
Warm health talk for messy real life.
Nemours Children's Health's Well Beyond Medicine episode pairs Dr.
This segment introduces GE HealthCare's Care Intellect for Perinatal Solution, a digital tool designed to improve maternal and infant health by providing real-time data monitoring and risk assessment for conditions like postpartum hemorrhage and shoulder dystocia.
Well Beyond Medicine Episode features pediatric dentist Ashley Lerman discussing oral health development from conception through childhood.
Carol Vassar frames the episode around the warning signs now posted across airports, stations, and transit systems.
Lucy Rose, founder and president of the Cost of Loneliness Project, says chronic loneliness is a hidden public health issue rooted in stigma, not just occasional social discomfort.
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Carol Vassar speaks with Nancy Malello, Treasure Ray, and Areeba Ali about the Ginsburg Scholars Program’s Global Health Experience in Uganda and how it connects to Nemours Children’s Health.
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Carol Vassar talks with Micky Tripathi, Mayo Clinic’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Implementation Officer, at Health in Las Vegas in October 2025.
Richard Coffin, Chief of Research and Advocacy at USAFacts, explains why the organization only uses government data and launched on tax day in 2017.
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Nemours Children's Health says its advanced care-at-home program is the nation's first pediatric version of hospital-level care delivered in the home, run from a 24-7 clinical operations center in Jacksonville.
Carol Vassar speaks with retired NASA astronaut Cady Coleman about six months on the ISS, three shuttle and station missions, and the path that started with Sally Ride’s talk at MIT.
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Well Beyond Medicine devotes this episode to congenital CMV, a virus Carol Vassar says is the leading non-hereditary cause of hearing loss in children.
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Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast visits the Ginsburg Institute Symposium in Orlando for a conversation on "Healing Through the Arts" with psychologist Dr.
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Nemours Children's Health’s Well Beyond Medicine episode follows a second conversation about Ginsburg Scholars’ Uganda experience with Dr.
Carol Vassar opens the conversation around CMV.
This episode introduces a two-part series on whole child health implementation in action.
Isabel Jaron, founder of the Latino Cancer Institute, connects her 2000 Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis with more than two decades of cancer advocacy, community education, and journalism.
Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast speaks with Christopher Pepper and Joanna Schroeder about how adults can talk with teenage boys about health, emotions, relationships, and masculinity.
Carol Vassar continues a two-part look at whole child health, this time moving from community partnerships to innovative payment models.
This episode discusses the new federal dietary guidelines and their practical implications for children, clinicians, and caregivers.
A podcast exploring the 85% of health impacts outside the doctor's office, featuring experts on children's health from various sectors.
This episode covers a pediatric cancer awareness event at a Phillies game and interviews a new division chief for hematology and oncology.
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This episode discusses the prevalence of health misinformation on social media and the role of pediatricians in countering it.