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From ensuring food security and equity's seat at the table to meeting families where they are with mental health resources — Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast is exploring all the ways we can create the healthiest generations of children ever.

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Episode 159

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October 13, 2025

Clinical psychologist, parenting expert and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Lisa Damour joins us to explore the emotional lives of teenagers – what’s typical, when to worry and how adults and systems can better support adolescents today. Listen to Dr. Damour’s Ask Lisa podcast for more ins...

Episode 158

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October 6, 2025

How can we guide boys through health, emotions and relationships in a culture that often tells them to “toughen up”? Christopher Pepper and Joanna Schroeder, co-authors of Talk to Your Boys: 16 Conversations to Help Teens and Tweens Grow into Confident, Compassionate Men, share practical, real-wo...

Episode 153

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September 8, 2025

Asthma and food allergies remain major health concerns, especially as students head back to school. Chris Martinez, President and CEO, Asthma and Allergy Impact and Rescue (AAIR), joins us to share life-saving, practical solutions that keep kids healthy and learning. From stocking albuterol in sc...

Episode 151

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August 25, 2025

Latham Thomas, founder, Mama Glow, shares her journey into birth work and maternal health advocacy, inspired by her early exposure to women’s health through her mother. She explains the vital but distinct roles of doulas and midwives, reflects on her own breastfeeding experience and unpacks the s...

Episode 139

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June 2, 2025

Mental health is an essential part of overall health – and pediatric primary care providers are increasingly serving on the front lines. With one in five children facing a diagnosable mental health disorder and rates of anxiety and depression on the rise, the routine pediatric well visit has beco...

Episode 138

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May 26, 2025

When a parent is recovering from a substance use disorder, stigma can impact the entire family – including the children. This episode explores how that stigma affects children and what physicians and others can do to promote a more compassionate approach in pediatric health care. Guests: Andre...

Episode 137

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May 19, 2025

According to the CDC, nearly 1 in 5 children between the ages of 3 and 17 has a diagnosable mental health disorder, and more than half of those children never receive treatment. The reasons most cited for this lack in care include problems getting an appointment, issues related to cost, and lack ...

Episode 133

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April 21, 2025

According to Larry Moss, MD, FACS, FAAP, President and CEO of Nemours Children's Health, delivering on Whole Child Health is the next step toward creating the healthiest generations of children. This approach emphasizes accountability for every child's health — not just for those in geographic ar...