20 Best NPR Health Podcasts

1. What's Health Got to Do with It?

What's Health Got to Do with It? is a weekly talk program that examines where healthcare intersects with daily life and will help guide the listeners through an increasingly convoluted medical bureaucracy. These days, health is a lot more than Googling the latest medical breakthrough or seeing your doctor.
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2. HealthBEAT

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, US
WDIY's Greg Capogna joins Edward Meehan of the Rider-Pool Foundation and Trust for a monthly roundtable discussion on healthcare in the Lehigh Valley. Greg and Edward present ways to encourage a healthier community with wide-ranging topics and guests each month.
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Play⋅ 4.1K⋅ 2.8K ⋅1 episode / month ⋅ Avg Length 29 min Get Email Contact

3. To Your Health

Every Thursday, Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs provides health information you can trust. With trustworthy sources, she explores the fact and fiction surrounding various medical conditions and treatments, makes you aware of upcoming screenings, gives you prevention strategies, and more all to your health.
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Play 1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 2 min Get Email Contact

4. Health Focus

Doctors, medical professionals, and researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina will be featured weekly in a series of radio interviews on South Carolina Public Radio called Health Focus. Award-winning public broadcaster Bobbi Conner will host this series of health and medical features, covering a wide array of topics.
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Play⋅ 4.2K⋅ 8.5K ⋅8 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 4 min Get Email Contact

5. Prognosis Ohio

Columbus, Ohio, US
The podcast shines a light on a wide range of health and health care issues, from changing legislative developments; to stories of Ohioans interacting with their state's healthcare system; to ongoing challenges in housing, food, transportation, and other systems that relate to health outcomes; to research, advocacy, and activism.
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6. Wellness Wednesday

Wellness Wednesday is a talk show about health and wellness throughout the Y-K Delta that features health care providers from Bethel, the Y-K Delta region, and beyond.
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Play 1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 42 min Get Email Contact

7. Zorba Paster On Your Health

Madison, Wisconsin, US
Each week, Dr. Zorba Paster and co-host Tom Clark provide listeners with health and fitness tips to live a full and healthy life. The down-to-earth, personal style makes this call-in show as entertaining as it is informative.
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8. Mental Health Matters

This series by Eric Litwiller of the Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas looks at mental health in the Wichita area. It is in conjunction with the Wichita Journalism Collaborative.
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9. Health in a Heartbeat

Gainesville, Florida, US
Health in a Heartbeat is a credible source of health information that inspires and informs listeners and satisfies their growing appetite for news they can use. For more than 10 years Health in a Heartbeat has offered a daily dose of medical wisdom. Produced by the UF Health and WUFT-FM.
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Play⋅ 5.7K⋅ 5.1K ⋅7 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 2 min Get Email Contact

10. Your Child's Brain

Each month Your Child's Brain will bring together experts in child brain health, including researchers, educators, physicians, and therapists as well as families to discuss contemporary topics about child and youth brain health and development.
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Play⋅ 6.7M⋅ 8.9M ⋅1 episode / month ⋅ Avg Length 23 min Get Email Contact

11. Life Kit | Health

Taking care of yourself shouldn't be complicated. We talk to the experts for practical advice to live a long and healthy life, based on science.
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Play⋅ 15.8K ⋅1 episode / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 20 min Get Email Contact

12. Line One: Your Health Connection

Hosts Dr. Jillian Woodruff, Dr. Justin Clark, and Prentiss Pemberton and their guests discuss a variety of health-related topics during this live call-in show. Line One features local physicians and national subject experts from the fields of child care, mental health, nutrition, pharmacology, surgery, and more.
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Play⋅ 6.7M⋅ 8.9M ⋅2 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 59 min Get Email Contact

13. Rural Healthcare: The Other Texas Drought

Rural communities in Texas have struggled to keep up in the fight against the coronavirus. The Texas Newsroom examines the shortage of health care resources people living in those communities face.
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Play⋅ 6K⋅ 2.1K ⋅8 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 13 min Get Email Contact

14. Bodies

California, US
'What's wrong with me?' Each episode of this documentary series begins as a medical mystery. But once you peel back the layers, more questions emerge.
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15. COVID Brief

The COVID-19 Brief is a weekly live, call-in show with the Homer Unified Command-The City of Homer, South Peninsula Hospital, AK Department of Public Health, and Kenai Peninsula Borough School District- to update the community on the local Covid-19 situation.
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16. The Daily Dose: Maryland Confronts COVID-19

Baltimore, Maryland, US
An evening roundup of WYPR's latest reporting on Maryland's COVID-19 response, a summary of essential state and local updates, and a forum for locals who want to share stories about everyday life in the era of Coronavirus.
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Play⋅ 11.4K⋅ 25.9K ⋅7 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 18 min Get Email Contact

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