EMJ Podcast: 2025 Top 10 Episodes
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Release Date: 12/29/2025
The Importance of Social Health: From Policy to Practice
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Turning ideas into action, this episode focuses on how social health can be measured, funded, and implemented. Wijedoru discusses social prescribing, training clinicians to recognise disconnection, and simple steps individuals and organisations can take to strengthen social bonds. Timestamps: 01:18 – Measuring social health 03:45 – Training and infrastructure 06:20 – Social prescribing 09:15 – Everyday actions for connection
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The Importance of Social Health: Using Storytelling to Bridge Connection
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
How can stories heal? Wijedoru discusses how storytelling helps people feel seen and understood, why it belongs alongside data-driven medicine, and how initiatives like Behind Your Mask foster empathy and connection among healthcare professionals. Timestamps: 01:05 – Origins of Behind Your Mask 03:30 – Why storytelling works 06:10 – Storytelling in medical culture 08:00 – Tools beyond stories
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The Importance of Social Health: The Missing Pillar of Health
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this episode, Wijedoru explains what social health really means and why it has been neglected for so long. Drawing on WHO frameworks and global experience, he explores how poor social health affects patients, communities, and healthcare systems, and why prevention must start with connection.Timestamps:01:10 – Background03:27 – Storytelling05:25 – Social health10:04 – WHO commission
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Quickfire: The Importance of Social Health
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Lalith Wijedoru answers rapid-fire questions on healthcare culture, loneliness, and emotional wellbeing. From lessons learned in low-resource settings to bold ideas for improving connection in hospitals, this episode introduces social health as a vital but under-recognised pillar of health.
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Regenerative Hepatology: The Future of Cell-Based Therapies in Liver Disease
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this final episode, Vallier explores the next steps for liver regeneration research, including stimulating liver regeneration with small molecules and lifestyle factors. He describes AI as a tool that should not be used in the wrong way, before wrapping up the discussion with his predictions for the next 5 years and the introduction of induced pluripotent stem cell clinical trials. Timestamps:00:55 – Research beyond organoids 02:01 – Lifestyle factors 03:47 – Research funding 04:13 – AI in biotechnology 05:13 – Future of regenerative medicine 07:04 – Vision for stem cell...
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Regenerative Hepatology: Translating Organoid Research into Clinical Therapies
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In the second episode of the series, Vallier dives into clinical translation of research to different forms of liver disease, exploring how organoids may serve as an alternative to liver transplantation, and how immune compatibility differs between the two. Timestamps:00:59 – Organoids versus transplantation 02:52 – Organoid immune compatibility 04:58 – Chronic liver diseases 06:15 – Clinical application
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Hema Now: Behind the Scenes of EAHAD 2026
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this episode of Hema Now, Catherine Glass sits down with senior leaders from the European Association for Haemophilia and Allied Disorders (EAHAD) to go behind the scenes of the EAHAD 2026 Congress. The discussion explores the vision shaping the meeting, how the scientific programme is developed, and the key advances and challenges influencing haemophilia care across Europe, offering valuable insight for clinicians and researchers alike. Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction 01:41 – Vision of the EAHAD 2026 Congress 03:09 –...
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Tools, Trials, and Treatments: Navigating RCC in Real Life
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In the final podcast of this three-part series, we hear expert insights into evolving guidelines, practical tools, and multidisciplinary collaboration for the optimal diagnosis and management of RCC. Explore how healthcare professionals navigate RCC in daily practice, including the latest guidelines to the streamlining of referral pathways and evaluating treatment response.
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Regenerative Hepatology: Unlocking Liver Regeneration with Stem Cells
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
In this first deep dive, Vallier discusses the current state of liver regeneration research. He explores how pluripotent stem cells can generate hepatocytes and biliary cells, and describes how organoids integrate into tissues whilst providing new insights into liver disease. Timestamps: 00:53 – Liver regeneration at present 03:37 – Pluripotent stem cells 05:18 – Scaling clinical use of organoids 06:42 – Application to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease 09:22 – Ethical considerations
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Quickfire: Regenerative Hepatology
EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals
Ludovic Vallier joins the EMJ Podcast to answer rapid-fire questions about how regenerative technologies can be harnessed to tackle metabolic liver disease. From the biggest breakthroughs in regenerative hepatology to clinical misconceptions about stem cells, explore how this field of research is changing the liver disease landscape.
info_outlineIn this special countdown episode, the EMJ Podcast team looks back at the 10 highest-performing episodes of 2025. Spanning neurology, cardiology, gastroenterology, women’s health, respiratory medicine, and digital innovation, these conversations captured the topics that mattered most to clinicians worldwide. From chronic pain and anxiety to glucagon-like peptide-1 therapies, antimicrobial stewardship, and extended reality in medicine, this episode revisits the expert insights, emerging ideas, and clinical debates that shaped healthcare discussions throughout the year.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction: the year in review
01:52 – Gravity and human health
06:28 – Antimicrobial stewardship in children
10:15 – Healthcare communication and leadership
13:04 – Rare lung diseases and early diagnosis
16:56 – Colonoscopy and cancer prevention
21:17 – Extended reality in clinical care
25:25 – Advances in heart failure research
34:07 – Obesity management in the GLP-1 era
20:35 – Women’s health across borders
39:40 – The pain–anxiety connection