Healthy Alabama Podcast – WJOU

Healthy Alabama Podcast – WJOU


Latest Episodes

Season 4 Ep.18 Thrive Alabama | Special Episode 3
October 19, 2020

Season 4 Ep.18 Thrive Alabama | Special Episode 3 Part 3 of our special 3 part series with @ThriveAlabama… Learn the details about Thrive Alabamas new headquarters in north Huntsville, how

Season 4 Ep.17 Thrive Alabama | Special Episode 2
September 04, 2020

Season 4 Ep.17 Thrive Alabama | Special Episode 2 Need pediatric care for your children? Worried about costs or other concerns? Our friends at Thrive Alabama have the answers you need on this episode of the Healthy Alabama Podcast.  I’m David Person

Season 4 Ep.16 Thrive Alabama | Special Episode 1
July 31, 2020

Season 4 Ep.16 Thrive Alabama | Special Episode 1 There are so many concerns and questions about COVID-19 testing, tracing. Where can you get tests? Whats the process? Is it expensive? Our fri

Season 4 Ep.15 What COVID-19 is … and isn’t
April 10, 2020

Season 4 Ep.15 What COVID-19 is and isnt Dr. Steven LaiHing is an expert in infectious diseases, and a chemistry professor at Oakwood University. He joins us on the Healthy Alabama Podcast to talk

Season 4 Ep.14 Controversy About Conception
January 27, 2020

Season 4 Ep.14 Controversy About Conception Dr. Yashida Robinson is at the nexus of the debate about abortion, culture, faith, law and politics in Alabama and in the nation. Dr. Robinson joins us on the Healthy Alabama Podcast to discuss the role she and

Season 4 Ep.13 Aging Vibrantly
December 24, 2019

Season 4 Ep.13 Aging Vibrantly Older adults, people in their 70s, 80s, even 90s, have an internal desire to live life to the fullest. These are the folks who say age ain’t nothin’ but a number. And they are living their golden years like they’re golden.

Season 4 Ep.12 Mental Health First Aid
December 04, 2019

Season 4 Ep.12  Mental Health First Aid You’ve heard of first aid for our bodies. But there’s also first aid for our minds. Mental health therapists Kenny Anderson and Telly Lanier explain what it is and how we can get some on this episode of the Healthy

Season 4 Ep.11 Surviving a Brain Aneurysm
November 15, 2019

Season 4 Ep.11  Surviving a brain aneurysm Rashida Wilson thought she was having the mother of all migranes. In fact, she could have died. What she thought was a migrane actually was an aneurysm. Rashida tells her amazing story on this episode of the Hea

Season 4 Ep.10 Rural Healthcare
October 31, 2019

Season 4 Ep.10 Rural Healthcare There’s a rural healthcare crisis in Alabama. Hospitals and medical practices have been closing in the areas outside of the state’s four major cities. Lamont Dupree with the North Alabama Area Health Education Center expla

Season 4 Ep.9 Warning Signs
October 22, 2019

Season 4 Ep.9 Warning Signs Dr. Zaria Murrell is in a unique, elite group. She is one of only a handful of black female pediatric surgeons practicing in the United States. And shes the only one in Hu