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Monique Yohannan

Monique Yohannan

Dr. Monique Yohanan, MD, MPH — Director of the Center for Better Health at Independent Women and physician executive focused on health policy.

Sep 17, 2026

58:18
Tell us the good news.
58:19
It is such good news.
58:21
So the drug, I'm going to give you the brand name.
58:23
I usually don't speak in brand names.
58:25
The mouthful of the generic is Derek Sanrasib, but it's Rasank is the brand name.
58:32
This drug was approved for basically salvage therapy for pancreatic cancer at the end of August.
58:39
But there was an update on Monday that I think is worth mentioning.
60:01
What are we learning about pathways and how to approach them for other forms?
68:29
What does the report actually tell us?
68:31
Sure.
68:32
And, you know, Kevin, I think there's a lot to unpack here.
68:35
So let me take it one step at a time.
68:37
So the report came out in August.
68:40
And as you said, HHS took a look at this, not just from the medical standpoint, but they were really looking at the billing implications.
68:47
And like many things in life, no margin, no mission.
70:40
all the bullying begins too rhetorically exactly you're not buying into my gender you must be sexist like that's the chain of thought
14:34
were cheap.
14:35
Exactly.
14:36
And so why wouldn't you do that? I do look at some of the vaccines, not just the COVID vaccine, but I look at hepatitis B.
14:44
And, you know, I do think that there is a market for vaccines, you know, that why wouldn't you? Like, if I were in a pharma company and I couldn't be sued, why wouldn't I come up with a vaccine for everything? Yeah.
14:59
It is the ultimate hammer to the nail of every problem in life becomes solvable with a vaccine.
15:06
And it has not served us well.
15:09
But I do think there were so many stakeholders who found their way to sort of get their little piece of it, but kids were hurt in ways different.

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37:20
So how responsible has he been for this loss of trust for the kind of dishonesty, I guess, that we've seen in public health and the fact that so many people now do not trust what the health authorities are telling them?
52:30
What do we know? Well, first of all, what is Legionnaire's disease? What do we know about what it actually does?
52:37
Well, Kevin, thanks so much for having me on.
52:39
So Legionnaire's disease actually comes from an outbreak 50 years ago in 1976 in Philadelphia.
52:48
There was a convention of Legionnaires and a lot of them got really sick.
52:53
Unfortunately, 29 of them died.
52:56
For several months, we did not know what was going on with this disease.
53:00
And later on, the disease was identified.
54:49
How deadly is Legionnaires?

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