Health & Veritas
177 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsHoward Forman and Harlan Krumholz, two Yale physician-professors, discuss the latest news and ideas in healthcare and seek out the truth amid the noise. Produced with the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Public Health. New episodes are available every Thursday.
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Arthur Caplan: Medicine’s Toughest Ethical Questions
April 25, 2024 12:51 - 31 minutes - 71.4 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Arthur Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics and founding head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, to discuss the ethical failings of the pharmaceutical industry and how a community-focused ethos prioritizing justice and protection of the vulnerable would have reshaped the COVID response. Harlan reports on developments in synthetic proteins. Howie recognizes World Malaria Day. Links: Di...
Scott Berkowitz: Value-Based Care and Population Health
April 18, 2024 13:54 - 37 minutes - 87 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Scott Berkowitz ’03, cardiologist and chief population health officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, to discuss the necessity of moving from fee-for-service to value-based care delivery to improve outcomes for all. Harlan highlights the dangers of misinformation about Ivermectin. Howie reports on the potential conflicts of interest created by device manufacturers’ payments to cardiologists. Links: Johns Hopkins Medicine: Home Johns Hopkins Community Health ...
Atheendar Venkataramani: Opportunity, Hope, and Health
April 11, 2024 12:54 - 38 minutes - 88.6 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Atheendar Venkataramani, a physician, health economist, and director of the Perelman School of Medicine’s Opportunity for Health Lab, to discuss the powerful role of economic opportunity in population health outcomes. Harlan reports on two studies where treatments’ unexpected benefits leapt ahead of understanding why they work. Howie reflects on the business model of the pharma industry and the market reaction to anti-obesity drugs. Links: Opportunity for ...
Kate McEvoy: How Medicaid Is Driving Healthcare Innovation
April 04, 2024 12:48 - 31 minutes - 71.4 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Kate McEvoy, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, to discuss the programs’ underappreciated advances in holistically addressing health, housing, and food security. Reflecting on the upcoming election, Harlan notes that facts matter, whether in medicine or politics. Howie reports on the dangers of glyoxylic acid in hair straightening products. Links: “Trump Leads Biden in Six of Seven Swing States, WSJ Poll Finds” “Takeove...
Margo Harrison: Women’s Health as a Path to Empowerment
March 28, 2024 13:45 - 32 minutes - 74.4 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Margo Harrison, an OB-GYN and femtech entrepreneur, to discuss how innovative solutions to women’s health problems offer deeper understanding and expanded choices. Harlan and Howie each offer a caveat emptor for lightly regulated, unproven supplements and treatments such as Prevagen and hydration spas. Links: “Prevagen Review: A Word of Caution” “Prevagen®: Analysis of Clinical Evidence and Its Designation as a ‘#1 Pharmacist Recommended Brand’” “NY ...
Zack Cooper: High Healthcare Costs: Who Pays, Who Benefits
March 21, 2024 12:18 - 33 minutes - 77.5 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Yale health economist Zack Cooper to discuss his work on surprise medical bills and the impact of high healthcare costs on households, wages, and the economy. Harlan reports on Hippocratic AI’s efforts to develop AI nurses. Howie looks at the global effort to eradicate tuberculosis. Links: “Hippocratic AI banks $53M backed by General Catalyst, a16z, Memorial Hermann, UHS and other health systems” “Polaris: A Safety-focused LLM Constellation Architecture...
Robert Alpern: Creating an Inspired Medical School
March 14, 2024 13:39 - 30 minutes - 69.3 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Robert Alpern, a Yale nephrologist and the former dean of the Yale School of Medicine, to discuss the importance of a fiscal base for enabling a medical school to deliver top-quality training, research, and clinical care. Harlan asks whether widespread norovirus is a reason to call it quits on shaking hands. Howie reports on a study of the increased mortality among those with ADHD. “Nephrologist Robert Alpern Named Dean of Yale School of Medicine” “UT Sou...
Robert Rohrbaugh: Bringing Antiracist Tools to Clinical Practice
March 07, 2024 13:12 - 31 minutes - 72.8 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Robert Rohrbaugh, professor of psychiatry and deputy dean for professionalism and leadership at the Yale School of Medicine, to discuss his work training doctors in antiracist practices and ensuring the wellbeing of clinicians during the pandemic. Harlan reports on the problematic history of medical journals promoting eugenics; Howie highlights a cyberattack that has paralyzed Change Healthcare, the country’s largest payments processing hub. Links: Antira...
A Cheating Scandal, Abandoned Research, and Other News
February 29, 2024 15:08 - 42 minutes - 97.1 MBHowie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines, including a cheating scandal that has led to the invalidation of hundreds of scores from Nepal on the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination, the problem of research that never sees the light of day, new anti-obesity medications, and Florida’s unorthodox approach to measles. Links: Standardized Testing “Cheated out of the American Dream” “MCAT scores and medical school success: Do they correlate?” ”Reducing Medical School Admis...
Lucila Ohno-Machado: AI and the Art of Medicine
February 22, 2024 13:51 - 30 minutes - 70.2 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Lucila Ohno-Machado, the Yale School of Medicine’s deputy dean for biomedical informatics. She explains how expanding use of data science, informatics, AI, and technology could enable doctors to spend more time with patients. Harlan celebrates mentorship while marking the death of Irwin Birnbaum, a mentor to many in his time as COO of the Yale Medical School and long after retiring. Howie discusses the mixed evidence from a study on vaping as a tool for helping...
Farzad Mostashari: Aligning Incentives to Fix Primary Care
February 15, 2024 15:16 - 38 minutes - 88.6 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Farzad Mostashari, co-founder and CEO of Aledade, an "accountable care organization" that seeks to align patient-provider incentives so doctors can make a profit by prioritizing preventive care. Harlan discusses a study suggesting that physical exercise may be protective from severe COVID. Howie highlights the introduction of Apple’s VR headset and the importance of further study to understand the technology’s capacity to “rewire” our brains. Links: "Aleda...
Christopher O’Connor: Hospital Leadership in Trying Times
February 08, 2024 14:54 - 30 minutes - 70.4 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Christopher O’Connor, CEO of Yale New Haven Health, to discuss his career path and his experience leading hospitals through Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19. Harlan reports on promising AI tools for taking clinical notes; Howie looks at the financial headwinds facing the companies offering Medicare Advantage plans. Links: AI Notetaking “OpenAI-backed healthcare AI startup raises $70 million Series B” “Burnout Related to Electronic Health Record Use in P...
Manisha Juthani: Solving Infectious Disease Mysteries
February 01, 2024 14:49 - 30 minutes - 69.5 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Manisha Juthani, a Yale infectious disease specialist and commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health. They discuss her research, including a study casting doubt on the use of cranberries to prevent urinary tract infection, and her priorities for Connecticut. Harlan reports on a wave of study retractions from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Howie reflects on the progress made toward eradicating Guinea worm and malaria. Links: Retractions ...
Claudine Litman: Designing Better Healthcare Solutions
January 25, 2024 14:51 - 33 minutes - 75.9 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Yale SOM alum Claudine Litman, a designer and the director of Yale‘s Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation, to talk about using the tools of design to build more effective healthcare spaces and processes. Harlan looks at seven charts illustrating the state of healthcare in 2023; Howie reports on the FDA reprimanding a drug company for misleading advertising. Links: Healthcare in 2023 "Seven Charts That Sum Up U.S. Healthcare In 2023" Designing Bett...
Reshma Ramachandran: Will the Supreme Court Upend Healthcare Regulation?
January 18, 2024 15:35 - 35 minutes - 80.9 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Reshma Ramachandran, a Yale family physician and co-director of Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency. They discuss the potential ramifications for healthcare regulation if the Supreme Court overturns the Chevron decision requiring judges to defer to federal agencies. Harlan looks at surveys suggesting an erosion of trust in medicine; Howie reports on the growing measles outbreak. LInks: Trust in Healthcare “Nurses First, D...
Another Winter Wave, and Other News
January 11, 2024 14:27 - 31 minutes - 72.5 MBHowie and Harlan discuss the winter wave of COVID-19 and Howie’s experience with the Novovax vaccine, report on potential side effects of the next-generation weight-loss drugs, and unpack the economics of Florida’s plan to import drugs from Canada. Links: Sid Wolfe “Sidney M. Wolfe, Scourge of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Dies at 86” COVID-19 “Florida surgeon general calls for halt on mRNA covid vaccines, citing debunked claim” "Safety and Adverse Events Related to Inactivated...
Julie Ann Sosa: Personalizing Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
January 04, 2024 15:17 - 35 minutes - 81.4 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Julie Ann Sosa, chair of the University of California San Francisco department of surgery. She reports on new approaches to treating thyroid nodules, addressing sexual harassment within the medical profession, and supporting personal and professional success for doctors caring for elderly parents. Harlan and Howie discuss the upswing in COVID-19 cases and research on whether the benefits of exercise could be delivered by a pill. Links: Prospects for Facult...
Eric Winer: A Cancer Doctor's Journey
December 21, 2023 14:54 - 36 minutes - 83.6 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Eric Winer, director of the Yale Cancer Center and president of Yale's Smilow Cancer Hospital. They discuss his career, his personal experiences with hemophilia and HIV, and the state of breast cancer treatment. Harlan reports on the retraction of a high-profile study on the effect of hearing aids on dementia; Howie provides some good news from an annual report on health expenditures in the U.S. Links: A Retracted Study “Retraction—Association between h...
Tina Loarte Rodriguez: Understanding Inequities in Healthcare
December 14, 2023 14:25 - 36 minutes - 83.5 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Tina Loarte Rodriguez, associate director, health equity measures, at Yale’s Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation and the author of Latinas in Nursing: Stories of Determination, Inspiration, and Trust. And Howie and Harlan discuss the clinical and economic dimensions of two newly approved CRISPR-based treatments for sickle cell disease. Links: Tina Loarte Rodriguez Tina Loarte Rodriguez: Latinas in Nursing: Stories of Determination, Inspiration, and...
Tina Loarte-Rodríguez: Understanding Inequities in Healthcare
December 14, 2023 14:25 - 36 minutes - 83.5 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Tina Loarte-Rodríguez, associate director, health equity measures, at Yale’s Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation and the author of Latinas in Nursing: Stories of Determination, Inspiration, and Trust. And Howie and Harlan discuss the clinical and economic dimensions of two newly approved CRISPR-based treatments for sickle cell disease. Links: Tina Loarte-Rodríguez Tina Loarte-Rodríguez: Latinas in Nursing: Stories of Determination, Inspiration, and...
Tara Sanft: Life after Cancer
December 07, 2023 15:24 - 32 minutes - 75.7 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Tara Sanft, chief patient experience officer at Yale’s Smilow Cancer Hospital and director of the Survivorship Program at the Yale Cancer Center. Harlan reports on his study of patients with long-lasting symptoms after the COVID-19 vaccine; Howie reflects on the historic decline in cigarette smoking in the United States. Links: Post-Vaccination Syndrome Harlan Krumholz: “Post-Vaccination Syndrome: A Descriptive Analysis of Reported Symptoms and Patient E...
Stephanie Sudikoff: The Power of Medical Simulation
November 30, 2023 14:43 - 33 minutes - 77 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Stephanie Sudikoff, an expert on using simulation to train healthcare professionals, to discuss her new venture working to expand treatment for neonatal jaundice and how simulating procedures can assist in quality control and ongoing training. They also look at new developments in AI in radiology and the economics of a powerful treatment for inflammation. Links: AI and Radiology “Imaging AI hogs the spotlight at RSNA, with debuts from GE, Siemens, Phili...
Jerold Mande: Our Food Is Making Us Sick
November 22, 2023 16:16 - 31 minutes - 71.7 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Jerold Mande, a nutrition expert who has served in the FDA, where he led the graphic design of the Nutrition Facts label, and the USDA. Harlan reports on promising new therapies for sickle cell disease, high cholesterol, and hypertension; Howie reflects on the Thanksgiving holiday and the contributions of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who died this week. Links: New Therapies “Sickle-Cell Treatment Created With Gene Editing Wins U.K. Approval” “Up...
John Morton: The State of Obesity Treatment
November 16, 2023 15:11 - 31 minutes - 73.3 MBHowie and Harlan review the results of a new study testing the effects of anti-obesity medications on cardiovascular health. Then they're joined by Yale's John Morton, a leading bariatric surgeon, to discuss the state of weight-loss surgery and its long-term impact on patients' lives. Links: Obesity Drugs “GLP-1 agonists: Diabetes drugs and weight loss” “Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Obesity without Diabetes” “AMA urges insurance coverage parity for emerging obesity ...
Dhruv Khullar: The Physician-Journalist
November 09, 2023 14:20 - 32 minutes - 74.3 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by the New Yorker's Dhruv Khullar to talk about his life as a clinician, researcher, and journalist. Harlan looks at how direct-to-consumer healthcare companies like Hims & Hers Health are capitalizing on patients' reluctance to share sensitive issues with traditional providers; Howie reports on the health issues on the ballot in this week's election. Links: The Loss of Trust and the Rise of Hims & Hers Health hims.com forhers.com “Hims & Hers reports ...
Melinda Pettigrew: The Battle Against Antimicrobial Resistance
November 02, 2023 13:59 - 32 minutes - 75.3 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Melinda Pettigrew of the Yale School of Public Health to discuss the changes needed in the prescription and agriculture use of antibiotics to address the crisis of antimicrobial resistance. Harlan reports on a survey underlining the scale of medical misinformation among Americans; Howie discusses a new tool for the treatment of unhoused people. Links: Medical Misinformation Harlan Krumholz: “A prescription for the US FDA for the regulation of health misi...
The Latest on COVID-19 Vaccines, and Other News
October 26, 2023 14:55 - 34 minutes - 79.3 MBHowie and Harlan discuss current issues in healthcare, including burnout at the hospital, the downsides to Medicare Advantage, and how AI is helping radiologists catch tiny blood clots. Links: COVID-19 and Vaccinations “Newborn and Early Infant Outcomes Following Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy” CDC: Stay Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines “Myocarditis and Pericarditis After mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination” “‘On track’: 3 percent of Americans have gotten the new Covi...
Katherine Baicker: Rigorous Thinking about Hard Problems
October 19, 2023 13:55 - 42 minutes - 97.4 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by health economist Katherine Baicker of the University of Chicago to discuss her career in academia and government, the landmark Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, and the optimal design for universal healthcare coverage. Harlan asks why life expectancy in the U.S. increasingly lags behind peer nations; Howie discusses the politics threatening the PEPFAR program, which has saved millions of lives around the world. Links: U.S. Life Expectancy “How does U....
Peter Salovey: A More Unified, Accessible, and Innovative Yale
October 16, 2023 13:48 - 32 minutes - 74.5 MBIn the 100th episode of Health & Veritas, Howie and Harlan are joined by Peter Salovey, the president of Yale University and a pioneering psychology scholar. They discuss Salovey’s tenure as president, which ends in 2024; the future of the newly independent Yale School of Public Health; and Salovey’s influential research on emotional intelligence. Links: “Statement regarding YSPH transitioning to an independent school at Yale” Peter Salovey: “Emotional Intelligence” Yale School of...
Marc Auerbach: Getting Emergency Departments Kid-Ready
October 12, 2023 12:15 - 32 minutes - 75.2 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Marc Auerbach, a professor of pediatric emergency medicine at Yale, to discuss his work using standards and simulation to improve the treatment of children in emergency departments throughout the United States. Harlan reflects on the importance of simple, well-designed clinical trials to make rapid improvements to care; Howie reports on a congressional study asking whether the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center has succeeded in lowering costs a...
An Inspiring Nobel Win and Other News
October 05, 2023 12:44 - 29 minutes - 68 MBHowie and Harlan discuss the inspiring story behind the Nobel Prize in medicine, the settlement in the Cigna false billing case, and new research providing more evidence for the effectiveness of statins in reducing cardiovascular risk. Links: The Nobel Prize “Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine” The Daily: “The Unlikely Pioneer behind MRNA Vaccines” “Halting Progress and Happy Accidents: How mRNA Vaccines Were Made” “How Our Brutal Science System Almost C...
Mallika Mendu: Improving Operations
September 28, 2023 13:58 - 31 minutes - 72.4 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Mallika Mendu to discuss how innovations in operations can lead to improved inpatient care and her work as both a practicing nephrologist and associate chief medical officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Harlan highlights the Lasker Award in medicine; Howie reports on a promising $650 million pilot in North Carolina to comprehensively address the social determinants of health. Links: US Bureau of Labor Statistics | Skilled Nursing Facilities Employment ...
Nita Ahuja: Epigenetics and Cancer
September 21, 2023 13:26 - 36 minutes - 83.7 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Nita Ahuja, a Yale surgeon and researcher, to discuss new methods in for detecting and treating cancers and the barriers faced by women surgeons. Harlan answers questions about an FDA panel’s finding that the decongestant phenylephrine is ineffective; Howie looks at the trends making hospital finances unsustainable. Links: “FDA clarifies results of recent advisory committee meeting on oral phenylephrine” “Phenylephrine vs. Pseudoephedrine: What’s the D...
Peter Hotez: Opposing the Anti-Science Movement
September 19, 2023 04:01 - 34 minutes - 80.4 MBIn a special episode, Howie and Harlan are joined by the virologist and advocate Peter Hotez to discuss his new book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning. This interview was recorded in late August. Links: Peter Hotez: The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning Peter Hotez: Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism “Red Covid, an Update” “The Red/Blue Divide in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Continues: An Update" “Swiss study finds connection between...
Ted Long: A Model for Effective Primary Care
September 14, 2023 12:41 - 30 minutes - 70.6 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Ted Long, senior vice president of ambulatory care and population health at New York City Health + Hospitals, to discuss New York City’s remarkable success in providing care to its most vulnerable citizens. Harlan discusses the state of research into long COVID, including his own studies; Howie reports on the first round of drug-price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act. Links: “Scientists look at the progress made toward understanding—and treati...
Zhenqiu Lin: Measuring Quality, Improving Care
September 07, 2023 13:33 - 31 minutes - 72.1 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Zhenqiu Lin, senior director of analytics at Yale’s Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, to discuss how quality measures can make care more consistent and effective and improve outcomes for patients. Howie provides an update on research on repetitive head trauma among young football players; Harlan reports on new findings about the benefits of semaglutide for people with heart disease. Links: “Neuropathologic and Clinical Findings in Young Contact S...
Best of Health & Veritas, Summer 2023
August 17, 2023 13:13 - 32 minutes - 75.2 MBHowie and Harlan look back on some of their favorite moments from the first 92 episodes of Health & Veritas. Featured episodes: Ania Jastreboff: The Revolution in Obesity Medication Josh Geballe: Turning Yale Innovation into Startups Anna Kaltenboeck: Untangling Drug Prices Akiko Iwasaki: Is Long COVID One Disease or Many? Perry Wilson: The Formula for Medical Misinformation Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: The CEO Whisperer Harlan Krumholz, This Is Your Life Megan Ranney: What’...
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: Building a Culture of Health
August 09, 2023 12:50 - 39 minutes - 90.1 MBIn this special episode, Howie and Harlan are joined by Vivek Murthy, the 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States, and a graduate of the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Medicine. Links: The Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service CDC: Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic “How Sleep Deprivation Impacts Mental Health” CMS: Delivering Services in School-Based Settings Vivek Murthy and Harlan Krumholz: “Participation in Cancer Clinica...
Alan Friedman: To Err Is Human
July 27, 2023 14:35 - 34 minutes - 78.6 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Alan Friedman, chief medical officer at Yale New Haven Hospital, to talk about the organizational and cultural changes that the hospital has made to minimize medical errors and unprofessional behavior that harm patients. Howie reports on a Yale study showing a gap in excess deaths between Republicans and Democrats after the COVID-19 vaccine was introduced; Harlan discusses the continued problem of financial toxicity for patients, and a new study casting doubt o...
Melissa Davis: Can a Radiologist Trust AI?
July 20, 2023 14:24 - 35 minutes - 81 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Melissa Davis, a Yale radiologist and a graduate of Yale SOM’s MBA for Executives program, to discuss the ‘whoa’ moments and the weaknesses she has encountered using artificial intelligence to help interpret scans. Harlan reflects on the slow progress toward a healthcare system that rewards value rather than volume; Howie reports on new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. Links: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests covid was designed to spare Jews, Chinese peo...
Julius Chapiro: Minimally Invasive Liver Cancer Treatment
July 13, 2023 13:58 - 36 minutes - 82.8 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Julius Chapiro to discuss advances in the use of machine learning and molecular imaging to understand and treat liver cancer and his work as the director of Yale’s Center for Minimally Invasive Therapies. Harlan reports on a medical journal paper that highlights positive outcomes while ignoring negative ones; Howie warns of the impact of private equity ownership of medical practices. Links: “MR Imaging Biomarkers for the Prediction of Outcome after Radiofr...
Dawn Harris Sherling: What Food Additives Are Doing to Your Microbiome
July 06, 2023 13:21 - 32 minutes - 74.2 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Dawn Harris Sherling, an internist at Florida Atlantic University and the author of Eat Everything: How to Ditch Additives and Emulsifiers, Heal Your Body, and Reclaim the Joy of Food. Harlan provides an update on the dangers of the artificial sweetener aspartame; Howie reflects on the lessons from an outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to a plastic surgery clinic in Mexico. Links: “The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer. Here’s why you s...
Hil Moss: The Gap in Care for Cancer Survivors
June 29, 2023 13:29 - 32 minutes - 74.6 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Hil Moss, a graduate of Yale SOM and the Yale School of Public Health, to discuss her experience being diagnosed with breast cancer while a Yale student, the challenges facing cancer survivors after treatment, and the virtual clinic that she founded to help fill the void. Harlan reports on highly effective new obesity treatments on the horizon; Howie discusses the far-reaching effects of the Dobbs ruling, one year later. Links: “Retatrutide, a GIP, GLP-1 ...
Sejal Hathi: Serving the Public
June 22, 2023 14:32 - 35 minutes - 80.4 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Sejal Hathi, a physician, podcaster, and social entrepreneur who recently left a White House role to become New Jersey’s health officer. Harlan asks if ChatGPT’s imagination is a bug or a feature; Howie discusses the toll of motorcycle accidents and makes the case for helmet laws. Links: “Exclusive: 42% of CEOs say AI could destroy humanity in five to ten years” “Artificial Hallucinations in ChatGPT: Implications in Scientific Writing” “Ikigai: A Jap...
David Fiellin: The Treatments Changing the Lives of People with Opioid Addictions
June 15, 2023 14:28 - 29 minutes - 68.4 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by David Fiellin, a Yale internist and an expert in addiction medicine. Harlan reports on a new study showing a surprising benefit from a daily multivitamin; Howie explains how a 1994 law is fueling hype around an untested herbal supplement for weight loss. Links: “Multivitamin Supplementation Improves Memory in Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial” Earlham College: Mission, Principles, and Values “What Ozempic Reveals About Desire” Substance Ab...
Abbe Gluck: The Legal Determinants of Health
June 08, 2023 13:58 - 32 minutes - 73.8 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Abbe Gluck of Yale Law School to discuss how law shapes the health of Americans. Harlan explains how flaws in data privacy affect patients; Howie gives an update on the millions losing their Medicaid coverage, often despite qualifying for the program. Links: Harlan Krumholz: “In the US, patient data privacy is an illusion” “Medical Legal Partnerships” “A prospective cohort study examining exposure to incarceration and cardiovascular disease (Justice-I...
Sandeep Jauhar: A Witness to Dementia
June 01, 2023 12:31 - 33 minutes - 76.6 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Sandeep Jauhar, a cardiologist and the author, most recently, of the memoir My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s. Harlan reports on new research about the timing of blood thinners for stroke patients with atrial fibrillation; Howie checks in on two physician groups that were acquired by private equity investors earlier this year and are now facing bankruptcy. Links: “Early versus Later Anticoagulation for Stroke with Atrial Fibrillation” ...
Albert Ko: A Journey in Public Health
May 25, 2023 12:57 - 35 minutes - 82.3 MBHowie and Harlan welcome Yale’s Albert Ko back to the podcast to discuss the state of the COVID-19 pandemic and his career as an infectious disease specialist and public health researcher. Harlan reports on a breakthrough in pacemaker technology; Howie reflects on the complex relationship between obesity, social media, and mental health for young people. Links: “A Dual-Chamber Leadless Pacemaker” Health & Veritas, Ep. 14: Albert Ko: A Wider View of COVID-19 “What’s Going On With C...
Joseph Sakran: Confronting Gun Violence
May 18, 2023 13:27 - 35 minutes - 81.9 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Joseph Sakran, whose career as a trauma surgeon and advocate grew out of his own experience with gun violence. Harlan discusses his new study enumerating the vast scale of excess deaths among Black Americans; Howie reports on improvements in the insurance rate, nearly a decade after the Affordable Care Act went into effect. Links: Harlan Krumholz: “Excess Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost Among the Black Population in the US, 1999-2020” “Shot i...
Josh Geballe: Turning Yale Innovation into Startups
May 11, 2023 15:40 - 38 minutes - 89.3 MBHowie and Harlan are joined by Josh Geballe, a Yale SOM graduate who serves as managing director of Yale Ventures, Yale’s initiative overseeing the translation of research into impactful new companies. Harlan reports from the debate on AI in medicine; Howie reflects on the FDA’s approval process for an over-the-counter birth control pill. Links: “Iwasaki to Receive Else Kröner Fresenius Prize Supporting Research Into Long COVID and Similar Conditions” “As Covid Emergency Ends, U.S. ...