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The Physician Shortage and Other News
Health & Veritas
10/17/24 • 38 min
Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare issues in the headlines, including a powerful—but dangerous—new gene therapy, racial disparities in excess deaths during the COVID pandemic, and the limited insurance coverage for highly effective new obesity drugs.
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The Physician Shortage
“Opening the Door Wider to International Medical Graduates—The Significance of a New Tennessee Law”
“New Licensure Pathway for Some Internationally Trained Physicians”
“Brain-drain and health care delivery in developing countries”
“Talk of an Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Grows in Republican Ads and Speech”
Subspecialty Expertise from AI
“Towards Democratization of Subspeciality Medical Expertise”
Gene Therapy
“7 children developed blood cancer after Bluebird Bio gene therapy for rare neurological disease”
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: Adrenoleukodystrophy
An AI Warning from a Nobel Laureate
Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics
“Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built”
“Unions Give Workers a Voice Over How AI Affects Their Jobs”
Conflicts of Interest and the Role of Peer Reviewers
“Medical journal peer reviewers are paid millions by industry, study finds”
“Does industry funding equal conflict of interest? Often it does, Yale authors claim”
COVID, Race, and Excess Deaths
“Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Age-Specific All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Insurance Coverage for GLP-1 Drugs
KFF: 2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey
“The Miracle Weight-Loss Drug Is Also a Major Budgetary Threat”
Mothers in Medicine
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09/29/22 • 31 min
Harlan discusses the problem of “financial toxicity”—how medical bills can wreak havoc in vulnerable patients’ lives. Howie reflects on the protests in Iran and the precariousness of the freedoms we enjoy in the United States. And they are joined by Ingrid Nembhard of the University of Pennsylvania to discuss her work on the organizational factors that shape patient care.
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Cancer.gov: Financial Toxicity
“They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay.”
Ingrid Nembhard: “Responding to Covid-19: Lessons from Management Research”
Ingrid Nembhard: “COVID-19 Inspired Creativity In Health Care: Lessons For Management And Policy”
“Can the CDC Repair Its Reputation?”
Ingrid Nembhard: “A systematic review of research on empathy in health care”
Ingrid Nembhard: “Perceived Usefulness of Patient Narrative Feedback in Primary Care Settings”
“Why Iranian women are burning their hijabs after the death of Mahsa Amini”
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Timothy Westmoreland: Healthcare at the Supreme Court
Health & Veritas
07/03/24 • 40 min
Howie and Harlan are joined by Timothy Westmoreland to discuss his long career in health policy and law, and the far-reaching consequences of the Supreme Court decision overturning Chevron deference. Harlan looks at President Joe Biden's debate struggles; Howie reports on the many healthcare-related Supreme Court decisions.
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The Presidential Debate
Harlan Krumholz: “Did Cold Medications Affect Biden's Debate Performance?”
CNN Presidential Debate: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, July 2, 2024
“Biden's Evolving Reasons for His Bad Debate: A Cold, Too Much Prep, Not Feeling Great and Jet Lag”
Timothy Westmoreland
Timothy Westmoreland: “Henry Waxman, the Unsung Hero in the Fight Against AIDS”
“LGBTQ History Month: The early days of America's AIDS crisis”
Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute: Chevron deference
Ballotpedia: Skidmore deference
“How the Chevron case has roiled U.S. healthcare agencies”
SCOTUSblog: Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
“Supreme Court appears likely to allow abortion drug to remain available”
The Supreme Court
“Implications for Public Health Regulation if Chevron Deference Is Overturned”
Supreme Court opinion: Murthy, Surgeon General, et al. v. Missouri et al
SCOTUSblog: Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine
Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute: Moyle v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Health & Veritas Ep. 77: Megan Ranney: What’s Next for Public Health?
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Evan Sussman: Expanding Access to Fertility Drugs
Health & Veritas
04/10/25 • 33 min
Howie and Harlan welcome Evan Sussman, the CEO of Granata Bio, which aims to bring IVF and fertility drugs that have been proven in other markets to the United States. Harlan reports on Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which will test a technology to restore rudimentary sight to the blind; Howie tries to reconcile conflicting reports about the viability of the Medicare trust fund.
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Neuralink
“Elon Musk announces Neuralink’s first human implant of Blindsight coming this year”
“Musk's Neuralink gets FDA's breakthrough device tag for 'Blindsight' implant”
“Elon Musk's Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial”
Granata Bio
“Fertility treatment costs are out of reach for many Americans, even with insurance”
“Acceptable cost for the patient and society”
RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association: Insurance Coverage by State
“Politicians say health plans should cover IVF. Currently only 1 in 4 employers do”
“Catching Up with Alumni: The Founders of Granata Bio”
“Trump signs executive order seeking to expand IVF access”
The Medicare Trust Fund
“The Long-Term Budget Outlook: 2025 to 2055”
“Medicare gets a big (unofficial) surprise: a 17-year extension on when it’ll run dry”
“CMS Finalizes 2026 Payment Policy Updates for Medicare Advantage and Part D Programs”
“Health Insurer Stocks Soar on Medicare Rate Boost”
“Insurer-Level Estimates of Revenue From Differential Coding in Medicare Advantage”
Medicare.gov: “How is Medicare funded?”
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07/06/23 • 32 min
Howie 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.
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“The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer. Here’s why you should listen.”
“Donald Rumsfeld and the Strange History of Aspartame”
Harvard School of Public Health: The Microbiome
“5 Food Additives You Should Avoid”
“The UN Decade of Nutrition, the NOVA food classification and the trouble with ultra-processing”
“A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World”
“Joan Rivers Died From Complication in Treatment, Officials Say”
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Dr. Vineet Arora: Reinventing Medical Education
Health & Veritas
11/17/22 • 36 min
Harlan provides updates on R.S.V., flu, and COVID-19; Howie considers the growing use of hallucinogens for treatment of severe depression. And they are joined by Dr. Vineet Arora, dean of medical education at the University of Chicago, to discuss the future of medical Twitter and how medical education is changing in the wake of the pandemic.
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“A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu, R.S.V. and Covid May Collide This Winter, Experts Say”
”A fake tweet sparked panic at Eli Lilly and may have cost Twitter millions”
“The ‘bot holiday’ and why clinicians can’t tackle disinformation alone”
“What is #MedMastodon & why might we need it?”
“Some Twitter users flying the coop hope Mastodon will be a safe landing”
University of Chicago: Pritzker EVOLVES
“Colorado Legalizes Magic Mushrooms”
“Single-Dose Psilocybin for a Treatment-Resistant Episode of Major Depression”
Will AI Transform Radiology?
Health & Veritas
10/07/21 • 24 min
Howie, a Yale emergency department radiologist, and Harlan discuss whether artificial intelligence will replace human radiologists—or help them do their jobs better.
Kate McEvoy: How Medicaid Is Driving Healthcare Innovation
Health & Veritas
04/04/24 • 31 min
Howie 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.
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“Trump Leads Biden in Six of Seven Swing States, WSJ Poll Finds”
“Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power”
“The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers”
The Future of Health Policy in a Partisan United States
“Netflix blockbuster ‘3 Body Problem’ divides opinion and sparks nationalist anger in China”
“The Future of American Democracy Depends on Improving U.S. Health”
Kidney Injury and Hair-Straightening Products Containing Glyoxylic Acid
Paul Lombardo: Reckoning with the Dark History of Eugenics
Health & Veritas
02/20/25 • 38 min
Howie and Harlan are joined by legal historian Paul Lombardo to discuss his work exploring the role of the legal and medical establishments in eugenics and sterilization in the United States. Harlan reports on his new research on post-vaccination syndrome, a constellation of chronic symptoms experienced by some people after getting the COVID-19 vaccine; Howie discusses the science behind a measles outbreak in Texas.
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Anxiety in Academia
Yale Office of the President: Our commitment to our research mission
Post-Vaccination Syndrome
“Immune markers of post vaccination syndrome indicate future research directions”
Eugenics in America
U.S. Supreme Court: Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
“Clarence Thomas tried to link abortion to eugenics. Seven historians told The Post he’s wrong.”
Paul Lombardo: Three Generations, No Imbeciles
Paul Lombardo: “Republicans, Democrats, & Doctors: The Lawmakers Who Wrote Sterilization Laws”
Measles and Herd Immunity
“West Texas measles outbreak grows to 58 cases, including some people who said they were vaccinated”
“Supreme Court rejects challenge to Connecticut law that eliminated religious vaccination exemption”
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Max Laurans: An Entrepreneurial Life in Medicine
Health & Veritas
10/10/24 • 35 min
Howie and Harlan are joined by Max Laurans, a Yale neurosurgeon and hospital administrator, and a founder of the healthcare staffing company Nomad Health. Harlan discusses the problem of doctors giving too much weight to suggestions from AI; Howie celebrates a milestone in the campaign to eliminate trachoma, a common cause of preventable blindness in the developing world.
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Automation Bias
“Some doctors are using public AI chatbots like ChatGPT in clinical decisions. Is it safe?”
“Automation Bias and Assistive AI: Risk of Harm From AI-Driven Clinical Decision Support”
“Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology”
Max Laurans
Maxwell Laurans, MD, MBA, FAANS
Nomad Health: Travel Nurse and Travel Allied Health Jobs
2003 residency placements for Yale medical students
“Yale New Haven Hospital breaks ground on $838 million, 505,000 square foot Neurosciences Center”
“Hospitals across the U.S. face IV fluid shortage after Hurricane Helene”
Trachoma
“Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in India”
The Carter Center: Waging Peace. Fighting Disease. Building Hope
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How many episodes does Health & Veritas have?
Health & Veritas currently has 170 episodes available.
What topics does Health & Veritas cover?
The podcast is about Covid, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Podcasts, Health, Business and Healthcare.
What is the most popular episode on Health & Veritas?
The episode title 'Sherry Glied: Getting Ready for the Next Pandemic' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Health & Veritas?
The average episode length on Health & Veritas is 34 minutes.
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Episodes of Health & Veritas are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.
When was the first episode of Health & Veritas?
The first episode of Health & Veritas was released on Sep 30, 2021.
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