Health & Veritas
Howard 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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Episodes
- PodcastEpisode 84Duration 32:05
Abbe Gluck: The Legal Determinants of Health
Howie 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”
Abbe Gluck: COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy
“Abortion pill case: where does the lawsuit against the pill currently stand”
“Chevron case: Supreme Court could take sledgehammer to agency power”
“SAFFORD UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST. #1 v. REDDING (No. 08-479)”
“What Do the Early Medicaid Unwinding Data Tell Us?”
“As Medicaid Purge Begins, ‘Staggering Numbers’ of Americans Lose Coverage”
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- PodcastEpisode 83Duration 33:19
Sandeep Jauhar: A Witness to Dementia
Howie 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”
Sandeep Jauhar: Heart: a History
Sandeep Jauhar: “How Would You Feel About a 100-Year-Old Doctor?”
Sandeep Jauhar: My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s
“The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia”
National Institute on Aging: What Causes Alzheimer's Disease?
“KKR-Backed GenesisCare Preps for Bankruptcy Filing Within Days”
“KKR-Backed Envision Healthcare Plans Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing”
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- PodcastEpisode 82Duration 35:51
Albert Ko: A Journey in Public Health
Howie 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 Covid Right Now?”
Weill Cornell Medical School: Warren Johnson
Berkeley Public Health: Lee Riley
WHO: Social Determinants of Health
“Surgeon General Issues New Advisory About Effects Social Media Use Has on Youth Mental Health”
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- PodcastEpisode 81Duration 35:42
Joseph Sakran: Confronting Gun Violence
Howie 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:
Written Testimony of Joseph Sakran—U.S. House Judiciary Committee, February 6, 2019
“Doctors See the Wreckage of Gun Violence Every Day. We've Had Enough”
“In 2019, Congress Pledged Millions to Study Gun Violence. The Results Are Nearly Here.”
“U.S. gun deaths disproportionately high”
“The State of U.S. Health Insurance in 2022”
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- PodcastEpisode 80Duration 38:54
Josh Geballe: Turning Yale Innovation into Startups
Howie 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:
“As Covid Emergency Ends, U.S. Response Shifts to Peacetime Mode”
“ChatGPT - Reshaping medical education and clinical management”
“Artificial Hallucinations in ChatGPT: Implications in Scientific Writing”
Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale
“The economic transformation: What would change in the net-zero transition”
“F.D.A. Advisers Weigh Allowing First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill”
Food and Drug Administration | Prescription-to-Nonprescription (Rx-to-OTC) Switches
“Over-the-counter sales of statins and other drugs for asymptomatic conditions”
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- PodcastEpisode 79Duration 35:12
Amanda Skinner: Navigating Reproductive Care after Roe
Howie and Harlan are joined by Amanda Skinner, a Yale SOM graduate who leads Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. Harlan reflects on the potential and the dangers of artificial intelligence; Howie reports on an advisory from Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about the public health impact of loneliness and social isolation.
Links:
“Five Alumni Named 2021-22 Donaldson Fellows”
“Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies as doctors flee over abortion ban”
“Abortion providers in the United States: expanding beyond obstetrics and gynecology”
“‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead”
“Is artificial intelligence advancing too quickly? What AI leaders at Google say”
“ChatGPT may have better bedside manner than some doctors, but it lacks some expertise”
“Surgeon General: We Have Become a Lonely Nation. It’s Time to Fix That.”
“Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation”
“Good genes are nice, but joy is better”
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- PodcastEpisode 78Duration 33:33
Elizabeth Arleo: Advice for Working Mothers from a Women’s Health Specialist
Howie and Harlan are joined by Elizabeth Arleo, a radiologist with a focus on breast imaging and the author of First, Eat Your Frog: And Other Pearls for Professional Working Mothers. Harlan reports on the state of AI in healthcare; Howie reflects on the epidemic of lung injuries from vaping.
Links:
“Epic, Microsoft bring GPT-4 to EHRs”
Harlan Krumholz: “Foundation models for generalist medical artificial intelligence”
“Is artificial intelligence advancing too quickly? What AI leaders at Google say”
Elizabeth Arleo: First, Eat Your Frog: And Other Pearls for Professional Working Mothers
CDC: Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with the Use of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Products
“Juul Reaches $462 Million Settlement With New York, California and Other States”
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- PodcastEpisode 77Duration 35:26
Megan Ranney: What’s Next for Public Health?
Howie and Harlan are joined by Megan Ranney, who will become the dean of the newly independent Yale School of Public Health later this year. Harlan reflects on the research that is helping us understand aging at a cellular level; Howie discusses a new study that he co-authored which examines the costs that make it harder for many mothers to breastfeed.
Links:
Outlive by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford
“Megan Ranney named dean of Yale School of Public Health”
“Yale School of Public Health to become self-supporting, independent school”
Megan Ranney: “To prevent gun injury, build better research”
Megan Ranney: “We need more research on guns. Here are 5 questions we can answer.”
Howard Forman: “No such thing as a free lunch: The direct marginal costs of breastfeeding”
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- PodcastEpisode 76Duration 34:48
Cary Gross: Effective Cancer Screening
Howie and Harlan are joined by Cary Gross, professor of medicine and public health and director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale, to discuss his creative approach to research and his sometimes contrarian stances on cancer screening and not holding medical conferences in states that ban abortion. Harlan explains the nuances of new research about mortality risks tied to weight loss in older adults; Howie discusses his concerns over courts interfering with FDA drug approval processes arising from two cases tied to the medical abortion pill mifepristone.
Links:
“The Relation between Funding by the National Institutes of Health and the Burden of Disease”
“Allocation of National Institutes of Health Funding by Disease Category in 2008 and 2019”
“Too Many Older Patients Get Cancer Screenings”
National Cancer Institute | National Cancer Act of 1971
“Judge Invalidates F.D.A. Approval of the Abortion Pill Mifepristone”
“Democratic state attorneys general sue Biden administration over abortion pill rules”
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- PodcastEpisode 75Duration 36:05
Michael Alosco: The Toll of Repetitive Head Impacts
Howie and Harlan are joined by Michael Alosco, co-director of Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, to discuss the consequences of years of hits to the head for football players and other athletes. Harlan reports on research that clarifies how to treat high cholesterol; Howie discusses a judge's ruling striking down coverage of preventative care.
Links:
“Treat-to-Target or High-Intensity Statin in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease”
UNITE Brain Bank | BU CTE Center
Michael Alosco: “Repetitive Head Impacts and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy”
Michael Alosco: “White matter hyperintensities in former American football players”
Michael Alosco: “Age of first exposure to tackle football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy”
“Federal Judge Strikes Down Obamacare Requirement for Free Preventive Care”
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