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 103Duration 32:46
Melinda Pettigrew: The Battle Against Antimicrobial Resistance
Howie 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 misinformation”
“Vaccine Confidence Falls as Belief in Health Misinformation Grows”
Melinda Pettigrew and Antimicrobial Resistance
“Melinda Pettigrew—The next dean of SPH!”
“New Law Will Help Combat Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance”
“Two Yale alum tackle infection diagnostics”
FDA Fact Sheet: Veterinary Feed Directive Final Rule and Next Steps
CDC: Measuring Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing
Treating the Unhoused
“Housing Supply and the Drivers of Homelessness”
CMS: Place of Service Code Set
“New place of service code for treating unsheltered people”
“‘You Have to Learn to Listen’: How a Doctor Cares for Boston’s Homeless”
Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. - PodcastEpisode 102Duration 34:31
The Latest on COVID-19 Vaccines, and Other News
Howie 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”
“COVID Shots May Slightly Raise Stroke Risk in the Oldest Recipients”
“SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers pro-atherogenic inflammatory responses in human coronary vessels”
Medicare Advantage
2023 Medicare Open Enrollment Guide
“How Health Insurers and Brokers Are Marketing Medicare”
“Elevance Health Reports $13 Billion Profit and Insurer ups Forecast once again”
Mental Health in Healthcare
“Health care workers report increase in burnout, harassment since the COVID pandemic: CDC”
“Health Workers Face a Mental Health Crisis”
“Suicide Risks of Health Care Workers in the US”
“Stabbed. Kicked. Spit On.Violence in American Hospitals Is Out of Control.”
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
“Prospective Evaluation of AI Triage of Pulmonary Emboli on CT Pulmonary Angiograms”
“AI Risk Score on Screening Mammograms Preceding Breast Cancer Diagnosis”
What’s a Normal Temperature?
“Defining Usual Oral Temperature Ranges in Outpatients Using an Unsupervised Learning Algorithm”
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- PodcastEpisode 101Duration 42:26
Katherine Baicker: Rigorous Thinking about Hard Problems
Howie 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.S. life expectancy compare to other countries?”
The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
Healthcare Policy
Katherine Baicker: “Oregon Health Insurance Experiment”
Katherine Baicker: “The Oregon Experiment—Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes”
“How to Use the Oregon Medicaid Study to Your Ideological Advantage”
Katherine Baicker: “Workplace wellness programs can generate savings”
We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care
Katherine Baicker: “A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the US”
PEPFAR
The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
“PEPFAR Reauthorization: The Debate About Abortion”
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- PodcastEpisode 100Duration 32:27
Peter Salovey: A More Unified, Accessible, and Innovative Yale
In 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 Medicine: “Medical school and health system form a new affiliation”
“President's house will be a home”
For Humanity: the Yale Campaign
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- PodcastEpisode 99Duration 32:45
Marc Auerbach: Getting Emergency Departments Kid-Ready
Howie 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 and increasing quality.
Links:
Timely Clinical Trials
“Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19”
“Now is the time to fix the evidence generation system”
“The Clinical Trials Enterprise in the United States: A Call for Disruptive Innovation”
The Yale Paxlovid for Long COVID (PAX LC) Trial
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Connecticut Emergency Medical Services for Children: Innovation and Improvement Center
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center
CMS: About the CMS Innovation Center
“Accelerating Care Delivery Transformation—The CMS Innovation Center’s Role in the Next Decade”
Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. - PodcastEpisode 98Duration 29:33
An Inspiring Nobel Win and Other News
Howie 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 Cost Us A Pioneer Of mRNA Vaccines”
“The Karikó problem: Lessons for funding basic research”
Cigna and Medicare Advantage
“Cigna Group to Pay $172 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations”
Health & Veritas: “Helen Burstin: Research with an Impact”
The Cigna Group (CI) Stock Price, News, Quote & History
Humana Inc. (HUM) Stock Price, News, Quote & History
HIV and Cardiovascular Outcomes
“Pitavastatin to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in HIV Infection”
Health & Veritas: “Dr. Amy Justice: Unlocking the Insights in Healthcare Data”
“Shifting from “Morbid Obesity” to “Class III Obesity””
Healthcare Data
“Officials Struggle to Regulate Pop-Up Covid Testing Sites—and Warn Patients to Beware”
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- PodcastEpisode 97Duration 31:31
Mallika Mendu: Improving Operations
Howie 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
“The Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative: The Challenge of Overcoming the Status Quo”
“A Holy Grail — The Prediction of Protein Structure”
“Lasker Award for Revolutionizing Protein Structure Predictions”
“A.I. Predicts the Shape of Nearly Every Protein Known to Science”
NC Medicaid Managed Care Healthy Opportunities Pilot Fee Schedule and Service Definitions
Meanings and Misunderstandings: A Social Determinants of Health Lexicon for Health Care Systems
NCDHHS | Healthy Opportunities Pilots
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- PodcastEpisode 96Duration 36:29
Nita Ahuja: Epigenetics and Cancer
Howie 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 Difference?”
“Why Has a Useless Cold Medication Been Allowed on Shelves for Years?”
“Surgeon Sex and Long-Term Postoperative Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Common Surgeries”
“Age, Gender And Ability To Listen: Who Listens Best?”
“Women surgeons are punished more than men for the exact same mistakes, study finds”
“Board of Supervisors denies Greenwood Leflore Hospital’s $1 million request”
“Money and ambition split up Dana-Farber and Brigham”
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- PodcastEpisode 95Duration 34:52
Peter Hotez: Opposing the Anti-Science Movement
In 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
“The Red/Blue Divide in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Continues: An Update"
“Swiss study finds connection between watching Fox News and vaccination rates going down"
“The Paranoid Style in American Plutocrats"
“Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent"
“Peter Hotez is not alone: Online harassment of doctors is a public health issue"
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- PodcastEpisode 94Duration 30:46
Ted Long: A Model for Effective Primary Care
Howie 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 treating—long COVID”
National Institutes of Health “NIH launches new initiative to study ‘Long COVID’”
The Yale Paxlovid for Long COVID (PAX LC) Trial
Internal tremors and vibrations in long COVID: a cross-sectional study
“Burnout threatens primary care workforce and doctors' mental health”
NYC Health and Hospitals: Housing for Health
“NYC Health + Hospitals Wins Superbowl Of Reducing Blood Pressure Awards”
“Drugmakers Are ‘Throwing the Kitchen Sink’ to Halt Medicare Price Negotiations”
“The 4 Arguments You Will Hear Against Drug Price Negotiation”
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