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Mashup Score: 5Atheendar Venkataramani: Opportunity, Hope, and Health - 7 day(s) ago
Howie 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 Health | Home “College Affirmative Action Bans and Smoking and Alcohol Use among Underrepresented Minority Adolescents in the United States: A Difference-in-differences Study” “Police Killings and Their Spillover Effects on the Mental Health of Black Americans: A Population-based, Quasi-experimental Study” “Officer-Involved Killings of Unarmed Black People and Racial Disparities in Sleep Health“ Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System | Home “Building Black Wealth — The Role of Health Systems in Closi
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Mashup Score: 3Margo Harrison: Women’s Health as a Path to Empowerment - 21 day(s) ago
Howie 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 Jury Rules Some Claims About Prevagen Are Misleading” “Effects of a Supplement Containing Apoaequorin on Verbal Learning in Older Adults in the Community” Mate Fertility: Home Dahlia Ventures Margo Harrison, MD: Assistant Adjoint Professor, OB-GYN-Basic Repro Science Margo Harrison: LinkedIn “Use of Cesarean Birth at Mizan Tepi University Teaching Hospital, Mizan Aman, Ethiopia” “Postpartum Contraceptive Use Among Denver-Based Adolescents and Young Adults: Association with Subsequent Repeat Delivery” “Warnings
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Mashup Score: 6Robert Rohrbaugh: Bringing Antiracist Tools to Clinical Practice - 1 month(s) ago
Howie 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: Antiracist Documentation Practices — Shaping Clinical Encounters and Decision Making American Psychological Association | Implicit Bias “YSM Ranks #1 in U.S. News Survey for Psychiatry” COVID-19 Traumatic Disaster Appraisal and Stress Symptoms Among Health Care Workers Application of Artificial Intelligence on Psychological Interventions and Diagnosis: An Overview Is AI the Future of Mental Healthcare? ChatGPT outperforms humans in emotional awareness evaluations “Ridding the Race of His Defective Blood” — Euge
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Mashup Score: 3A Cheating Scandal, Abandoned Research, and Other News - 2 month(s) ago
Howie 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 Admissions Disparities in an Era of Legal Restrictions: Adjusting for Applicant Socioeconomic Disadvantage” “Medical School Admissions — A Movable Barrier to Ending Health Care Disparities?” “Yale Reinstates Standardized Test Score Requirement For Admissions” “New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education” Research at Universities Good Science Project: Stuart Buck “Why Are We Screwing Over Researchers Who Make Innovative Discoveries?” Intellectual Property: Ownership and Protection
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Mashup Score: 11Lucila Ohno-Machado: AI and the Art of Medicine - 2 month(s) ago
Howie 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 cigarette smokers quit. Links: “Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, MBA, Will Lead Biomedical Informatics and Data Science” “Lucila Ohno-Machado: Yale Medicine Profile” “Halıcıoğlu Data Science Center” “2024 AI in Medicine Symposium at Yale School of Medicine” “Doctors Vs. ChatGPT: Which Is More Empathetic?” “Irwin M. Birnbaum Obituary” “What is a mentor?” “A Randomized Trial of E-Cigarettes versus Nicotine-Replacement Therapy” “Episode 78, Health and Veritas: Elizabeth Arleo: Advice for Working Mothers
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Mashup Score: 11Farzad Mostashari: Aligning Incentives to Fix Primary Care - 2 month(s) ago
Howie 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: “Aledade: Home Page” “Farzad Mostashari: Man On A Digital Mission” “Health Reform and Physician-Led Accountable Care:The Paradox of Primary Care Physician Leadership” “Staggering Rise in Catheter Bills Suggests Medicare Scam” “Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): General Information” “Novid: Definition” “Prepandemic Physical Activity and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis and Hospitalization in Older Adults” “VR risks for kids and teens” “2024 Outlook: Despite hurdles, stakeholders bullish on VR in behavioral health
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Mashup Score: 4Christopher O’Connor: Hospital Leadership in Trying Times - 2 month(s) ago
Howie 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 Primary Care” “Ambient Artificial Intelligence Scribes to Alleviate the Burden of Clinical Documentation” “Medical AI scribe startup Nabla rolling out tool to the Permanente Medical Group docs in Northern California” “Ambience Healthcare reels in $70M for generative AI tools to battle clinician burnout” Hospital Leadership “After 20 Years and $16,000, A Hospital Debt Is Canceled” Harlan Krumholz: “Out‐of‐Pocket Annual Health Expenditures and Financial Toxicity From Healthcare Costs in Patients With Heart Failu
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Mashup Score: 3Manisha Juthani: Solving Infectious Disease Mysteries - 3 month(s) ago
Howie 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 from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute “Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Researchers Accused of Manipulating Data” “Top Cancer Center Seeks to Retract or Correct Dozens of Studies” Pubpeer: The Online Journal Club “‘A lot of it is sloppiness’: the biologist who finds flaws in scientific papers” Manisha Juthani “An Outbreak of Domestically Acquired Typhoid Fever in Queens, NY” Manisha Juthani: “Effect of Cranberry Capsules on Bacteriuria Plus Pyuria Among Older Women in Nursing Homes—A Randomized Clinical Tria
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Mashup Score: 2Claudine Litman: Designing Better Healthcare Solutions - 3 month(s) ago
Howie 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 Better Healthcare Yale School of Medicine:Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage Misleading Advertising “FDA scolds Novartis over a misleading TV ad for a breast cancer treatment” Public Law 87-781, 76 STAT 780 FDA: Letter to PharmD Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertisements: Presentation of the
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Mashup Score: 6Another Winter Wave, and Other News - 3 month(s) ago
Howie 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 COVID-19 Vaccines and Novavax;a Systematic Review” “Paul Offit Debunks Florida Surgeon General’s Anti-Vax Warning” “Does Novavax’s Covid vaccine cause fewer side effects?” “SOTP: State-of-the-Pandemic: The pandemic’s 2nd biggest wave of infections and what the JN.1 variant is telling us” “Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine during the first COVID-19 wave: an estimate” Weight-Loss Drugs “FDA looking into reports of hair loss, suicidal thoughts in people using popular drugs for diabetes and we
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