Up to 25% of health spending in the US is wasteful. Where is that money being lost? What can we do about it?

Aside from whatever a visit to the doctor costs you in money, it also costs you in time. A lot of it. Can we make that better? That's the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.

William Harvey introduces himself and talks about his early years and his discoveries.

Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD, is a nationally recognized physician with expertise in the fields of nutrition, allergy, environmental medicine, Lyme disease, and the healing of mind-body-spirit as a unified whole. He co-founded The New England...

The video discusses a clinical trial being conducted at Churchill Hospital in Oxford, where doctors are using high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to treat kidney and liver cancer. The video features David Atwell, a tennis player who...

Brendan Marrocco, a former US soldier and quadruple amputee, successfully underwent double arm transplant surgery on Dec.18 last year at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The surgery involved several hours of connecting the bones,...

In this video, an activist against gum pollution, discusses the environmental impact of gum packaging and the lack of responsibility taken by manufacturers. She calls on corporations to invest in educating people about proper disposal...

To diagnose prostate cancer, urologists, such as John Wei, and pathologists, such as Scott Tomlins, at the University of Michigan Health System, use biomarkers, which are biochemical signatures in blood, urine and tissue...

When Aaron was an intern, or a first-year doctor in training, he knew something was wrong with him. He had trouble sleeping. He had difficulty feeling joy. He was prone to crying at inopportune times. Even worse, he had trouble...

In this video, chemist Sherry Mason discusses her research on the contamination of the Great Lakes with plastic particles. She highlights the alarming presence of plastic in the water, its harmful effects on marine life, and the...

Medicare Advantage are plans with private companies that contract with Medicare to deliver services. Some of these plans work great, but many of them have limited lists of approved providers, which can make finding a doctor difficult for...

Spinal manipulation for lower back pain turns out to be a thing. For a lot of reasond, MDs have been suspicious of chiropractors and other practitioners of spinal manipulation, but new studies indicate that spinal manipulation is as...

In previous episodes of Healthcare Triage, we've discussed how people often misunderstand risk and how it affects them. We've also talked about how you can calculate the explicit metrics of numbers needed to treat and harm. But people...

There are a surprising number of treatments that get accepted into mainstream care, and covered by insurance, despite the fact that there is little evidence that they work. There's even evidence that some of these treatments may be...

We've got a permanent doc fix. It's all about the sustainable growth rate. Confused? We'll help. This is Healthcare Triage News.

By any objective measure, the United States doesn't train enough medical doctors to meet the nation's needs. That means graduates from other countries are needed. Aaron takes a look at foreign medical graduates, an essential element of...

When someone gets a diagnosis, they should get lots of time with their doctors and nurses to talk and learn about the condition. This isn't always possible. Sometimes, it can be useful to talk to patients who have also been through the...

For the first time in the U.S, doctors have successfully “reanimated” a heart from a deceased donor, prior to the heart being transplanted to an adult recipient. <br/>

Yesterday, despite prior assurances, Johnson's government announced that they'd be increasing taxes in order to cover NHS costs and the rising costs of social care. However, this move has proved controversial especially because of who's...

We haven't always been right in regards to medical treatments. . . Unfortunately

In a recent Health Affairs article, the Commonwealth Foundation conducted their periodic survey of eleven countries to see how access issues might have improved or worsened. We've covered these data before. Let's update. This is...

Some chronic conditions, such as the autoimmune disease scleroderma, are especially difficult to treat because patients exhibit highly variable symptoms, complications and treatment responses. The process of finding an effective...

We face a lot of obstacles on the road to ending the opioid crisis, and one of them revolves around access to evidence-based addiction treatments. The X-waiver, a waiver physicians must obtain to prescribe the partial opioid agonist...

John Green asks the questions you submitted, and Dr. Aaron Carroll answers them. Also, great job with the questions. They were really good.