While the Senate and the House haven't been very effective in passing repeal of Obamacare, the ACA's provisions are still at risk. There's a lot that Donald Trump's administration can do (or not do) to undermine Obamacare's provisions...

This week, Seema Verma announced that the administration would not approve several requests by states to place lifetime limits on Medicaid benefits. How about that? The CMS doesn't do much to protect benefits these days, but this is a...

Most of the world has been working on the assumption that when a person recovers from Covid-19, everything just goes back to normal. As the pandemic progresses though, we're learning about some patients who experience long-term...

GMOs. Vaccines. Death Panels. There are a lot of "beliefs" circulating about a wide variety of health policy issues. Luckily, these are all pretty well researched areas. Thanks to thorough investigations, we can conclude with certainty...

Pregnancy comes with a lot of advice concerning everything from how to determine the sex of the baby to how to ease both pregnancy symptoms and the oft-dreaded task of labor and delivery. Most of these stand on little to no evidence, but...

In the next year and a half, we here at Healthcare Triage are going to take some deep dives into issues of health policy, especially those that touch on social determinants of health and health equity. The episodes that do so will be a...

Allergies and atopic disease are on the rise. Especially food allergies in kids. A HUGE new study has looked at how changes to the microbiome can lead to allergies.

Recently, the Trump administration put forward plans to force all the able-bodied lazy people with Medicaid coverage to finally get jobs. The problem with this is that pretty much all the Medicaid recipients who can work already have...

Rear-facing car seats do keep kids safer, but they can be hard to use for larger children. In Sweden, kids stay in backward facing seats a lot longer, and have fewer injuries. The study that encouraged American parents to turn their car...

Aaron Carroll and Tiffany Doherty address viewer questions about tobacco research, vitamin D, Coronavirus, breast milk production, and whether sports drinks help with a fever!

A significant study on the safety of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 has been retracted. So, what does this mean? What does it say about using the drug to treat COVID? What does it say about the way we do science?

Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease that affects millions of people in the US alone, so there was a lot of excitement about recent news headlines of a drug approved to treat the disease. However, the approval was met with an outcry from...

A huge meta-analysis came out recently looking at how effective antidepressants actually are. It turns out, the results are complicated, and we had a hard time reducing all the stuff in this study to a headline. So, the title's a...

Dark chocolate has gained a health food reputation, but is the hype too good to be true? Is it possible that a daily dose of something so delicious can improve cognitive function and heart disease risk? Let’s take a look at the science -...

A few weeks ago, we were critical of the Trump administration's handling of ACA risk adjustment payments. We're fair-minded types around here, so we though you should know that they've taken steps to fix it.

A press release on a recently published scientific study has been catching clicks with the headline “low-calorie sweeteners do not mean low risk for infants, new research shows the impact ‘diet’ ingredients have on body weight and gut...

What’s the true infection rate of COVID-19? So far, we’ve had no real idea, which means most states are flying blind into reopening. But not Indiana, where a new statewide study is the first to provide the kind of data we’ll need to make...

We definitely need to be tracing the contacts of people who have tested positive for coronavirus, so that we can know who else has been exposed. This is a herculean task, but we have to do it. And there are some ideas and practices that...

We’re getting close to a year of living with Covid-19, but work is still ongoing to understand the mechanisms behind some of its most devastating effects. A lot of attention has been given to Cytokine Storms in this realm, but with some...

This video is a tutorial on how to complete three separate journal entries for a uniform company's payroll. The focus is on the accrued benefits entries for the month, including health insurance premiums, retirement matching, and...

Are early childhood programs a good use of resources? In this series so far, we've talked about what childhood programs are, and whether they work. Now, we get to the question of whether or not they pay off. One of the reasons that life...

Barbershops have long played a significant social, economic, and cultural role in African-American life. Barbershops foster both confidentiality and camaraderie, which seems like a good environment to talk to men about hypertension.

In part 1 of INET's interview with Raghuram Rajan he connects rising inequality and debt, government stimulus programs, and international capital mobility to explain the crisis and fragility in the world economy. About international...

What's the deal with Covid variants? How well do the different Covid vaccines protect against the several variants? Today we'll tell you about the several variants, including the Delta variant that is prevalent in the US, and we'll talk...