The FDA recently issued emergency use authorization for utilizing convalescent plasma to treat Covid-19. The idea is that using plasma from a donor who has recovered from Covid-19 has antibodies that can help treat patients who are sick...

Promising health studies often don’t pan out in reality. The reasons are many. Research participants are usually different from general patients; their treatment doesn’t match real-world practice; researchers can devote resources not...

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...

If you’re part of the financial independence retire early (FIRE) movement, your plan is to retire well ahead of traditional retirement age. Watch out for these unexpected tax bills.

Often, private coverage is assumed to be better than public coverage. More and more often, that’s just not what families are finding. Those that work, even those earning a decent living, just can’t afford the private care they’re...

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...

Budget authorization for the Children's Health Insurance Program in the US ran out a couple of months ago, and there's no reauthorization in sight. A LOT of kids are insured through this program. Aaron runs you through what's about to...

About 50 million people in the United States don't have access to enough food to support a healthy lifestyle. The technical term for this is food insecurity, and over 40% of people in the United States will experience it during their...

As the coronavirus and COVID19 pandemic continues, researchers are investigating some older drugs that may be viable treatments for the disease. One drug of interest is remdesivir, a decade old drug intended to treat hepatitis. It was...

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We've talked about some of the negative health impacts alcohol can have, but we haven't talked about the calories. It's not great news on that front. Booze is calorie dense. Even the "light" stuff.

Unless you were living under a rock this week, you heard there was a huge new study on life expectancy in America. It's worth our time. This is Healthcare Triage News.

A recent study looked into ketamine, noted animal sedative and party depressant, as a short-term treatment for severe, emergency room level depression. While it can help people who are suffering from suicidal ideation, it is a short term...

Part five of our six-part series on vaccinations, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, continues to explore the history of societal backlash against vaccination, with particular attention to...

In the United States, there's a lot of worry about babies getting TOO MUCH to eat. Overweight and obesity among children is a real concern, and eating habits established in early childhood are a factor. There's an idea that babies can...

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...

In the US, too many moms are dying around the time of childbirth. Every year, more than 700 mothers die from complications related to pregnancy and delivery, leaving behind grieving families as well as urgent policy questions about how...

Healthcare Triage often notes that lots of health metrics are improving in the US. But that is not the case with life expectancy. Life span is decreasing, and the losses are not equally distributed. The lives of the poor are getting...

We don’t yet know the long-term health consequences of e-cigarettes, and gaining that knowledge could take decades. However, a recently published study in mice offers new data for consideration.

If you've had coronavirus, are you immune or can you catch it again? What's this I hear about Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome? And does hydroxychloroquine work or not? Aaron talks you through the studies and facts about some of the...

We're answering your questions about coronavirus and Covid-19. Click on the timecode below to go straight to a question. 01:49 How should healthcare professionals clean masks? 2:29 Was this virus made in a lab? 2:57 Does COVID-19 cause...

Women on Web is an organization that increases access to pharmaceutical abortion services in countries where those options are limited. The organization has now started a separate service that will fill prescriptions in the United States...

We're back, and it's 2018, y'all. Let's talk about what's happeing with CHiP, taxes and the individual mandate, and the Obamacare exchanges.

In 2005, when the RAND Corporation wrote about early childhood interventions, they argued that the evidence to date showed those interventions improved outcomes and generated benefits that outweighed the costs. More than ten years later,...