Healthcare Triage
Brain Injuries & CTE: Detection, Treatment, and Prevention: Healthcare Triage Podcast
This month Aaron is talking to Dr. Tom McAllister, the Albert Eugene Sterne Professor and Chairman, Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. He specializes in studying brain injuries and chronic traumatic...
Hip Hughes History
The Bill That Was Killed: Trumpcare Explained
An overview of the failed bill, Trumpcare, also known as Ryancare or the American Health Care Act, AHCA. A teacherly explanation of how the AHCA would have changed Obamacare.
Healthcare Triage
Why Don't We Invest More in Public Health?
Many, many studies conclude that investing in public health is more effective than continually increasing spending on expensive treatments. So why doesn't the US spend more on public health?
Healthcare Triage
Most People Don't Need Vitamin D Supplements
There's a big study out from The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Systematic Review. Meta Analysis. Trial sequential analysis. This one’s got it all!
Healthcare Triage
Better Ways to Cut Healthcare Waste
A surprising amount of spending on healthcare in America is wasteful - we’ve talked about that before. In today’s episode, we discuss different approaches to reducing that waste, and potential barriers standing in the way.
Healthcare Triage
Health Harms from Pollution Can Choke the Economy
The Trump Administration's EPA has shown a propensity to ease regulations on polluting industries, in hopes of increasing economic output. Pollution has a lot of very well studied impacts on health, and those health problems can decrease...
Healthcare Triage
Which Drug Will Work Best for You? We Need Comparative Effectiveness Research
The FDA's drug approval process is pretty good at determining which drugs are safe and effective. What the FDA doesn't look into is how similar drugs compare to one another. If there are three competing blood pressure drugs on the...
The Wall Street Journal
Fewer, Bigger Health-Care Companies
A burst of mergers of health-care companies aims to reshape the market. What is the goal in uniting insurers, retailers, pharmacy benefit managers and even health-care providers?
Healthcare Triage
Planned Parenthood Withdraws from Title X Funding: What Does That Mean For Patients?
Title X is a federally funded Family Planning Program that has been around since 1970 as part of the Public Health Service Act. Following new restrictions on healthcare providers in clinics receiving Title X funding, Planned Parenthood...
Healthcare Triage
Election Results Impact the ACA, Medicaid Expansion, and Marijuana
Yesterday's election results have a lot of impact on health care in the United States. The new Democratic House of Representatives and the ACA, expansion of Medicaid in red states, and medical and recreational marijuana are all affected...
Healthcare Triage
Behavioral Economics Aren't that Convincing in Medicine
There have been a lot of stories about using behavioral economics to change wide array of human behaviors. Studies have looked at adherence to treatments, weight control, and lots of other areas, and have found that trying to change...
Healthcare Triage
The Opioid Crisis and the Way Forward
This is part 4 in our series on the opioid crisis, presented with support from the NIHCM Foundation. We've talked about the state of the opioid crisis, deaths of despair, and the disappointing evidence about marijuana as a treatment for...
Healthcare Triage
Heart Stents, Angina, and the Placebo Effect
Stents are a popular treatment for angina pectoris, or chest pain usually resulting from narrowed arteries. Getting a stent is a serious procedure, with no small risk associated with it. And recent studies indicate that stents don't do...
Healthcare Triage
Medicare's Coverage Gaps and Out of Pocket Costs
One of the original justifications for Medicare is that older people have much higher health care needs and expenses. But there are a few common misunderstandings about health costs when people are older, including the idea that money...
Healthcare Triage
How Administrative Costs Drive Healthcare Costs
Administration of medical care is a huge driver of costs in the United States' healthcare system. Running hospitals, generating bills, and collecting payment are just a few of the activities that take up health providers' time, and run...
Healthcare Triage
The 10 Worst Examples of Healthcare Profiteering and Dysfunction
Each year, the Lown Institute gives out the Shkreli Awards, named for disgraced and imprisoned "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli. The awards go to the perpetrators of the most egregious examples of dysfunction and profiteering in healthcare....
Healthcare Triage
Medicare for All and Administrative Costs
Political talk is getting more and more serious around Medicare for All in the United States. The argument, as usual comes down to costs. One of the advantages that proponents always bring up are the very low administrative costs of...
Healthcare Triage
Doctors' White Coats Can Host a Lot of Bacteria
For a lot of doctors and patients, the physician's traditional white coat is a big part of a doctor's identity, and contributes to their authority. Those white coats can also spread disease! It turns out, fabrics in doctors coats can be...
SWPictures
US Navy Ship Performs Cataract Surgeries in Guatemala
This video showcases the USNS Comfort, a military hospital ship that has been deployed to Latin America on a humanitarian mission to provide advanced medical care to those in need. The focus of the video is on the treatment of cataracts,...
Healthcare Triage
Human Genes in Monkeys? We Don’t Love It.
Scientists have put the human gene MCPH1 (which plays a role in brain development) into monkey embryos through a virus that contained the gene. Sounds like a movie, right?
Healthcare Triage
Drinking Alcohol During Pregnancy
Drinking during pregnancy is roundly frowned upon, for good reason. It's a huge risk factor for lots of post-natal problems. But prevention can be counter intuitive. Strong prohibitions and punitive measures for pregnant women who drink...
Healthcare Triage
Does Vitamin D Influence Mood?
We’ve scoured the data for you when it comes to Vitamin D supplements, coming up empty-handed almost every time. We know it doesn’t help with a variety of conditions, including those related to the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal...
Healthcare Triage
Racial Disparities in Healthcare are Pervasive
Study after study affirms that doctors treat their patients differently, depending on the patient's race. Minority patients get different diagnoses, different treatments, and are often subject to being stereotyped by their physicians.
Healthcare Triage
The Ups and Downs of Evidence Based Medicine
This week on HCT, we're talking about evidence based medicine. We talk about it a lot here on the show, but what exactly does the term mean? Why is evidence based medicine useful, and what can we do to use it more effectively?