Healthcare Triage
Carrot vs Stick: The Social Safety Net, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Work Requirements
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...
The Wall Street Journal
What Just Happened, and What's It Mean for Business?
The midterm elections have redrawn the political map in Washington. What's likely to happen to tax policy, regulation, and the ability of Congress to get things done?
SWPictures
The Struggle to Breathe: Training Local Health Workers in Remote Villages
The Struggle to Breathe part 3/8: The video showcases the efforts of healthcare workers and volunteers in providing education and treatment for pneumonia in a remote village. It highlights the importance of early detection and prevention...
Healthcare Triage
What Does the Microbiome Have to do with Allergies?
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.
Healthcare Triage
But, But, Medicaid Recipients Are Already Working
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...
Healthcare Triage
Backwards Car Seats are Pretty Swede, but We Can Do More to Keep Kids Safer
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Jaekyung Lee - Can America Fix Its Education System? (broken and unequal)
Jaekyung Lee, PhD, is a professor and former dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo. A fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Lee is an internationally recognized leader in...
Healthcare Triage
Your Questions Answered!
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!
Healthcare Triage
What's Happening with the Hydroxychloroquine Study Retraction?
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?
Healthcare Triage
Aduhelm is FDA Approved for Alzheimer's, But Does it Work?
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...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Limits of the “Rational Economic Man”
Greg Mankiw says there should be a market for kidneys, but not for paying drug addicts to get sterilized. In this full-length interview from What Money Can’t Buy, political philosopher Michael Sandel and Harvard economist Greg Mankiw...
Healthcare Triage
Do Antidepressants Work or What?
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...
Healthcare Triage
ACA Risk Adjustment is out of Danger. For Now.
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.
Healthcare Triage
Dark Chocolate is not a Superfood
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 -...
Healthcare Triage
More On Vitamin D
You guys and your Vitamin D. You ask me on HCT Live, you ask me on comments, you ask me on Twitter. I'm amazed at the persistence of this question, as study after study seems to show that Vitamin D isn't doing most of us much good at...
Science360
AI helps medical professionals interpret, perform ultrasounds – Bay Labs
Bay Labs, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), uses artificial intelligence to help medical professionals perform and interpret ultrasounds. Bay Labs is using deep learning technology to enable a wider range...
Healthcare Triage
Canada's Healthcare System Explained!
Last week we discussed the United States health care system. This week we discuss Canada's. We also take some time to bust some myths about their single payer health care system. Fight about it in the comments below.
TLDR News
Bernie Drops Out of Primary What he's Really Achieved - TLDR News
With COVID-19 impacting the whole world at the moment, it's unsurprising that its ripple effects can also be seen in the 2020 election. So in this video, we'll be asking, how will it affect 2020 and more specifically how will it impact...
Healthcare Triage
Indiana's COVID-19 Testing Study and What it Means for Reopening
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...
Healthcare Triage
COVID-19 Surveillance and the Difficulty of Contact Tracing
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...
Healthcare Triage
Bradykinin Storms and Covid Inflammation
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...
Healthcare Triage
Weight Gain, Low-Calorie Sweeteners, and Responsible Translation of Research
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...
Healthcare Triage
Do Early Childhood Programs Pay Off?
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...
The Wall Street Journal
ZocDoc and Dexcom on the Telemedicine Boom
The coronavirus pandemic has given the fledgling telemedicine industry a boost as patients flocked online for doctor consultations. ZocDoc and Dexcom CEOs discuss how telemedicine is transforming healthcare.