Healthcare Triage
Vitamin D Supplements Continue to Be Unnecessary
There are several news studies that confirm what we've been saying for years. Vitamin D supplements don't do much, and are unnecessary for just about everybody.
Healthcare Triage
Hospital Competition Can Impact Your Health
It turns out, hospital and health system consolidations can result in worse outcomes for patients. These mergers reduce competition, and it turns out that hospitals compete more often on quality than they do on prices. The result is that...
Healthcare Triage
If You Need Surgery, Make Sure Your Surgeon is a Specialist
I spend a fair amount of time talking about how social determinants of health come into play, with respect to health care outcomes. I also talk a lot about things that don't work, and therefore constitute waste in that they don't affect...
Restoration Planet
Bighorns at the Junction: effects of disease
The potentially devastating effects of disease on the Bighorn poulation in Chilcotin. Filmed over a two year period in the rare grasslands of the Chilcotin in British Columbia.
Global Health with Greg Martin
Fragile states and global health
In this video, Dr Greg Martin talks about Fragile States and Health.
Healthcare Triage
Life Expectancy and the United States' Inequality Problem
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...
Healthcare Triage
U.S. Maternal Mortality is Much Higher for African-Americans
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...
Next Animation Studio
Newly discovered bat virus offers insight to deadly Nipah, Hendra
Australia's newly discovered Cedar virus may provide a clue for curing the deadly Hendra and Nipah viruses, which are Henipaviruses carried in the bodily fluids of the Pteropid fruit bat. They have a respective 50 and 75 percent...
Healthcare Triage
Does Better Education Mean Better Health?
Many, many studies have associated better and more education with better health outcomes? But which way does the causality go? Do people attain more education because they're healthy? Or maybe those who are in a economic position to...
Healthcare Triage
New Research On Plant-Based Diets and Mortality
A new study out this month claims plant-based diets are associated with lower risk of not only cardiovascular disease and mortality but of all-cause mortality as well. Can this be so?
Healthcare Triage
Randomized Controlled Trials and Full Body CT Scans
Never disrespect the randomized controlled trial. This is Healthcare Triage News.
The Wall Street Journal
Big Brother or Big Savings?
The new world of personal data uses algorithms and smart devices to offer cheaper, better insurance coverage, but at what price to consumer privacy? Hear from executives of two startups upending the way financial institutions deploy your...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How Despair Fueled Trump
Syracuse sociologist Shannon Monnat explains how Trump overperformed in places with high rates of drug use, suicide, and family distress—the depths of despair.
Professor Dave Explains
Interpretations of Plagues in the Middle Ages
After a few periods of great scientific progress in several parts of the world, we finally arrive at the Middle Ages. It was quite a bummer to be alive during this time, and one of the main reasons for this was the persistent plagues...
Healthcare Triage
Should You Add Cheese to Your Cancer Panic List?
We’ve been on a nutritional study kick lately, but it’s hard not to be when there are a number of trending topical studies and articles. This week we look at a few studies surrounding cheese and its association with breast cancer.
Healthcare Triage
That Big Scary Study about Booze? It’s Not as Scary as You Think
There was a big study on alcohol and life expectancy that was all over the news recently. It was pretty scary, and seemed to conclude that any alcohol use can shorten your life. Well, that study had a lot of problems. Let's talk about it.
The Wall Street Journal
The Health Crisis: Deborah Birx on the Administration's Plan
Deborah Birx of the White House Coronavirus Task Force talks to the WSJ about the Administration's plan for fighting the virus.
Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: Hamlet - Theme of Death and Mortality
Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores an overarching theme in Hamlet: death and mortality. Consider for yourself Shakespeare’s provocative questions about our understanding of death, and the way it can affect us....
Science ABC
What Happens if You Die in Space?
Depending on the circumstances of death in space, the body could be frozen, dried out, slowly rotting, or decomposing normally. With the increasing interest in space travel, it's important to consider the possibility of death in space...
60 Second Histories
Mode of Communication of Cholera - part 1
John Snow recites an extract of his essay on the Mode of Communication of Cholera 1854
Next Animation Studio
Not exercising worse for health than smoking, diabetes, and heart disease
Research has found that being fit can lead to a longer life, and that being sedentary is even deadlier than some diseases.
msvgo
Population Growth
This nugget explains the different growth models in population ; exponential growth and logistic growth and their attributes
Healthcare Triage
High BMI is Associated with Higher Mortality. And so is Low BMI.
Having a low BMI is associated with increased mortality. High BMI is too. Keep it in that normal range, y'all. This is Healthcare Triage News.
Healthcare Triage
Is Our Health Care Spending Actually Worth It?
Many people know by now that the United States spends much more on health care than any other country, and that health outcomes are not a lot better (and in many instances worse). That raises the question: Is our health care spending...