Health & Veritas Yale School of Management

Howie and Harlan are joined by Chima Ndumele of the Yale School of Public Health to discuss his research on structural changes to Medicaid that could keep vulnerable populations healthier. Harlan reports on the remarkable abilities of Google's latest medicine-focused AI; Howie reflects on a study showing the impact of race-neutral measures of lung function. 
Links:
AI and Medicine
“Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine”
Medicaid
Medicaid.gov
“10 Things to Know About Medicaid”
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
“Long-Term Stability of Coverage Among Michigan Medicaid Beneficiaries: A Cohort Study”
“Unwinding And The Medicaid Undercount: Millions Enrolled In Medicaid During The Pandemic Thought They Were Uninsured”
Chima Ndumele: “Variation in Health Outcomes: The Role of Spending on Social Services, Public Health, and Health Care, 2000–09”
Chima Ndumele: “In Medicaid Managed Care Networks, Care Is Highly Concentrated Among A Small Percentage Of Physicians”
“N.C. developing plan to improve Medicaid participants’ job prospects”
“Yale School of Public Health Graduates Urged to Adopt a “Healthy Disregard for the Impossible”
Race and Lung Function
“Implications of Race Adjustment in Lung-Function Equations”
Harlan Krumholz: “Association of Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities with Outcomes among Patients Hospitalized with Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia. An Analysis of Within- and Between-Hospital Variation”
“Q&A: Harlan Krumholz on hospital readmissions”
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Howie and Harlan are joined by Ruth Katz, executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine & Society Program and a former Capitol Hill staffer, to discuss her work on the Affordable Care Act and other major healthcare laws. Harlan reflects on a study showing that using different analytical approaches to the same data can lead to a wide range of conclusions; Howie reports on a wave of dangerous infections caused by stem cell treatments at clinics in Mexico. 
Links:
Reproducible Research
“Grilling the data: application of specification curve analysis to red meat and all-cause mortality”
“Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results”
Ruth Katz
“Reflecting on Past Accomplishments to Make History Moving Forward: The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 and the New Office of Autoimmune Disease Research
“Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?”
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Health Resources and Services Administration: Vaccine Injury Table
“Brilliant Minds. Bold Approaches. Better Health. Aspen Ideas: Health Announces Programming Themes for 2024”
Medical Tourism and Stem Cell Treatments
“Stem cell injections in Mexico can be hazardous. Report identifies US victims”
CDC: Medical Tourism
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Howie and Harlan are joined by Greg Licholai, a Yale SOM lecturer and biotech entrepreneur, to discuss his career and his work at the contract research organization ICON, which performs clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies. Harlan reports on new research illustrating the dangerous consequences of asking patients to share the costs of life-saving drugs; Howie provides the good news and the bad news from the annual Medicare Trustees Report. 
Links:
Cost-Sharing and Mortality
“The Health Costs Of Cost-Sharing”
“The Boys of January”
Greg Licholai
ICON plc
Greg Licholai in Forbes
Boston Children's Hospital: Sickle Cell Disease
The State of the Medicare Trust Fund
Medicare: Coverage Gap
2024 Medicare Trustees Report
KFF: FAQs on Medicare Financing and Trust Fund Solvency
KFF: What to Know about Medicare Spending and Financing
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Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines. From flatlining telehealth to Walmart closing retail clinics to months-long waits for healthcare appointments, they try to untangle the challenges in delivering healthcare. Also considered, H5N1 bird flu increasing the risks of drinking unpasteurized milk, promising research on open-source moderation of misinformation on social media.
Links:
Yale Repertory Theater | The Far Country
CDC | H5N1
“US bird flu outbreak spreads to chickens, cattle, raises concerns over human infections”
“Raw Milk Is Being Legalized in More States. Is It Safe?”
“Recipe for a Healthy Gut: Intake of Unpasteurised Milk Is Associated with Increased Lactobacillus Abundance in the Human Gut Microbiome“
“Long-time Teladoc leader departs as virtual care provider struggles with post-COVID tumble”
“Teladoc sinks $13.7B loss in 2022 tied to plummeting value of Livongo acquisition”
“Optum layoffs: naviHealth CEO out; Virtual care business shuttered”
Connecticut | Certificate of Needs
Characteristics of X (Formerly Twitter) Community Notes Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation
“Walmart is closing down its health centers. What’s that mean for Amazon, Walgreens and CVS?”
“Walgreens narrows profit outlook for 2024, takes $6B hit in Q2 from VillageMD investment”
“Why It Takes Forever to Get a Doctor’s Appointment”
Yale Innovation Summit 2024
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Howie and Harlan are joined by Arthur Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics and founding head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, to discuss the ethical failings of the pharmaceutical industry and how a community-focused ethos prioritizing justice and protection of the vulnerable would have reshaped the COVID response. Harlan reports on developments in synthetic proteins. Howie recognizes World Malaria Day.
Links:
Division of Medical Ethics: NYU Langone
“‘You’ve got bad blood’: The horror of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment”
“When Evil Intrudes”
“Surgeons Perform World’s First Combined Heart Pump And Pig Kidney Transplant—Latest Breakthrough Involving Pig Organ”
“Biden trolls Trump on injecting bleach anniversary”
Frequently Asked Questions on Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act (DWDA)
“A quiet revolution in organ transplant ethics”
Center for Healthcare Ethics: The Provider-Patient Relationship
“Ex-Stanford President’s AI Drug Startup Pulls In $1 Billion in Commitments”
“Protein wrangler, serial entrepreneur, and community builder: Inside David Baker’s brain”
Baker Lab: Home Page
“Atomically accurate de novo design of single-domain antibodies”
National Cancer Institute: Definition of a Monoclonal Antibody
Malaria: World Health Organization 
CDC: Malaria’s Impact Worldwide
UNICEF: Ten things you didn’t know about malaria
Yale Innovation Summit 2024
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Howie and Harlan are joined by Scott Berkowitz ’03, cardiologist and chief population health officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, to discuss the necessity of moving from fee-for-service to value-based care delivery to improve outcomes for all. Harlan highlights the dangers of misinformation about Ivermectin. Howie reports on the potential conflicts of interest created by device manufacturers’ payments to cardiologists.
Links:
Johns Hopkins Medicine: Home
Johns Hopkins Community Health Partnership
“Association of a Care Coordination Model With Health Care Costs and Utilization”
“Planning for the Future of Population Health: The Johns Hopkins Medicine Experience”
“Califf’s long day on Capitol Hill”
“The FDA Deleted Its Viral Ivermectin Tweets. Now There’s Even More Misinformation.”
“Philly Nonprofit Awarded $48 Million to Apply AI in Search for New Uses for Approved Drugs
Posted on March 12, 2024”
“Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin among Patients with Covid-19”
“Effect of Ivermectin vs Placebo on Time to Sustained Recovery in Outpatients With Mild to Moderate COVID-19”
“Effect of Higher-Dose Ivermectin for 6 Days vs Placebo on Time to Sustained Recovery in Outpatients With COVID-19”
“Systematic review and meta-analysis of ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19: evidence beyond the hype”
Ivermectin and Covid
“FDA settles lawsuit over ivermectin content that doctors claimed harmed their practice”
“Intravascular Microaxial Left Ventricular Assist Device Manufacturer Payments to Cardiologists and Use of Devices”
“Impact of Industry Payments on Prescribing Patterns for Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors Among Medicare Beneficiaries”
Yale Innovation Summit 2024
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