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Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz, two Yale physician-professors, discuss the latest news and ideas in healthcare and seek out the truth amid the noise. Produced with the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Public Health. New episodes are available every Thursday.

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June 11, 2026Episode 22741 min

Science, Policy, and Power

Howie and Harlan discuss healthcare headlines including proposed changes to federal research funding, an outbreak of New World screwworm in Texas cattle, and the debate over free expression after researchers were removed from the American Diabetes Association meeting for distributing an editorial critical of federal science policies. They also examine the future of generic GLP-1 drugs, a new Medicare model for heart failure care, and a court ruling with implications for international physicians practicing in the United States. Show notes: Research Grants NIH: NOT-OD-25-132: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications Akiko Iwasaki Health & Veritas Episode 192: Akiko Iwasaki: What Have We Learned About Long COVID? Stuart Buck "White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants" U.S. Constitution: Article II Skinny Labeling and the Supreme Court "Supreme Court Upholds Preventive Services Requirement Under ACA" "Supreme Court Rejects Colorado Law Banning 'Conversion Therapy' for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors" Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc. (24-889) "Hikma v. Amarin: Supreme Court Weighs Future of 'Skinny Labeling'" Value-Based Care CMS: Value-Based Care CMS: Hospital Readmission Reduction New World Screwworm CDC: New World Screwworm USDA: New World Screwworm Economic Impact Report USDA: Eradicating New World Screwworm with Sterile Insect Technique American Diabetes Association Meeting "Join the ADA in New Orleans for the 2026 Scientific Sessions" NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya Diabetes Care: "Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!" "Diabetes researchers ousted from conference after criticizing Trump" H-1B Visas Presidential Proclamation on Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers "Federal judge blocks Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee" "Health Care Professionals Sponsored for H-1B Visas in the US" Exchange Visitors and the J-1 Classification In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time. Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

June 4, 2026Episode 22644 min

Mark Siegel: The Craft of Teaching Doctors

Howie and Harlan are joined by Mark Siegel, director of Yale's internal medicine residency program, to discuss his approach to mentoring young physicians and building a medical community grounded in purpose and compassion. Harlan examines a breakthrough targeted therapy that could reshape the treatment of pancreatic cancer and other hard-to-treat cancers; Howie tracks the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and argues that policy decisions are hampering the global response. Show notes: A Cancer Breakthrough Pancreatic cancer: Symptoms and causes "Daraxonrasib or Chemotherapy in Previously Treated Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer" "Multi-Selective RAS(ON) Inhibitor Nearly Doubles Survival Time in People With Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer" "KRAS mutation: from undruggable to druggable in cancer" Mark Siegel Mark Siegel: Program Director Notes Mark Siegel on Substack Academic medicine Signaling system Mark Siegel: "What I've Learned in 63 Years" Yale School of Medicine: Residency & Fellowship Programs Mark Siegel: "A Sudden Loss Of Vision" Health & Veritas Episode 224: Nicholas Christakis: The Science of Human Connection Ebola WHO: Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak, Democratic Republic of the Congo WHO: Ebola, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2026 WHO: Alert and Response "'We are catching up'—WHO chief on DR Congo's Ebola fight" "Uganda Closes Border With Congo as Ebola Fears Rise" "Kenyan Court Deals New Blow to Plans for U.S. Ebola Unit" In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time. Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

June 1, 2026Episode 22547 min

Live at the Yale Innovation Summit 2026

Howie is joined by guest host Megan Ranney, dean of the the Yale School of Public Health, for a live episode recorded at the Yale Innovation Summit, featuring conversations with five innovators at the intersection of healthcare, public health, and entrepreneurship. Jaya Dadwal, a recent graduate of the School of Public Health and founder of forEVA Health, focused on raising healthcare standards for the female body Monique Rainford, a Yale School of Medicine ob-gyn and founder of Enrich Health, focused on addressing disparities in maternal health Kimberley Steele, a bariatric surgeon and program director at the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Yusuf Ransome, a faculty member at the School of Public Health and founder of Soul Health, a faith tech solution focused on addressing the mental wellbeing of the "missing middle" Janani Ramaswamy, head of IP and licensing services at Yale Ventures Show notes: The Yale Innovation Summit Yale Innovation Summit 2026 Yale Ventures Jaya Dadwal forEVA FDA: Essure Permanent Birth Control "Problems Reported with Essure" Jennifer McFadden "Women's Health Strategy for England" A UK government report including the finding that 84% of women report that their voices have not been listened to in the healthcare system. Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) Monique Rainford Megan Ranney and Monique Rainford: "Opinion: Over-the-counter birth control pill could make a huge difference" Enrich Health Monique Rainford: Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America Sejal Hathi: "Nine Months of Medical Attention. Then Almost Nothing" Kimberley Steele Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Lymphatic System: Function, Conditions & Disorders ARPA-H: Lymphatic Imaging, Genomics, and Phenotyping Technologies (LIGHT) ARPA-H: Groundbreaking Lymphatic Interventions and Drug Explorations (GLIDE) "GLIDE set to prevent and cure human disease by targeting the lymphatic system" Yusuf Ransome Yusuf Ransome on LinkedIn: "The hardest part of building a solution is when your own family depends on it" SOCAH Lab Pew Research: "Spirituality Among Americans" Janani Ramaswamy "Arvinas Announces FDA Approval of VEPPANU (vepdegestrant) for the Treatment of ESR1m, ER+/HER2- Advanced Breast Cancer" Arvinas Yale Ventures: Accelerators, Programs, and Innovation Centers HealthTech Works In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time. Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

May 28, 2026Episode 22452 min

Nicholas Christakis: The Science of Human Connection

Howie and Harlan are joined by Nicholas Christakis, director of Yale's Human Nature Lab, to discuss his research on social networks, human connection, and the forces that help societies cooperate and endure. Harlan discusses promising phase 3 results for retatrutide, Eli Lilly's experimental "triple G" obesity drug; Howie provides an update on the fast-growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Show notes: Obesity Drugs "Lilly's triple agonist, retatrutide, delivered powerful weight loss in pivotal Phase 3 obesity trial" "Triple–Hormone-Receptor Agonist Retatrutide for Obesity—A Phase 2 Trial" Bariatric surgery Nicholas Christakis Human Nature Lab Nicholas Christakis: Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society Free rider problem Phenotype Stephen Pinker The Enlightenment Nicholas Christakis on YouTube: For the Love of Science Nicholas Christakis: "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years" Social contagion Altruism Wet lab vs. dry lab Microbiome Communicable vs. non-communicable diseases Nicholas Christakis: "The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network" Nicholas Christakis on YouTube : "Learning in a Time of War" Tymofiy Mylovanov The president of the Kyiv School of Economics, who invited Christakis to lecture in Ukraine. Ebola CDC: Ebola Disease 2026 CDC: Ebola Disease Basics "The Ebola virus spreading in Congo is a rare species with no vaccines or treatments" Hypertension Watch last week's episode on YouTube. In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time. Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

May 21, 2026Episode 22348 min

Who Gets to Shape Healthcare?

Howie and Harlan discuss how AI is transforming medical research and publishing, the growing role of consumer health platforms and wearables, new advances in stroke treatment, and the debate over rising hospital costs. They also examine the FDA's approval of flavored vaping products and the nomination of a new surgeon general. Watch a video version of this episode on YouTube. Show notes: Social Media Health & Veritas on Instagram Howie's viral reel on Hantavirus Howie on X AI and Research Claude Code by Anthropic medRxiv Progress in Treating Strokes "Endovascular Treatment of Medium-Vessel-Occlusion Strokes" "Endovascular thrombectomy after large-vessel ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from five randomised trials" "In Memoriam: Eugene Braunwald, MD, MACC" The Costs of Healthcare The Keckley Report "The Hospital-Health Insurer War hurts Everyone" Hospitals: Higher Value, Higher Prices "This Is the Biggest Culprit for High Health Care Spending" "It's The Prices, Stupid: Why The United States Is So Different From Other Countries" Atrial fibrillation: symptoms and causes Atrial fibrillation ablation Health Care Affordability Lab Zack Cooper's lab at Yale. Wearables Venture into Healthcare "WHOOP Expands Health Platform with On-Demand Clinician Access and New AI Features" "Introducing ChatGPT Health" "Introducing the all-new Fitbit Air" "Dear Tim" Myoung Cha's blog post on Apple's impact on health. FDA Resignations Over Vape Policy Health & Veritas Episode 78: Elizabeth Arleo: Advice for Working Mothers from a Women's Health Specialist Howie discusses e-cigarettes and lung injuries. Health & Veritas Episode 118: Lucila Ohno-Machado: AI and the Art of Medicine Howie mentions mixed evidence for vaping as an alternative to smoking. "With Commissioner Under Pressure, F.D.A. Opens Door to Flavored Vapes" "FDA Commissioner Marty Makary Resigns—Trump Posts His Resignation Text" "Top Kennedy Spokesman Resigns in Protest of Move to Allow Flavored Vapes" The Financial Side of GLP-1s Hims & Hers Investor Presentation "Hims & Hers Health, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results" Surgeon General Nominees "Trump Withdraws Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General" "Exclusive: Deleted tweets reveal new surgeon general pick criticized Trump and RFK Jr. health policies" "Trump's new surgeon general nominee has both praised and criticized his administration" "The Madness in RFK Jr.'s Autism Method" In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time. Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

May 14, 2026Episode 22241 min

Josh Geballe: Building Yale's Innovation Engine

Howie and Harlan are joined by Josh Geballe, head of Yale Ventures, to discuss how changes in Yale's mindset, policies, and support systems have helped turn university research into impactful companies. Harlan examines the growing problem of AI-hallucinated citations in published research; Howie provides an update on the deadly Andes hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship. Show notes: Fake Citations "Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers" JACC Journals Josh Geballe Yale Innovation Summit 2026 Yale Ventures Joe Tsai Alibaba Group Craig Crews "Yale Spinout Halda Therapeutics Announces $3B Acquisition by Johnson & Johnson" "D-Wave Announces Agreement to Acquire Quantum Circuits Inc., Establishing World's Leading Quantum Computing Company" "Arvinas and Pfizer Enter into a Transaction with Rigel Pharmaceuticals for the Exclusive Global Rights of VEPPANU (vepdegestrant)" Yale Ventures: Healthtech Works Yale Ventures: Planetary Solutions Alexion BioLabs Hantavirus Outbreak Hantavirus "Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries" "French woman with hantavirus has severe form of disease, is in 'final stage of supportive care'" In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time. Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

May 7, 2026Episode 22149 min

Lee Schwamm: Onboarding AI at the Hospital

Howie and Harlan are joined by Lee Schwamm, the Yale School of Medicine's associate dean for digital strategy & transformation and chief digital health officer of the Yale New Haven Health System, to discuss how the system is working to rapidly evaluate and deploy AI tools without compromising patient safety and oversight. Harlan highlights vaccine studies reportedly held back from publication and argues for greater scientific transparency; Howie reports on a deadly outbreak of Andes hantavirus aboard a cruise ship. Show notes: Suppressing Science "F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe" "Safety Monitoring of Multiple Health Outcomes Following 2023–2024 COVID-19 Vaccination among Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65 Years and Older in the United States" One of the studies initially blocked by the FDA, published in medRxiv. Akiko Iwasaki: "Freedom of scientific inquiry: reclaiming space for controversy" Lee Schwamm "What is digital transformation?" "Use of Ambient AI Scribes to Reduce Administrative Burden and Professional Burnout" Imaging and radiology "What Is Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)? An Expert Guide" "Platform Solutions vs. Point Solutions: What's the Difference?" "A prospective clinical feasibility study of a conversational diagnostic AI in an ambulatory primary care clinic" "A scoping review of silent trials for medical artificial intelligence" "Heart failure risk stratification using artificial intelligence applied to electrocardiogram images: a multinational study" Center for Health Care Innovation "Beyond Sterling Hall: Artificial Intelligence is a 'Natural'" Institutional Review Board "What is hyperscale?" AgileMD: eCART "Geoff Hinton: On Radiology" "What is a private cloud?" "What Is a GPU?" Lee Schwamm on what makes an excellent digital patient experience: An excellent digital patient experience is one that moves complexity away from the patient and makes it easy for patients to access, navigate, and coordinate care across the continuum without needing to fragment their care across multiple healthcare delivery systems. It provides seamless longitudinal continuity of identity, so patients are never asked twice for the same information and their preferences endure between sessions and across experiences. This intelligent hyper-personalization enables care journeys that meaningful, effective and seamlessly intermingle traditional and digital care. At a macro level, these experiences are delivered equitably and adjust to the patient's level of digital engagement, engendering trust and conveying empathy. An equitable digital front door is one that opens easily for everyone, allows access to the needed services, and improves clinical care and operational efficiency rather than simply digitizing existing ineffective or byzantine processes. Lastly, excellent digital patient experiences are not just built but are maintained and curated, through continuous measurement, iteration, and alignment to the needs of patients rather than the organizational structure of the health system. Hantavirus Oceanwide Expeditions Press Releases Hantavirus "What Is Hantavirus, the Rare Disease That Killed Betsy Arakawa?" "Hantavirus cluster linked to cruise ship travel, Multi-country" Updates from the World Health Organization on X "'Super-Spreaders' and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina" In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time. Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

April 30, 2026Episode 22045 min

Wolfram Goessling: Lessons from the Other Side of Cancer

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Medicine liver specialist Wolfram Goessling, who reflects on his experience surviving a rare cancer and how it reshaped his approach to patient care, communication, and leadership. Harlan discusses a Utah pilot program that is letting AI authorize prescription renewals, prompting alarm from physicians; Howie reports on a study challenging the effectiveness of a widely used knee procedure. Show notes: The Prescribing AI "Utah and Doctronic Announce Groundbreaking Partnership for AI Prescription Medication Renewals" Doctronic AI Mitigation Agreement "AI Prescribing Medications In Utah: A Flawed Regulatory Playbook" "Utah medical board calls for 'suspension' of AI doctor experiment" "The Status Quo Is the Biggest Risk" Doctronic responds to coverage of the Utah partnership. Wolfram Goessling Wolfram Goessling: Staying Alive: An Oncologist Fights His Cancer The publisher's site for Wolfram Goessling's book on his personal fight with cancer. Staying Alive: An Oncologist Fights His Cancer The Amazon page for the book. Facing Cancer The IMDB page for the documentary about Wolfram Goessling's experience. Facing CancerWatch the documentary with English subtitles. Angiosarcoma Goessling Lab "Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD, to be Appointed Chair of YSM Internal Medicine, Chief of Internal Medicine at YNHH, & Physician-in-Chief for Medicine" Hepatology Gastroenterologist "What Is Shared Decision Making?" "Teach-Back: Intervention" Liver Cancer Jaundice Appendicitis "Meet Wolfram Goessling, New Chair of the Yale Department of Internal Medicine" Longwood Symphony Orchestra Knee Surgery "Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy versus Sham Surgery for a Degenerative Meniscal Tear" "Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy for Degenerative Tear—10-Year Outcomes" "Analysis of Charges and Payments for Outpatient Arthroscopic Meniscectomy From 2005 to 2014: Hospital Reimbursement Increased Steadily as Surgeon Payments Declined" In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time. Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

April 23, 2026Episode 21944 min

Trust, Truth, and Moral Distress

Howie and Harlan take on tough questions at the intersection of medicine and society. They trace the deadly history of anti-vaccine activism, unpack Yale's report on trust in higher education, and explore the peptide craze. They also confront the rising moral distress among clinicians working in systems that too often prevent them from caring for patients the way they were trained to. Plus, student research assistant Tobias Liu stops by for a farewell conversation. Show notes: Tobias Segment "Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Kickback Resolutions and Associated Financial Penalties, 2000-2025" Anti-Vaccination Alfred Russel Wallace WHO: Smallpox "US surpasses 1,000 measles cases for the 3rd time in 26 years" Trust in Higher Education "Report of the Committee on Trust in Higher Education" "Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education's Problems" "Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale" Peptides WebMD: Peptides "Peptides take off as a DIY treatment but is that a good idea?" "A peptide in FDA's step" Moral Distress "Moral Distress and Occupational Burnout in US Physicians" "The Moral Crisis of America's Doctors" The Pitt Psychedelics "Trump expedites review of psychedelics to treat mental health disorders" "U.S. Overdose Deaths Decrease Almost 27% in 2024" 2026 Breakthrough Prize "Breakthrough Prize 2026" In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time. Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

April 16, 2026Episode 21841 min

Stephen Latham: The End of Irreversibility

Howie and Harlan are joined by Stephen Latham, a Yale School of Medicine senior research scholar and the director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. Stephen reflects on his journey to a career at the intersection of law and medicine, and explains why the legal definition of death is becoming less useful in an era of rapidly advancing medical technologies. Harlan unpacks recent analysis of smoking rates in the U.S.; Howie contextualizes recent accusations of Medicaid fraud in New York. Show notes: Smoking Rates "Tobacco Product Use among U.S. Adults, 2023–2024" "Smoking rates are at a historic low. You're not hearing about it from the government" "Cigarette Smoking is Down Nationwide, but Not Equally Across All Groups" Stephen Latham American Medical Association American Medical Association: Code of Medical Ethics Oregon's Death with Dignity Act "Harvard's grade inflation experiment" "Professors face grading dilemma: too many A's, little taste for limits" "Harvard University Plans To Delay Its Cap On A Grades For One Year" "Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body" Uniform Determination of Death Act Cleveland Clinic: Organ Donation and Transplantation Bexorg "Bexorg: The Yale Spinout That Figured Out How to Keep Brains Going Outside the Body" Brain Perfusion - An Overview "Political Theory, Values and Public Health" "AI-guided CAR designs and targeted pathway modulation to enhance multi-antigen CAR T cell durability and overcome antigen escape" "Conscience, Disobedience, and Standard of Care" Medicaid "Trump administration admits a glaring error in its accusations about New York health care fraud" "5 Key Facts About Medicaid Program Integrity – Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Improper Payments" "Medicare Program Integrity and Efforts to Root Out Improper Payments, Fraud, Waste and Abuse" IRS: The tax gap In the Yale School of Management's MBA for Executives program, you'll get a full MBA education in 22 months while applying new skills to your organization in real time. Yale's Executive Master of Public Health offers a rigorous public health education for working professionals, with the flexibility of evening online classes alongside three on-campus trainings. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.