Dr. Aaron Carroll explains healthcare policy, medical research, and answers a lot of other questions you may have about medicine, health, and healthcare.
From Healthcare Triage. Maybe not quite all the evidence, but we’ve looked at a lot of the benefits of exercise over the years. While we’re taking a few weeks off this summer, we’re looking back at some of our most popular topics. This compilation of videos looks at exercise research and helps us understand just…
From Healthcare Triage. For some women, a simple shot during pregnancy and then right after labor can prevent a huge amount of suffering for both parents and future children. So what happens when there’s a shortage that prevents that shot from happening? Related HCT episodes: Myths About Pregnancy: Be sure to check out our podcast!…
From Healthcare Triage. We already know exercise is good for us, including our mental health, but we still have some questions. Like, what kind of exercise is best? And at what intensity? Related HCT episodes: 1. Most People Exercise: https://youtu.be/cK-JOeJtUbM 2. Misunderstanding the Data on Diet, Exercise, and Mortality: https://youtu.be/P3mutIrl2dQ Be sure to check out…
From Healthcare Triage. We’ve got new and improved data on the relationship between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and diagnoses of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability in offspring. Have we been right or wrong to recommend it during pregnancy? Related HCT episodes: Relative Risks of Acetaminophen, ADHD, and Autism: https://youtu.be/iYX7Y1lLZ78 Be sure to check out our…
From Healthcare Triage. Sigh. Nutrition research is often bad, and how we talk about it is even worse. If you believe the hype from the past several years, intermittent fasting doesn’t only help you lose weight, it may go so far as to prolong your life. So what do we do with new data suggesting…
From Healthcare Triage. In mid to late 2023 there was a flurry of news reports about patients taking new weight loss drugs reporting associated mental health concerns, including suicidal thoughts. There’s still a lot of research to be done to fully understand these drugs and their effects, but we take a close look at the…
From Healthcare Triage. If you or someone you love has a life-threatening food allergy, you have to remain constantly vigilant for even the slightest exposure to that food, making even an outing to a restaurant an impossibility for some people. It can be exhausting, particularly with children, and there’s no cure for food allergies. However,…
From Healthcare Triage. Measles is really contagious and can easily spread in pockets of unvaccinated people. In February 2024 a health advisory was issued by the Florida Department of Health in Broward County to warn the public about several confirmed cases of measles at a local elementary school. The Florida Surgeon General made the wrong…
From Healthcare Triage. Thank to the Commonwealth Fund for supporting the production of this video. The American healthcare debate is often a pendulum swinging between two extremes: maintaining the status quo and adopting a single-payer system. But what if we’re asking the wrong questions? What if the answers lie not in the extremes but in…
From Healthcare Triage. We love some good vaccine data, and we were pretty excited to see a new, long-term study published this month on cervical cancer outcomes after the HPV vaccine. Related HCT episodes: 1. More People Should Get the HPV Vaccine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT65ayU6fpc Be sure to check out our podcast! Other Healthcare Triage Links: 1.…
From Healthcare Triage. According to a recent study, “Oreo Cookie Treatment” is better at lowering LDL cholesterol (the “bad” cholesterol) than high-intensity therapy with cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins. ARE OREOS A HEALTH FOOD NOW?! Check out the study cited in Aaron’s Bad Food Bible: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/storage/app/uploads/public/58e/1a4/cb2/58e1a4cb29d64718517577.pdf Related HCT episodes: Misunderstanding the Data on Diet and Exercise:…
From Healthcare Triage. The 2023 Shkreli Awards from the Lown Institute have been released! Dysfunction in healthcare is one of the foundational pillars here at Healthcare Triage, and these awards highlight some of the worst examples. Related HCT episodes: Shkreli Awards 2022: https://youtu.be/plNovnhtKWU Be sure to check out our podcast! Other Healthcare Triage Links: 1.…
From Healthcare Triage. Healthcare Triage is no stranger to dissecting studies about processed foods, but we were recently alerted to a study linking them to depression, and since we haven’t dissected that yet, that’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage. Related HCT episodes: 1. Food Dyes and Hyperactivity: https://youtu.be/7AKaLkov3Cw 2. Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer:…
From Healthcare Triage. Avoiding certain food dyes to help improve a child’s behavioral issues is common advice, and not just on TikTok! Several doctors stand behind this recommendation as well. But several doctors also prescribe vitamin D, and that’s usually pretty useless according to the data. So where do the data stand on food dyes?…
From Healthcare Triage. When we released a recent episode about the artificial sweetener erythritol, many of you brought up questions about recent news on other artificial sweeteners – sucralose and aspartame – so we went to take a look and That’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage. Related HCT episodes: Is the New Artificial…
From Healthcare Triage. Drugs that do a pretty good job of easing symptoms of depression and drugs that really help people struggling with obesity have a couple things in common. The first is that we have almost no idea how they work, and the second is that there’s often shame around using them because so…