The Latest on Artificial Sweeteners and Health @healthcaretriage

Healthcare Triage Are there harms of artificial sweeteners that outweigh the benefits? We’ve asked this question before at Healthcare Triage, and the answer was no! There are lots of data that suggest artificial sweeteners are bad, but none of those data are good. There are good data suggesting that artificial sweeteners are just fine, but somehow those get ignored.
Now we’ve got a study on another artificial sweetener, erythritol, and many of you have asked what our take is.

Related HCT episodes:
Sweeteners, Weight Gain, and the Challenges of Animal Research: youtu.be/1z56QMxaZyE

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The Latest on Artificial Sweeteners and Health

Healthcare Triage 2023-06-16 | Are there harms of artificial sweeteners that outweigh the benefits? We’ve asked this question before at Healthcare Triage, and the answer was no! There are lots of data that suggest artificial sweeteners are bad, but none of those data are good. There are good data suggesting that artificial sweeteners are just fine, but somehow those get ignored.
Now we’ve got a study on another artificial sweetener, erythritol, and many of you have asked what our take is.

Related HCT episodes:
Sweeteners, Weight Gain, and the Challenges of Animal Research: youtu.be/1z56QMxaZyE

Be sure to check out our podcast!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfBg8ML-gInFaYyYhKLBp2u7h5IojTw4

Other Healthcare Triage Links:
1. Support the channel on Patreon: http://vid.io/xqXr
2. Check out our Facebook page: http://goo.gl/LnOq5z
3. We still have merchandise available at http://www.hctmerch.com
4. Aaron's book "The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully" is available wherever books are sold, such as Amazon: http://amzn.to/2hGvhKw

Credits:
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

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Sex Testing in Sports: Does it Make Sense?

Healthcare Triage 2024-10-11 | The issues surrounding sex testing in sports may seem like a new phenomenon, but this has been coming up at least since women were allowed to compete in the Olympics – so, for like the past century or so. There’s a whole lot of concern over who is allowed to compete in women-only sports, and various “solutions” have been aimed at allaying those concerns. But are they effective? Do they make sense?

Related HCT episodes:
Contact Sports and Kids' Health: youtu.be/xI6LQhMQ5WQ

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Credits:
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Why Do Americans Pay SO Much More for Prescription Drugs?

Healthcare Triage 2024-09-09 | A fairly large percentage of Americans don’t take important medications as prescribed due to issues of high cost and/or low supply. How did we get here, and what can we do about it?
Thanks in part to support from the National Institute for Healthcare Management, that’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

Related HCT episodes:
Series Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfBg8ML-gIlsm_RzTTp5X9hR9Sea52Ya&si=uRNAoVy-1VK7YZuU

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Credits:
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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

How Do Companies Decide Which Drugs to Develop?

Healthcare Triage 2024-08-27 | Between government funding and pharmaceutical industry spending, billions of dollars are spent annually to bring just a handful of drugs to market. That means some strategic investing is likely going on behind the scenes, and we were curious about the factors driving some of that strategy.

Thanks in part to support from the National Institute for Healthcare Management, that’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

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Drug Prices Playlist
Why Are Drugs So Expensive? youtu.be/2qw0mXD0Ly8

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Credits:
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Why Do Prescription Drugs Cost SO Much?

Healthcare Triage 2024-08-16 | In 2020 the expected global expenditure on prescription drugs was somewhere around 1.3 TRILLION dollars, with around $350 BILLION of that spending being done in the United States. The US seems to have a particular issue in this area, with citizens paying much more than their counterparts in similar countries. But why do prescription drugs cost so much? And why do some cost so much more than others?

Special thanks to the NIHCM for supporting this special series on the costs of prescription drugs.

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Credits:
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Creative Director, Producer

An In-Depth Look at Americas Opioid Crisis

Healthcare Triage 2024-08-01 | This compilation is a deep dive on the opioid crisis, thanks in part to funding by the NIHCM. Explore the history of opioids, the science of opioids, and learn about how and why attitudes and US policy regarding addiction treatment and opioid control need to change.

0:00 Intro
0:22 A Brief History of Opioids
8:13 Opioid Science
16:14 Opioid Addiction Treatment
22:26 The Opioid Crisis Continues
31:34 Deaths of Despair
37:49 What Can We Do About Opioids?

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Credits:
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John Green -- Executive Producer
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Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Exercise Is Good, and Heres the Evidence

Healthcare Triage 2024-07-12 | 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 what exercise can and can't do for us.

Included HCT episodes:
0:00 Intro
0:32 Exercise and Depression
4:21 Misunderstanding Diet, Exercise, and Mortality
8:54 Encouraging Exercise: A Megastudy
12:55 Is Morning Exercise Better for Weight Loss?
16:42 Exercise is NOT the Key to Weight Loss

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Credits:
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

The Drug Shortage Putting Newborns at Risk

Healthcare Triage 2024-06-03 | 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?

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Credits:
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Creative Director, Producer

What Kind of Exercise Is Best for Depression?

Healthcare Triage 2024-05-25 | 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: youtu.be/cK-JOeJtUbM
2. Misunderstanding the Data on Diet, Exercise, and Mortality: youtu.be/P3mutIrl2dQ

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Credits:
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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Is Tylenol Safe During Pregnancy?

Healthcare Triage 2024-05-16 | 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?

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Relative Risks of Acetaminophen, ADHD, and Autism: youtu.be/iYX7Y1lLZ78

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Credits:
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Does Intermittent Fasting Increase Heart Attack Risk 91%?

Healthcare Triage 2024-05-03 | 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 it significantly increases your risk for cardiovascular disease?

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Understanding Risk: youtu.be/zoW8PSGPzAo

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Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

New Obesity Drugs May Impact Mental Health

Healthcare Triage 2024-04-22 | 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 research in the article to figure out just what scientists know about GLP-1 drugs and mental health.

Related HCT episodes:
GLP-1 Obesity Drugs Are the Real Deal: youtu.be/K5QoSkmPCEQ

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Credits:
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Creative Director, Producer

A Drug to Treat Food Allergy Reactions

Healthcare Triage 2024-04-13 | 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, the FDA recently approved Xolair for the reduction of allergic reactions to food.

Related HCT episodes:
Food Allergies Get Getting Nuts: youtube.com/watch?v=W5ww02Fsj-U

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Why Is Measles Making a Comeback?

Healthcare Triage 2024-04-06 | 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 call on recommendations to parents.

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Measles Can Wipe Out Immunity to Other Diseases: youtu.be/l_rkOpdgZLc

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John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Painful Truths the U.S. Can Learn from Global Healthcare

Healthcare Triage 2024-03-22 | 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 the nuanced experiences of other countries? We need to shift the conversation from what we're against to what we're for and, more important, what we're willing to trade off to get there.

Related HCT episodes:
The Healthcare of Many Nations Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfBg8ML-gIngk82SUbTp6Og_KkYfJ6oF

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Credits:
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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Ten Years Later: The HPV Vaccine is Still Incredible & Lifesaving

Healthcare Triage 2024-03-11 | 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.

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1. More People Should Get the HPV Vaccine: youtube.com/watch?v=TT65ayU6fpc

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Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
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Do Oreos Lower Cholesterol? No.

Healthcare Triage 2024-03-02 | 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: nationalaffairs.com/storage/app/uploads/public/58e/1a4/cb2/58e1a4cb29d64718517577.pdf

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Misunderstanding the Data on Diet and Exercise: youtu.be/P3mutIrl2dQ

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
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Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
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Fraud, Abuse, and Malfeasance in the American Health System AWARDS

Healthcare Triage 2024-02-16 | 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.

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Shkreli Awards 2022: youtu.be/plNovnhtKWU

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Do Processed Foods Lead to Depression?

Healthcare Triage 2024-02-06 | 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: youtu.be/7AKaLkov3Cw
2. Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer: youtu.be/rhqN8CqLamY

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
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Do Food Dyes Make Kids Hyperactive?

Healthcare Triage 2024-01-31 | 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?

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Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer: youtu.be/rhqN8CqLamY

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
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Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer

Healthcare Triage 2024-01-22 | 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 Sweetener Erythritol Safe?: youtube.com/watch?v=5glJijpvzmk&t=1s

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Credits:
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

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Zoloft, Mounjaro, and Social Stigma

Healthcare Triage 2024-01-12 | 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 many people view issues of mental health and weight control as personal failings. In a recent article for the New York Times I argue that we should shift focus from these two things and focus instead on significantly improving people’s lives, which these drugs do.

Related HCT episodes:
The State of Weight Loss Drugs in 2023: youtu.be/1rHwVQzJwTI

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John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Ways We Can Mitigate Climate Change

Healthcare Triage 2023-12-27 | We’ve spent a bunch of time this year examining the many, many health effects of climate change. And while we are no experts on climate change and what the best solutions are to address it, we are clearly interested in addressing it for the sake of public health. So, leaning on the works of actual climate change experts, we’re going to dig into what look like some of the most promising mitigation strategies at the moment.

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Public Health Solutions to Climate Change Problems: youtu.be/aAXH6ckqYio

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Climate Change and Bug-borne Disease #climatechange #climateemergency #environmentalissues #climate

Healthcare Triage 2023-12-22 | Climate change is shifting the ways that diseases impact humanity. In short, there could be more disease outbreaks in more places as mosquitos, ticks, and other vectors shift location and numbers in a changed climate. Waterborne diseases can also increase due to higher temperatures and increased flooding. Learn more, and what we can do!

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Credits:
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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Public Health Solutions to Climate Change Problems

Healthcare Triage 2023-12-14 | Much of the conversation around climate change centers on things like lowering carbon emissions, which is obviously critical, but we think the public health response to climate change should be a larger part of the conversation. Whatever we do moving forward to address climate change, there’s no avoiding the fact that we will still face public health consequences of climate impacts. That sucks, but we can soften the blow if we prepare ourselves.

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

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Aspartame and Autism?

Healthcare Triage 2023-12-01 | What's the deal with Aspartame and Autism? Whenever you see a study claiming that a single ingredient has a specific link to a specific health outcome, you should immediately feel wary. That’s because it is nearly impossible to conduct a study that provides solid evidence in support of such a claim. Let's look at the research

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Artificial Sweetener Research: youtu.be/5glJijpvzmk

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Climate Change Is Already Impacting Our Health

Healthcare Triage 2023-11-27 | Massive storms, flooding, extreme heat, droughts, air pollution, increased rates of disease, changes to our food and water… global warming, and the changes to climate that come with it, are increasing human health risks. Our physical and mental health both stand to suffer, and some populations are more vulnerable than others. What are the specific health issues, what can we do to address them, and most importantly – is there any hope?

We hope to answer these questions and more in a handful of episodes on Climate Change and Health. This year, we’re going to be taking a look at how Climate Change can impact health.

Related HCT episodes:
How Pollution Chokes the Economy: youtube.com/watch?v=NKV7x9pkghc

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

The Unequal Impacts of Climate Change

Healthcare Triage 2023-11-22 | Climate change is driven by humans and will affect us all. But it’s not driven by everyone equally, and it doesn’t affect everyone equally. In the last 250 years, 77% of global emissions were emitted by Europe, North America, Australia, and Japan. At the same time, carbon emissions from nearly all low-income countries have been negligible compared to those of rich countries. Despite this, some of the biggest impacts from climate change are expected to affect lower income nations that emit fewer greenhouse gasses per capita.

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
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Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

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The Unequal Mental Impact of Climate Change

Healthcare Triage 2023-11-15 | We’ve been on a Climate Change and Health kick lately but so far, we’ve focused on the threats that our physical health faces on a warming planet. However, the looming cloud of climate change is tough on our mental health, too, and we should talk about that.

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HCT Climate Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfBg8ML-gInVPCl7zVMWvRX3SVwTRhgc

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John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

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Debunking and Prebunking: How to Fight Misinformation

Healthcare Triage 2023-10-27 | It’s the final episode of our three-part series on health misinformation, and we want to spend these few minutes with you talking more about the best strategies for countering misinformation and how we can best deal with misinformation when we come face-to-face with it online.
Thanks in part to the National Institute for Healthcare Management, that’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

Related HCT episodes:
A History of Misinformation: youtu.be/AYgv3i_Pn_I
How to Talk about Misinformation: youtu.be/cvDzp2drv8E

Bad News: The Fake News Game: getbadnews.com/books/english

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

How to Talk About Misinformation

Healthcare Triage 2023-10-13 | In the first part of this three-episode series we touched on the fact that misinformation has been around for a long time, and that it may seem like a recent problem because the internet has forever changed the way we share information.
Since the internet and social media are probably here to stay, the best thing we can do about information, and therefore misinformation, is to understand how we receive it, and how best to deliver it.

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A History of Health Misinformation: youtu.be/AYgv3i_Pn_I

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

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Misinformation About Health Is Nothing New

Healthcare Triage 2023-10-03 | Misinformation. A recent and major problem facing us all, and one that is pervasive in many realms including medicine and healthcare, which are, of course, favorite realms around here. But is all this stuff recent? Is misinformation a new phenomenon in the world of medicine and health, or does it have a history?

The answer to that, thanks in part to funding from the National Institute for Healthcare Management, is the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

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Dissemination: Get Out There and Strut Your Stuff:

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Studies Show New Weight Loss Medications are the Real Deal

Healthcare Triage 2023-09-19 | Back in 2021 we did an episode on Semaglutide, the then-recently-approved drug for weight loss that was originally approved for Type 2 diabetes. Since that episode another paper has come out on what happens to weight when the drug is discontinued, and another on Mounjaro, a drug approved for Type 2 diabetes.

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Semaglutide and Weight Loss: youtu.be/fb_dxXoiVK4

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John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Climate Change and Our Food Supply

Healthcare Triage 2023-09-10 | So far in our adventures on climate change and health, we’ve covered the critical issue of how our water supply is impacted by a warming planet, and that is a perfect segue into something equally important: The impact of climate change on food security.

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Climate Change and Safe Drinking Water: youtu.be/WODo_hX8oLA

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Robert Kennedy, Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccine Testing

Healthcare Triage 2023-08-25 | RFK Jr. is claiming that scientists do not test vaccines with placebo-controlled trials, specifically against a saline placebo, and that all he’s asking for is that they are tested this way, as all other medicines are.

On its face alone, that probably sounds like a reasonable argument. I, too, would like vaccines to be tested in randomized controlled trials – and thankfully, THEY ARE.

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Vaccines History and Science: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfBg8ML-gImWWzdv3zO1_5wCRReliEQt

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Climate Change and Safe Drinking Water

Healthcare Triage 2023-08-12 | In our last climate episode we took a look at how climate change affects the spread of infectious disease. Unfortunately, that isn’t the end of our discussion of disease on a warming planet. Waterborne diseases are already a serious public health threat. As climate change continues and increases intense rainfall, periods of drought, and temperatures, our struggle with waterborne diseases is going to increase, too.

Related HCT episodes:
Mosquitos, Ticks, and Disease in a Warming World: youtu.be/a_eGFrT9j2E

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

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Does Breastfeeding Result in Smarter Kids?

Healthcare Triage 2023-08-04 | A recent study conducted in the United Kingdom claims that breastfeeding makes for smarter kids when they reach the ripe old age of 16. If I had to guess, I’d guess that you were thinking, “So what, don’t we already know that kids are smarter if they’re breastfed?”

Related HCT episodes:
Debunking Common Childbirth Advice youtube.com/watch?v=Kz6L99MDDdU

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Ticks, Mosquitos, and How Climate Change Could Increase Disease

Healthcare Triage 2023-07-28 | We’re back again with another episode on climate change and human health. The effects of a warming planet on our wellbeing are multifaceted, and there’s a lot to address in these complex interactions. One of those things is an increase in disease

Related HCT episodes:
Are Ticks Transmitting a Mysterious Red Meat Allergy? youtube.com/watch?v=mz-KwjTXYBo&feature=shareb

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Tiffany Doherty -- Writer and Script Editor
John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

An RSV Vaccine for Infants

Healthcare Triage 2023-07-08 | Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, strikes fear into the hearts of parents, especially those with very young babies. It’s not very kind to other compromised populations, either. We’ve been working toward a vaccine for a long time, and it looks like we’re close to those efforts paying off.

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The History and Science of Vaccines: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfBg8ML-gImWWzdv3zO1_5wCRReliEQt

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John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
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Does Cold Immersion Therapy Work? Lets Dive In.

Healthcare Triage 2023-06-27 | Cold plunging is…almost exactly what it sounds like: Immersing your body one way or another in super cold water. Some people do this by hopping in a tub full of ice water, some people take very cold showers, or some people dive into freezing cold lakes.

While a lot of people try to talk about this in very serious ways, calling it “cryotherapy” and extolling its health benefits in every outlet they can find, we were feeling skeptical about it. So we did what we always do – to the research!

Related HCT episodes:
Does Cold Weather Cause Colds? youtu.be/_qRIoBLRB6g

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Climate Change, Particulate Pollution, and Air Quality

Healthcare Triage 2023-06-06 | We’re back with another episode on climate change and health, and this time we’re looking at some of the indirect health effects, with a focus on how things like air pollution and allergens arise from a warming planet and make us sick, particularly affecting our respiratory system.

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Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
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Is ChatGPT Nicer than Your Doctor?

Healthcare Triage 2023-05-19 | Is the ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot more empathetic than your doctor? And does it deliver higher quality information? A recent study suggest that might be the case. At first glance we figured, sure, a chatbot never gets bored or impatient, so maybe at some point it outperforms a lot of burnt-out doctors. But there’s a lot of detail to consider here – so it’s a good thing that’s what we do here!

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Smartphones, Early Puberty, and Bad Scary Headlines: youtu.be/5Th-DUti1kE

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Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

A Vaccine for Breast Cancer?

Healthcare Triage 2023-04-28 | Cancer prevention is a major goal in health research, and one major milestone was the HPV vaccine, which targets a virus that is responsible for different types of cancer, mainly cervical cancer. Now we’ve got some recent excitement in the news about a possible breast cancer vaccine. How does this vaccine work, how successful is it, and when might it be available?

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Vaccines: History, Present and Future - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfBg8ML-gImWWzdv3zO1_5wCRReliEQt

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Did All Those Masks Help with Covid or Not?

Healthcare Triage 2023-04-18 | Headlines recently blared about the new review that looked at how effective masks are at preventing the transmission of flu-like disease. Cochrane reviews are well respected, and the media coverage about the recent review has been hard to parse. So is that it, end of story on masks? Not if you skip the media headlines and read the actual review!

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Covid Lab Leak?: youtu.be/avDPUiKrwD0

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Did Covid-19 Evolve Naturally or Leak from a Lab? The Many Confusing US Intelligence Reports

Healthcare Triage 2023-04-11 | The Covid lab escape theory! This has been in the background for a while, but it came roaring to the forefront when a prominent news source claimed that the US Department of Energy concluded that Covid was the result of a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China. So, is that it? Now we know where it came from? Confidence is low on our end that we'e going to be able to answer definitively.

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Covid and Blood Types: youtube.com/watch?v=dcVl-FIu5AI

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John Green -- Executive Producer
Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Climate Change and Health: Heat, Rain, Storms, and Fires

Healthcare Triage 2023-04-07 | Climate change is causing weather events that are a direct threat to human life. We’re not gonna lie, this is an anxiety-provoking topic, as is much of the conversation surrounding climate change. Increased heat, changing precipitation patterns, and increased wildfires all have a host of health impacts for individuals and populations. Let's talk about it.

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Climat Change is Already Impacting Our Health: youtube.com/watch?v=oDyIY1qTNhM

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Fraud and Dysfunction in American Healthcare: The 2022 Shkreli Awards

Healthcare Triage 2023-03-31 | The 2022 Shkreli Awards have been released! Each year, the Lown Institute passes out awards as a way of reporting on dysfunction in the US health care system. Dysfunction in healthcare is one of our foundational pillars here at Healthcare Triage, and these awards highlight some of the worst examples.

The Lown Institute Shkreli Awards: lowninstitute.org/projects/2022-shkreli-awards

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2021 Shkreli Awards: youtu.be/qYOpr6tZQO0

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Reforming Federal Laws that Slow Marijuana Research

Healthcare Triage 2023-03-06 | Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug, making it difficult for researchers to study, and difficult to understand how it may help or harm our health. A recently passed bill is aimed at making marijuana research easier to conduct, and we’re here to talk about the pluses and the shortfalls of the bill’s final version.

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Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Mark Olsen – Art Director, Producer

Climate Change Is Already Impacting Our Health

Healthcare Triage 2023-02-16 | Massive storms, flooding, extreme heat, droughts, air pollution, increased rates of disease, changes to our food and water… global warming, and the changes to climate that come with it, are increasing human health risks. Our physical and mental health both stand to suffer, and some populations are more vulnerable than others. What are the specific health issues, what can we do to address them, and most importantly – is there any hope?

We hope to answer these questions and more in a handful of episodes on Climate Change and Health. This year, we’re going to be taking a look at how Climate Change can impact health.

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How Pollution Chokes the Economy: youtube.com/watch?v=NKV7x9pkghc

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A Fentanyl Vaccine Shows Promise

Healthcare Triage 2023-02-08 | Fentanyl is many times more potent than heroin or morphine, and is responsible for a lot of overdose deaths. Recent news reports have covered a potential fentanyl vaccine - how does that work, and how far are we from human trials?

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The Opioid Crisis Continues: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkfBg8ML-gIkzLu099Ig2U-XjOeZdCfOg

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