Health & Veritas

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'"

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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.
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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.
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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 Cancer
Watch 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.
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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.
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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.