Health & Veritas Joel Bervell: The Healthcare Communicator
Howie and Harlan are joined by Joel Bervell, a recent medical school graduate who uses social media platforms to combat misinformation and explain racial biases in healthcare. Harlan discusses his new Wall Street Journal commentary highlighting the link between viral infections and chronic diseases; Howie reports on powerful new evidence for the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine and warns of the dangers of a vaccine-skeptical presidential administration.
Links:
Viral Infection and Chronic Disease
Harlan Krumholz: “How to Lead a Chronic Disease Revolution”
“A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia”
“Unexplained post-acute infection syndromes”
Joel Bervell
“How the pulse oximeter became infamous on TikTok”
“Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement”
Joel Bervell’s TikTok on the pulse oximeter
Joel Bervell: “The eGFR Equation”
Joel Bervell’s Instagram reel on bias in the measurement of lung capacity
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Joel Bervell on YouTube: The Doctor Is In
Joel Bervel’s Instagram reel on the GFR equation
“Abandoning a Race-biased Tool for Kidney Diagnosis”
“OPTN Board approves elimination of race-based calculation for transplant candidate listing”
Vaccines and the Federal Healthcare Agencies
Health & Veritas Episode 165: “Aging in Bursts and Other News”
“U.S. government researchers present ‘phenomenal’ new data on HPV vaccines”
“Kennedy played key role in Gardasil vaccine case against Merck”
“RFK Jr. suggests some vaccines are risky or ineffective, downplays measles threat”
“FDA chief says they're looking at whether to approve COVID shots for next winter”
“How Marty Makary’s FDA is embracing a more skeptical view of vaccines”
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