Healthcare Triage

02/07/2025

Ladies and Gentlemen: The history of Healthcare Triage's greatest love, The Randomized Controlled Trial

The randomized controlled trial (RCT) is one of the most powerful tools of modern science. So how did we come up with this powerful tool for experimenting an...

20/06/2025

Measles was declared eliminated from the United States for the first time about 25 years ago. I GUESS THAT GOT BORING??

In the midst of a new measles outbreak, some public officials are spreading misinformation about the disease, and federal funding to combat misinformation is...

06/06/2025

Does HCT have thoughts on the MAHA report?

OF COURSE WE DO

Make America Healthy Again, a commission established by President Trump, released a report in May 2025 claiming to have exposed the key drivers of increased ...

15/04/2025

Some indications that the GLP-1 drugs currently getting a lot of attention for weight loss might be useful for other stuff, too!

https://youtu.be/B35G7a2UcDw

21/03/2025

"If you want a health care system that works better for patients and providers, that’s AHRQ"

Our host Aaron Carroll spoke to STAT news about AHRQ, which is facing mass layoffs and is the only federal agency focused on health care quality, outcomes, access, and cost

AHRQ, a small government agency responsible for health care quality research, is feared to be the latest target for mass layoffs by the Trump administration.

21/03/2025

Academia is supposed to operate outside of political influence. When it doesn't, there are big consequences

Since the end of World War II, a robust partnership between the U.S. federal government and academic research institutions has fueled countless scientific br...

03/03/2025

Also seems like a good time to repost this one...

We're very clearly in favor of vaccines here at Healthcare Triage, because they save a LOT of lives. It turns out, the measles vaccine was doing more than we...

03/03/2025

As the trial goes on for the murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO last year, we have some thoughts on American healthcare

In 2022, the United States spent $4.5 trillion on healthcare—an astonishing $13,500 per person. That’s a level of spending no other country can fathom. We ma...

21/02/2025

Medical profiteering, Medicare fraud, cancer treatments for patients without cancer...

The Lown institute keeps an eye on fraud, waste, and dysfunction in American healthcare, and every year they present the Shkreli awards, named for infamous p...

19/02/2025

Another year, another round of Shkreli Awards from the Lown Institute: The top ten American healthcare fiascos (disasters? persisting horrors?) of 2024

The Lown institute keeps an eye on fraud, waste, and dysfunction in American healthcare, and every year they present the Shkreli awards, named for infamous p...

11/02/2025

Hello FB followers! Our sincerest apologies for an extended absence from Facebook. We will spare you all the reasons this happened, but we're back and will post regularly here again alongside our other accounts!

15/12/2023

What’s public health got to do with it?

Much of the conversation around climate change centers on things like lowering carbon emissions, which is obviously critical, but we think the public health ...