Howie and Harlan are joined by Basmah Safdar, a Yale School of Medicine emergency physician and an expert on sex-specific differences in cardiovascular and microvascular health, which have important implications for the understanding and treatment of heart attacks, long COVID, and other conditions. Harlan reports on Australia's ban on social media for kids, and a Medicare pilot program that will pay providers based on improved outcomes in chronic conditions. Howie unpacks the consequences of the CDC's change to its recommendations for newborn hepatitis B vaccination.

Show notes:

Social Media and Kids

"Australia's Social Media Ban for Children Takes Effect"

Health & Veritas Episode 197: Peter Hotez: Mapping the Anti-Science Machine

Medicare's ACCESS Payment Model

CMS: ACCESS (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions) Model

Basmah Safdar

"Medical School Enrollment Reaches 100,000 Students for the First Time"

Health & Veritas: Episode 176: Live at the Yale Innovation Summit 2025

"Myocardial ischemia in women: lessons from the NHLBI WISE study"

"Sex Differences in COVID-19 Immune Responses Affect Patient Outcomes"

"Scientists unravel mystery of sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes"

Health & Veritas Episode 192: Akiko Iwasaki: What Have We Learned About Long COVID?

"Basmah Safdar, MD, FACEP, Appointed Director, Women's Health Research at Yale (WHRY)"

Women's Health Research at Yale

"Women's Health Research at Yale: The Prologue"

"History of Women's Participation in Clinical Research"

"Policy: NIH to balance sex in cell and animal studies"

"Heart attack symptoms often misinterpreted in younger women"

Harlan Krumholz: "Sex Difference in Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Young Patients"

"Women's Health: More Than 'Bikini Medicine'"

"Celebrating Carolyn Mazure"

"Women's Health Research at Yale: Our Research"

"Current Status of Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Academic Emergency Medicine Physicians"

"New Women's Health Fund of Funds Launches to Activate $60B in Life Sciences Capital"

"Closing the women's health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies"

"Blueprint to close the women's health gap: How to improve lives and economies for all"

"Gates Foundation pledges $2.5 billion to women's health initiatives"

"Milken Institute Launches New Women's Health Network, Former First Lady Jill Biden Joins as its Chair"

Women's Health Research at Yale: Pilot Project Program Funding

Note: Deadline is December 22.

Women's Health Research at Yale: Collaborative

CDC and Hepatitis B

"Panel Votes to Stop Recommending Hepatitis B Shots at Birth for Most Newborns"

CDC: Hepatitis B Vaccine Safety

WHO: Hepatitis B

"New review finds no evidence to support delaying universal hepatitis B birth-dose vaccination"

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