Afib, AI Agents, and Other News

Howie reflects on his decades-long experience with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and the procedure that has changed his life. Howie and Harlan report on healthcare issues in the news, including the measles outbreak and a vision for a team of personal healthcare AI agents. And student research assistants Inès Gilles and Sophia Stumpf visit for a farewell interview.

Links:

Eric Topol: Ground Truths

Eric Topol: Super Agers

Harlan Krumholz: The Expert Guide to Beating Heart Disease: What You Absolutely Must Know

Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

“What to know about paroxysmal atrial fibrillation”

Joseph Akar, MD, PhD

Mayo Clinic: Atrial fibrillation ablation

“The True Cost of a Cardiac Ablation in the U.S.”

AI Agents

“The Four AI Agents of Your Health”

“This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead”

Measles

CDC: Measles Cases and Outbreaks

“Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000”

Mayo Clinic: History of Measles

Food as Medicine

“Cooking with the curriculum: a pilot culinary medicine program at the Larner College of Medicine”

“Bringing Culinary Medicine to Yale’s New Teaching Kitchen”

Bird Flu

CDC: H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation

“Vietnam reports H5N1 avian flu case with encephalitis”

Exercise and Brain Waste

“Long-term physical exercise facilitates putative glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic vessel flow in humans”

“The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes”

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