Cary Gross: Effective Cancer Screening

Howie and Harlan are joined by Cary Gross, professor of medicine and public health and director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale, to discuss his creative approach to research and his sometimes contrarian stances on cancer screening and not holding medical conferences in states that ban abortion. Harlan explains the nuances of new research about mortality risks tied to weight loss in older adults; Howie discusses his concerns over courts interfering with FDA drug approval processes arising from two cases tied to the medical abortion pill mifepristone. Links: "The Relation between Funding by the National Institutes of Health and the Burden of Disease" "Allocation of National Institutes of Health Funding by Disease Category in 2008 and 2019" "Too Many Older Patients Get Cancer Screenings" National Cancer Institute | National Cancer Act of 1971 "Holding Medical Professional Society Scientific Meetings Only in States That Protect Abortion Rights—Clinical and Ethical Considerations" "Associations of Change in Body Size With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Healthy Older Adults" "Judge Invalidates F.D.A. Approval of the Abortion Pill Mifepristone" "Democratic state attorneys general sue Biden administration over abortion pill rules" Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.