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Xylitol for cavity prevention belongs in schools
Tooth decay is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood, yet it is almost entirely preventable. Despite advances in dental care, millions of children continue to experience cavities that affect their ability to eat, sleep, concentrate in school, and thrive. Much of our current approach focuses on treatment rather than prevention. Even when we promote prevention, we often rely on ideal routines that are not consistently achievable for many families.
Musculoskeletal health may be the foundation of prevention
Few would argue against the extraordinary success of modern cardiovascular medicine. Over the past half century, physicians, researchers, public health leaders, and policymakers have invested enormous effort in understanding and reducing cardiovascular risk. Smoking cessation campaigns, blood pressure control, cholesterol management, diabetes treatment, cardiac rehabilitation, and advances in acute cardiac care have collectively saved millions of lives.
Health care price transparency: Why patients are bypassing insurance
I recently went to Quest Diagnostics for a TB test and a couple of basic labs my doctor ordered. At check-in, I recalled my insurance had changed in the new year and I did not have the updated information readily available. I did not have time to reschedule nor sort it out so figured I could pay cash and reconcile it later. That seemed reasonable, if inconvenient. When I asked what the cash price would be, no one could tell me.
Health insurance waste: Why eliminating the middleman saves billions
Health insurers have failed in their promise to deliver quality and value to the taxpayers, providers, employers, and their subscribers. If you find a wasteful government program, isn’t there an obligation to foster a public discussion about it? Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP) has developed an analysis that reveals the waste in allowing private health plans to manage Medicaid medical services.
The economics of prevention: Why an ounce is worth a pound
We repeat the phrase “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” as if it were a folksy reminder to eat better or get a flu shot. But taken seriously, it is not a medical cliché. It is an economic law. And it exposes a devastating flaw in how modern societies choose to spend money. Prevention is not the opposite of cure. Cure is essential, lifesaving, and often extraordinary.
10,000 steps before lunch: How a retired doctor models prevention
On a recent morning, my mentor, a retired breast cancer surgeon in his 70s, sent me a screenshot from his Apple Watch. 10,208 steps. 7.25 kilometers. One flight of stairs. Before lunch. For him, it was just another day. For me, a younger volunteer and PhD student watching Taiwan age into a super-aged society, it was a quiet masterclass in what prevention really means. This surgeon, Dr. Lin, is not just any retiree.
Putting health back into insurance: the case for tobacco cessation
As major public health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and state health departments face reductions in scope and resources, a unique opportunity arises for health insurers to take a leading role in improving public health, while also enhancing their own reputations and financial sustainability.
How frivolous lawsuits drive up health care costs
Frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits are endemic and infect everyone whether they realize it or not. The greed of plaintiffs, attorneys, medical experts, and malpractice carriers, coupled with the ineptitude of the tort system, causes avoidable costs. Everyone pays the price. Some plaintiffs sue for medical malpractice just because they harbor a grievance against a doctor and their claim has no attributable merit.
Why U.S. health care costs so much
The U.S. has the lowest health care quality ranking compared to other high-income countries. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the U.S. spent approximately $4.9 trillion on health care in 2023. This means that almost one out of every five dollars spent in the U.S. goes towards health services.
The hypocrisy of insurance referral mandates
Every week, I see patients not because they need to, but because their insurance company says they must. A patient came in recently for one reason only: Her insurer required a referral before she could see a specialist. She didn’t want to. I didn’t need her to. But we both had no choice. After a 20-minute visit neither of us needed, I did what the insurer required: document, click, submit. Days later, the referral was approved. The irony?
Why the Sean Combs trial is a wake-up call for HIV prevention
We are now waiting for sentencing in the Sean (P. Diddy) Combs trial. Onlookers reading about the trial could have various thoughts. Thoughts about how power corrupts behavior. Thoughts about how men manipulate women through violence and sex. There could be schadenfreude. There could be prurience. Me, I think about HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). You heard correctly, PrEP. When I hear testimony about multiple partners and escorts, my concern is for the health of all concerned.
How reforming insurance, drug prices, and prevention can cut health care costs
Rising costs are dominating kitchen table conversations across the country, and health care is no exception. In response, federal and state regulators have introduced a range of proposals to curb spending and improve efficiencies—some thoughtful, others deeply flawed. As a former emergency medicine physician and now a health care executive with over three decades of experience, I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t.
A Strategy Millennial Investors Can Use to Beat the Market
Imagine that you could rewind time to age 20. What investing lessons do you wish the 20-year old version of yourself knew at the time? This is an important question to ask as a new generation starts their investing careers. For younger investors, learning the key points of a successful investing plan can mean the difference between a comfortable retirement and an exemplary one.
Op-ed: Beyond the blame—Real solutions for a stronger healthcare system
Less than five years ago, hospitals and health care workers were hailed as heroes. It’s a supreme irony, considering that most healthcare professionals I know approach their work with deep humility and selflessness. Yet, today, members of the health care community are often cast as zeroes—or even worse, as villains. This change in attitudes reflects a genuine frustration with the state of healthcare in the U.S.—a frustration that I, too, deeply share.
Invest Like the Best: Redefining Semiconductor Progress
My guests today are Andrew Homan and Chris Miller. Andrew has spent two decades at Maverick Capital and is a managing partner at Maverick Silicon, where he leads the firm’s technology investments. Chris is a professor at Tufts and the author of the New York Times best-selling book “Chip War,” which details the geopolitical battle to control the semiconductor industry. Together we get into a comprehensive discussion on the semiconductor ecosystem and the silicon backbone of our digital age.
As inflation threatens our nation's health, food is medicine
As inflation surges to a new four-decade high, rising 9.1 percent in June due to soaring prices for gas, food and rent, food insecurity is a growing threat to our nation's health. The inability to put enough healthy food on the table is often hidden in the United States. But more than 38 million people, including 12 million children, across our nation are food insecure, according to the USDA.
Applying the Hierarchy of Controls: What Occupational Safety Can Teach us About Safely Navigating the Next Phase of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic
Introduction The recent popularity (1) of the application of James Reason's Swiss cheese model of accident causation to COVID-19 transmission falls short in one important regard—the successive “layers” of defense are too easily perceived as equally effective to control the hazard. A preponderance of evidence now demonstrates that this is not the case (2, 3).
Invest Like the Best: Jeremy Grantham
My guest today is Jeremy Grantham. Jeremy is the Long-Term Investment Strategist and Co-Founder at GMO. Jeremy has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of markets, which made it such a pleasure to have him back on the show. In this conversation, we discuss the three key signs of a bubble, why Jeremy believes we are in a bubble right now and how it’s being led by retail rather than institutional investors.
Invest Like the Best: Michael Dempsey – Investing in Bleeding Edge Technology on Apple Podcasts
55 min My guest today is Michael Dempsey, General Partner at Compound. Michael invests in a broad range of areas but has a unique talent for combining brand building and direct customer relationships with technically demanding sectors. Our conversation covers the rise of virtual influencers, robotics, and how to best identify key inflection points in the evolution of new technologies. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Michael Dempsey.
Invest Like the Best: Joost van Dreunen – Unlocking Value in Gaming on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 1 min My guest today is Joost van Dreunen, an investor in the gaming space, professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, and former CEO and co-founder of SuperData Research, a data-driven gaming firm that was acquired by Nielsen. He also recently authored One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games, a great book on the business game industry and why I reached out to speak with him in the first place.
Invest Like the Best: Claire Cormier Thielke – The Future of Cities and Real Estate on Apple Podcasts
My guest today is Claire Cormier Thielke, Managing Director of Asia Pacific for Hines, the largest private real estate investment, development and management firm in the world with over $144 billion in assets under management. Claire responsible for acquisitions, development, and new business generation for Hines APAC and was also recently appointed to the board of Zillow. I was first introduced to Claire two years ago and have wanted to have her on the podcast ever since.
Invest Like the Best: Bill Gurley – Direct Listing vs. IPO on Apple Podcasts
47 min My guest this week is Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark Capital. Our conversation is about one specific issue that has popped up as a topic of interest in the investing community in recent months: the comparison between bringing a company public through a traditional IPO vs. what’s known as a direct listing. As a third party observer with no real dog in the hunt (as we don’t buy IPOs at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management), I thought this was a small and nuanced issue.
Invest Like the Best: John Chambers
59 min My guest this week is John Chambers. John was the CEO of Cisco from 1995 to 2015 where he helped grow Cisco from $70 million to $40 billion in annual revenue. In this conversation we discuss the best business lesson he learned from long time GE CEO Jack Welch, his key lessons from acquiring over 180 companies with Cisco, pattern recognition and playbooks, capitalizing on market transitions enabled by new technologies, the value of team offsites, and a lot more.
Invest Like the Best: Jesse LiverUpside Down Markets
54 min My guest today is Jesse Livermore. I’ve worked with Jesse as part of our research partners program at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management for years now. Whenever there is a huge, important, and complex issue to be studied, I believe he’s among the best minds in the world to tackle it. He did that recently on the topic of what he calls “upside down markets,” which is the topic of this conversation.
Invest Like the Best: Matt Ball
1 hr 46 min My guest today, Matthew Ball, is a long time coming. He’s the former head of strategy at Amazon Studios, an investor, and probably my favorite business essayist writing today. 1 hr 46 min
Invest Like the Best: Michael Seibel – Lessons from Thousands of Startups on Apple Podcasts
55 min My guest this week is Michael Seibel. Michael is a Partner at Y Combinator, and the CEO of YC's startup accelerator. He was the cofounder and CEO Justin.tv, which eventually became Twitch, and Socialcam. In this conversation, we discuss all Michael has learned reviewing thousands of applications to YC, interviewing countless new entrepreneurs, and watch young companies begin to grow and, occasionally, find product market fit.
Invest Like the Best: Matt Ball
1 hr 46 min My guest today, Matthew Ball, is a long time coming. He’s the former head of strategy at Amazon Studies, an investor, and probably my favorite business essayist writing today. 1 hr 46 min
Invest Like the Best: Ben Thompson – Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 17 min My guest today is Ben Thompson. Ben is the author of my favorite business strategy newsletter called Stratechery. He’s also the host of the exponent podcast, and now the Dithering, a podcast he recently launched with John Gruber. I think Ben is among the most interesting business analysts in the world, and I’ve learned from and directly applied many of his ideas. We cover many of the major concepts he’s introduced over the years, including his well know aggregation theory.
Invest Like the Best: Shishir Mehrotra – The Art and Science of the Bundle on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 11 min My guest today is Shishir Mehrotra and the topic of our conversation is the bundle: offering access to multiple products, services, or providers for a single bundled price. This topic is full of incorrect pre-conceived notions, and as it turns out, the bundle is one of the most powerful ideas in business. Properly harnessed it is good for everyone involved. Shishir explains the ins and outs of bundles in this conversation.
Invest Like the Best: Tobi Lutke – Building a Modern Business - [Invest Like the Best, EP.173] on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 5 min My guest today is Tobi Lutke, the co-founder, and CEO of Shopify. This is both a timely and evergreen conversation. Timely, as the world as moved aggressively digital in the past two months, and Shopify powers so much of digital commerce. Evergreen, because while we touch on Covid and the Shopify business, this is much more a conversation on business and personal principles, learning, design, and growth.
Josh Kopelman - The Past, Present, And Future Of Seed Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.170]
by Patrick O'Shaughnessy Josh Kopelman - The Past, Present, And Future Of Seed Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.170] Apr 28 • 55 min My guest today is Josh Kopelman, the founder of famed venture capital firm First Round Capital. Prior to starting First Round, which has invested at the earliest stages in companies like Square, Uber, and Roblox, Josh was a three-time entrepreneur, … Read More
Invest Like the Best: Josh Kopelman
55 min My guest today is Josh Kopelman, the founder of famed venture capital firm First Round Capital. Prior to starting First Round, which has invested at the earliest stages in companies like Square, Uber, and Roblox, Josh was a three-time entrepreneur, so our conversation spans early-stage investing, business building, and entrepreneurship.
Invest Like the Best: Dan Rasmussen – Investing Through a Crisis on Apple Podcasts
42 min My guest this morning is Dan Rasmussen of Verdad Capital. Like me, Dan and his firm focus on quantitative research. Just a month before the COVID crisis hit markets, they completely and published a study on investing during periods of market crisis, which is the topic of this conversation. We discuss what works and what doesn’t during and after acute periods of panic in markets. I think you’ll find it extremely informative.
Invest Like the Best: Matt Clifford – Investing Pre-Company - [Invest Like the Best, EP.154] on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 14 min My guest today is Matt Clifford. He’s the co-founder of Entrepreneur First, the world’s leading talent investor. They invest “pre-company” by helping the best people in cities around the world find a co-founder, develop an idea, and start a company. So far, they’ve helped 1000 people start 200 companies worth a combined $1.5B. This conversation covers their entire ecosystem and holds lessons for anyone building a business. I especially loved Matt’s ideas on the history of ambition.
Invest Like the Best: Ben Savage – All Things Fintech Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.152] on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 5 min My guest today is Ben Savage, a partner at Clocktower ventures. Ben is focused on financial technology, fintech, investing which is the topic of our conversation. I’ve been making the fintech is rounds of late, and plan on making a few of these conversations public. Ben is the first in what may be a mini-series because of the sheer amount I learned in our discussion. We cover all aspects of the fintech ecosystem. I hope you enjoy. For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.
Invest Like the Best: Jeff Ma – Making Decisions with Data - [Invest Like the Best, EP.151] on Apple Podcasts
53 min My guest this week is Jeff Ma. Jeff was on the famous MIT Blackjack team from the book Bringing Down the House but has spent his career in an around fields of analytics and data science. He’s studied sports betting and analytics, built companies for analyzing human capital, and ran the data science and analytics group at Twitter. Here are links to his book, blog, and podcast.
Invest Like the Best: Vaughn Tan – Quality and Innovation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.150] on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 21 min My guest today is Vaughn Tan, who studies quality, innovation, and organizational behavior. His resume is bonkers. He’s a PhD from Harvard, Was an infantry signals logistician in the Republic of Singapore Army, then worked at Google on advertising, Earth, Maps, spaceflight, and Fusion Tables. He’s also been a wood sculptor.
PARACHUTING CATS AND CRUSHED EGGS The Controversy Over the Use of DDT to Control Malaria
Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer The author is with the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City. Corresponding author. Requests for reprints should be sent to Patrick O'Shaughnessy, PhD, 137 IREH, Oakdale Campus, Iowa City, IA 52242 (e-mail: ude.awoiu@yssenhguahso-kcirtap). Accepted January 29, 2008. Copyright © American Public Health Association This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.
Invest Like the Best: Daniel Ek – The Future of Audio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.147] on Apple Podcasts
56 min My guest this week is Daniel Ek, the founder and CEO of Spotify. In my conversations with Daniel, I’ve found him to be one of the most interesting and thoughtful business leaders in the world. You’ll see what I mean as you listen to our conversation. We talk about Spotify plenty, but what I so enjoy about Daniel is his way of thinking in systems and frameworks. He is committed to evolution, innovation, and growth for both himself and for Spotify and is on my shortlist of CEOs to emulate.
Invest Like the Best: Bill Gurley – Direct Listing vs. IPO - [Invest Like the Best, EP.144] on Apple Podcasts
47 min My guest this week is Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark Capital. Our conversation is about one specific issue that has popped up as a topic of interest in the investing community in recent months: the comparison between bringing a company public through a traditional IPO vs. what’s known as a direct listing. As a third party observer with no real dog in the hunt (as we don’t buy IPOs at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management), I thought this was a small and nuanced issue.
Invest Like the Best: David Epstein – Wide or Deep? - [Invest Like the Best, EP.133] on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 23 min My guest this week is David Epstein. David is a writer and researcher extraordinaire and the author of two great books. His second, Range, is out today and I highly recommend it. We discuss the pros and cons of both the generalist and specialist mindsets in detail and go down many interesting trails along the way. Please enjoy our conversation. For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.
Invest Like the Best: [REPLAY] Tim Urban
1 hr 20 min This week’s conversation is about artificial intelligence and interplanetary travel. Its about content creation, thinking from first principles, and death progress units. Its about brain machine interfaces and why it is crucial that you be a chef and not a cook. My guest is Tim Urban, along with his business partner Andrew Finn.
Invest Like the Best: Josh Wolfe – The Tech Imperative - [Invest Like the Best, EP.130] on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 3 min My guest this week is Josh Wolfe, co-founder and managing partner at Lux Capital. I had Josh on the podcast last year which was one of the most popular episodes in the shows history. This is a continuation of our ongoing conversation about investing in the frontiers of technology. My favorite thing about Josh and the way that he invests is the mosaic that he and his team at Lux are constantly building to understand the world and where new companies may fit in.
Invest Like the Best on Apple Podcasts
238 episodes Exploring the ideas, methods, and stories of people that will help you better invest your time and money. Learn more and stay-up-to-date at InvestorFieldGuide.com Exploring the ideas, methods, and stories of people that will help you better invest your time and money.
Invest Like the Best: Katherine Collins – Impact and ESG Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.129] on Apple Podcasts
59 min My guest this week is Katherine Collins, who is the head of sustainable investing at Putnam Investments, a portfolio manager on two of Putnam’s sustainable investing funds, and the author of the book The Nature of Investing: Resilient Investment Strategies through Biomimicry. Our conversation is on the ins and outs of ESG and impact investing, a young but increasingly common topic in the investing world.
Invest Like the Best: [REPLAY] Alex Moazed – Building Modern Monopolies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.25] on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 13 min [REPLAY] Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy, which explores the platform business model (Uber, Airbnb, Github). Alex is also the founder and CEO of Applico, a company that he started in his dorm room that is since grown into a huge enterprise that helps startups and Fortune 500 innovate with platforms. Alex and I talk about history and future of businesses and different types of business models.
Invest Like the Best: Cliff Asness – The Past, The Present & Future of Quant [Invest Like the Best, EP.111] on Apple Podcasts
1 hr 24 min My guest this week is Cliff Asness, the managing and founding principal at AQR Capital Management. 20 years after its founding in 1998, AQR manages $226 Billion dollars across a number of quantitatively based investing strategies. Cliff was an original quant researcher and he has long been one of the financial writers and thinkers that I look to for education and for inspiration.
Announcing OSAM Research Partners
Today we are announcing a new initiative: the OSAM Research Partners Program. Through the program, we will begin building formal relationships with the brightest and most curious people we can find to produce new research for the benefit of our investors and the broader community. Each partner will gain access to OSAM's platform--including data and programming tools--and receive support from the OSAM research and technology teams, and from other research partners.
A poem for Iowa football
Patrick O'Shaughnessy 3:27 p.m. CST December 9, 2015Buy Photo(Photo: Press-Citizen)Buy PhotoOde to Kinnick (with apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley)O wild Kinnick, thou voices reaching highThou from whose steep stairways riseFirst with their allegiance to country cry.Gold and black, and smash, the foe liesExcitement-driven multitudes! O thouWho careenest down the field to scoreTo chants of I-O-W-A ever more.Each foe to exit your edifice in defeatThe clarion call o’er victory is replete.Each...
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