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 (https://erictopol.substack.com/)


Eric Topol: Super Agers (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666)


Harlan Krumholz: The Expert Guide to Beating Heart Disease: What You Absolutely Must Know (https://www.amazon.com/Expert-Guide-Beating-Heart-Disease-ebook/dp/B000FCJZ2M/ref=sr_1_8)


Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation


“What to know about paroxysmal atrial fibrillation” (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/316281)


Joseph Akar, MD, PhD (https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/joseph-akar/)


Mayo Clinic: Atrial fibrillation ablation (https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/atrial-fibrillation-ablation/about/pac-20384969#:~:text=Atrial%20fibrillation%20ablation%20is%20a,t%20pass%20through%20scar%20tissue.)


“The True Cost of a Cardiac Ablation in the U.S.” (https://www.resolvemedicalbills.com/blog/the-true-cost-of-a-cardiac-ablation-in-the-us)


AI Agents


“The Four AI Agents of Your Health” (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-ai-agents-your-health-carl-bradford-byers--pg3nf/)


“This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/technology/ai-futures-project-ai-2027.html)


Measles


CDC: Measles Cases and Outbreaks (https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html)


“Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/health/measles-southwest-outbreak.html)


Mayo Clinic: History of Measles (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/measles)


Food as Medicine


“Cooking with the curriculum: a pilot culinary medicine program at the Larner College of Medicine” (https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-025-07103-z)


“Bringing Culinary Medicine to Yale’s New Teaching Kitchen” (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/bringing-culinary-medicine-to-yales-new-teaching-kitchen/)


Bird Flu


CDC: H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation (https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html)


“Vietnam reports H5N1 avian flu case with encephalitis” (https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/vietnam-reports-h5n1-avian-flu-case-encephalitis#:~:text=Health%20officials%20in%20Vietnam%20have,first%20human%20case%20of%202025.)


Exercise and Brain Waste


“Long-term physical exercise facilitates putative glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic vessel flow in humans” (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58726-1)


“The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes” (https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/06/26/g-s1-6177/brain-waste-removal-system-amyloid-alzheimer-toxins#:~:text=From%20mice%20to%20humans,eventually%20out%20of%20the%20body)


Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM (https://som.yale.edu/programs/emba) .


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