Christopher Worsham

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Physician-Scientist and Writer, Harvard Medical School at Freelance

Christopher Worsham, MD MPH is a pulmonary & critical care physician @MGH_PCCM, faculty @harvardmed, co-author RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE

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Big Data Can Make America Healthier. How to Do It Right

2 weeks ago | time.com | Christopher Worsham |Anupam B. Jena

Big data can help make Americans healthier, and the Trump Administration has stated—in its recently released Make America Healthy Again report and elsewhere—that building a national big-data platform is one of its primary goals.
Firearm availability and firearm incidents: quasi-experimental analysis using start of US hunting seasons

2 months ago | bmj.com | Christopher Worsham |Charles Bray |Anupam B. Jena

Research BMJ 2025; 389 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082324 Cite this as: BMJ 2025;389:e082324 Christopher M Worsham, assistant professor123, Charles F Bray, research assistant1, Anupam B Jena, Joseph P Newhouse professor of health care policy and medicine124 1Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 3Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital,...
Gun Injuries of All Kinds Go Up During Hunting Season

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Christopher Worsham

About half of Americans have a gun in the home, and hunting is a major reason why. When hunting season rolls around each fall, guns suddenly become more visible: hunters take firearms out of storage, clean and maintain them, and go to the store to purchase more guns and ammunition. As researchers, we wondered if this has any effect on gun injuries: not just during hunting, but overall. To our surprise, it did—in a big way.
Could the Shingles Vaccine Help Prevent Dementia?

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Christopher Worsham

Credit - Getty ImagesIf your doctor told you that a vaccine against dementia was available, would you be interested? According to a study published April 2 in the journal Nature by researchers in the U.S. and Germany, this question might not be hypothetical anymore.
The New CDC Study on Vaccines and Autism Should Take a Radical Approach

Mar 27, 2025 | yahoo.com | Christopher Worsham

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly has plans to perform a large study on a “possible connection” between vaccines and autism—a topic of interest to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, despite plenty of research showing no such connection exists. During his Senate confirmation hearings, Kennedy was asked by Republican senator and physician Bill Cassidy about his views on vaccines and autism.
Medicare Competitive Bidding Program and the SOAR Act

Mar 24, 2025 | jamanetwork.com | Christopher Worsham |Kevin Duan |Emmi E. Obara |Edwin Wong

Medicare Competitive Bidding Program and the SOAR Act Supplemental Oxygen Use and Spending for COPD in the Medicare Competitive Bidding Program Kevin I. Duan, MD, MS; Emmi Obara, PhD; Edwin S. Wong, PhD; Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc; Amber K. Sabbatini, MD, MPH; Lucas M. Donovan, MD, MS; Laura J. Spece, MD, MS; Laura C. Feemster, MD, MS; David H. Au, MD, MS Medicare Competitive Bidding Program and the SOAR Act—Reply Kevin I. Duan, MD, MS; David H.
Women Live Longer Than Men-But Not in Medicine

Mar 7, 2025 | yahoo.com | Christopher Worsham

Credit - Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Ronnie Kaufman—Getty Images, Morsa Images/Getty Images (6), Solskin/Getty Images, Tess_Trunk/Getty Images)Everybody knows that women live longer than men—in the U.S., nearly 5.4 years longer. In our new study, however, we and our colleagues found that doctors might be an exception.
Why Female Doctors Don’t Live as Long as Male Doctors

Mar 7, 2025 | time.com | Christopher Worsham |Anupam B. Jena

IdeasBy Christopher M. Worsham and Anupam B. JenaMarch 7, 2025 10:58 AM ESTWorsham is a critical care physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. He is co-author of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health and the Random Acts of Medicine Substack. Jena is an economist, physician, and professor at Harvard Medical School and host of the Freakonomics, MD podcast.
Mortality Among US Physicians and Other Health Care Workers

Feb 24, 2025 | jamanetwork.com | Michael Liu |Christopher Worsham |Fatima Cody Stanford

Key PointsQuestion How do mortality rates differ by sex, race, and ethnicity among physicians and other health care workers in the US? Findings In this population-based cross-sectional study of 3 606 791 US workers aged 25 to 74 years, age-adjusted and sex-adjusted mortality rates per 100 000 were lower for most health care workers compared with non–health care workers.
Why Do Taxi Drivers Have a Lower Risk of Alzheimer’s?

Jan 14, 2025 | time.com | Christopher Worsham |Anupam B. Jena

IdeasBy Christopher M. Worsham and Anupam B. JenaJanuary 14, 2025 10:36 AM ESTWorsham is a critical care physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. He is co-author of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health and the Random Acts of Medicine Substack. Jena is an economist, physician, and professor at Harvard Medical School and host of the Freakonomics, MD podcast.

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