As one who resigned a tenured faculty position last year in order to devote fulltime to my current web publishing (and related) efforts, I enjoyed Carl Elliott’s review in the Wall Street Journal of the book, “The Fall of the Faculty.” Elliott writes that author Benjamin Ginsberg… “…argues that universities have degenerated into poorly managed [...]
16 months ago I blogged about my old friend Bruce Dan’s struggle with acute myelocytic leukemia. His wife posted a note yesterday that Bruce had died. He was one of the good guys: doctor, teacher, communicator, comic, husband, father. Bruce was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Association of Medical Communicators in 2010. [...]
Wikio.com once again has shared with me a sneak preview of their new September health blog rankings – soon to be posted on the Wikio site but here’s your early look: 1 Well 2 Kevin, M.D. – Medical Weblog 3 Science-Based Medicine 4 Respectful Insolence 5 Pharmalot 6 Health Beat 7 In the Pipeline 8 [...]
“Trust me, you’re going to be shocked….we all should be a little bit afraid.” That’s how “The Doctors” TV show teases one of its programs, along with this: “Each year, millions of chemicals are poured into American foods. From doughnuts to fresh produce, The Doctors reveals the toxic ingredients lurking in your grocery bag. And, [...]
Blogger Jim Edwards, who seems to have mastered the art of traffic-driving lists (also good for “click” rates when you post the list items as separate pages), has done it again with his “10 Weird Health Theories That Just Won’t Go Away.” I won’t make you click 10 times to get the list. Here it [...]
OK, my blog dropped one spot in the updated monthly rankings from Wikio.com. They just sent me an advance look at the new August health blog rankings that they’ll post in a few days. I take some solace in the knowledge that Dr. Wes leapfrogged over me into the #11 spot and he’s a good [...]
Many visitors to this site may still be unaware of one important little corner of the site – our “Tips for Understanding Studies.” It’s just a collection of brief little primers on important topics such as: Resources for Reporting on Costs of Medical Interventions Association Versus Causation (primer on limitations of observational studies) “Off-label” Drug [...]
Kaiser Health News columnist Michelle Andrews was interviewed in this video, explaining what “medical loss ratio” means to consumers. Medical loss ratio is that intriguing term used for what insurers actually have to spend to cover health care – not what goes to administrative costs, marketing, salaries, profits, etc.
Christine Gorman is a woman after my own heart with her Scientific American column, “4 Common Health Care Myths.” Read the entire column, with her thoughtful analysis. But to wet your whistle, the 4 myths are: 1. There is no harm in routine cancer-screening tests 2. More care is better care 3. Access to medical [...]
Marilyn Mann is a very smart woman. She’s a securities lawyer. But she’s also educated herself about health care out of necessity. She’s a breast cancer survivor and she has a daughter with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic disease causing very high LDL-cholesterol. She is one of the administrators of a Facebook group called Familial [...]
It’s difficult to do an overview of melanoma drug research in a relatively brief story. But this story did a solid job.
Better than a competing piece by Reuters but still a little short on some details about this asthma drug study.
An adequate summary of this asthma drug trial’s design doesn’t make up for the overly optimistic tone about the drug’s future. A New York Times story was better.
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