A Call For More Research On Cancer’s Environmental Triggers
No question about cancer is more contentious than its causes.
Dr. Robert Califf Shares Ideas About Real-World Evidence And Health Data
“Medicine is rapidly falling behind business in the accrual of high-quality evidence,” Califf said.
The Latest Study On Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis Fails To Persuade
Is there such a thing as statistical gas-lighting?
On The New Year, Broken Hearts Give Impetus For Exercise
The question for the new year is not if there’s reason to exercise, or to modify your habits, but if you want to do so.
How The 21st Century Cures Act Should Support Public Health
We need and can afford both: to raise the bar so that everyone has access to modern healthcare, and to advance treatments through medical science.
The Case Against The Case Against Mammography
The overdiagnosis campaign reflects a lack of respect for women’s capacity to act rationally upon receiving an abnormal test result.
A Modern, Adaptive FDA Should Support Patients’ Right To Try New Medications
The agency’s leadership might accomplish what medicine does best: applying science humanely, so that people can get well if it’s possible, and not wait.
What The ACS Guidelines Got Wrong About Breast Cancer Screening
The ACS now advises most women to wait until they reach age 45 for their first breast cancer screen. This is a huge mistake.
Flint’s Lead-Contaminated Water Points To Health Effects Of Ailing Infrastructure
The EPA suggests an action level for lead in water: it should be below 15 parts per billion. Because lead toxicity causes irreversible neurological damage, prevention is crucial.
Dieselgate Is A Cancer Problem
“Exhaust from diesel engines contributes to air pollution and is a cancer hazard to humans,” said Dr. Kurt Straif.
Can Journalists Be Too Skeptical About Progress Against Cancer?
On Twitter this week, I happened upon a discussion having to do with the possibility of curing cancer.
SCOTUS Saves Obamacare, But More Change Is Needed
What’s needed is greater moral stewardship of health care resources.
Breast Cancers Are Rising in Younger And In Older Women: Reasons For Concern
The increasing invasive, ER+ breast cancers in women who are otherwise healthy can’t be ignored.
Miami Beach Offers Free Sunscreen: Spreading Prevention?
“We want a safer and healthier community,” Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine said. “Whether it’s reducing pre-cancer or sunburns, it’s a way of helping our tourists and our residents.”
Why We Shouldn’t Be Complacent About Ebola
The CDC and WHO should not stop educating doctors, nurses and the public about hygiene and best practices, in hospitals and in affected communities, to reduce the odds of Ebola spreading.
’60 Minutes’ Is Right To Raise Questions About Lumber Liquidators’ Toxic Floors
Formaldehyde in wood products can cause cancer and other ailments including skin and breathing problems.
Can The Mammogram Panel Read A Mammogram?
To issue sound guidelines on breast cancer screening, would the USPSTF benefit by including an oncologist or radiologist on the panel?
A Gift? Health Care Without The Business
A key question, about which we all might agree, is this: Can and should health care be run as a business?
To Address Breast Cancer Globally, 3 Things Are Essential
First, you need awareness. In many world regions, fatalism is still an obstacle. Second, you need a delivery system. Third…
So What About That Acrylamide In Your French Fries?
In 2002, scientists reported that acrylamide forms when seemingly healthy carbohydrate-rich foods like potatoes, other root vegetables and grains are cooked at high temperatures by frying, roasting, broiling, toasting or baking.
We Need A Frank Discussion On The Risk Of Spreading Ebola
These are reasonable questions. Ordinary people, patients and others, are seeking guidance on this – and not false, or patronizing reassurances – that Ebola is nothing to worry about.
Ebola, Experimental Drugs and Informed Consent: Should Those At Risk Simply Take What The Doctor Orders?
Is it possible to apply the principle of informed consent when giving experimental drugs during a rapid and devastating epidemic?
So There’s Arsenic in Our Rice—Now What?
Arsenic contamination affects a variety of rice forms: brown and white, organic and regular, long and short-grain.
Why I Support Health Care Reform
What we need is a simple, national health plan, available to everyone, with minimal paperwork and, yes, limits to care.
What Does it Mean if Primary Care Doctors Get the Answers Wrong About Screening Stats?
The new findings have no bearing on whether or not cancer screening is cost-effective or life-saving. What the study does suggest is that med school math requirements should be upped and rigorous, counter to the trend
More Butter for Your Bread?
A fresh debate on nutritional guidelines leads to the discovery of an old food wheel that listed butter as a recommended food group when the country was in need of bigger soldiers for war.
What Should Doctors Wear? Even Lab Coats Could Spread Disease
With reports proving that germs can reside on scrubs, ties, stethoscopes, and white lab coats, some have said doctors should just go naked
In Defense of Primary Care, and of Sub-Sub-Sub-Specialists
An article in the March 24 NEJM called Specialization, Subspecialization, and Subsubspecialization in Internal Medicine might have some heads shaking: Isn’t there a shortage of primary care physicians?
You’re Sick and I’m Not, Too Bad
“The insurance market as it works today basically slices and dices the population. It says, well you people with medical conditions, over here, and you people without them, over here… – Jonathan Cohn, Editor of The New Republic, speaking on …