Bryan Vartabedian, MD, a Baylor physician, has a great post on 33 Charts today about doctor-patient conversations on social media. His conclusion: Doctors and patients …
Category: Health policy
Victor Fuchs offers contrarian view on health reform
Health economist Victor Fuchs, PhD, has been watching the health-care debate in Washington very carefully. Despite the recent optimism of Congressional Democrats, Fuchs hasn’t wavered …
More to reform
At risk of stating the obvious, much has been written these past few months about health-care reform and the problems with our health-care system. What …
Max and me: Crossing Montana with Senator Baucus
There are only a few days left before Congress adjourns for summer recess, and Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, is in a familiar position: trying …
T.R. Reid talks about health-care reform
In his new book, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, journalist T.R. Reid writes: On September 11, …
Collins dishes on God, (medical) drugs and rock and roll
The New York Times has an interesting article today on new NIH director Francis Collins, MD, PhD. In it, reporter Gardiner Harris discusses with the …
Smart drugs grow in popularity
A researcher at the University of Sydney is sounding the alarm on the increasingly common use of so-called "smart drugs" among college students. Cognitive-enhancing drugs …
Murky waters: A look at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina
Four years after Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans area, Stanford medical school alum Sheri Fink, MD, is publishing a disturbing investigation into whether patients …
Personal blogging on health care in the U.K. and the U.S.
A childhood friend of mine has started blogging about her experiences with health care in England and the United States. My friend (I'll call her …
Victor Fuchs is disappointed
Well-known health economist Victor Fuchs, PhD, always has interesting things to say about health care reform efforts (see here and here). Now he's shared more …
Three small things for third-world women
The New York Times is previewing a fascinating story from its magazine called "The Women's Crusade," about the interaction between global poverty and the oppression …
Francis Collins speaks out
A few weeks ago I wrote about the debate swirling around Francis Collins' nomination as NIH director. Some people expressed concerns that Collins' status as …
Hope for Lyme disease legislation
I'm going to Maryland to visit my parents next week, so I'm sure to be spending many pleasant hours in their backyard, which is a …
Science vs. religion at the NIH?
As a church-going scientist-turned-writer, I was on the fence about the recent nomination of geneticist Francis Collins to lead the National Institutes of Health. There's …
Genetics testing: The wild wild west?
I'm fascinated by genetics testing. At one point I considered coughing up the money to get a roadmap of my own genetic makeup, but in …
Stem cell guidelines under fire
Stanford's Irving Weissman, MD, questions who's really in charge of our national embryonic stem cell research policy.
Stanford's Irving Weissman, MD, questions who's really in charge of our national embryonic stem cell research policy.