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5 years

NHS: A view from Across the Pond

During a recent trip to the UK and Ireland, I visited some NHS leaders, startup entrepreneurs, those involved in the privately insured market and, of course, ordinary folks befuddled about all things Brexit.

5 years

The Importance of Hi-Res Clinical Data

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) remain the trusted standard for assessing an experimental medicine’s safety and efficacy in pharmaceutical development.

5 years

Diet Is a Vital Sign

In medicine, vital signs measure what is truly vital to health. The formal definitions vary but all point in the same general direction: key indicators of health and physical condition, related to essential body functions. The most standard and time-honored list includes body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate. 

5 years

Are Virtual and Remote Clinical Trials Dead?

I don’t think ‘virtual’ and ‘remote’ clinical trials are dead in the ideological sense, but maybe it’s time we retire those catchphrases to move beyond the hype. Let me explain.

5 years

Ultra-Processed Food Makes Us Fat: Forewarned, But Not Forearmed

Ultraprocessed foods make us overeat, and get fat. Who knew? Well, the food industry almost certainly knew- and in principle, we knew that they knew. We were told. We were told fairly recently, and emphatically. But we were told before, too- nearly 15 years ago.

5 years

Disservice Department, How May I Help You?

5 rings: Welcome to our patient sickcare disservice department. Your business is important to us, so please wait for a disservice representative to take your call. The average wait time is 35 minutes. (musak on phone: Press 1 for jazz, 2 for classical or 3 for rock ). Many of your questions can be answered on this website, where we dis not just patients, but doctors too.

5 years

Winning the Ovary Lottery

Robert H. Frank is a Cornell economist who was one of the 2% of patients who survived an episode of sudden cardiac death. He attributes it to dumb luck, given that an ambulance happened to be only a few minutes from where he suffered his attack. So, you can understand why he would write a book entitled, “Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy.”

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