[NPR] An experimental blood test can identify people in their 70s who are likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease within two or three years. The test is accurate more than 90 percent of the time, scientists reported Sunday in Nature Medicine.
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03/10/2014
How Obamacare Helps Women
Here is a picture from a recent Atlantic article, showing that, pre-Obamacare implementation, women have more difficulty paying for medical care:
The ACA should fix improve this situation, meaning Obamacare should help women more than men.
03/10/2014
Quote of the Day
“If we can understand autism, we can understand the brain.”
Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel
[Bloomberg] Indian generic-drug makers Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (SUNP) and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. (RBXY) recalled some batches of drugs in the U.S. after separate complaints of bottling mix-ups.
Sun Pharma is recalling a batch of generic …
This thread is all about heuristic clinical reasoning which means a doctor’s mental shortcuts to come to a diagnosis. Heuristic is defined in Wikipedia as:Heuristic (/hjʉˈrɪstɨk/; Greek: “Εὑρίσκω”, ”find” or ”discov…
When healthcare workers make mistakes, even culpable mistakes, they are usually not faced with criminal sanctions. Maybe they will internal sanctions like staff privilege restrictions, maybe civil liability, and maybe licensing board discipline. …
03/08/2014
"Resurrection" on ABC
I am not sure that this is the type of show we need right now, one that fuels EVEN MORE false hope.
In ABC’s “Resurrection” the people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to return.”
What exactly is the nature of a professional code of ethics? That is the question raised by a recent editorial in JAMA which affirmed recommendations for the development of a new, unified code of ethics for health professionals by the Institute of Medi…
I teach an undergraduate health policy class at Duke University. Recently, my students asked me whether states potentially hurt themselves by offering generous health care benefits when neighboring states don’t offer such benefits. Then I got home an…
03/07/2014
37th Annual Health Law Professors Conference
If you are an academic who is teaching or researching in health law, then the 37th Annual Health Law Professors Conference is the conference for you.
It is widely regarded as the single best gathering of academic health lawyers in the world. &n…
AJOB
Target Articles:
Transferring Morality to Human–Nonhuman Chimeras
Ethical Review of Health Systems Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Conceptual Exploration
Correspondence:
Changing the Discourse on Health Systems Research: Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Ethical Review of Health Systems Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Conceptual Exploration”