Opinion | Measles’ Deadliest Sequelae
Claire Panosian Dunavan is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a past-president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In the late 1990s, my long-time colleague, Pam Nagami, MD, met a petite, Indian-American student she later called “Manju” when writing a terrific […]
Opinion | Value-Based Care: Filling Critical Gaps in Care and Clinician Leadership
David Nash is the Founding Dean Emeritus and Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at the Jefferson College of Population Health. He is a board-certified internist. Follow The value-based care (VBC) model was conceived in the early 2000s in response to the spiraling healthcare costs and suboptimal health outcomes. Now […]
Opinion | Gonorrhea, Then and Now
Claire Panosian Dunavan is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a past-president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Last month, an article in Nature about a novel oral treatment for gonorrhea brought good news for anyone who might one day contract […]
Opinion | Multi-Cancer Early Detection: 20th-Century Fiction Becomes Reality
David Nash is founding dean emeritus and the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at the Jefferson College of Population Health. Follow In 2020 (the most recent year for which federal U.S. incidence data are available), 1,603,844 new cases of cancer were reported and 602,347 people died of cancer. Despite […]
Opinion | Time to Incorporate Quality Measures Into Telemedicine
David Nash is founding dean emeritus and the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at the Jefferson College of Population Health. Follow Although remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunication technology may seem like something new, that is not the case. Fun facts: The idea was discussed […]
Ashton Kutcher’s Autoimmune Vasculitis
In a clip from an episode of the Paramount+ docuseries “The Checkup: With Dr. David Agus” actor Ashton Kutcher talks about a previous health struggle. About 3 years ago, the “That ’70s Show” star “woke up one day and was having vision issues [and] could hardly see,” he said. “[It] knocked out my hearing, which […]
Opinion | ‘This Error Left People in Terrible Financial Situations’: What We Heard This Week
“This error left people in terrible financial situations.” — David Dent, PharmD, first-year pharmacy resident, discussing a National Association of Boards of Pharmacy error that led more than 200 recent pharmacy graduates to believe they failed the national pharmacy board exam when they actually had passed. “Standard Time is ‘the biologically correct time.’” — Anna […]
Billie Eilish’s Tourette Syndrome
During an interview with David Letterman for his Netflix series, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” singer Billie Eilish made a sudden movement, whipping her head around and opening her mouth. Letterman asked her what was going on — was it the fly that had been flying around them earlier? “No. I’m ticcing,” she said. […]
Opinion | ‘Probably Lying Through Their Teeth’: What We Heard This Week
“They’re probably lying through their teeth much of the time.” — David Hyman, MD, JD, of Georgetown University Law Center, on insurers’ contract negotiations with in-network providers. “This is heartbreaking.” — Kjersti Aagaard, MD, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine, on the rising maternal mortality rate among pregnant women in the U.S. “That’s a definite […]
COVID-19 test offers solution for population-wide testing, scientists say: More than 80,000 tests done in under two months
In an article appearing in Nature Biomedical Engineering, a team of scientists from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA School of Engineering report real-world results on SwabSeq, a high-throughput testing platform that uses sequencing to test thousands of samples at a time to detect COVID-19. They were able to perform more than […]