Opinion | ‘Can’t Just Sit Back and Walk Away With a Settlement’: What We Heard This Week
“I can’t just sit back and walk away with a settlement.” — Ming Lin, MD, an emergency medicine physician who was fired early in the COVID pandemic for airing alleged safety concerns. “This is getting at the whole diagnostic odyssey for rare diseases.” — P.J. Brooks, PhD, acting director of NIH’s NCATS’ Division of Rare […]
What Does the White House Drug Czar’s New Plan Target?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers, and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the […]
Opinion | A Letter From a Miami Jail to the American Board of Internal Medicine
Sekeres is a leukemia specialist. American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Philadelphia, PA Dear ABIM, In the spirit of Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King, Jr. — both of whom penned essays while they were serving jail time — and in follow-up to the previous letters I scribed from a Cleveland jail, I write […]
One third of normal-weight individuals are obese, according to study based on body fat percentage
Researchers from the School of Public Health at TAU’s Faculty of Medicine examined the anthropometric data of about 3,000 Israeli women and men and concluded that body fat percentage is a much more reliable indicator of an individual’s overall health and cardiometabolic risk than the BMI index, widely used in clinics today. The researchers suggest […]
Opinion | The Straw-Man Argument Against California’s COVID Misinfo Law
Sawyer is an emergency medicine doctor. An article in the South Carolina Post and Courier in early 2022 recounts how a patient levied grave accusations against his physician. The doctor was accused of persistently trivializing the dangers of COVID, recommending hydroxychloroquine as treatment, and purportedly alleging that the vaccines were concocted as a sinister plot […]
How Were Cholesterol Changes Linked With Dementia?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers, and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the […]
Did Vitamin D Prevent Major Heart Events?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers, and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the […]
How Were Aspirin and Anemia Linked?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers, and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the […]
What Caused Olympic Sprinter’s Death?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers, and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the […]
Was Kratom Linked With Lethal Arrhythmias?
The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can be a challenge. As an aid for our readers, and for a little amusement, here is a 10-question quiz based on the news of the […]