Category: Medicine

12/07/2017

I often have great difficulty understanding the way the legal system works. The way 'learned' is usually appended to 'judge',…

12/06/2017

A few years back at an ADA meeting in Napa I got to listen to a dermatologist who understood how to…

09/06/2017

Interesting piece in today’s NEJM on data sharing and clinical trials and how meaningfully patients are involved. Patients also said…

02/06/2017

When I covered Kasparov-Deep Blue match, I thought the drama came from a battle between computer and human. But it…

26/05/2017

During the 7-year period between the introduction of tacrolimus in preclinical studies in 1987 and the FDA approval of tacrolimus…

23/05/2017

The use of Benzedrine by American athletes in the 1936 Berlin Olympics prompted the Temmler company on the edge of…

05/05/2017

Medicare, America’s public health scheme for the over-65s, has recently started paying doctors for in-depth conversations with terminally ill patients;…

04/05/2017

Nice letter in Academic Medicine. Not convinced by the exact details, but the author is on to something important. The…

03/05/2017

I always recommend people to read David Healy’s Psychopharmacology 1, 2, and 3, together with Jack Scannell’s articles (here and…

28/04/2017

With many powerful academicians, lobbyists, professional societies, funding agencies, and perhaps even regulators shifting away from trials to observational data,…