An Inside Look at Health Care for the Elderly and Medicare

Quality indicators are becoming progressively more accepted among health care reformers, who believe that the quality of a physician’s...

My first and most memorable experience with placebos occurred when I was a medical resident at University of Virginia. We were on the...

This week the major media outlets published results of a JAMA Internal Medicine study linking proton pump inhibitor (PPI, medicines like...

Periodically in this blog we discuss physician burnout. A recent medscape survey showed a fairly significant increase in burnout among...

PSA has always been a poster child of cancer screening. On the one hand, it does prevent the spread of prostate cancer in some people...

It is all transpiring under the radar. No one seems to care. Few are fighting it, even fewer are reporting on it. And yet the...

Finally the SPRINT numbers have been published, and the results are both unimpressive and of questionable significance. In a highly...

Coronary Artery Calcification can be scored by a CT scan (CAC score) and may help determine who may or may not be at risk of having a...

Erik Rifkin and I published an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun on November 2 (CLICK HERE FOR LINK) discussing the use of BRCTs in the media. ...

In a front page article, multiple major newspapers (including the Washington Post and New York Times) cite the results of an NIH study...