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Re-assessing concierge care
Lisa Rosenbaum's thoughtful piece about concierge care triggered me to think differently about the phenomenon and primary care in general
Oct 25
PubMed is in trouble
Earlier today, the BMJ team published a piece by Owen Dyer updating us on the state of PubMed with the United States government shutdown.
Oct 14
How do we help people trust public health again in America?
Peter Marks, the head of infectious disease and senior vice president of molecule discovery at Eli Lilly and former director of the Center for Biologics…
Oct 14
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Health care insurance subsidies, health care affordability and health
Let's not confuse meaningful work on health care value with squabbling about health insurance premiums
Oct 10
Two new-ish implications for patient self-monitoring
The JAMA team published two editorials yesterday that forced me to consider patient self-monitoring in two new ways.
Oct 7
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Donald Trump’s Big Pharma Showdown Ends with a Whimper
John Cassidy authored a piece about Pfizer’s recent agreement with the Trump administration to “lower drug prices.” An excerpt:
Oct 6
It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead.
Lisa Miller wrote a disturbing piece about the untimely death of Sam Terblanche, a college student at Columbia University.
Oct 5
September 2025
More cancer diagnoses do not appear to result in more deaths from cancer
Gil Welch and a few of his colleagues published a paper challenging the prevailing sentiment about the rise in cancer rates among younger Americans due…
Sep 30
Treating mental health virtually is hard
Varying state regulations and rapid evolution of mental health technology makes it even hard to figure out what works
Sep 29
The Lancet's review of Tom Frieden's "The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own"
Tom Frieden served for roughly eight years each as Health Commissioner of New York City Department of Health and then as Director of the US Centers for…
Sep 26
Putting vaccine risks in context
It's definitely safer than driving a car
Sep 25
January 2025
More indications for GLP-1 agonists (injectable weight loss mediations)
And the indications are likely to keep on coming
Jan 31
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