As medicine uses more and more complex tools to treat illness, I worry that these newer interventions will be seen as impenetrable black boxes. A pill is easy to understand, but gene therapy? There is a simple story to tell about gene therapy. Your body has a defective gene. Doctors will give you the correct version of the gene and the disease will go away. It’s like being unhappy with your wall…
Background Persons living with dementia (PLWD) may experience communication difficulties that impact their ability to process written and pictorial information. Patient-facing education may help promote…
Common sense thoughts on public health and conservative medicine from a family doctor in Lancaster, PA. (Move to …) Medscape Family Medicine: The Doctor Is…
Steve Black highlights how the NHS should opt for tough choices over popular solutions for sustainable improvement and productivity enhancement
After a whistleblower exposed a large-scale fraud, there has been a surge in retractions, affecting scientific integrity and attracting extensive atte…
Corporations have an incentive to make profits – even if their products hurt or even kill people. Here’s how to stop history repeating.
The world is relying on the United States to get value-based drug pricing right.
Objective We identified mechanisms for addressing and/or managing the influence of corporations on public health policy, research and practice, as well as examples of where…
Trying to remove politics from the NHS is akin to trying to block out the sun, please can we start to harness its power for…
