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Mashup Score: 0Mark Cuban: A Master Disrupter for American Healthcare - 6 hour(s) ago
Listen now (38 mins) | Low cost medications with total transparency was just the beginning
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Originally published on Common Sense Family Doctor on September 22, 2022.
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Mashup Score: 0What should we do with our health care rage? - 5 day(s) ago
Towards positive change, not burnout.
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Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.
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Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. James Stevermer and Kenneth Fink
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Common sense thoughts on public health and conservative medicine from a family doctor in Lancaster, PA. kennylin I am a board-certified Family Physician and Public Health consultant practicing in Lancaster, PA. I am also Deputy Editor of the journal American Family Physician and teach residents and medical stu dents at Lancaster General Health / Penn Medicine Family Medicine Residency program. I am paid to provide independent editorial and medical consulting services to the American Academy of Family
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Key policies introduced over the past 45 years have brought new research organizations and investors into the pharmaceutical R&D process, increasing industry’s market power relative to that of private purchasers. Correcting this imbalance is urgent work.
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Mashup Score: 5An Estimate of Preventable Harms Associated with Screening Colonoscopy Overuse in the United States - 19 day(s) ago
Screening colonoscopy is often performed on patients who are younger or older than the ages specified in national guidelines (1-3), or at shorter intervals than recommended. Non-indicated use of the procedure is considered “low value care” or overuse (4-7). When screening colonoscopy is performed in accordance with guidelines, the potential benefits of this procedure exceed the risk of harm. Conversely, when not indicated, the risk of harm generally outweighs the potential benefits. Harms include rare but serious complications such as bowel perforation and gastrointestinal bleeding as well as infection, cardiovascular events, and death (8, 9).
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Nobody got Covid totally right. But the contrarians got it mostly wrong.
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Mashup Score: 1Firearms Are Not Motor Vehicles | Annals of Internal Medicine - 23 day(s) ago
The reduction in motor vehicle crash deaths is often held up as an example that public health interventions can also prevent firearm-related deaths. The authors note that while motor vehicles are n…
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