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The inimitable Dr. Val (of Get Better Health) is hosting an special, Inaugural Edition of Grand Rounds. The Image via Wikipedia theme is, of course, healthcare reform. Take a breather from our country’s festivities and head on over. You can check out what the entire healthcare blogosphere (patients, advocates, nurses, doctors and all the team!) […] Image by an0nym0usmuse via Flickr When people talk about healthcare reform, what starts as a policy question often deteriorates into a Tower-of-Babel cacophony of confusion. Everyone’s talking about something different. And, frankly, it’s hard to know how to make things better when no one knows where they’re headed. So do I know where we […] In a last minute announcement under the Bush administration, one that leaves consumer advocates stunned, Image via Wikipedia our FDA (Foolish and Deteriorated Abysmally) has passed a ruling that allows pharmaceutical companies to directly market off-label (translation: unapproved) uses of drugs to doctors. The caveat that’s supposed to make this all okey-dokey (per the industry) […] Now we’ve learned that people in middle age who drink 3 or more cups of coffee a day are over 50% less likely to Image via Wikipedia develop dementia/Alzheimer’s in later life. A previous study in April revealed dementia-preventing effects from one cup of coffee a day – but that study was done with […] Image via Wikipedia This week’s Grand Rounds is hosted by the wonderful Barbara at In Sickness and In Health. The theme? Connections, of course. Barbara’s blog is a wonderful exploration of the many-layered impact that health issues can have on relationships – both intimate and casual. Hers is a rare look at the dynamic […] In a story that has gotten surprisingly little media coverage, a doctor from Image via Wikipedia Colorado will go on trial for the suicidal death of a 19-year-old Stanford student. Why should this story have gotten wider coverage? Because the Colorado doctor prescribed Prozac to the located-in-California 19-year-old, without ever seeing or talking to him, […] |
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