As I mentioned in a previous post , the Department of Health and Human Services has contracted with the American Association for Respiratory...

Is it me or is there something wrong with the logic of the Gardasil debate? In a nation that has been reluctant to allocate public resources...

Informative report in Eurosurveillance yesterday from New Zealand summarizing their H1N1 experience to date. A few encouraging signs are th...

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology report on the US preparations for the 2009 H1N1 influenza estimate of 90,...

It makes sense to put a lot of resources into trying to prevent at least some of the estimated 46 million cases, 2.7 million hospitalization...

We just published a paper in PLoS Currents: Influenza estimating what our ICUs can expect this flu season in the US due to the H1N1 pandemi...

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My foray onto knols -- just published one in PLoS Currents: Influenza that models the H1N1 epidemic in the US and estimates the number of a...

On Wednesday, August 19, Grandma went to kevinMD The sick and the dead A school yard bully Death and taxes Barney Frank Town Hall, Dartmou...

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Historian Howard Zinn said "While some people think that dissent is unpatriotic, I would argue that dissent is the highest form of patr...

There is going to be a meeting on innovations in healthcare to develop the 21st century vision for healthcare delivery. In this video David ...

This is a repost of a piece that I did for BMJ's doc2doc blog . There is a familiar adage: "There are two things in life that you ...

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In my family we feel strongly about bullying. We encourage the kids to develop a sense of humor, but never at someone else's expense. We...

This appears in the September issue of Critical Care Medicine Journal on page 2625. Mostly makes sense, but voluntary participation? Opting...

An insightful discussion by NPR's Julie Rovner re: public option vs. co-ops and the political kuufuffle surrounding it all. At Kaiser He...

You can now find some of my posts on British Medical Journal's Blog under "Marya". Today, grandma went to Britain.

There is an overwhelming amount of stakeholder interests in this healthcare "debate". I can summarize the main stakeholder groups ...

"I join millions of Americans in expressing appreciation for the Senate Finance Committee’s decision to remove the provision in the pen...