(I apologize in advance to my drag queen friends for putting them in the same sentence as the conservative extremists -- I merely do this to...

The term evidence-based medicine has made it into our colloquial language over the last decade. David Sackett, considered one of the foundin...

Today the Institute of Medicine has released their " Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations ...

Here are some approaches that have been suggested for how to prioritize limited ICU resources in a case of a mass casualty/pandemic situatio...

Here is a story from  Reuters Health covering my recent study in Chest . There is a video there too! NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients ...

Ghostwriting in peer-reviewed healthcare literature has been gaining quite a bit of attention. PLoS has even created a public web site  to d...

Yesterday afternoon I was on a Society of Critical Care Medicine's webcast on the ICU and H1N1 preparedness. Despite my very busy day, I...

When I was a kid in Odessa my Dad and I went to see The Sound of Music at least 17 times in the span of 3 months. Remember that song sung by...

Today is Friday. Eight years ago, when our world fractured, it was Tuesday. I was away in Chicago for a meeting. I was eating breakfast when...

The opposition to healthcare reform is fanning fears of rationing as a way of controlling escalating costs and broadening access. A better u...

I was listening to Sylvia Boorstein's podcast yesterday while driving in my car. The title of the talk was "I talk to my friends...

I got a chain e-mail from a good friend of mine urging me to get my screening mammogram done. The message contained cute comics about mammog...

On August 31 and September 1, the CDC in conjunction with the Keystone Center and WestEd held a web based discussion centering around imple...

On August 31 and September 1, the CDC in conjunction with the Keystone Center and WestEd held a web based discussion centering around implem...

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...