Did Stupak finally shtup himself instead of millions of poor Americans, as he had intended to? I think so, and with the Catholic nuns, no le...

Now, as you know, I am a big fan of epidemiology. I do not believe that a randomized controlled trial is the be-all-and-end-all in evidence ...

Reading the transcript in the WSJ of the remarks at the President's Healthcare Summit by Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican on the House...

It is an absurd question, right? Well, not really. Bear with me for a bit. As I half-listened to the White House healthcare summit yesterd...

I will go out on a limb: I think that lactose intolerance should not be medicalized. I stumbled upon this story on WebMD discussing the NI...

There is a concept called "samatha" in Buddhist meditation. It has to do with sitting quietly, doing nothing. The opposite of mind...

Remember the trial a couple of years ago that showed that group support participation was associated with prolonged survival among women wit...

What do the three have in common, you might wonder? Well, more than we used to think. This story in today's UK's Telegraph report...

Read my post on HEOR as an option for former clinicians at the Non-Clinical Healthcare Professionals ning network blog here .

So I went to this meeting in Washington, DC, last week, to be a part of the conversation on the value of HEOR in the industry. It was a grea...

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than th...

The line between consumerism and obesity is not that difficult to draw, and mechanisms for this relationship are plentiful. Passively sittin...

Frankly, I am sick of people taking credit for chance events. One such chance event is the less-than-expected severity of the H1N1 pandemic....

Backscatter scanners cost $150,000-$180,000 a piece . Congress has appropriated funding for 450 scanners to be placed in the US airports. B...

Happy New Year to everyone, and apologies for not posting for some time. You probably thought I was on vacation, but in fact a family illnes...

I know I've been on a conflict-of-interest kick lately, and this post will continue in that vein. I have to thank the New England Journa...

Two items have grabbed me so far today: one on your favorite contemporary intellectual (and mine) Sarah Palin, and the other on the "De...

It's Charlotte's Web over at the Florence dot com blog : Welcome to this holiday edition of Grand Rounds! It's the time of year...

Last week I blogged about the empty black box of evidence in medicine. Afterwards I got to thinking about black boxes in other parts of our...

A close friend of mine gave birth a few days ago to her second child. My friend is a slight woman whose infant came out at 6 lb 9 oz, even t...