Here is my talk from Ignite Boston last night -- I solved the healthcare crisis! Zilberberg igniteboston2012 View more PowerPoint f...

I haven't said much about the SCOTUS hearing of the PPACA, but it is time to break my silence. I have been listening to some of the deta...

I am still scratching my head over this study that was just published in the NEJM on coronary CT angiography among patients admitted with a...

You know that joke about the drunk crawling around under a street light? A cop comes up to him and asks what he is doing. The drunk explains...

A story in HealthDay with the title of "Two Studies Find Routine Mammography Saves Lives" talks about studies presented at the a...

Update 4PM Eastern, 3/21/12 Wanted to append a couple of thoughts I tweeted earlier about these studies, in case you don't follow me o...

Yesterday my rant about uncertainty and probability got quite a bit of play in cyberspace, and I am glad. Uncertainty is ubiquitous. We c...

When a patients goes to his doctor to get fixed a pivotal triad of presentation-diagnosis-treatment ensues. The three steps are as follows: ...

So, it has been a great week here at Healthcare, etc, and I am grateful.  Here are the highlights: 1. I did a guest post on plagiarism at ...

Just when you thought you could predict my blog topics, I am going to foil you and not do a post on the rice study in BMJ. I feel like afte...

A study in the NEJM reports that after 11 years of follow up in a very large cohort of men randomized either to PSA screening every 4 years...

So, this story from Harvard on how red meat is bad for you deserves some unpacking. First, allow me to say that all meat is not created equ...

Has everyone read my post on Retraction Watch about how I was plagiarized? There is a great discussion there, and I would love to get your ...

Every day my inbox gets filled with announcements for and invitations to attend all kinds of conferences. While many of them are of the trad...

As my regular readers know all too well, I think a lot about our proneness to cognitive biases and how they impact our healthcare choices. ...

An interesting study was just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. It was a meta-analysis of rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RID...

I decided to re-post this piece dating back from May 2009 in the wake of the recent reports about bird flu. As it turns out, this flu may...

There is an interesting new study that was just published online at the Lancet Oncology. It is a pooled analysis of a bunch of case-control...