New England Journal of Medicine

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• Inaction has a cost — in lives and money

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 437
  But don’t take my word for it. Take The New England Journal of Medicine’s : There is clear evidence that the way we pay for health care stimulates cost growth. A “no” vote in Congress will leave these policies undisturbed. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that under existing approaches to ...
  4 days ago

• A new blog worth noting: “Evidence In Medicine”

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 553
  Understanding medical research, at some level, is a fundamental e-patient skill. As we start digging for reliable new information, we have to learn to separate quality from questionable. (If you think medical journals are academically pure, you’ve got learning to do.) A new blogger has emerged who’ll be a big ...
  6 days ago

• Promoting healthy skepticism in the news: Helping journalists get it right

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  An editorial published online November 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute discusses the exaggerated fears and hopes that often appear in news coverage of cancer research. The editorial provides guidance for both the media and journals to help alleviate the problem.
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• Tysabri, the MS Drug Haunted by Deadly Side Effect, Doesn’t Look So Deadly Anymore

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 703
  Biotech , Multiple Sclerosis , Drugs Luke Timmerman wrote: Few doctors knew much about a rare brain infection called PML back in 2005, when two patients on a hot new multiple sclerosis drug from Biogen Idec and Elan died from the side effect. The infection, at the time, was generally considered a ...
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• Drug therapy more cost-effective than angioplasty for diabetic patients with heart disease

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  STANFORD, Calif. -- Many patients with diabetes should forego angioplasties for heart disease and just take medicine instead, according to a new National Institutes of Health study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researcher Mark Hlatky, MD.
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• The Editorial that Wasnt: Evidence for Systematic Research Manipulation Undetectable by Critical Review

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 538
  Woe to those of us who have been advocates for evidence-based medicine.  A short description of the evidence-based medicine is medicine whose practice is informed by critical, rigorous review of the best available evidence from clinical research as revealed by systematic search of the published research literature, ...
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• Study Raises Questions About Cholesterol Drug’s Benefit

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  A study shows the heavily-marketed Zetia was inferior to an old standby drug, niacin, in reducing buildup in the carotid artery.
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• Harvard nutrition expert offers family physician group no-cost alternative to funding from Coca-Cola

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Boston, MA -- Leading Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) nutrition and health researcher Walter Willett, M.D., Dr.
  2 weeks ago

• Who Can We Trust?

  
  As You Like It — Authority: 112
  Neurontin might not be a drug for sexual problems, but this weeks controversy surrounding it speaks volumes for the concerns I have about a number of the drug studies that I read in medical journals. These are journals I should be able to trust, but trust does not always run deep when so much of a journals revenue ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trimming US health care spending will require new approaches, study finds

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Slowing the growth in U.S.
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• Boston Scientific to Plead Guilty (of Suppressing Information ab...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  In the early days of Health Care Renewal (2005-2006) we posted several times about allegations that Guidant hid information about defects in the implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) the company manufactured.  As we noted in early 2005 here , Guidant executives allegedly knew that ICDs made from 2000-2002 were ...
  2 weeks ago

• The House Bill Is "Worse Than Nothing"? Really?

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  Marcia Angell, M.D. , is one of the nations most well-respected experts on health care issues. And with good reason. A board-certified pathologist who also trained in internal medicine, shes a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Her writing credits ...
  2 weeks ago

• Autism Research Update

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 551
  A recent meeting by The Autism Consortium gave scientists, clinicians, advocates and parents an opportunity to share the latest information on causes of autism and their implications for diagnosis, prognosis and therapies. The symposium’s scope and attendance doubled this year, with an increase in scientific ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Resurgence for Gene Therapy

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 130
  scientists say gene therapy may be on the edge of a resurgence.
  3 weeks ago

• Older Bypass Method Is Best, a Study Shows

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  A rigorous evaluation of bypass operations with and without heart-lung machines found that outcomes were better in cases using the machines.
  3 weeks ago

• Pump Iron To Improve Self-Esteem

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 551
  The value of lifting weights extends beyond increasing muscle mass for breast cancer survivors: New research discovers the activity provides a boost to self-esteem. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers discovered survivors who lift weights regularly feel better about their bodies and their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Health Care: The German Perspective

  
  The Platform — Authority: 535
  Otto von Bismarck: Not socialist. Forget all this nonsense about socialized health care. The first head of state to propose a national health system was at the other end of the political spectrum. His name: Otto von Bismarck. The system established by…
  3 weeks ago

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