by Susannah Fox | Jul 13, 2010
Update: The NLM released new widgets on July 14, along with a redesigned MedlinePlus site. (Read @eagledawg’s take on these new tools, as well as her response to this post.) Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 9, 2010
Yesterday’s post “Why Gary Schwitzer joined” sparked a lot of discussion, online and off. Why not turn it into a series?? The next to submit is Kent Bottles MD, president of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI). He’s deep, as...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 8, 2010
Correction: the email address for volunteering has been updated to volunteer@participatorymedicine.org We’ve written many times about Gary Schwitzer and the excellent work he does at Health News Review. Last December I said reading health news carefully is a...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 7, 2010
Prolific, unsinkable Maggie Mahar commented today on the Century Foundation’s HealthBeat blog about Paul Levy’s “Yes, Patients Can Help Their Doctors” introduction to my forthcoming book. Among other things she pointed out, correctly, that not...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 7, 2010
Did you know that a major aspect of the Affordable Care Act (aka the health reform legislation) was significant funding to revamp primary care? I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t. There’s $10 billion (with a B) in funding for research in the first ten...
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