by Joe Graedon | Nov 7, 2007
Getting timely information about drug dangers is always challenging. It’s been our experience that drug companies and the FDA generally downplay problems until they have no choice but to admit there’s a serious complication. The diabetes drug Avandia is just one...
by Joe Graedon | Jun 18, 2007
The New England Journal of Medicine has a “Perspective” by John H. Stone, M.D., M.P.H., on how E-Medicine is changing the doctor-patient relationship (June 14, 2007). Here’s a memorable quote: “The ‘laying on of hands’ will...
by Joe Graedon | May 28, 2007
If doctors think about e-patients at all, they may imagine that they are Web-savvy young or middle-aged people. Assertive baby boomers waving pages of print-outs from the Internet send shivers down some doctors’ spines. That stereotype is rapidly becoming obsolete....
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