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FDA Gives Light Scrutiny to Investigators’ Financial Ties
Via Twitter, from the Wall Street Journal Health Blog: "The FDA should do a lot more to police potential conflicts of interest among researchers conducting clinical trials of experimental drugs and medical devices, a government watchdog says. Read the report, out...
Teens, Sex and Technology
Our own John Grohol has an interesting article up on PsychCentral about teens, sex, technology, and the online disinhibition effect (comments are also open on Well). For us: Does online disinhibition play a role in everyone's use of online health resources?
Physicians as coaches, part 2: “Embrace knowledge symmetry”
I don't get surprised these days as easily as I used to before I got "e." But something popped my eyes open last weekend, and I dug into it. It goes to the heart of where the power is, in the doctor-patient relationship. But not just the power – the responsibility for...
Doing Our Best to Blow Your Minds (Emerging Trends in Chronic Disease Care)
Here is my third post in a series of look-backs at the November 2008 Chronic Disease Care conference in San Francisco. (OK, yes, it's now January 2009 -- I'm savoring the experience, not Twittering it!) The first post was about spreading improvement beyond early...
“Physicians are coaches. Patients are players.”
I don't know who Stanley Feld is, but he just became my friend, with a terrific post on doctor as coach, patient as player. It starts: The role of patients with chronic diseases and their physicians must be clear to both patients and physicians. Physicians are...
Patient Voices at CHCF’s Chronic Disease Care Conference
This is the second in a series of posts about the California HealthCare Foundation’s Chronic Disease Care conference (the first was Happy Dogs in a Pile of Sticks). Patient Voices: Managing Chronic Conditions, Living our Lives Ted Eytan snapped a photo that captured...
Women and Health Care Disparities: Who Dies and Who Profits?
Are women dying of cancer in the same way they die of heart disease, because physicians trivialize their complaints and they are powerless to get second opinions? How many decades has it taken for cardiologists, practitioners at the apex of medicine, to acknowledge...
Malpractice cost impact
Your perspectives please? On my own blog a somewhat surprising discussion has started about the cost impact of malpractice issues, as part of the total American healthcare budget. I cited some Congressional Budget Office data and some newcomers have shown up. I'd very...
In the Spin II: You and Your Billing Code
Pass the Valium! Previously on e-Patients.net I recounted the crazy-making quest for a second opinion on an abnormal mammogram (microcalicifications) as per the advice of New York Times health columnist Jane E. Brody, a breast cancer survivor. Â The gynecologist who...
NIH Summit on Health Disparities
NIH is sponsoring a summit this week, The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities. I heard about it from Mary Brophy Marcus's article in USA Today and I found this press release online, but I haven't seen other coverage of the event. If you spot stories about the...
NeuroTalk Parkinson’s Group Brings About Change at Michael J. Fox Foundation
Our savvy e-patients over at NeuroTalk noticed the launch of a new service by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, one of the leading Parkinson's disease advocacy and research organizations. The new service, called PD Online Research, is billed as a "new web community of...
Breaking News at Hematology Meeting – for Patients
Andrew Schorr is the founder of Patient Power, LLC, and shares this dispatch, his second for e-patients.net: I had a whirlwind weekend at the Moscone Center in San Francisco where I broadcast five and a half hours of live interviews with leading hematologists and...