The title of this piece is that of a paper published by JAMA Internal Medicine. It is available at the end of this article. If you are a long-time reader of this site, you will appreciate that I ...
https://medicine-opera.com/2023/11/estimated-lifetime-gained-with-cancer-screening-tests/
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca (AZ) has been widely used in Europe, but not in the US. Its technical nomenclature is a recombinant adenoviral vector encoding the spike protein anti...
Three recent medical reports. The first is from Science. A conference held by Biogen in February of this year was a superspreader event. Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Boston highlights t...
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” This quotation attributed to Einstein, was said by him (if he really said it) in the context of quantum mecha...
https://medicine-opera.com/2020/07/einstein-insanity-and-models/
The May 22, 2014 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has a perspective piece that is even more instructive than its authors and the journal’s editors realized: ‘Abolishing Mammograph...
https://medicine-opera.com/2014/05/mammography-screening-in-switzerland/
The August 23rd issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has a review article about the treatment of raised intracranial pressure. A patient with head trauma is the index case. Patients who a...
https://medicine-opera.com/2012/09/osmolality-and-brain-injury/
New York Times columnist and Nobel prize winner in economics Paul Krugman is famous for his dedication to fiscal stimulus as an escape from our current economic woes. No matter how much money the...
https://medicine-opera.com/2010/08/unreasonable-health-insurance-premiums/
The September 24th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has an excellent review article by Ginès and Schrier on Renal Failure in Cirrhosis. It reviews the pathogenesis of the circulatory...
It seems to be impossible to drive a stake through the heart of this issue. The current New England Journal of Medicine has two more studies and an editorial on the subject. One (Mortality Result...
https://medicine-opera.com/2009/03/screening-for-prostate-cancer-yet-again/
Every year Congress goes through a Medicare ritual. The law as written requires about a 20% reduction in payments to doctors. Medicare’s rates are already low causing many physicians to refuse ...
https://medicine-opera.com/2009/03/medicares-payment-of-physicians/