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Anchor lead: Do breathtakingly expensive new cancer drugs really help? Elizabeth Tracey reports Too many cancer drugs that costs tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars don’t really help, a scathing study published in the BMJ concludes. William Nelson, …
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Anchor lead: Emerging technologies can’t replace physical exam skills in medicine, Elizabeth Tracey reports New technologies to assess your heart, blood pressure and all kinds of indicators of health are constantly emerging, leading some to predict the demise of basic …
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Anchor lead: Can a medical society help revive bedside skills of physicians? Elizabeth Tracey reports Can the practice of medicine be improved by helping physicians hone their skills at the patient’s bedside? That’s the mission of the Society of Bedside …
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Anchor lead: Identifying thyroid disease may need to change as people age, Elizabeth Tracey reports Thyroid diseases are common as people age, especially an underactive thyroid gland known as hypothyroidism. Now a new study by thyroid expert Jenna Mammen at …
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Anchor lead: Should the US follow the lead of other countries in destigmatizing drug use? Elizabeth Tracey reports Portugal is being put forward as a model for decreasing opioid addiction and overdose death, where destigmatization is the linchpin along with …
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Anchor lead: What would be helpful about declaring opioid overdoses a national emergency? 64,000 people dead from opioid overdoses last year. Those are the dire statistics, and Eric Strain, a drug abuse expert at Johns Hopkins, says their impact is …
