retired doc's thoughts

In this month's Archives of Internal Medicine an article describes what so far has not been accomplished by the VA's highly tout...

Able Laboratories-a manufacturer of over 40 generic medications- has stopped production and recalled its products.Its history of problems wi...

Here is a case control study that I really would like to believe but I am skeptical. In the May 26, 2005 issue of the NEJM a 47% reductio...

The May 26 issue of the NEJM article "Long-term outcomes of coronary artery Bypass grafting versus Stent implantation" concludes ...

A recent article in Circulation indicates that rosuvastatin leads the other statins in the adverse effect category. Although the absolute ...

A recent article in the AMA News-soon to be a publication to which only AMA members are privy-describes what some perceive to be a need fo...

Stephen Jay Gould's family is suing the Dana-Farber Cancer Insititute and Brighams and Womens Hospital for allegedly missing a solitary...

An interesting editorial appeared in ACP Journal CLub ( May/June 2005/volume 142 no. 3 p A-8) entitled " Does clinical experience make ...

Dr. Richard Smith, a editor of BMJ for 25 years,discusses some of the ways that drug companies get the results they want published in main ...

Unlike the ACCP, the AAFP seems to be calling it like it is in regard to one recently imposed pay for performance program, namely the Unit...

The IDF has published new criteria for the Metabolic Syndrome. Obesity as defined by waist circumference is required plus two more criteri...

The first medical memory I have of what- at the time- were known as "ethical drug companies" was actually part of the rites of pas...

Media coverage of the 60th anniversary of the end of world war II has focused on various events including the anniversary of the liberation ...

Dr. Philip R. Alper has a regular column in Internal Medicine World Report . In the April 2005 issue, he discussed the Annals of Internal M...

A typical cost-effectiveness article appears in the May 2, 2005 Annals of Internal Medicine. The summary states in part "alendronate ....

The twin pillars of the epidemiologic-statistical foundations of the "best evidence " part of Evidence based Medicine (EBM) are th...

With in memory (ok, a long memory) we did not worry about should we give digitalis to heart failure patients, the only issue was how much of...

The basic message is " everyone does not react the same to a given treatment" . This should be obvious but in the frenzy of jumpi...

The blog ,(hcrenewal.blogspot.com) has featured several excellent pieces on the topic of the practice of drug companies planting articles i...

The April 24, 2005 issue of American Medical News reports that New Jersey has passed a law requiring "cultural competency training...