Looking for a great historical take on some of the quirkier Valentine’s Day traditions–as well as a wonderful review of health news, opinion and review? Check out this week’s Medical Blog Grand Rounds for all of this and more.
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Looking for a great historical take on some of the quirkier Valentine’s Day traditions–as well as a wonderful review of health news, opinion and review? Check out this week’s Medical Blog Grand Rounds for all of this and more. Okay, so I come from a kind of Southern gothic family–but don’t we all have at least one uncle who’s been saying since the eighties that artificial sweeteners will make you fat? The argument goes–people who are overweight use artificial sweeteners, therefore, artificial sweeteners make you gain weight. Association, therefore, cause. Everyone at the dinner […] Ah, the seamy underside of cost-effectiveness research. Doc Gurley has done cost-effectiveness research, including published studies, in one of her many previous careers (Doc G assessment: not as interesting as waitressing, fewer tips, more messes, fewer laughs). There is a nasty, secretive part of cost-effectiveness health research that no one publicly discusses which (shockingly!) made […] In hospitals, if you’ve gotten a patient all better and discharged them, only to find your patient back in the emergency room in less than 72 hours, that scenario is called a bounce-back. Bounce-back is a word that carries a lot of negative connotation–when you say it, you kind of sneer it at someone “hey, […] In another egg-on-our-face medical moment, researchers have shown that giving anti-psychotic medicine to prevent aggressive behavior in patients with severe intellectual impairment is actually (drumroll please) worse than placebo. That’s right. The infamous, low-cost, no-side-effect sugar pill waayy out-performed new, expensive (or old) anti-psychotics in a true double-blind test that included the caregiver’s impression as […] More heartbreak. The New York City Coroner announced today that Heath Ledger’s death was an accidental overdose. The word accidental is insider code for the fact that none of the blood levels of any one of his medicines was high enough to mean that Heath Ledger tried to kill himself–they were all in the range […] |
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