Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So I buried my head in the sand until an article of the February 2 nd WSJ -- Who’s Afraid of Early Cancer Detection? -- made me commit to learning about the test. Today and next week I will post articles about Galleri. This was the validation article in a series of diagnostic test articles.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 18, 2024

Since this is a rebuttal to an editorial I wrote, it would be helpful to first read the linked article in the lead sentence. Purists may not like this article. There are many studies that have not been included in Dr Mandrola’s article that might challenge his conclusions. I do like the authors’ conclusions.

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Science Based Medicine

AUGUST 8, 2024

Hypocritical articles on politics and medicine weren't really about politics and medicine, they were a message- the standards we set for you, don't apply to us and everyone knows it. The post The Hypocrisy Is The Point. Doctors Who Said Not To Mix Politics & Medicine. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This article reviews healthcare issues that need urgent resolution. As the 2024 election cycle nears, clinicians anticipate the election's impact on healthcare.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 4, 2024

I then use my other “media” – NYT, NPR, twitter, office chatter – to find other articles I should be reading. Last week, there were no articles that changed my practice but there were a few that I found interesting. This article was published in Nature Medicine. The fourth article appeared in the NEJM.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

I only read two articles last week (Labor Day, a wedding, having to debate, and then write and article with Vinay…). The article came out of the University of Pittsburgh and studied patients there. So why does this article not make me more bullish on mammography? This article doesn’t show a benefit of GDMT.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Peter Marks, the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, and Robert Califf, the commissioner of the FDA published a “Viewpoint” article in JAMA on January 5th: Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point. By my read, the article had two goals. I am unabashedly pro-vaccine.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In other words, if you’re a journal editor who published a substantially erroneous article, you have an obligation to publish replications, reanalyses, and criticisms. A few researchers (Florence LeCraw, Danial Montanera, and Thomas Mroz) found no fewer than three major errors in the 2018 article. Same for funders.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2024

Recently, I came across a tweet that lavished praise on an unremarkable article. The article contained, as my friend Bapu Jena likes to say, no new ideas. They are the “can you tweet my article” people. It merely restated things that had been said before. He took the help of a senior academic at his institution.

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Science Based Medicine

JANUARY 14, 2024

The latest report from the American Academy of Pediatrics is filled with misinformation and missing key articles that support the well-researched conclusion that there is no legitimate evidence of negative health effects of glyphosate.

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Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 17, 2024

This article explores this treatment’s roots and hints at future applications. Checkpoint inhibitors revolutionized the way we treat aggressive cancers.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Reading Vinay’s article last week called to mind one of my favorite articles. By the time a medical student has reached the 4 th year, he or she has learned from textbooks, review articles, and lectures. In the second half of the course, students were free to choose articles from the entirety of the medical literature.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On the other, articles will sometimes find second life on the site. 1 Being alerted to this article was a gift for several reasons. The article itself also got me thinking. Initially, I was tempted to dismiss it as one of those “back in the good old days” screeds until I realized the article was published in 1998.

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Science Based Medicine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This article is no exception. You know the rule about headlines - if there is a question in a headline the answer is almost always "no". The post Pesticide in Oat Products – Should You Worry? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Science Based Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Most mainstream articles on pseudoscience in medicine frame their reporting around a positive anecdote, and at best throw in some token skepticism […] The post BBC Takes On Appeal to Nature Fallacy first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Forbes Healthcare

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The article covers expert-backed comfort tips for CPAP users, alternative treatments and combining therapy solutions for managing sleep apnea effectively.

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Science Based Medicine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After 41 years of private practice as a chiropractor and 60 years of writing books and articles, the age of 94 finds me rethinking my career, wondering if my contributions to the literature justify the path I took. The post The Swan Song of a Chiropractic Heretic first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 6, 2024

This article can help you learn more. People with cancer may encounter checkpoint inhibitors as a treatment option but may not know where to start.

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Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2024

Experts warned against using weight-loss drugs as a fertility aid after a raft of articles suggested the medicines might help women get pregnant.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2023

There are articles that change your practice. There are articles that clarify your understanding of medicine. There are articles that are great examples of study types, bias, and design errors.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 12, 2024

This article, and the accompanying podcast , has stimulated more conversation than a “non-research” article has in years. If you haven’t read the article, please do. Sensible Medicine is thrilled to be able to feature some articles reacting to, and expanding on, Dr. Rosenbaum’s work in the coming weeks.

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Science Based Medicine

JUNE 10, 2024

The Washington Post recently published an article asking if COVID-19 infection can cause cancer. Probably not, but cancer caused by a virus is more more plausible than "turbo cancer" caused by the vaccine. The post Forget “turbo cancers” caused by COVID-19 vaccines. Does COVID itself cause cancer? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Science Based Medicine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

JAMA Internal Medicine just published an article titled: Acupuncture vs Sham Acupuncture for Chronic Sciatica From Herniated Disk, A Randomized Clinical Trial. In an accompanying editorial comment, Jerard Z. Kneifati-Hayek and Mitchell H.

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Science Based Medicine

MAY 13, 2024

Last week, I had a choice between two poorly framed articles on health to discuss. I wrote about the one on "vaccine injury." But the second one about IV drips kept nagging at me. Why do journalists do so poorly on issues like this? The post The Washington Post publishes an advertorial on IV drips first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 30, 2023

Last week a friend sent me a link to an article in The Financial Times titled, MRI scan more accurate than blood test at diagnosing prostate cancer, UK study finds. I read the article, skeptically, thinking MRI as a screening test, come on. This article shows that MRI (or MRI with PSA density) detects more cancer than PSA density.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 11, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The sensitive nature of patient data and the open nature […] The article Fortifying Healthcare Email Security: Advanced Solutions and Mitigation Strategies appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Science Based Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

John Mandrola, Andrew Foy and Vinay Prasad, published an article titled “Setting the Record Straight: There is No ‘Covid Heart’” In it, they argued that “The issue of Covid-19 induced cardiac problems was massively overblown.”

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Being perfectly honest, not all the articles have aged well. One of these was an article that Vinay Prasad and I wrote back in 2016: Wearables, Smartphones and Novel Anticoagulants: We Will Treat More Atrial Fibrillation, but Will Patients Be Better Off? I am actually embarrassed by a few of them and many are forgettable.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

I’ve stayed away from throwing shade at lay coverage of nutrition science since our articles, Nutrition Churnalism Part 1 and Part 2 , that we published way back in August of 2023. It is just that attacking these articles is like shooting the proverbial fish in a barrel. Here’s Why.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 8, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. In the months that have passed since the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the […] The article Concerns and Uncertainty In the Wake of Sweeping HTI-1 Rule appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

As always, we are happy to feature articles that expand on ideas discussed on Sensible Medicine – even when the author agrees more with Dr. Prasad than with me. Back then a statistics professor and one of the forefathers of EBM, Doug Altman published a BMJ article titled “The scandal of poor medical research.”

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Publish a journal article; OK. They fill journals with articles that do nothing for medicine but only add a line to a CV. A nice article that I found while writing this made the point that many of the characteristics that are rewarded in our selection process make for unhappy learners and doctors. Get straight A’s; done.

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Athena Career Academy

MAY 8, 2024

In this article, we’ll look at the significance of internships in enhancing your journey toward earning a degree in early childhood education.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 27, 2024

Before we get to our disagreement, a quick review of the article. 6 If you go into this article convinced that masking is worthless, you can dismiss the results as Vinay did. 1 Vinay authored a criticism of the paper on Sensible Medicine.

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Athena Career Academy

MAY 22, 2024

This article explores how excellent customer service in medical assisting can make a difference and why it's a key component of medical assistant training, including CMA classes. In the healthcare industry, customer service plays an important role when it comes to enhancing patient experiences.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The article that led to this essay was One Man’s Quest to Make Luxury Sunblock. The article tells the story of Dr. Antony Nakhla, a Newport Beach dermatologist and the (very) expensive skin care products that he developed and sells. You can read the article but the story is simple. ” Thus he began his work.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 24, 2024

The article begins by explaining that mammograms don’t find all breast tumors — of course they don’t! On Friday, the New York Times ran this story. Even MRI and ultrasound do not. In fact, no imaging modality does.

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