Does Anyone Really Understand Medical Bills?
I would bet that few if any people, including health care professionals and business types, fully understand the medical bills they get in the mail. I have been thinking about…
Read moreSex At The Olympics: An Update
I was not surprised to see an article in today’s NYT describing the “fall-out” from the new IOC guidelines for sex-verification at the Olympics, which I wrote about the other day. The…
Read moreSex At The Olympics: New Rules
Just the other day, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued a memo detailing their new policy for genetic verification of athletes (called ” sex-verification test”). The new policy was summarized…
Read moreThe Assault On Screening Tests And Annual Health Assessents (AKA Annual Physicals): Is Ignorance Bliss?
As I have mentioned in recent entries, there has been what seems to me a rather urgent effort to show that we as health care professionals care about the high…
Read moreManaging Children and Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes: Results Of A Major Multicenter Clinical trial
This week’s New England Journal of Medicine has an article entitled, “A clinical trial to maintain glycemic control in youth with type 2 diabetes,” written by the TODAY Study Group. …
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