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October 26, 2020 | Posted in Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »
Closing wet markets and changing cultures will be expensive, but rich countries should pay the price. It will prove a cheap way to prevent future pandemics.
September 16, 2020 | Posted in Opinion, Top Box | Read More »
MATTHEW EDLUND, MD, MOH Guest Columnist Edlund@lbknews.com The past is never past. As I wrote two months ago, the bungled political response to Covid-19 eerily paralleled the first American responses to AIDS. The present parallels between Covid-19 and AIDS continue to increase: Both diseases are nasty and lethal in unexpected ways With AIDS, originally GRIDS (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome), […]
August 4, 2020 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »
Perhaps Americans just feel a roll of the dice is what’s life’s all about, as when Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry in the 1971 Don Siegel film classic asks a bank robber, “Do I feel lucky?”
August 4, 2020 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »
The most ferocious recent human epidemics – AIDS, SARS, Ebola, MERS, Sars Cov 2, have been viral epidemics that “jumped” from other species.
April 19, 2020 | Posted in Key Health, Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »
We won’t know the truth until we do what places like South Korea and Italy’s Veneto region have done effectively: test and track.
April 13, 2020 | Posted in Key Health, Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »
Consider the death case rate for Covid-19. It has became a matter of comparison, even competition, between governments, letting some crow they’ve done a better job.
April 13, 2020 | Posted in Key Health, Major Headlines, Top Box | Read More »
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June 17, 2019 | Posted in Letters | Read More »
Physicians treat the chart rather than the patient (some estimates put 44% of ER physician time as spent on charting), and many electronic records are walled off from each other.
November 11, 2018 | Posted in Key Health, Opinion, Top Box | Read More »
In a clinical world discovering a new mania for guidelines, it’s important to ask about the “standard of care.”
October 16, 2018 | Posted in Key Health, Opinion, Top Box | Read More »