Anti-Viral Drugs In Development For COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2, also known as COVID-19, is a coronavirus that causes, sometimes severe, respiratory illness. The first reported case was on December 31, 2019, in Wuhan, China, and the outbreak has…
How to Spot Predatory Science
Trying not to fall victim to predatory science is becoming a skill in its own right. Not only are the number of predatory journals increasing but predatory science has started…
Rare Diseases – A Growing Focus for Healthcare Product Developers
At a recent Summit in Miami, the emphasis for pharma, biotech and devices companies was overcoming the challenges of rare diseases.
Understanding risk: the patient’s perspective
Medicine is not an exact science, so patients are left to understand its nuances without a basic primer in statistics. How do patients understand risk and make their health care decisions? Part of it involves delusion.
Editorial: What’s in a name? Guest authors, ghost authors, and plain ol’ writers
‘Ghostwriting’ is a contentious issue among both medical practitioners and medical writers. Outside these circles, this issue typically only surfaces when either a politician decides to deplore it or a pharmaceutical company is implicated.
Medical publishing, and so much more
From e-books on Amazon.com to a new publishing format by the BMJ, e-reading is here to stay, and things will never be the same in medical publications.
Lies, damn lies, and – or are? – statistics
You can prove just about anything with statistics. We’ve seen this in polls, politics, and policy. Even in health economics, caveat emptor.
Even with numbers, words mean things
We’ve all seen our share of silly headlines or sound bites, but they become a more serious matter when health or money is at stake.
Communicating complexity and understanding risk: whose responsibility is it?
In our world of bullet points, tweets, and soundbites, the celebrated Information Age has exploded into Information Hysteria for many would-be patients. We explore how patients can consider nuanced medical arguments in a world of reductive news and argumentation.