How Do We Prevent Alzheimer’s?
The results are in. If you want to prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, scientists have a take-home message for you: good clean living is meaningful, just not significant.
Posts Tagged ‘evidence-based medicine’
Limited Comparative Effectiveness Research Meets Value-Based Insurance Design
What do you get when you combine today’s limited comparative effectiveness research with aggressive value-based insurance design? A risky and expensive proposition for patients, that’s what. I’m a fan of the value-based insurance design concept, which rewards patients and healthcare providers for using the most effective care, even if it’s more expensive. But when private insurers use it to fleece patients in a bait-and-switch scheme, it’s another matter entirely.
Newest Concussion Technology Rather 19th Century
Who needs biotechnology firms with their expensive R&D and iron-clad patents when we have teenagers? One teen in particular may have just invented the most reliable way to test for a concussion yet – and it’s so simple it’s not even patentable.
12 Years Later, Lancet Finally Retracts Vaccine-Autism Myth
This month the vaunted journal Lancet took the highly unusual step of publicly retracting a published study. Not just any study, mind you. Not a recent one either – it circulated last century, way back in 1998. But it just happened to be one that set off a firestorm in the anti-vaccine movement. And as it turns out, not only was it incorrect, it wasn’t even a scientific study. It will take a super-sized Handi-Wipe for Lancet to get all that egg off its face.
Top Medical Breakthroughs to Start 2010
Well at least some areas of US healthcare made meaningful progress last year. While Washington, D.C., was doing what it does best – going around in lucrative circles, claiming progress – researchers were busy making breakthroughs that could potentially improve people’s health. It’s a concept. Here are 6 potential game-changers that can improve the prevention and treatment of disease in 2010 and beyond. Happy New Year, everyone.
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