After decades of widespread use, effectiveness of drugs for osteoporosis remains uncertain, yet adverse effects are more apparent. Well-designed and large trials over prolonged follow-up periods, measuring clinically relevant outcomes as hip and other disabling...
April 6, 2017, Victoria, BC: B.C. Ombudsperson Jay Chalke released his investigation report today, titled Misfire: The 2012 Ministry of Health Employment Terminations and Related Matters. The Ombudsperson investigation began in September 2015. Almost 4.7 million...
Treat You Better is a parody of the 2016 Shawn Mendes song "Treat You Better". Many pay-for performance initiatives in health care have some major limitations - most importantly pay-for-performance (P4P) initiatives typically forget that individual...
Long after research contradicts common medical practices, patients continue to demand them and physicians continue to deliver. The result is an epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful treatments. By David Epstein and PROPUBLICA. Published in The Atlantic...