Here's a brief summary of an article Shannon Brownlee and Ezekiel Emanuel wrote for the Washington Post (reprinted in the Minneapolis Star Tribune):

1. America has the best health care in the world.
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I fully admit that I am typically the first skeptic in line when people make proclamations like "oh, we're getting close to Jurassic Park!" After all, as fantastical as the book (and movie) was, it was fantasy, and it got as much, if not more wrong, than right. So needless to say, it was with a bit of chagrin that my first reaction to reading that ( Read more... )

It's pretty commonly known that Andrew Wakefield's 1998 Lancet paper on the link between autism and the MMR vaccine has been the source of considered controversy over vaccinations and autism, even after the majority of the paper authors removed their names and the journal retracted the paper. Wakefield's unethical conduct, the leaps of logic, and ( Read more... )

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Surgeons in Denver are happily announcing a major break-through in infant cardiac transplants: using hearts from infants that have died of cardiac-related deaths. According to the Wall Street Journal, Until now, it was thought that hearts from those donors were too badly damaged to be transplanted successfully. Only hearts from donors who were ( Read more... )