A collaborative group including Cornell Tech, UC San Francisco, Sage Bionetworks, Open mHealth and The Commons Project is set to launch CommonHealth, which aims to make it as easy to access and share electronic health record data with Android devices as it is with is with iPhone-based Apple Health. WHY IT MATTERSThe app, called CommonHealth… Read More: Cornell, UCSF, others working to help Android users share EHR… »
A third death is under investigation for ties to vaping as government scientists are still trying to get to the bottom of what is causing the illness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention disclosed Friday. Public health officials have been warning the public about an illness that appears to be linked to vaping marijuana,… Read More: Third death under investigation for ties to vaping »
The announcement on Wednesday that Johns Hopkins Medicine was starting a new center to study psychedelic drugs for mental disorders was the latest chapter in a decades-long push by health nonprofits and wealthy donors to shake up psychiatry from the outside, bypassing the usual channels. “Psychiatry is one of the most conservative specialties in medicine,”… Read More: The Man Who Put His Money Behind Psychedelic Medicine –… »
An interesting article in the journal Pediatrics is both intriguing and sobering. It is intriguing because it lays bare something we don’t talk much about or teach our students about; it is sobering because it describes the potential harm that can come from it, harm I have personally witnessed. The issue is overdiagnosis, and it’s related to our relentless… Read More: The problem of overdiagnosis: What can patients do? »