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According to a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, brain scans of anorexic women taken even after a year of maintaining health weight demonstrate different patterns of activity from those of healthy women. The pattern where the differences are found are in an area of the brain believed to be linked to anxiety […]
Results of a study recently published in the journal Circulation may lead to a reevaluation of criteria for giving blood transfusions following an elevated risk of heart attack and stroke in heart surgery patients who received blood transfusions.
The transfusions are designed to improve the delivery of oxygen to the body’s tissues.
But researchers found patients […]
This is a topic I read about in a recent issue of one of my many magazines, and I can’t find the one: doctors refusing to prescribe birth control and other treatments because it conflicts with their religious beliefs.For religious reasons, I as a patient refuse certain treatments, but I was shocked to learn that […]
We talked about anonymous doctor blogs in March, and they’ve caught the eye of the New York Times, too. But this exploration is a bit more sensitive and a bit less sinister: true confessions of doctors’ innermost thoughts.
As long as doctors aren’t spilling patient secrets, I see no problem with this kind of blogging. Do […]
As a medical writer and editor, I’ve been seeing lots of controversy surrounding the concept of comparative effectiveness lately. It sounds good in theory, but so far, the execution leaves something to be desired. In short, comparative effectiveness is simply looking at two (or more) treatments for a certain ailment and determining which is the […]
It sounds crazy: removing both of your breasts when you don’t even have cancer? Who would do that? Well, lots of women, actually. The availability of genetic testing to evaluate breast cancer risk is giving many women a preview of things to come by letting them know exactly what their chances are of developing hereditary […]
It’s an issue of social responsibility as well as ethical, and it doesn’t appear that a resolution will be coming any time soon. It’s complex and multifaceted. It’s highly controversial. It’s sex ed.
Part of the problem is that there are a lot of unanswered questions about sex education. Who’s responsibility is it? When does someone […]
Thanks to my friend Tara for forwarding me CNN Health’s recent comments on the commonality of abortion where it’s illegal compared with where it’s legal.
In a study examining abortion trends from 1995 to 2003, experts also found that abortion rates are virtually equal in rich and poor countries, and that half of all abortions worldwide […]
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