Medical Decision Making and Conflicts of Interest
Dr. Peter Ubel is a professor at Duke University and gave a guest lecture for Dan Ariely’s (also a professor at Duke) Coursera class on Irrational Behavior economics. Ubel’s lecture talks about a colleague who told a leukemia patient that the patient’s chance of recovery if he undergoes chemotherapy was 20%, which was an overstatement [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - April 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin, Ph.D. Tags: Science and Research Source Type: blogs
Dream and Nightmare of Web-Scale Pharmacovigilance
I’m not going to tap into fear-mongering of why Microsoft is involved in the study that pulls adverse event (side effect) data from the internet, but I’m wondering what’s taken people so long to figure out the vast pool of patient experiences available online. Oh wait, those of us involved in industry know about this, [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - March 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin, Ph.D. Tags: Activism & Advocacy Business of Medicine Critical Consumer Drug Companies Health on the Web Medical Innovation Open Healthcare Social Media in Medicine Source Type: blogs
Performance Enhancement Goes to Antlers
This sounds like something out of a Chinese traditional medicine apothecary: deer antler velvet are harvested and then processed to become delivery agents for supplements that enhance athletic performance. The controversy with this is that there may be substances within the harvested velvet that are not permitted by the sport. Nutraceuticals are a large business [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - February 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin, Ph.D. Tags: Nutraceuticals Source Type: blogs
How People with disabilities May Find Gainful Employment?
A. Prioritize components of gainful employment. Pick and choose / prioritize components from the “9 components of gainful employment (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainful_employment). These include Variety of work, Safe working environment, Income, Feeling of Purpose, Friendship at work (among others.) While we may desire all 9 components to feel “fulfilled”, we may not all rank these components [...] (Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM)
Source: NAKEDMEDICINE.COM - September 20, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jane Chin, Ph.D. Tags: Activism & Advocacy Source Type: blogs
