Uncomfortable Truths — What Covid-19 Has Revealed about Chronic-Disease Care in America
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"Jump off the cliff and figure it out on the way down. People think that improvisation is moving forward," comedian Keegan-Michael Key has said about improvisational comedy. "What improvisation really is, it’s walking backward.…It’s backing up that gives you discovery.…You back up, you can create a ..read more
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The 2021 Reauthorization of CAPTA — Letting Public Health Lead
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The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), the foundational child-protection legislation in the United States, has been revised more than 20 times since its original passage in 1974. For nearly 30 years, CAPTA didn’t cover infants who had been exposed to drugs or alcohol in utero, until ..read more
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Point-of-Care Ultrasonography
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Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is defined as the acquisition, interpretation, and immediate clinical integration of ultrasonographic imaging performed by a treating clinician at the patient’s bedside rather than by a radiologist or cardiologist. POCUS is an inclusive term; it is not limited ..read more
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Blood Donation by Gay and Bisexual Men — The Need for a Policy Update
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Many gay and bisexual men in the United Kingdom first became eligible to donate blood on June 14 of this year. The United Kingdom recently amended its eligibility criteria for blood donation to screen out potential donors on the basis of individualized risk assessment rather than apply blanket ..read more
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Is It Finally Time for a Medicare Dental Benefit?
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In 1958, the American Medical Association, the American Dental Association, and several other health professional organizations created the Joint Council to Improve the Health Care of the Aged, which was dedicated to opposing the creation of the program that would eventually become Medicare. In the ..read more
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Closing the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine
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The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has issued a new assessment of salary disparities among U.S. physicians according to gender, race, and their intersection that reaffirms a persistent gender pay gap. Building on decades of research demonstrating that female physicians across ..read more
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The Drug-Dosing Conundrum in Oncology — When Less Is More
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In May 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where we work, approved sotorasib (Lumakras) for metastatic non–small-cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) harboring the KRAS p.G12C mutation. Sotorasib, which was approved on the basis of the phase 2 portion of the CodeBreaK100 trial, is the first drug to ..read more
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Eviction and the Necessary Conditions for Health
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Safe, affordable housing is a foundation of good health; it is essential to people’s ability to thrive in school and work and necessary for building strong families and communities. Housing markets and policies in the United States have failed to supply enough affordable, healthy housing, and they ..read more
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Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector — A Call to Action
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Nowhere are the effects of climate change manifesting more clearly than in human health. Although many people consider climate change a looming threat, health problems stemming from it already kill millions of people per year. It is well established that rising levels of greenhouse-gas emissions ..read more
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Methods of Public Health Research — Strengthening Causal Inference from Observational Data
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Choosing wisely among possible courses of action requires knowledge about the effects of those actions. Public health and medical decision makers therefore need sound causal inferences to know what works and what harms people. Decision makers prefer inferences based on randomized trials because ..read more
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