Opening the blood-barrier is now more feasible but what to send through it is controversial.

U.S. Mental Health and Firearm Mortality Epidemic

by | Feb 15, 2024 | Firearm Issues

The data and associated analyses results used in Bleyer A, Siegel S, Estrada J, Thomas CR. Fallacy of attributing the U.S. firearm mortality epidemic to mental health. PLOS ONE are posted here. The data sources, each publicly available, are: Institute for Health...

Changing Culture

by | Aug 15, 2022 | Healthcare Reform

Is there a relationship between our failing healthcare system and medical societies? I am Dr. Mike Henderson, Central Oregon Medical Society president for the next couple of years. Medical societies promote the profession and its members. Given the inexorable...

Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms

by | Jul 5, 2022 | Screening Mammography

By Gina Kolata  /  New York Times  /  February 11, 2014 Source: Miller AB, et al. Twenty five year follow-up for breast cancer incidence and mortality of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study: randomised screening trial. BMJ. Online February 11, 2014One of the...

Too Much Mammography

by | Jul 5, 2022 | Screening Mammography

Source: BMJ 2014;348:g1403  February 11, 2014 The editorial accompanying the Canadian National Breast Cancer Screening Trial report in the BMJ was written by Mette Kalager, Dept. of Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School, and colleagues in Norway and Sweden concludes...