Second Opinion

These four words may not mean the same thing to all people

Too often the use of expensive and risky technologies catch on before we have good data suggesting benefit.

When a person is a victim of systemic injustice does that constitute a medical diagnosis?

The state of California is about to take on pharmaceutical companies by producing safe, effective, FDA approved insulin.

For over 100 years we’ve had a similar approach to understanding Alzheimer’s disease which hasn’t produced many benefits. Perhaps it’s time to cast the net more broadly?

In medical care job specifications are often blurred and a focus on the person can get lost

Until we know more, it makes sense to avoid microplastics as much as possible

Using participatory science to examine local air quality.

Unnecessary medical testing often leads to a “care cascade” that results in real harm and sky-high costs.

Often medicine gets hooked on using simple tools of measurement only to discover, after they have become entrenched, that they don’t measure what they are supposed to measure.