Harm Reduction

Japan is planning to release tons of water from the Fukushima nuclear site into the Pacific Ocean – water contaminated with tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen.

That clinical shorthand for prioritizing a diagnostic work-up is called an anchoring bias when physicians focus on an initial piece of information “when formulating a diagnosis without sufficiently adjusting to later information.” A common and con

From time to time, people decide that their own Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (to coin a phrase) are more important than the safety of their fellow citizens. But states have laws mandating that they protect public health, someti

Quick factoid reaffirms the concept of recency bias, the concept that more recent events hold greater weight than past ones, a bias we all have.

 “This is a once-in-a-generation chance to fix some of the big weaknesses that we saw during COVID-19….  It could “make a tremendous difference for the next pandemic.”

Several years ago, questions were rightfully raised over an apparent racial bias in the calculation of an individual's kidney function, the creatinine clearance.

I’ve written before on the physiology of wearing masks in order to debunk some misinformation on the impact of masks on childbirth.

 

Ethylene oxide and the EPA

If, as the organizational guru Marie Kondo says, the object (in this case, clothing) no longer gives us joy, then it needs to move on.