Harm Reduction

During the years that the COVID-19 pandemic was murderously sweeping the world, it killed about seven million — more than 1.1 million

The study looks at the risk of disease and healthcare utilization for a population in Los Angeles participating in UCLA’s ATLAS Community Health Initiative.

First, a little background on polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS are a large group of chemicals characterized by linked chains of carbon and fluorine.

A recent article in JAMA offered five possible roles for AI in healthcare:

   

Ketamine is an FDA-approved anesthetic, a Schedule III drug recognized as having significant medical value. Since it’s FDA-approved, it can be used off-label.

The manifold problems begin with the FDA’s authorization process for e-cigarettes.

A more strategic approach comes from a recent New England Journal of Medicine article.

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