Harm Reduction

The data set continues to be drawn from Our World in Data and is based on CDC statistics for the US.   Global

The study looks at deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza over 23 years, from 1995 to 2018.

The report comes from the CDC by way of JAMA and provides information on the number of anaphylactic reactions during the first week of administration involving roughly 1.8 million doses.

A few months earlier, cases similar to New York’s were presented to the Supreme Court, one regarding a Nevada law and one, a

As I have suggested in the past, humans are held responsible for the results of humans using automated systems.

Inhaling combustion products is always a bad idea. Ask a firefighter.

Being a surgeon who has cared for a range of motor vehicle accidents, gunshot wounds, stabbing, and even a fellow severely bitten by a horse, my response to horror movies is a family joke.

While it is evident that nursing home residents [1] are both susceptible to COVID-19 and suffer higher rates of mortality, it has been unclear what exactly the underlying risk factors are.  Certainly, co-morbid conditions, which seem to

During MBA school, one of my favorite courses was about operations, learning how to set up a manufacturing system, bottlenecks, throughput, parallel work lanes, and buffer zones.

The paper is the work of two physicians trained in internal medicine and a health economist, so they are free of bias as well as any practical knowledge about how surgeons operate, literally and figuratively.