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Stealth Research. Is Biomedical Innovation Happening Outside the Peer-Reviewed Literature? How can we identify a snake-oil seller?. Not so...

On February 19th, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized 23andMe to market a direct-to-consumer (DTC) carrier test for Bloom ...

Handbook of Neurosociology Today I would like to quote a clever analysis of US health reform. Just as an alert for any other country that ...

Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): the inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis The...

THE PATIENT WILL SEE YOU NOW The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands Maybe the title is the most confounding factor of the new great book...

From 2009 to 2013 , the number of primary care visits has fallen by 12.5%, from 51.1 million to 44.7 million, 6.4 million visits less. This ...

Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide After reading this accurate article by Guillem López-Casasnovas , I thought that it wa...

Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease A new mental frame was creat...

I would have never imagined that the health policy could have been distorted and dictated to by public accountants. Yes, you have heard corr...

Implementation of a companion diagnostic in the clinical laboratory:The BRAF example in melanoma Analytical validity is one of the three ...

In 2015 the per capita expenditure (1,120€) will be the same as in 2006, nine years earlier ( p.46 ). The economy follows exactly the same ...

Compulsory private complementary health insurance offered by employers in France: Implications and current debate It looks strange at a fi...

Once upon a time there was a country with seven Schools of Medicine for 7,5m inhabitants. The needs for future physicians were estimated 8 y...

The basic benefit package: Composition and exceptions to the rules. A case study In the Netherlands there are four criteria to assess any ...