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Opinion: Physicians need — and should take — paternity leave

26.01.2023

When my daughter was born, I was just a year out of fellowship training, working hard within my hospital’s medical hierarchy. Fearful of burdening my colleagues with extra work, I …

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Opinion: A dangerous loophole for drug ads needs to be closed

26.01.2023

A loophole in prescription drug regulation exposes American consumers to false and misleading claims of drug ads via on-line businesses promoting potent drugs without accurate information about their risks and …

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Opinion: Reinventing health care in 2023

25.01.2023

After a year defined by record inflation and double-digit health care premium increases, I hope that a few years down the road we can eventually look back at 2023 as …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Making naloxone available over the counter won’t solve the overdose crisis — but it will help

25.01.2023

The Food and Drug Administration aims to conduct priority reviews of at least two product applications for granting over-the-counter status to intranasal formulations of naloxone, an overdose-reversal drug. Naloxone prevents …

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Opinion: It’s time to retire ‘poor historian’ from clinicians’ vocabularies

24.01.2023

Should we pity the “poor historian” — the individual or family member who can’t give a clear accounting of their illness or symptoms — or embrace them? They have important …

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Opinion: DEI policies won’t stop discrimination in hiring. That requires fighting unconscious bias

23.01.2023

At least on paper, businesses and institutions have achieved equality through thoughtful diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies that examine bias and end discrimination against women and people from underrepresented …

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Opinion: Make 2023 the year of prioritizing women’s health

22.01.2023

Thirty years ago this week, the bill that became the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 — a game changer for research on women’s health — was introduced …

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Opinion: The WHO’s new pandemic treaty is good for the world — and the U.S.

20.01.2023

In December, delegates from more than 180 countries met in Switzerland to discuss the International Treaty for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response, which had initially been proposed in December 2021. …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Even with lawsuits and copay caps, will insulin ever be affordable?

20.01.2023

In an attempt to tackle the root causes of the inflated cost of insulin, the state of California filed a lawsuit last week accusing drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers …

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