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Opinion: To improve safety, hospitals should make ‘radical transparency’ real — and accessible

20.05.2022

Covid-19 may be receding, but it’s leaving a quiet menace lurking in hospitals in its wake. In a Perspective essay in The New England Journal of Medicine, four senior physicians …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Hopelessness around youth mental health is creating a ‘nihilistic contagion’

20.05.2022

I have been a child psychiatrist for more than 20 years. I’ve worked in the city, in the suburbs, and in rural settings. I’ve seen patients in teaching hospitals and …

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First Opinion

Opinion: NEJM, other journals: provide more transparency about conflicts of interest or don’t publish conflicted articles

19.05.2022

Are medical journals reliable sources of objective information, or do they, at times, act as shills for the pharmaceutical industry and other interests? We believe the latter after reading a …

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Opinion: Take a stand for those who can’t with the Promising Pathway Act

19.05.2022

Every five years since 1992, Congress has reauthorized the Food and Drug Administration user fee package to allow the agency to collect funds from companies that produce human drugs and …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Does Paxlovid help people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19? Show us the data!

18.05.2022

As a primary care doctor in New York City, I am grateful to drug companies for providing effective Covid-19 therapies for my patients. But I am also frustrated that these …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: The faces of Covid at 1 million deaths and counting

18.05.2022

When Covid-19 began tearing across the U.S. in March 2020, Alex Goldstein started posting on Twitter the pictures and stories of people who had died from the disease. He was …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion / Health

Opinion: Omitting long Covid from pandemic messaging is harmful for public health

17.05.2022

Public health messaging about Covid-19 has focused almost exclusively on hospitalizations and deaths. The omission of long Covid, which may affect between 8 million and 23 million Americans, deprives the …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Russian aggression underscores the U.S.’s need for greater investment in medical countermeasures

17.05.2022

The U.S. government has warned that Russia could use chemical weapons against Ukraine. Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has threatened to use nuclear weapons under certain conditions. Russia’s secret police have …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: One million reasons to reimagine end-of-life care

16.05.2022

The magnitude of loss from Covid-19 — 1 million-plus deaths, many millions more grieving loved ones who have died, the country’s social fabric in tatters — is incomprehensible. Life expectancy …

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