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This week, a baker's dozen essays explored: Force and fear in medicine. The painfully weak evidence that collagen supplements relieve achy knees. Solving staffing shortages in hospitals. And more. You can read them all here. If you have have an idea for First Opinion or want to submit an essay, please send it to first.opinion@statnews.com. |
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| By Christopher Hartnick NIH/National Library of Medicine A doctor struggles with using force to look into a resistant patient's mouth. A short story about a patient with diphtheria helped avoid it. Read More |
| By Paul T. von Hippel Adobe Given the huge market for collagen supplements to treat osteoarthritis, why haven't collagen companies sponsored a large trial of it? Read More |
| By Cynda Hylton Rushton and Ian Wolfe and Tener Goodwin Veenema Mario Tama/Getty Images Crisis standards of care have been developed to allocate scarce resources like ventilators. They now need to encompass health care workers. Read More |
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| By Céline Gounder and Rick A. Bright and Ezekiel J. Emanuel Adobe To reach a new normal, the U.S. needs to build programs that guard against all respiratory viruses that pose threats to public health. Read More |
| By Chenery Lowe and Liesl Broadbridge and Laynie Dratch Adobe Genetic counselors spend their days explaining uncertainty to their clients. The CDC needs to learn how to do that in public communications. Read More |
| By Kristen Riemenschneider Adobe Federal funding for big pharma companies to solve pandemic-related problems points the way to future partnerships on antibiotics and more. Read More |
| By Kathryn Macapagal Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Recent changes in how health care providers should think about PrEP and who it is for have the potential to transform the HIV epidemic. Read More |
| By Janet Midega Wellcome/William R. Geddie A peer-reviewed paper in The Lancet indicates that 1.27 million deaths a year can be attributed to antimicrobial resistance. Read More |
| By Dan Michelson Steven Senne/AP Staffing and labor challenges were the No. 1 issue health system CEOs and CFOs shared at this year's J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference. Read More |
| By Hillary Omala and Eddah Ogogo Wikimedia Commons Interest in getting vaccinated is high among residents of Kibera. Getting enough doses for them quickly will be a challenge. Read More |
| By Jennifer Rubin Grandis Adobe In academic medicine, the resources in one's start-up package can help explain how gender bias cumulatively disadvantages women in the field. Read More |
| By Holly Fernandez Lynch and Keith Hamilton Pfizer Several states have decided to distribute the Covid-fighting drug Paxlovid to retail pharmacies rather than hospitals. That's a mistake. Read More |
| By Jeff Fischer Jon Cherry/Getty Images The U.S. needs a more robust domestic supply chain for better — and quicker — access to testing and other medical supplies. Read More |
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