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STAT Madness, our annual bracket-style competition to choose the most exciting biomedical discoveries of 2021, starts on Monday. Check out the contenders here, then come on back and sample this week's First Opinion smorgasbord. |
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| By Christopher Hartnick Adobe A physician-researcher explores sleep, insomnia, Down syndrome, and the "unwalled city" of the mind that Epicurus once described. Read More |
| By Kristin E. Rojas GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images The use of lasers for so-called vaginal rejuvenation is not only ineffective but dangerous. The FDA needs to reclassify these devices. Read More |
| By Céline Gounder NIAID Without planning, some hospitals will shoulder a disproportionate burden of Covid care. When that happens, other medical care also suffers. Read More |
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| By Patrick Skerrett This week on "The First Opinion Podcast," science journalist Faye Flam talks about medical misinformation, emotional manipulation, and lies. Read More |
| By Junaid Nabi Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Paul Farmer taught others to work toward treating the systems that surround patients, and not just the diseases they had. Read More |
| By Faye Flam LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images Medical misinformation was once mostly pseudoscience. It's now comingled with politically motivated misinformation. Read More |
| By Daniel B. Frier Adobe Fair hearings are often anything but fair when hospitals try to fire or suspend the privileges of private-practice physicians. Read More |
| By Rhoda Au Adobe A new approach to understanding Alzheimer's will include a global cohort of 1 million people in regions often excluded from medical research. Read More |
| By Juliana Morris and Stephanie Sun and Rashmi Jasrasaria Apu Gomes/Getty Images The CDC continues to peddle the necessity of turning away asylum seekers even though there is no public health rationale for doing that. Read More |
| By Rev. Alvin C. Hathaway Sr. Evelyn J. Chatmon That mental illnesses are more common in people of African ancestry is one reason why neuroscience needs more African American researchers. Read More |
| By Abhinav Shashank and Smriti Khera Adobe Biopharma companies without strong digital portfolios for their brands and disease areas will increasingly find themselves at a disadvantage. Read More |
| By David Ropeik Jim Cole/AP The harms of cancer screening — checking healthy people for hidden cancer — are often downplayed or ignored. They shouldn't be. Read More |
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