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A Trial of a Novel modRNA Flu Shot: Not So Hot
We are pleased to publish this guest critical appraisal of a recent influenza vaccine RCT--from Johns Hopkins cardiologist, Dr Joseph Marine
 • Joseph Marine, MD
Who Do You Want at a Family Picnic?
If we want nice things, like functional primary care, we need to pay for them.
 • Bradley Flansbaum
Prevention is a challenge in younger patients; it’s near impossible in older patients
Yet another study reveals the challenge of mechanical stroke prevention techniques, such as left atrial appendage closure, when applied to older…
 • John Mandrola
The Ghost Patient Panel
Friday Reflection 23 Revisited
 • Adam Cifu, MD
1:22:34
This Fortnight in Medicine XVI
Finishing up our AUA questions.
 • Adam Cifu, MD, John Mandrola, and Andrew J Foy
The COVID Vaccine in Young Children Is Not as Effective as the Headlines Would Have You Believe
COVID in kids made the news recently.
 • Edward H Livingston, MD, FACS
Prediction is Hard Especially About the Future
Cardiac risk scores can be useful for populations but not so much for you.
 • John Mandrola
For Christmas, A Gift of Laughter
...and a writing and editing break for me.
 • Adam Cifu, MD
Holidays in the Hospital
It’s a common sentiment that working on a holiday is terrible but...
 • Rachel Johnson
The Embarrassing but Necessary Lesson in a Drug Removal From the Market
Nearly everyone but Vinay Prasad was wrong about the Factor Xa reversal agent.
 • John Mandrola
The Ethics of PSA Testing and Cancer Screening
Is choosing to undergo a screening like buying a lottery ticket in that you will not benefit, but you are helping someone else who might?
 • Adam Cifu, MD
Climbing Out of the Trenches: Rethinking Polarisation in Medicine
We can choose to keep fighting from our ideological trenches—or we can collectively climb out of them. The path forward lies in recognising shared aims…
 • Elspeth Davies
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