Second Opinion

Keeping the same doctor has many benefits but it can also increase the length of your life.

As the rates of colon cancer shift it may be time to alter the screening recommendations.  But there are some unintended consequences.

We’ve seen bullying taken to new levels.  The impact on civil society is profound and will be long lasting.

While PPE is lifesaving, it is creating environmental damage for the future.

We’ve got a broken mental health care system which seems unable to protect many with great needs.

Dr. Nathan Link explains how the medical science of decision-making has lots to offer America’s leaders.

We need to change how we care for people with type two diabetes, but unless we admit we need to change people’s health will suffer.

The inappropriate removal of an immigrant’s uterus is not that surprising in that it seems to be part of a much larger trend across America. 

Reducing ED use isn’t as simple as it sounds, and there are competing conflicts of interests.

Happiness is not a momentary sense of joy but a sustained sense of life satisfaction.

Despite a sufficient food supply too many people remain hungry.

Despite widely documented health risks, longer hospital stays, and higher costs, caesarean sections are still performed too often and risk impacting women’s health.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACES) harm children's developing brains and lead to long term physical and emotional health issues. While we can’t go back and undo early trauma, we can intervene using “trauma informed care” approaches.

ACES  are adverse childhood experiences that harm children's developing brains and lead to changing how they respond to stress and damaging their immune systems so profoundly that the effects show up decades later. ACEs cause much of our burden of chronic disease, most mental illness, and are at the root of most violence.

A new test offers some benefits, but also some risks, to finding out if you are at high risk for Alzheimer’s - a disease for which there are currently no good treatments available. 

In many ways social, economic, and medical the cards are stacked against some people getting a transplantation.

Why is a drug that can be so useful to a group of patients not allowed in the hospital?

This decision to leave the WHO is among the most irresponsible the president has made and will negatively impact not only American lives but people in every corner of the world.

Extreme Risk Protection Orders are a relatively new step that can be taken to protect the public from those who are felt to be of risk to themselves or others.

For some elderly taking several blood pressure medications can be risky.  Do they need to take multiple medicines?  Doctor have been hesitant to stop blood pressure medications because they fear they might harm their patients.  The OPTIMISE trial results provides some reassurance. 

Practice guidelines use evidence to help doctors and patients make decisions about care. But, if the guidelines are biased so too are the decisions.

Why do we listen to expert medical groups when they have conflicts of interests that involve pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers?

With regard to racism, medicine is part of the problem and needs to quickly become part of the solution.

Off label prescribing as grown into an enormous problem, and it risks putting people’s health at risk.

Could it be that our subconscious biases lead us to make assumptions that are not based on the facts?