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Shining a Light on Numbers Needed to Treat (NNT) 22 I see my cardiologist once a year about my high blood pressure and we also have conversations about the current state of healthcare, both the quality and cost. These conversations started when he asked me (knowing I am a psychologist) why antidepressants are always among one of the top four selling drugs. We had discussions about this and they continued after I gave him a copy of my book What’s Wrong With Much of U.S. Healthcare and How to Fix It. He obviously read it because he had pertinent comments and questions about much of the mater...

Insmed Presents Broad Range of Data Across Its Three Programs at the American Thoracic Society 2021 International Conference -Retrospective analysis of patients with COPD and NTM lung disease demonstrates statistically significantly higher mortality compared to patients with COPD without NTM lung disease- -Post-hoc analysis from ARIKAYCE® (amikacin liposome inhalation suspension) clinical trials supports favorable benefit and safety profile, with a low number needed to treat (NNT) and high number needed to harm (NNH)- News provided by Share this article Share this article BRIDGEWATER, N.J., ...

AMNews: In what's believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind, a Texas patient who presented a fake ID and the patient's father were allowed to go forward with a civil lawsuit against a physician who gave the girl an abortion without contacting her parents. Cherise Mosley Hughes first came into the clinic where Houston general practice physician Douglas Karpen, DO, works in the summer of 2000. She ...

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:15 UTC © Joel Saget / AFPSince I began my medical studies, I read everything I could read about my profession, but also about related topics. I still do that, if only because I really enjoy reading, and to this day I haven't finished learning and reading. Along the way, to my surprise at first, I learned that many of my colleagues don't, and limit themselves to compulsory training and (sometimes) guidelines. There are several reasons for this that I will not mention here. However, it's also difficult to keep up with the medical literature, given the sheer number of articl...