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May 19, 2020By: Yousuf Zafar, MDFor years, I—like a great many other clinicians who care for patients with cancer— have wondered what it would take to change the way we deliver and pay for cancer care. While the medical science of oncology has evolved rapidly in recent years,...
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May 9, 2020Introducing a Two-Part Series
“Are we there yet?”
A question both expected and dreaded by parents everywhere. Usually asked about 10 minutes into a long drive or flight, it not only reflects our children’...
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May 8, 2020By: Rabail Baig, MACreativity and insight were on display as a panel of judges announced the winners of the Duke ASA DataFest: COVID-19 Virtual Data Challenge on May 5th. The contest,...
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May 6, 2020In our house, we try to find each day’s silver lining despite the challenges of the COVID pandemic. These have included seeing long-lost family and catching up with old friends on Zoom. Some are predictable: my 16-year-old daughter has more time...
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April 27, 2020How the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are confirming the primacy of patient voice in digital health.
Last year I attended the 8th Annual Health Informatics...
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April 15, 2020
What contact tracing is, what is isn’t, and why it’s so important.
From movies such as Contagion and...
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March 31, 2020
Cyberwar is becoming the second front in the fight against COVID-19. Here’s how you can help while also protecting yourself and your family.
Cybercrime and cyberwar and are most commonly...
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March 30, 2020
…But I’m Worried About Using it for COVID-19 Without Better Evidence.
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, or just “lupus”) is a relatively rare autoimmune disease that...
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March 14, 2020
As I prepared for my Def Con talk on medical misinformation, I spent a great deal of time thinking about numbers...
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March 9, 2020
Biodefense is a term commonly associated with protections from the use of bioweapons, although the tactics and techniques of biodefense are also applicable to pathogen risks that don’t involve a human perpetrator [1]. Ever since the...