Just as dinosaurs became too big to roam the earth the demand for quality in health care has spawned enormous and unfathomable datasets that have outgrown their usefulness. I can live with that if I know that the reams of raw data are being used to underpin realistic, reliable, decisions. But they’re not. Right now […]
Month: April 2016
New evidence suggests that taking a combined cocktail of preventive medications can help us live longer. In these times of soaring health expenditure this should be good news to public health. But governments seem reticent to invest in combined preparations even when they can potentially extend life, minimize morbidity and deliver cheap pharmaceuticals. The problem […]
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