Torie Bosch
First Opinion editor, First Opinion Podcast host @STATNews Senior ed @TheOpenNotebook Formerly @FutureTenseNow, @StateMindSlate, @Slate, @ASU, @NewAmerica
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Torie Bosch
Paul Knoepfler of the UC Davis School of Medicine has a bit of a hobby: keeping track of stem cell clinics operating in the U.S. He estimates that there are 1,000-2,000 in the U.S. alone, offering unproven treatments using adult stem cells. “That’s a reality that I think a lot of us in the stem cell field, the regenerative medicine field, didn’t really fully grasp until maybe about 10 years ago. And the FDA was kind of slow to pick up on this as well.
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3 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Torie Bosch
Anna and Jordan Rathkopf met in Prague at an ’80s nightclub. While music brought them together, another creative outlet soon became central to their relationship: Anna began teaching Jordan about photography, which later became his career. Years later, they were living in Brooklyn with their young son when Anna was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Torie Bosch
Pretty much everyone in the U.S. agrees that the American health care system is not working for patients. The disagreement comes over what to do about it. For many, the solution is to expand insurance access and implement price controls. But on this episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” Charles M. Silver, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, argued that we need a much bigger change. “The system is really set up to move money.
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Torie Bosch
When I was recently at the vet’s office, I started eavesdropping a little on the conversation between two older women. When they started talking about the measles outbreak in Texas, I couldn’t help it. I joined in. One of the women, who wore thick glasses, shared that she had lost much of her sight to a bout with measles as a child. She just couldn’t understand why so many parents today are reluctant to vaccinate.
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1 month ago |
statnews.com | Torie Bosch
No one goes to medical school because they want to type quickly while listening to patients talk. But that’s what practicing medicine means for many today: fingers flying over the keyboard to log data. Later, they will use that information to create a note for the patient’s file. Technology now offers a solution to this problem in the form of the AI ambient scribe, which records the encounter between physician and patient and then generates the summarizing note for the patient’s file.
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