In "The Patient Will See You Now," Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment." Much as the printing press liberated knowledge from the control of an elite class, new technology--from the smartphone to machine learning--is poised to democratiz[...]
Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hu[...]
Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hu[...]
A medical trailbrazer ushers in the era of Medicine 2.0. Modern medicine is designed for groups. The interactions of drugs, patients and diseases are unpredictable - clinical trials are population based and do not account for personal idiosyncracies, much less medical histories. In "The Creative Des[...]
Cardiac Drugs describes the latest advances in the rapidly evolving area of cardiovascular pharmacology. Written by renowned, USbased experts in cardiology, this book discusses the drug groups for different diseases, such as acute coronary syndromes, hypertension, angina and heart failure. Separate [...]