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Introducing Alex Smith

We’re excited to introduce and welcome Alex Smith as a regular contributor to Bill of Health.  Alex will be cross-posting from his blog, GeriPal. Alex is a clinician-researcher who is at the forefront...

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Twitter Round-Up (12/2-12/8)

By Casey Thomson This week’s Twitter Round-Up features an “American Idol-style” selection of research grant winners, the problems facing children in Syria attempting to be vaccinated, and a review of...

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Man Dies after Cowardly Battle with Cancer

(By Alex Smith, MD, cross posted from GeriPal) Full credit to the Onion for the title idea for this post, and thanks to James Mittelberger, MD for the tip. We’ve ranted before on GeriPal about the...

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Twitter Round-Up (12/9-12/15)

By Casey Thomson This week’s round-up looks at the problems of substandard drug prevalence abroad, NIH’s possible push for an anonymous grant-awarding process, and the Liverpool Care Pathway...

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Twitter Round-Up 1/1-1/13

By Casey Thomson Due to the string of December holidays and some traveling by the round-up author, this post belatedly summarizes tweets from the end of 2012 to the beginning days of the new year. The...

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Twitter Round-Up (1/13-1/19)

By Casey Thomson The flu, gun control, and legal action against the FDA – all amongst our Twitter feeds this past week. Read on for more: Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) retweeted a link to the FDA’s...

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Twitter Round-Up (2/16-2/23)

By Casey Thomson This week’s round-up discusses the upcoming cases relevant to bioethics in the Supreme Court, the benefits of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, the surprisingly low effectiveness...

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Twitter Round-Up (3/31-4/6)

By Casey Thomson This week’s slightly belated round-up concerns palliative care across cultures, the threat and problems of over-prescribing, and Big Pharma’s failure to create prices with the patient...

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