A Ray of Sunshine: Transparency in Physician-Industry Relationships Is Not Enough

Physician Relationships with Industry.

John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight HBO show on February 8, 2015 highlighted what is common sense to the average patient: money and gifts from the medical industry bias doctors and can interfere with cost-effective, high-quality care. If you have not seen this 17-minute clip, take a look at it via www.youtube.com/watch?v1⁄4YQZ2UeOTO3I. A patient who perceived such a bias wrote about it in Health Af...

A national survey of physician-industry relationships.

BACKGROUND Relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical, medical device, and other medically related industries have received considerable attention in recent years. We surveyed physicians to collect information about their financial associations with industry and the factors that predict those associations. METHODS We conducted a national survey of 3167 physicians in six specialties (...

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Not Enough Points Is Enough

Models of the untyped λ-calculus may be defined either as applicative structures satisfying a bunch of first order axioms, known as “λ-models”, or as (structures arising from) any reflexive object in a cartesian closed category (ccc, for brevity). These notions are tightly linked in the sense that: given a λ-model A, one may define a ccc in which A (the carrier set) is a reflexive object; conve...

When Enough Is Not Enough

People are often exposed to more information than they can actually remember. Despite this frequent form of information overload, little is known about how much information people choose to remember. Using a novel “stop” paradigm, the current research examined whether and how people choose to stop receiving new—possibly overwhelming—information with the intent to maximize memory performance. Pa...