Too Many Medical Journals?

Too Many Journals

2016 was a year in which the political arena captured social media—transforming America’s 250-year-old electoral process. This was but one more event in the evolution of our digital age, affecting all walks of society. In medicine, the digital era has brought us big data and unprecedented access to knowledge. For example, the cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics houses publicly available genomic data...

Too Many Journals? Nonsense!

Every few weeks I read another journalist’s jab at the value and qttarttity of scientific journals. When discussing the ever-expanding literature, reporters of the popular press frequently indulge in supertlcial analyses that distort reality, whether through misunderstanding or exaggeration. Nancy Jeffrey revealed profound misunderstanding in “Mollusks, Semiotics and Dermatology: Narrow Scholar...

Medical Men in India: Too Few or Too Many

Too many abandon the "second victims" of medical errors.

We often abandon the "second victims" of medical errors.

How many "me-too" drugs is too many?

ON AUGUST 3, 2009, THE US FOOD AND DRUG ADministration (FDA) approved pitavastatin (Livalo), making it the eighth statin approved for use in the United States and seventh currently available for sale. This approval comes almost a quarter century after that for the first member of the class, lovastatin, 8 years after generic lovastatin was approved and 4 years after 2 additional statins, pravast...