Harm Reduction

GoFundMe is perhaps the most popular crowdfunding platform, and it was the source of data by researchers trying to understand how crowdfunding plays into accessing healthcare. GoFundMe

For those of you, a bit late to the party, I recently wrote on the push by the AMA and the Association of American Medical Colleges to guide

Gas stoves are a threat to health and have larger climate impact than previously known, study shows CNN

Evidence confirming the relative safety of vaping continues to build.

OK, first, let’s begin with the conflict of interest statement. I am a male surgeon, so my reading of the data may be biased.

“There is an overwhelming consensus on the evidence among scientists yet there are also vocal commentators who reject this consensus, convincing many of the public, and often the media too, that the consensus is not based

You would think that with all the emphasis on the need for a restful night's sleep, getting a night's rest while hospitalized would be a snap. You, of course, would be incorrect.

Here is the data on those patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza for the State of New York. As of this moment, we have 1,224 hospitalizations.

Mounting evidence shows that e-cigarette use (vaping) can help smokers give up combustible tobacco for good, even if they have no intention to quit.

“My job, I feel, on the show is to be a cheerleader for the audience…I actually do personally believe in the items I talk about on the show.