- Andy Slavitt discusses the need to invest more in maintaining health, not simply treating sickness in The Health Care Blog ~ Focusing on Primary Care for Better Health
- "Major diseases, like colon cancer, dementia and heart disease, are waning in wealthy countries, and improved diagnosis and treatment cannot fully explain it," Gina Kolata writes in The New York Times ~ A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are in Decline
- How can we change behaviors that are risky for our health, Katherine Hobson asks on NPR ~ It's Tough To Make Good Health Choices, But Science Can Help
- Kathleen Heist Suddarth, MD, and colleagues offer a proposal for improving hospital discharge in the American Journal of Medicine ~ Implementation of Milestones-Based Assessment for a Safe and Effective Discharge
- Patricia Mathews explores the hidden truths buried in health data in Health Affairs Blog ~ Digging Deeply To Address Health Inequities At The Local Level
- Enrolling more young people in health insurance plans may be difficult, Michelle Andrews writes in Kaiser Health News ~ Young Adults Can Face A Confusing Path To Health Insurance
- "A key dilemma for device regulation is how to ensure timely access while also providing evidence to guide safe and appropriate use," Jeffrey Shuren, MD, JD, and Robert M. Califf, MD, write in JAMA ~ Need for a National Evaluation System for Health Technology
- What does the future of health spending look like? Eugene Steuerle asks in Health Affairs Blog ~ Health Costs, But Not Obamacare, Dominate The Future Of Federal Spending
- Black women are more likely to die of breast cancer, Daniel Victor writes in The New York Times ~ Why Do More Black Women Die of Breast Cancer? A Study Aims to Find Out
Fred N. Pelzman, MD, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for MedPage Today, follows what's going on in the world of primary care medicine. Pelzman's Picks is a compilation of links to blogs, articles, tweets, journal studies, opinion pieces, and news briefs related to primary care that caught his eye.
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