Pelzman's Picks: Sen. Warren on Data Sharing

• U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, JD (D-Mass.), explores the importance of data sharing in the New England Journal of Medicine ~ Strengthening Research through Data Sharing
• Should doctors be held criminally liable if their patient dies from an opioid overdose? Y. Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH, and Rebecca L. Haffajee, JD, MPH, ask in Mayo Clinic Proceedings ~ Murder Liability for Prescribing Opioids: A Way Forward?
• Are medical homes effective? Kip Sullivan asks in The Health Care Blog ~ Are CMS's "Medical Homes" Underfunded or Unfocused?
• "Before a drug can be marketed, it has to go through rigorous testing to show it is safe and effective. Surgery, though, is different," Gina Kolata writes in The New York Times ~ Why "Useless" Surgery Is Still Popular
• Controversy stirs over warning notices on sugary drink adverts, Dean Schillinger, MD, and Michael F. Jacobson, PhD, write in JAMA ~ Science and Public Health on Trial
• "The federal government's readmission penalties on hospitals will reach a new high as Medicare withholds more than half a billion dollars in payments over the next year," Jordan Rau writes in Kaiser Health News ~ Medicare's Readmission Penalties Hit New High
• NIH may end its ban on funding for a controversial type of research, Lenny Bernstein writes in The Washington Post ~ NIH may allow funding for human-animal stem cell research

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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Pelzman's Picks: Sen. Warren on Data Sharing