Eric Topol on Medscape

• There's No Place Like Home for Hospital Care   Dr Helen Ouyang on why she writes so much about the hospital-at-home movement: It's the future, one way or another.
  Medscape, May 01, 2023
• Rogue Faculty and Academic Freedom in the Age of Misinformation   Should our nation's academic institutions rein in faculty who amplify conspiracy theories and spread potentially harmful falsehoods?
  Medscape, March 15, 2023
• How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again   ChatGPT and large language models offer physicians the chance to do what they went to medical school for: connect with patients and help them regain their health.
  Medscape, February 21, 2023
• White House COVID Chief on Why Paxlovid Is Underused   Giving Paxlovid to an older adult with COVID is a clinical no-brainer. So why is there so much Paxlovid prescribing phobia?
  Medscape, January 31, 2023
• The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable   Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese chat with the UK's professor Hannah Fry about taking risks and asking the right questions.
  Medscape, January 18, 2023
• To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air   Two-way masking is pretty effective, but it's not sustainable. Environmental engineer and viral transmission expert Dr Linsey Marr reveals how we can fight COVID by tackling our contaminated air.
  Medscape, December 22, 2022
• The New Obesity Breakthrough Drugs I'm not using the term breakthrough lightly.
  Medscape, December 14, 2022
• How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials   Dr Trish Greenhalgh explains how we miss the boat when we discount real-world evidence in favor of randomized trial evidence.
  Medscape, November 23, 2022
• The Body of Evidence for Paxlovid Therapy Dr Eric Topol says that regarding Paxlovid in COVID patients aged 60+, the evidence is compelling; we should be thinking about reasons to use it, not reasons to avoid it.
  Medscape, November 14, 2022
• Paxlovid and Long COVID A new VA study adds a third way of reducing Long COVID, no less important complications across multiple organ systems, and improved survival and avoidance of hospitalizations. It is the first such report.
  Medscape, November 08, 2022
• Should People Be More Worried About Long COVID?   Eric Topol, MD, discusses how people should be thinking about long COVID when they consider their COVID risk.
  Medscape, October 20, 2022
• How We Create--Then Blame--A Viral Underclass   Stephen Thrasher discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide.
  Medscape, October 13, 2022
• The Marked Contrast in Pandemic Outcomes Between Japan and the US At least half of the people in Japan are planning to continue to use masks indefinitely even without a mandate.
  Medscape, October 11, 2022
• A Virologist's Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19   Virologist Jeremy Kamil shares his relatively upbeat perspective on the viral threats we face today.
  Medscape, September 21, 2022
• We Are Failing to Use What We've Learned About COVID   Another COVID-19 variant is inevitable because we aren't doing anything to stop it, says UK operational researcher Christina Pagel.
  Medscape, September 09, 2022
• Shedding Some Light on Long COVID There's been a flurry of new reports covering critical holes in our COVID knowledge base. I briefly review here the new reports on prevalence; mechanisms and biomarkers; and potential treatments.
  Medscape, August 16, 2022
• Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias?   An AI model accurately predicts a person's race from a chest radiograph with stunning accuracy. Here's why it matters, and how it poses research questions about bias in medicine.
  Medscape, July 27, 2022
• Long COVID: A Very Big Umbrella   Abraham Verghese talks with Stanford's Dr Linda Geng, who is studying the puzzling and poorly understood postviral phenomenon known as long COVID.
  Medscape, June 23, 2022
• How DeepMind Unlocks Medicine's Secrets   Eric Topol speaks with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis about harnessing the potential of AI in health and medicine.
  Medscape, June 15, 2022
• How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain   Pain is central to every specialty, and we all played a part in the opioid crisis, says Dr Haider Warraich, author of The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain.
  Medscape, May 20, 2022