Burden and prevalence, life-course impact, research and investment priorities Many people say women’s health is underfunded. This is often framed in moral or political terms linked to patriarchy, historical exclusion or bias within medicine. These forces are real and well documented. But if the goal is to understand how health priorities are actually set, they …
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) capture how people experience illness, treatment and day-to-day health. As artificial intelligence (AI) evolves, generative AI tools offer new ways of gathering and interpreting this information. A recent paper (Boyer et al, npj Digital Medicine. 2025) highlights both the limitations of current approaches and the possible contribution of AI. These ideas are …
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Discovery Health reviewed 8 years of data from private hospital “patient satisfaction surveys”. They say patients with low scores are more likely to have an unplanned hospital readmission in the 30 days after hospital discharge and that their study identifies responsible gaps in hospital care. Are they right? I want to discuss these conclusions …
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We measure pain, why not pleasure? Decades ago, your kindly GP always dispensed comfort if not cure. He knew you since birth, and your mom since she had you. She held your hand and inquired about your vegetable patch, your grandkids, or how school was going. With few tools of modern medicine at their disposal …
