Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho
April 14, 2022
Buprenorphine. It’s been around for a long time but is acting like the hot new kid in town. Just look…
Any Symptom in an Older Adult is a Medication Side Effect Until Proven Otherwise
October 26, 2010
Mike Steinman recently published a paper in JAMA about sensible medication managment in older adults. I’ve had the opportunity to…
Evidence-Based Medicine in Clinically Complex Elders – Barking up the Wrong Tree?
January 7, 2010
For years, many academics (myself included) have decried the lack of rigorous clinical trial evidence to inform the care of…
Reviewing the Evidence for Opioids and Cancer Growth
January 6, 2010
Eric Widera recently posted about the media’s irresponsible headlines implying that opioids cause cancer growth. This is our most read…
Does Morphine Stimulate Cancer Growth?
November 24, 2009
Over the last week Reuters, ABC news, MSNBC, BBC News, and more than 75 other outlets reported on how two…
Are Drug Labels Missing Information That Patients and Clinicians Need?
October 30, 2009
In a perspective in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin, faculty at Dartmouth…
GeriPal Taste Test Part I: Liquid Bowel Medications
September 28, 2009
GeriPal has put together a taste test on “Liquid Bowel Medications” which was inspired from a great selection of comments…
Overuse of Pain Medications in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
September 12, 2009
This week’s Lancet includes an article titled “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and pain relief at the end of life”…
Adverse drug reactions in elders: looking for flubs in all the wrong places
August 12, 2009
A great deal of energy – and money – has been spent on preventing adverse drug reactions in elders. Many…
Colace
August 9, 2009
Colace is a problem at our hospital too. Both because there is not data that it works and because once…