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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill of Health

In my experience of working with Psymposia since 2019 , there has been a sea change in the broader field’s reception of critical perspectives on psychedelic medicine over the past year. Image: Psychedelic Science 2017 signage, courtesy of Brian Normand.

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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

Bold doing is better,” Dr. Eric Topol introduced his talk yesterday at Medecision’s Liberation 2019 conference. He showed new evidence from Nature (journal) Volume 574 dated 24th October 2019 — Eric is never guilty of showing old data unless it’s making a new-new insight. “Bold thinking is great.

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Public Health Product Hops

Bill of Health

Dmitry’s talk, “Evergreening: The FDA’s Role in the Creation of Balanced Rights for Pharmaceutical Improvements,” was developed into an article and published in the Iowa Law Review in 2019 titled “The More Things Change: Improvement Patents, Drug Modifications, and the FDA.”

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Listening to Osler Listening to the Patient – Liberating Health Care at Medecision Liberation 2019

Health Populi

This year is the centennial of Dr. Osler’s passing, so it’s especially timely that I introduce this post with his legendary assertion in the context of kicking off the 2019 Medecision Liberation conference. Paul Rothman, CEO and Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, which Dr. Osler founded.

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The International Weaponization of Health Data

Bill of Health

The Global Health Data Exchange : “The world’s most comprehensive catalog of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data,” including data from 1990 to 2019 on mortality and morbidity in 204 countries and territories, which spans 369 diseases, injuries, and impairments, and 87 risk factors.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. Health insurance’s decline from 55% in 2017 to 46% in 2018, recovering in 2019 then falling again to a low of 43% this year in the 2021 Barometer.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

This and other studies have tracked consumers’ growing use of digital tech and wearables during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 10% point growth from 2019 to 2020 is notable. Willingness in sharing health data with insurers, pharmacies, research institutions all fell between 2019 and 2020.

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