Trend: With 25% of US physicians aged 65+, hospitals test older doctors on mental and physical acuity

By SharpBrains | June 28, 2017

— When Are Doc­tors Too Old to Prac­tice? (The Wall Street Jour­nal): “In Feb­ru­ary, Robert Brown received an email that left him trou­bled. The New Jer­sey hos­pi­tal where the 71-year-old pedi­a­tri­cian was prac­tic­ing informed him that doc­tors age 72 and old­er would have to take a test to assess their phys­i­cal and men­tal health—or risk…

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Improving Brain Health Outcomes with Tech, Incentives and Comparative Effectiveness Research

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 25, 2010

Mal­prac­tice Method­ol­o­gy (New York Times OpEd by Peter Orszag) Right now, health care is more evi­­dence-free than you might think. And even where evi­­dence-based clin­i­cal guide­lines exist, research sug­gests that doc­tors fol­low them only about half of the time. One esti­mate sug­gests that it takes 17 years on aver­age to incor­po­rate new research find­ings into…

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Grand Rounds: 22 Health and Medicine Questions and Answers

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 5, 2010 |

Wel­come to Grand Rounds, the week­ly col­lec­tion of best health and med­ical blog posts. This week we invite you to enjoy a broad range of insights, tips, and first-hand sto­ries, pre­sent­ed as a Q&A con­ver­sa­tion with blog­gers will­ing to answer, below, a total of 22 good ques­tions. On Health and Med­i­cine What can one-word prescriptions…

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Update: Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age, and Industry Webinar

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 13, 2009

Here you have the August edi­tion of our month­ly newslet­ter cov­er­ing cog­ni­tive health and brain fit­ness top­ics. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, using the box at the top of this page. Sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tion Fron­tiers in Neu­ro­science recent­ly pub­lished a spe­cial issue on Aug­ment­ing Cog­ni­tion, and invit­ed me to contribute…

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