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"content": "\u003cp>James Heilman isn't an easy man to get a hold of; he kept offering us odd, off-hour windows of availability to do a phone interview. When we finally connected, he explained: He works the night shift as an emergency room physician in British Columbia. He also puts in time as a clinical assistant professor in emergency medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u003cstrong>How to check the accuracy of Wikipedia pages\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can check how Wikipedians rate the quality and thoroughness of every entry on the encyclopedia by clicking on the \"Talk\" tab near the top left of each page. There you will find the page's rating, which will fall somewhere on this \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment#Quality_scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scale\u003c/a>. Here are lists of the health articles with the \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Classhttps://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=GA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second-highest ratings\u003c/a>; these are the most trustworthy health entries.\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then there's the 60 -- count'em, 60 -- hours a week he toils away editing Wikipedia, the massive online encyclopedia written and edited by, well, anyone who wants to give it a whirl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife likes to joke that Wikipedia's my mistress; I prefer to call it our first child,” he says, chuckling with a tinge of self-awareness that he's gone a bit off the rails in his goal of making the copious health-related pages on the site more accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how does an emergency doc become an obsessive Wikipedian?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 years ago, he says, during a quiet night shift, he got to browsing one of the medical articles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought, 'Oh, my God this is really bad,'\" he says. \"And then I saw the edit button, and I realized, oh, my God, I could fix the internet! I sort of got madly hooked. I’ve been trying to fix the Internet ever since.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Accuracy Questioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that quest was creating the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WikiProject Medicine\u003c/a> group, where 320 like-minded editors work on the site's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_information_on_Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">health content. \u003c/a>Heilman estimates about half are medical professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I thought ‘Oh, my God this is really bad.' And then I saw the edit button, and I realized, oh, my God, I could fix the internet!\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Reworking Wikipedia health entries is not a trivial task. A 2014 study found about 25,000 pages of English-language health-related articles. That number is now up to 32,000, Heilman says. The health pages worldwide attracted almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376174/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4.9 billion pageviews\u003c/a> in 2013. A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/0142159X.2012.737064?scroll=top&needAccess=true&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey\u003c/a> of several hundred medical students found 94 percent use the site for health information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite its popularity, the reliability of Wikipedia's medical content has often been questioned. A 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241521/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">review \u003c/a>on the accuracy and thoroughness of the site's medical entries found mixed results. Other studies show that the site fell short in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24276492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gastroenterology and hepatology\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://aop.sagepub.com/content/42/12/1814.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drug information\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3193353/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statins\u003c/a> (later \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0106930#pone.0106930-Kupferberg1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">improved\u003c/a>), and issues of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ijporlonline.com/article/S0165-5876(12)00336-9/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ear, nose and throat\u003c/a>. Other studies found the website provided better information in \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sdi.12059/epdf?r3_referer=wol&tracking_action=preview_click&show_checkout=1&purchase_referrer=onlinelibrary.wiley.com&purchase_site_license=LICENSE_DENIED_NO_CUSTOMER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nephrology\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/quality-of-information-sources-about-mental-disorders-a-comparison-of-wikipedia-with-centrally-controlled-web-and-printed-sources/595CEE672BB7C503101FAF5A9E303673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">depression and schizophrenia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">To get good health info online:\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Check multiple, high-quality sources like those from academic and government institutions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Be alert for sites that contain information that conflicts with other sources, a possible indication of low-quality information.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Consult \u003ca href=\"http://www.uptodate.com/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpToDate\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubMed\u003c/a>, and peer-reviewed journals for primary research on a topic.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If using Wikipedia, click the 'Talk' tab at the top of each page to see how the site's editors have rated the quality of the article. Look at the footnotes to check the sources of assertions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But just recently, in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(16)30254-6/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lancet: Global Health, \u003c/a>\u003c/em>researchers reported that Wikipedia entries on stillbirths were missing critical information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a 2014 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24778001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> comparing peer-reviewed literature to the site's articles on 10 different widespread diseases and conditions found a significant number of assertions in the Wikipedia material that were unsupported by the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman doesn't think much of that study; he co-wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://community-archive.cochrane.org/news/blog/wikipedia%E2%80%99s-medical-content-really-90-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebuttal\u003c/a> to it with other medical experts/Wikipedians. Still, he acknowledges \"there's a lot of work to do\" to bring health entries up to snuff. The reality of that is borne out by the small number of health articles -- \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Class%20featured%20health%20articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">63\u003c/a> -- that have received the highest grade by Wikipedia editors. Those articles qualify as featured articles on the encyclopedia's front page. (The next-best level -- \"good\" -- contains a mere \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=GA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200 articles\u003c/a>.) The \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment#Quality_scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criteria\u003c/a> for a \"featured\" article is comprehensiveness, neutrality and accuracy. That means the information has been verified against high-quality sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls to Action\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/wikipedia-is-already-the-worlds-dr-google-its-time-for-doctors-and-researchers-to-make-it-better-66769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article\u003c/a> last month on the academic publishing site \"The Conversation\" by Thomas Shafee, one of the researchers who wrote about Wikipedia's inadequate \"stillbirth\" entries, is headlined \"Wikipedia is already the world’s ‘Dr Google’ -- it’s time for doctors and researchers to make it better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Health professionals have a duty to improve the accuracy of medical entries in Wikipedia, because it’s the first port of call for people all over the world seeking medical information,\" Shafee wrote. \"The accuracy of the site is vital, because every medical entry... has the potential for immediate \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/4/08-056713/en/\">real-world health consequences\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others agree. University of California, San Francisco psychiatrist Amin Azzam recently co-authored a \u003ca href=\"http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Why_Medical_Schools_Should_Embrace_Wikipedia__.98408.aspx\">report\u003c/a> published in the journal \u003cem>Academic Medicine \u003c/em>titled “Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Improving Wikipedia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to improve the entire site, including the health section, are underway. Hundreds of students in both the U.S. and Canada, for example, are working as editors through the \u003ca href=\"https://wikiedu.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiki Education Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that acts as a bridge between Wikipedia and academia. The organization encourages university faculty to assign students Wikipedia entries as a part of coursework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rather than write a biography of a woman scientist for their class that their instructor would read and throw away and never engage in again,\" says the foundation's LiAnna Davis, \"these students instead have the opportunity to create content for Wikipedia where thousands of people can gain from their work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharmacology students at the University of California, San Francisco, for example, are \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UCSF_School_of_Medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working to improve entries\u003c/a> on popular drugs like the HIV antiviral drug \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacavir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abacavir\u003c/a>. Students in a voice disorders class at McGill University in Montreal are adding information about \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngitis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laryngitis\u003c/a>. Students fill in missing information, improve gross inadequacies, and rewrite articles using fewer technical terms to appeal to the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, 280 science classes at universities in the U.S. and Canada have added content to 3,650 articles and generated 300 new entries receiving more than 102 million views, says Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman points to many efforts to improve articles, and a \u003ca href=\"http://translatorswithoutborders.org/?s=wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaboration\u003c/a> with the group Translators Without Borders to rewrite Wikipedia medical content in as many languages as possible. That \u003ca href=\"https://opensource.com/life/16/11/support-indian-languages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">includes Odia\u003c/a>, spoken by tens of millions of people in India that is not included in\u003ca href=\"https://translate.google.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Google Translate\u003c/a>. Heilman also cites as a success the Wikipedia entry for dengue fever, which was published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242787/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies are also tapping Wikipedia. The National Institutes of Health is creating an online biomedical \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/topics/health/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dictionary\u003c/a> for PubMed Health. which provides consumer-friendly research information.\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/topics/health/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u003c/a>The NIH usually creates the definitions by drawing on material in its own collection, but sometimes It will use Wikipedia as a source. Both organizations benefit, as the NIH will flag Heilman if it comes across something inaccurate in the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman fervently hopes more health and science academics and professionals will help expand the accuracy of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I spend a fair amount of time trying to convince my colleagues to come work on Wikipedia,\" he says. \"As a physician I believe all people deserve access to quality health care information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to Find Good Health Info\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So ... after all is said and done, how should the average person approach looking for health information on the Web?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azzam, the UCSF psychiatrist who called for medical schools to embrace Wikipedia, would actually first send patients to government sites like the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and National Library of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of those sites have information targeting 'lay' people,\" he wrote in an email. \"Additionally there are national advocacy organizations for specific disease and/or health conditions. For example, as a psychiatrist I will refer my patients and their families to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who do use Wikipedia, he recommends using the \"Talk\" tab near the top left of every page. That will take you to a rating of how thorough and accurate Wikipedia editors think the page is. He also looks at the references that each assertion of fact in Wikipedia entries are required to link to. (You can do this by clicking on the superscript numbers at the end of a sentence.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That gives me some idea of how much to trust the content,\" Azzam says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recommends consulting multiple sources to ferret out any outliers, a method that is \"effectively a proxy measure for validity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to consult material that health professionals use themselves, he recommends \u003ca href=\"http://www.uptodate.com/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpToDate\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubMed\u003c/a>, and peer-reviewed journals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health information is on a \"continuum,\" he believes, with subscription-only top tier scholarly journals on one end and the user-created Wikipedia on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe [journal] content to be the scientific truth as we know it because content experts have peer-reviewed the manuscripts,\" he says. \"But the challenge at that extreme is gaining access to that knowledge, especially with high-cost subscription charges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why he's working with students to improve Wikipedia, \"pulling that pole toward the other end of the spectrum.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since so many consumers of health information online are reading that content, I want to be a part of a movement to make it as high quality as possible!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Heilman, the avid health editor, he also recommends checking multiple, high-quality sources when looking for specific health information, paying attention to what they agree on. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>James Heilman isn't an easy man to get a hold of; he kept offering us odd, off-hour windows of availability to do a phone interview. When we finally connected, he explained: He works the night shift as an emergency room physician in British Columbia. He also puts in time as a clinical assistant professor in emergency medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u003cstrong>How to check the accuracy of Wikipedia pages\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou can check how Wikipedians rate the quality and thoroughness of every entry on the encyclopedia by clicking on the \"Talk\" tab near the top left of each page. There you will find the page's rating, which will fall somewhere on this \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment#Quality_scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scale\u003c/a>. Here are lists of the health articles with the \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Classhttps://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=GA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second-highest ratings\u003c/a>; these are the most trustworthy health entries.\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then there's the 60 -- count'em, 60 -- hours a week he toils away editing Wikipedia, the massive online encyclopedia written and edited by, well, anyone who wants to give it a whirl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife likes to joke that Wikipedia's my mistress; I prefer to call it our first child,” he says, chuckling with a tinge of self-awareness that he's gone a bit off the rails in his goal of making the copious health-related pages on the site more accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how does an emergency doc become an obsessive Wikipedian?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 years ago, he says, during a quiet night shift, he got to browsing one of the medical articles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought, 'Oh, my God this is really bad,'\" he says. \"And then I saw the edit button, and I realized, oh, my God, I could fix the internet! I sort of got madly hooked. I’ve been trying to fix the Internet ever since.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Accuracy Questioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that quest was creating the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WikiProject Medicine\u003c/a> group, where 320 like-minded editors work on the site's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_information_on_Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">health content. \u003c/a>Heilman estimates about half are medical professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I thought ‘Oh, my God this is really bad.' And then I saw the edit button, and I realized, oh, my God, I could fix the internet!\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Reworking Wikipedia health entries is not a trivial task. A 2014 study found about 25,000 pages of English-language health-related articles. That number is now up to 32,000, Heilman says. The health pages worldwide attracted almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376174/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4.9 billion pageviews\u003c/a> in 2013. A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/0142159X.2012.737064?scroll=top&needAccess=true&\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey\u003c/a> of several hundred medical students found 94 percent use the site for health information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite its popularity, the reliability of Wikipedia's medical content has often been questioned. A 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241521/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">review \u003c/a>on the accuracy and thoroughness of the site's medical entries found mixed results. Other studies show that the site fell short in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24276492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gastroenterology and hepatology\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://aop.sagepub.com/content/42/12/1814.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drug information\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3193353/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statins\u003c/a> (later \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0106930#pone.0106930-Kupferberg1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">improved\u003c/a>), and issues of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ijporlonline.com/article/S0165-5876(12)00336-9/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ear, nose and throat\u003c/a>. Other studies found the website provided better information in \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sdi.12059/epdf?r3_referer=wol&tracking_action=preview_click&show_checkout=1&purchase_referrer=onlinelibrary.wiley.com&purchase_site_license=LICENSE_DENIED_NO_CUSTOMER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nephrology\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/quality-of-information-sources-about-mental-disorders-a-comparison-of-wikipedia-with-centrally-controlled-web-and-printed-sources/595CEE672BB7C503101FAF5A9E303673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">depression and schizophrenia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal\">To get good health info online:\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Check multiple, high-quality sources like those from academic and government institutions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Be alert for sites that contain information that conflicts with other sources, a possible indication of low-quality information.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Consult \u003ca href=\"http://www.uptodate.com/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpToDate\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubMed\u003c/a>, and peer-reviewed journals for primary research on a topic.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If using Wikipedia, click the 'Talk' tab at the top of each page to see how the site's editors have rated the quality of the article. Look at the footnotes to check the sources of assertions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But just recently, in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(16)30254-6/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lancet: Global Health, \u003c/a>\u003c/em>researchers reported that Wikipedia entries on stillbirths were missing critical information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a 2014 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24778001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> comparing peer-reviewed literature to the site's articles on 10 different widespread diseases and conditions found a significant number of assertions in the Wikipedia material that were unsupported by the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman doesn't think much of that study; he co-wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://community-archive.cochrane.org/news/blog/wikipedia%E2%80%99s-medical-content-really-90-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebuttal\u003c/a> to it with other medical experts/Wikipedians. Still, he acknowledges \"there's a lot of work to do\" to bring health entries up to snuff. The reality of that is borne out by the small number of health articles -- \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=FA-Class%20featured%20health%20articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">63\u003c/a> -- that have received the highest grade by Wikipedia editors. Those articles qualify as featured articles on the encyclopedia's front page. (The next-best level -- \"good\" -- contains a mere \u003ca href=\"https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Medicine&quality=GA-Class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200 articles\u003c/a>.) The \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment#Quality_scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criteria\u003c/a> for a \"featured\" article is comprehensiveness, neutrality and accuracy. That means the information has been verified against high-quality sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls to Action\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/wikipedia-is-already-the-worlds-dr-google-its-time-for-doctors-and-researchers-to-make-it-better-66769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article\u003c/a> last month on the academic publishing site \"The Conversation\" by Thomas Shafee, one of the researchers who wrote about Wikipedia's inadequate \"stillbirth\" entries, is headlined \"Wikipedia is already the world’s ‘Dr Google’ -- it’s time for doctors and researchers to make it better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Health professionals have a duty to improve the accuracy of medical entries in Wikipedia, because it’s the first port of call for people all over the world seeking medical information,\" Shafee wrote. \"The accuracy of the site is vital, because every medical entry... has the potential for immediate \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/4/08-056713/en/\">real-world health consequences\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others agree. University of California, San Francisco psychiatrist Amin Azzam recently co-authored a \u003ca href=\"http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Why_Medical_Schools_Should_Embrace_Wikipedia__.98408.aspx\">report\u003c/a> published in the journal \u003cem>Academic Medicine \u003c/em>titled “Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Improving Wikipedia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to improve the entire site, including the health section, are underway. Hundreds of students in both the U.S. and Canada, for example, are working as editors through the \u003ca href=\"https://wikiedu.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiki Education Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that acts as a bridge between Wikipedia and academia. The organization encourages university faculty to assign students Wikipedia entries as a part of coursework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rather than write a biography of a woman scientist for their class that their instructor would read and throw away and never engage in again,\" says the foundation's LiAnna Davis, \"these students instead have the opportunity to create content for Wikipedia where thousands of people can gain from their work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pharmacology students at the University of California, San Francisco, for example, are \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UCSF_School_of_Medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working to improve entries\u003c/a> on popular drugs like the HIV antiviral drug \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacavir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abacavir\u003c/a>. Students in a voice disorders class at McGill University in Montreal are adding information about \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngitis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laryngitis\u003c/a>. Students fill in missing information, improve gross inadequacies, and rewrite articles using fewer technical terms to appeal to the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, 280 science classes at universities in the U.S. and Canada have added content to 3,650 articles and generated 300 new entries receiving more than 102 million views, says Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman points to many efforts to improve articles, and a \u003ca href=\"http://translatorswithoutborders.org/?s=wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaboration\u003c/a> with the group Translators Without Borders to rewrite Wikipedia medical content in as many languages as possible. That \u003ca href=\"https://opensource.com/life/16/11/support-indian-languages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">includes Odia\u003c/a>, spoken by tens of millions of people in India that is not included in\u003ca href=\"https://translate.google.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Google Translate\u003c/a>. Heilman also cites as a success the Wikipedia entry for dengue fever, which was published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242787/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies are also tapping Wikipedia. The National Institutes of Health is creating an online biomedical \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/topics/health/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dictionary\u003c/a> for PubMed Health. which provides consumer-friendly research information.\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/topics/health/a/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> \u003c/a>The NIH usually creates the definitions by drawing on material in its own collection, but sometimes It will use Wikipedia as a source. Both organizations benefit, as the NIH will flag Heilman if it comes across something inaccurate in the material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heilman fervently hopes more health and science academics and professionals will help expand the accuracy of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I spend a fair amount of time trying to convince my colleagues to come work on Wikipedia,\" he says. \"As a physician I believe all people deserve access to quality health care information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to Find Good Health Info\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So ... after all is said and done, how should the average person approach looking for health information on the Web?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azzam, the UCSF psychiatrist who called for medical schools to embrace Wikipedia, would actually first send patients to government sites like the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and National Library of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many of those sites have information targeting 'lay' people,\" he wrote in an email. \"Additionally there are national advocacy organizations for specific disease and/or health conditions. For example, as a psychiatrist I will refer my patients and their families to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who do use Wikipedia, he recommends using the \"Talk\" tab near the top left of every page. That will take you to a rating of how thorough and accurate Wikipedia editors think the page is. He also looks at the references that each assertion of fact in Wikipedia entries are required to link to. (You can do this by clicking on the superscript numbers at the end of a sentence.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That gives me some idea of how much to trust the content,\" Azzam says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recommends consulting multiple sources to ferret out any outliers, a method that is \"effectively a proxy measure for validity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to consult material that health professionals use themselves, he recommends \u003ca href=\"http://www.uptodate.com/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UpToDate\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubMed\u003c/a>, and peer-reviewed journals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health information is on a \"continuum,\" he believes, with subscription-only top tier scholarly journals on one end and the user-created Wikipedia on the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe [journal] content to be the scientific truth as we know it because content experts have peer-reviewed the manuscripts,\" he says. \"But the challenge at that extreme is gaining access to that knowledge, especially with high-cost subscription charges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why he's working with students to improve Wikipedia, \"pulling that pole toward the other end of the spectrum.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since so many consumers of health information online are reading that content, I want to be a part of a movement to make it as high quality as possible!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Heilman, the avid health editor, he also recommends checking multiple, high-quality sources when looking for specific health information, paying attention to what they agree on. But that doesn't mean he's going to give up on improving Wikipedia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday, Nov. 29\u003c/strong> Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/28/502566553/trump-chooses-rep-tom-price-an-obamacare-foe-to-run-hhs\" target=\"_blank\">will nominate\u003c/a> Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) as secretary of Health and Human Services. Price is an avowed opponent of the Affordable Care Act, repeatedly introducing legislation to repeal President Obama's signature health care legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">If you're wondering about Price's record on LGBT issues, the former orthopedic surgeon, like many other Republicans, has received a zero over the last three sessions of Congress on the Human Rights Campaign's \u003ca href=\"http://hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com//files/assets/resources/114thCongressionalScorecard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">congressional scorecard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">More from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/29/503720671/5-things-to-know-about-rep-tom-prices-health-care-ideas\" target=\"_blank\">NPR \u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Original post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Since Donald Trump’s surprise election Nov. 8, \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">LGBT health advocates have been holding their breath to see who the president-elect will pick for the cabinet-level position of secretary of Health and Human Services. Like many other health care stakeholders, these leaders are keeping a weather eye on whether Trump is serious about his \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform\" target=\"_blank\">campaign promise\u003c/a> to dismantle the Affordable Care Act — a long-sought but out-of-reach goal for congressional Republicans under President Obama — as well as a proposed reform of Medicaid that would result in reductions in aid to the poor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">A number of names have been bandied about for the HHS job, including newest rumored frontrunner Rep. Tom Price\u003cb>, \u003c/b>R-Georgia, and Andrew Bremberg, who is \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20161111/NEWS/161119989?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20161111-NEWS-161119989&utm_campaign=mh-alert\" target=\"_blank\">leading Trump's health transition\u003c/a> and worked at the agency during the administration of President George W. Bush. Other familiar names include Florida Gov. Rick Scott, ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and ex-Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">While Trump has been skimpy on details of what may replace the health care law, he has proposed allowing insurers to sell health plans across state lines, establishing block grants for state Medicaid programs, and allowing people to deduct their health care premiums from their federal income tax. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">A study by The Commonwealth Fund estimates the repeal of the ACA and the implementation of these replacement policies\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>would cause more than 20 million people, most of whom are low-income, to lose health coverage.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>LGBT Issues\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Trump's agenda has progressives worried about the possible rollback of health services for gay people. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">“It’s an agenda that destroys the national health safety net,” says Matt Kavanaugh, a seasoned health policy activist with the Global Health Access Project, which campaigns for drug access for people with HIV across the globe. \"We have a lot of people with HIV who depend on these programs.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">He’s particularly worried about a shift in Medicaid to block grants awarded to states, which could spell cuts in HIV programs — something seen in the 1990s. Before the ACA extended health coverage of expensive anti-retroviral drugs, those with HIV relied on the federal AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) to gain access to medication. But state-administered ADAP programs were plagued by budget cuts, creating long waiting lists for drug access. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“One of the most important things that happened with Medicaid expansion is that people were able to move off of ADAP and not just get HIV drugs but full [health] insurance,” Kavanaugh says. “If that rolls back, it’s likely we will see huge problems with ADAP.” That in turn could hurt the U.S. effort to control HIV, he says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As evidence of what he says is the incoming administration's “clear, intensely anti-gay agenda,\" Kavanaugh points to the GOP party platform’s last-minute promotion of so-called \"gay conversion therapy,\" long \u003ca href=\"http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/just-the-facts.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">discredited by the psychological profession\u003c/a> and illegal as a treatment for minors in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/conversion_therapy\" target=\"_blank\">number of states\u003c/a>. The therapy is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/11/19/gays-can-be-reformed-just-like-arsonists-trumps-new-domestic-policy-adviser-has-said/\" target=\"_blank\">endorsed\u003c/a> by the head of Trump's domestic policy transition team, former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, which publicly \u003ca href=\"http://www.frc.org/homosexuality\" target=\"_blank\">states\u003c/a> that homosexuality \"is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Vice President-elect Mike Pence also has a \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom/\" target=\"_blank\">record\u003c/a> of opposing LGBT rights and is a staunch social conservative. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Ben Plumley, head of the Pangaea Global AIDS project, pointed to a 2015 spike of 90 new HIV cases linked to injection drug use in rural Scott County, Indiana, where Pence was governor, as an example of ineffective health policy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">S\u003c/span>tate health officials had urged Pence to implement a needle exchange program, but that was a nonstarter with the governor. With cases rising, however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weighed in with the same recommendation. Pence said he would pray on the matter, and eventually he issued an executive order to implement needle exchange in Scott County. Tens of thousands of clean disposable needles were quickly distributed, and HIV cases diminished to a trickle. AmfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, later called the epidemic \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/under-pences-leadership-response-to-heroin-epidemic-criticized-as-ineffective-226759\" target=\"_blank\">totally preventable\u003c/a>.\" Meanwhile, heroin-related hepatitis C cases are still \u003ca href=\"http://www.fox19.com/story/30451992/hiv-hepatitis-c-outbreak-continues-in-indiana\" target=\"_blank\">snowballing\u003c/a> in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Kavanaugh is also worried about the push for religious waivers at the state and local levels, which would allow agencies, individuals and private health providers with federal contracts to opt out of providing services to LGBT citizens. Two such bills are pending in Florida and Texas, and copycat bills are being drafted in other states. One of the potential health care leaders in a Trump administration, Bobby Jindal, issued an executive order in Louisiana to give a religious waiver to those opposed to same-sex marriage. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence is also a potential issue. Since the election, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked a \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/18/update-incidents-hateful-harassment-election-day-now-number-701\" target=\"_blank\">spike in hate crimes\u003c/a> — including 80 reported against LGBT individuals. Almost two-thirds of the incidents, some of which were anecdotal, occurred in the first three days following the election, the group says, and \"the trend line points to a steady drop-off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no doubt the LGBT community is feeling increased pressure. Calls to LGBT suicide prevention hotlines went way up in the immediate wake of Trump’s election, \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/suicide-hotline-calls-lgbt-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones\u003c/a> has reported. Callers worried about loss of health access to hormones and gender surgery, as well as fear of discrimination from health providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“You’re going to see increasing numbers of people with challenges,\" says Kavanaugh. \"It's going to be a test of our solidarity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">LGBT leaders interviewed by KQED said they repeatedly tried during and since the election to meet with Trump officials to discuss their concerns, including the choice for HHS, to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\"We've gotten no response,\" said Pangaea head Ben Plumley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">KQED's efforts to reach the campaign for comment were unsuccessful. So were efforts to obtain comments from health policy aides at Rep. Nancy Pelosi's office about Democratic efforts to influence the top health pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>Jon Brooks contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday, Nov. 29\u003c/strong> Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/28/502566553/trump-chooses-rep-tom-price-an-obamacare-foe-to-run-hhs\" target=\"_blank\">will nominate\u003c/a> Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) as secretary of Health and Human Services. Price is an avowed opponent of the Affordable Care Act, repeatedly introducing legislation to repeal President Obama's signature health care legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">If you're wondering about Price's record on LGBT issues, the former orthopedic surgeon, like many other Republicans, has received a zero over the last three sessions of Congress on the Human Rights Campaign's \u003ca href=\"http://hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com//files/assets/resources/114thCongressionalScorecard.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">congressional scorecard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">More from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/29/503720671/5-things-to-know-about-rep-tom-prices-health-care-ideas\" target=\"_blank\">NPR \u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>Original post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Since Donald Trump’s surprise election Nov. 8, \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">LGBT health advocates have been holding their breath to see who the president-elect will pick for the cabinet-level position of secretary of Health and Human Services. Like many other health care stakeholders, these leaders are keeping a weather eye on whether Trump is serious about his \u003ca href=\"https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform\" target=\"_blank\">campaign promise\u003c/a> to dismantle the Affordable Care Act — a long-sought but out-of-reach goal for congressional Republicans under President Obama — as well as a proposed reform of Medicaid that would result in reductions in aid to the poor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">A number of names have been bandied about for the HHS job, including newest rumored frontrunner Rep. Tom Price\u003cb>, \u003c/b>R-Georgia, and Andrew Bremberg, who is \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20161111/NEWS/161119989?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20161111-NEWS-161119989&utm_campaign=mh-alert\" target=\"_blank\">leading Trump's health transition\u003c/a> and worked at the agency during the administration of President George W. Bush. Other familiar names include Florida Gov. Rick Scott, ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and ex-Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">While Trump has been skimpy on details of what may replace the health care law, he has proposed allowing insurers to sell health plans across state lines, establishing block grants for state Medicaid programs, and allowing people to deduct their health care premiums from their federal income tax. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">A study by The Commonwealth Fund estimates the repeal of the ACA and the implementation of these replacement policies\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>would cause more than 20 million people, most of whom are low-income, to lose health coverage.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>LGBT Issues\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Trump's agenda has progressives worried about the possible rollback of health services for gay people. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">“It’s an agenda that destroys the national health safety net,” says Matt Kavanaugh, a seasoned health policy activist with the Global Health Access Project, which campaigns for drug access for people with HIV across the globe. \"We have a lot of people with HIV who depend on these programs.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">He’s particularly worried about a shift in Medicaid to block grants awarded to states, which could spell cuts in HIV programs — something seen in the 1990s. Before the ACA extended health coverage of expensive anti-retroviral drugs, those with HIV relied on the federal AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) to gain access to medication. But state-administered ADAP programs were plagued by budget cuts, creating long waiting lists for drug access. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">“One of the most important things that happened with Medicaid expansion is that people were able to move off of ADAP and not just get HIV drugs but full [health] insurance,” Kavanaugh says. “If that rolls back, it’s likely we will see huge problems with ADAP.” That in turn could hurt the U.S. effort to control HIV, he says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As evidence of what he says is the incoming administration's “clear, intensely anti-gay agenda,\" Kavanaugh points to the GOP party platform’s last-minute promotion of so-called \"gay conversion therapy,\" long \u003ca href=\"http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/just-the-facts.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">discredited by the psychological profession\u003c/a> and illegal as a treatment for minors in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/conversion_therapy\" target=\"_blank\">number of states\u003c/a>. The therapy is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/11/19/gays-can-be-reformed-just-like-arsonists-trumps-new-domestic-policy-adviser-has-said/\" target=\"_blank\">endorsed\u003c/a> by the head of Trump's domestic policy transition team, former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, which publicly \u003ca href=\"http://www.frc.org/homosexuality\" target=\"_blank\">states\u003c/a> that homosexuality \"is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Vice President-elect Mike Pence also has a \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious-freedom/\" target=\"_blank\">record\u003c/a> of opposing LGBT rights and is a staunch social conservative. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Ben Plumley, head of the Pangaea Global AIDS project, pointed to a 2015 spike of 90 new HIV cases linked to injection drug use in rural Scott County, Indiana, where Pence was governor, as an example of ineffective health policy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">S\u003c/span>tate health officials had urged Pence to implement a needle exchange program, but that was a nonstarter with the governor. With cases rising, however, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weighed in with the same recommendation. Pence said he would pray on the matter, and eventually he issued an executive order to implement needle exchange in Scott County. Tens of thousands of clean disposable needles were quickly distributed, and HIV cases diminished to a trickle. AmfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, later called the epidemic \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/under-pences-leadership-response-to-heroin-epidemic-criticized-as-ineffective-226759\" target=\"_blank\">totally preventable\u003c/a>.\" Meanwhile, heroin-related hepatitis C cases are still \u003ca href=\"http://www.fox19.com/story/30451992/hiv-hepatitis-c-outbreak-continues-in-indiana\" target=\"_blank\">snowballing\u003c/a> in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Kavanaugh is also worried about the push for religious waivers at the state and local levels, which would allow agencies, individuals and private health providers with federal contracts to opt out of providing services to LGBT citizens. Two such bills are pending in Florida and Texas, and copycat bills are being drafted in other states. One of the potential health care leaders in a Trump administration, Bobby Jindal, issued an executive order in Louisiana to give a religious waiver to those opposed to same-sex marriage. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violence is also a potential issue. Since the election, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked a \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/18/update-incidents-hateful-harassment-election-day-now-number-701\" target=\"_blank\">spike in hate crimes\u003c/a> — including 80 reported against LGBT individuals. Almost two-thirds of the incidents, some of which were anecdotal, occurred in the first three days following the election, the group says, and \"the trend line points to a steady drop-off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no doubt the LGBT community is feeling increased pressure. Calls to LGBT suicide prevention hotlines went way up in the immediate wake of Trump’s election, \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/suicide-hotline-calls-lgbt-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones\u003c/a> has reported. Callers worried about loss of health access to hormones and gender surgery, as well as fear of discrimination from health providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“You’re going to see increasing numbers of people with challenges,\" says Kavanaugh. \"It's going to be a test of our solidarity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">LGBT leaders interviewed by KQED said they repeatedly tried during and since the election to meet with Trump officials to discuss their concerns, including the choice for HHS, to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\"We've gotten no response,\" said Pangaea head Ben Plumley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">KQED's efforts to reach the campaign for comment were unsuccessful. So were efforts to obtain comments from health policy aides at Rep. Nancy Pelosi's office about Democratic efforts to influence the top health pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>An experimental vaginal ring that continuously releases the anti-HIV drug dapivirine has the potential to save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what's it going to do to sex lives?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a question researchers posed as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/women-report-vaginal-ring-preventing-hiv-had-little-effect-sexual-intercourse\">ASPIRE study,\u003c/a> which tested the flexible silicone rings with women ages 18 to 45 living in Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. And it's a practical one, explains \u003ca href=\"https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director\">Dr. Anthony Fauci\u003c/a>, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which funded ASPIRE. The less obtrusive a form of prevention is, the easier it is to convince people to use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something not noticeable is great,\" Fauci says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encouraging news, gleaned from ASPIRE staff interviews with 214 of the 2,629 participants, is that sex with the ring wasn't much different — at least physically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens in people's bedrooms, however, is also psychological. Some women reported worrying about what would happen if their partners felt or discovered the ring, which is 2.2 inches in diameter and a third of an inch thick. They feared being interrogated in the middle of sex, despite the fact that Fauci notes, \"That's not what happens. It's less obvious than a diaphragm.\" But because of this anxiety, several women slipped out the ring prior to intimate contact, while others avoided certain positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understanding these real world concerns is critical, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ipmglobal.org/about/ipm-executive-leadership/zeda-f-rosenberg-ceo\">Zeda Rosenberg\u003c/a>, CEO of the nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM), which developed the ring. From earlier studies, IPM learned that women could use the rings without a problem, and that they don't cause irritation or make the user more susceptible to yeast infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the point of the ring is to help women gain control over their sexual health, what their partners think — or could think — also matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, virtually every option for HIV prevention comes with some partner baggage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Condoms are problematic for women,\" Fauci explains. \"When women demand use of a condom, they can be subject to partner violence or rejection or stigma.\" Or their partners might flat out refuse to wear one. \"The man gets insulted and says he doesn't have HIV. That's baloney because sometimes men are infected,\" Fauci adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different challenges have emerged with the rollout of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP). \"It's so easy to take a single pill every day,\" Fauci says. \"But some people don't want to do it, even though it's 98, maybe 100 percent effective.\" One reason? \"Maybe the partner finds the pills,\" he says. That can lead to questions about what the meds are for, and whether the women on them might already be HIV positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ring, when used as directed, is inserted just once a month and left in place\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>then taken out and replaced with a new ring for the next month. So that will hopefully make it an appealing option for women, Rosenberg says, adding that her group is already working on the next generation of ring. It will also provide contraception, which may help women make a stronger case for using it. \"Partners might be more forgiving because it's not necessarily passing judgment on the man,\" she explains. Women can claim they're trying to avoid pregnancy rather than infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because, as Rosenberg says, \"there are going to be as many scenarios as there are people,\" the most important thing is to offer choices — and as much information as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will require more research. Overall results from ASPIRE showed that among the entire group of participants using a dapivirine ring, the risk of HIV infection dropped 27 percent. But when researchers separated out the participants who had used the ring consistently, they got much more impressive numbers: Risk of HIV infection fell by around 75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not hard to tell who kept the ring in and who didn't. When participants came in for their monthly visit, researchers could see how much of the drug was left in the ring, Rosenberg explains. The more dapivirine, the less time it was inside a woman's vagina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it works much better if you use it all of the time,\" Rosenberg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she understands why only about 25 percent of ASPIRE participants did that. \"In trials and real life, people are not perfectly adherent,\" she says, noting that's particularly true of healthy populations, who don't have the same incentives for following doctor's orders. And women in ASPIRE didn't know whether they had an active ring or a placebo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the 25 percent who barely used it at all? 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Research on the ring continues in Africa with the HOPE study, which began this summer and is also funded by NIAID. The difference, Rosenberg explains, is that this is an \"open-label\" study, which means women will be told there are no placebos in the mix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under these conditions, Rosenberg expects more participants will use the ring consistently. There will still be some who don't, she adds. \"If I were a woman in the study and my partner went away for a month, I might take it out,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will likely be other women who continue to remove it during sex. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens in people's bedrooms, however, is also psychological. Some women reported worrying about what would happen if their partners felt or discovered the ring, which is 2.2 inches in diameter and a third of an inch thick. They feared being interrogated in the middle of sex, despite the fact that Fauci notes, \"That's not what happens. It's less obvious than a diaphragm.\" But because of this anxiety, several women slipped out the ring prior to intimate contact, while others avoided certain positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understanding these real world concerns is critical, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ipmglobal.org/about/ipm-executive-leadership/zeda-f-rosenberg-ceo\">Zeda Rosenberg\u003c/a>, CEO of the nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM), which developed the ring. From earlier studies, IPM learned that women could use the rings without a problem, and that they don't cause irritation or make the user more susceptible to yeast infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the point of the ring is to help women gain control over their sexual health, what their partners think — or could think — also matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, virtually every option for HIV prevention comes with some partner baggage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Condoms are problematic for women,\" Fauci explains. \"When women demand use of a condom, they can be subject to partner violence or rejection or stigma.\" Or their partners might flat out refuse to wear one. \"The man gets insulted and says he doesn't have HIV. That's baloney because sometimes men are infected,\" Fauci adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different challenges have emerged with the rollout of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP). \"It's so easy to take a single pill every day,\" Fauci says. \"But some people don't want to do it, even though it's 98, maybe 100 percent effective.\" One reason? \"Maybe the partner finds the pills,\" he says. That can lead to questions about what the meds are for, and whether the women on them might already be HIV positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ring, when used as directed, is inserted just once a month and left in place\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>then taken out and replaced with a new ring for the next month. So that will hopefully make it an appealing option for women, Rosenberg says, adding that her group is already working on the next generation of ring. 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She described the pain as a five on a 10-point scale. That night she cooked dinner for her family, and the next day she went back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study Marie participated in is being conducted in four states — Hawaii, New York, Oregon and Washington. It is being funded and organized by Gynuity Health Projects, a nonprofit research group focused on reproductive health services that seeks to improve women’s access to medical abortions. The FDA has allowed the experiment. Women learn about it when contacting the abortion clinics in the study and other health providers who are aware of the trial and the website telabortion.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danco Laboratories, the company that makes the pills, has no plans to seek wider distribution of the medication either through mail-order pharmacies or physical pharmacies, a spokeswoman said. It would have to seek the FDA’s permission to do so; the agency can also ask companies to change how their drugs are distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Abortion is a politically charged issue in this country, and there is an extra degree of caution,” said the spokeswoman, Abby Long, explaining that research would be needed to support changing the drug’s distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the first 12 women who participated in the study, all in Hawaii, 11 reported they had no complications and one did not take the pills, researchers said. Ten who completed surveys afterward said they were satisfied with the service and would recommend it to a friend, according to the researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely an important step forward to expanding access to abortion that is safe and effective and creating options for women,” said Susan Wood, director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. She was not involved in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Outraged\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-abortion groups are outraged by the experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have grave concerns about handing out dangerous, life-ending drugs without medical supervision because women face great risks for chemical abortions,” said Kristi Hamrick, spokeswoman for Americans United for Life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, also raised safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If pills are sent through the mail, who are they supposed to call if they have a problem?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are serious downsides from the pills,” she said, adding, “and just talking to someone over a computer and sending pills in the mail, to me, that is just reckless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process does not allow women to avoid the doctor’s office entirely. Using a video hookup on a home computer, a woman first consults with a doctor (or other clinician such as a nurse practitioner) at one of three participating abortion clinics who evaluates her medical history and explains how to take abortion pills and what to expect afterward. She must then get medical tests including ultrasound and bloodwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the tests show she is eligible for the study, the clinic sends her a package with pills and instructions via overnight mail. After taking them, she has some additional tests, such as an ultrasound to verify that the abortion is complete and also a phone consultation to review the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Declining Access\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Access to abortion has been declining steadily in the United States as dozens of clinics have been forced to close under new state restrictions. In Texas, the number of clinics fell to 18 in 2015 from 41 in 2012. Five states have just one clinic that offers abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical abortions require women to take two drugs that together induce a miscarriage. The first, mifepristone (marketed as Mifeprex), is typically taken in a doctor’s office or clinic while the second, misoprostol, is given to the woman to take at home the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, the FDA has approved medical abortion pills for use only in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, while surgical abortions can be done later than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical abortions make up a quarter of all abortions in the country. About 2.8 million women in the United States have used mifepristone to terminate a pregnancy since the drug’s approval in 2000, according to Danco Laboratories, its manufacturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American abortion study using overnight mail comes nearly a decade after Iowa became the first state to offer medical abortion counseling via telemedicine from a physician. But in Iowa and the three states that followed — Alaska, Maine and Minnesota — women must still go to a clinic that stocks mifepristone to receive the pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the study shows the telemedicine and mail approach works, that could encourage the FDA to stop restrictions on mifepristone, Gynuity’s principal investigator, Dr. Elizabeth Raymond, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All kinds of dangerous drugs are prescribed and available at pharmacies, including drugs for heart disease and Viagra,” she said. “There is no justification for why this safe drug should not be in pharmacies now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the FDA were to lift its restriction on where abortion pills are dispensed, 19 states ban the use of telemedicine for abortion and require a physician to be physically present when consulting a woman, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While this has the potential for being the future of abortion delivery for a good segment of the population, that vision might not be fulfilled due to the politics around the issue and restrictions in many states,” said Jessica Arons, president and chief executive of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project in Washington, an advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Once she received them, she set the package aside for a week in her bedroom, waiting until she could schedule time off from her job at McDonald’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Over in Three Hours\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first pill, as expected, had little effect. The next morning, with her mother at her home to watch her toddler, she took the second. Almost immediately, the bleeding and cramping began. Within three hours, her eight-week pregnancy was over. She described the pain as a five on a 10-point scale. That night she cooked dinner for her family, and the next day she went back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study Marie participated in is being conducted in four states — Hawaii, New York, Oregon and Washington. It is being funded and organized by Gynuity Health Projects, a nonprofit research group focused on reproductive health services that seeks to improve women’s access to medical abortions. The FDA has allowed the experiment. Women learn about it when contacting the abortion clinics in the study and other health providers who are aware of the trial and the website telabortion.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danco Laboratories, the company that makes the pills, has no plans to seek wider distribution of the medication either through mail-order pharmacies or physical pharmacies, a spokeswoman said. It would have to seek the FDA’s permission to do so; the agency can also ask companies to change how their drugs are distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Abortion is a politically charged issue in this country, and there is an extra degree of caution,” said the spokeswoman, Abby Long, explaining that research would be needed to support changing the drug’s distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the first 12 women who participated in the study, all in Hawaii, 11 reported they had no complications and one did not take the pills, researchers said. Ten who completed surveys afterward said they were satisfied with the service and would recommend it to a friend, according to the researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s absolutely an important step forward to expanding access to abortion that is safe and effective and creating options for women,” said Susan Wood, director of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. She was not involved in the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Outraged\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-abortion groups are outraged by the experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have grave concerns about handing out dangerous, life-ending drugs without medical supervision because women face great risks for chemical abortions,” said Kristi Hamrick, spokeswoman for Americans United for Life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, also raised safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If pills are sent through the mail, who are they supposed to call if they have a problem?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are serious downsides from the pills,” she said, adding, “and just talking to someone over a computer and sending pills in the mail, to me, that is just reckless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process does not allow women to avoid the doctor’s office entirely. Using a video hookup on a home computer, a woman first consults with a doctor (or other clinician such as a nurse practitioner) at one of three participating abortion clinics who evaluates her medical history and explains how to take abortion pills and what to expect afterward. She must then get medical tests including ultrasound and bloodwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the tests show she is eligible for the study, the clinic sends her a package with pills and instructions via overnight mail. After taking them, she has some additional tests, such as an ultrasound to verify that the abortion is complete and also a phone consultation to review the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Declining Access\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Access to abortion has been declining steadily in the United States as dozens of clinics have been forced to close under new state restrictions. In Texas, the number of clinics fell to 18 in 2015 from 41 in 2012. Five states have just one clinic that offers abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical abortions require women to take two drugs that together induce a miscarriage. The first, mifepristone (marketed as Mifeprex), is typically taken in a doctor’s office or clinic while the second, misoprostol, is given to the woman to take at home the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, the FDA has approved medical abortion pills for use only in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, while surgical abortions can be done later than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical abortions make up a quarter of all abortions in the country. About 2.8 million women in the United States have used mifepristone to terminate a pregnancy since the drug’s approval in 2000, according to Danco Laboratories, its manufacturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American abortion study using overnight mail comes nearly a decade after Iowa became the first state to offer medical abortion counseling via telemedicine from a physician. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's a truism that we distrust what we don't understand. Let me confide something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew a lot of yeast and bacteria in my college lab. Between raising and killing these living organisms, I explored and shaped them, tinkering with their DNA to make them glow, resist an antibiotic or digest a new nutrient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet when the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/10/07/more_on_garage_biotech\" target=\"_blank\">DIY bio\u003c/a> phenomenon \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2011/08/mf_diylab/\" target=\"_blank\">burst\u003c/a> into the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101006/full/467650a.html\" target=\"_blank\">popular \u003c/a>science \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/for-bio-hackers-lab-work-often-begins-at-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">press\u003c/a> a couple of years ago, my first thought was: Should they be \u003cem>allowed \u003c/em>to do this? What if they create a dangerous pathogen and launch a deadly epidemic? Pretty much what all the media started imagining. In 2009 the Wall Street Journal ran the hair-raising headline \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB124207326903607931\" target=\"_blank\">In Attics and Closets, 'Biohackers' Discover Their Inner Frankenstein\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offerings from just this year include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://fusion.net/story/285454/diy-crispr-biohackers-garage-labs/\" target=\"_blank\">Inside the Garage Labs of DIY Gene Hackers, Whose Hobby May Terrify You\u003c/a> (Fusion)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://motherboard.vice.com/read/accessible-synthetic-biology-raises-new-concerns-for-diy-biological-warfare\" target=\"_blank\">Accessible Synthetic Biology Raises New Concerns for DIY Biological Warfare\u003c/a> (Motherboard)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"People seem to think that we're not concerned about safety,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/eharness\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Harness\u003c/a>, director of lab operations and safety at \u003ca href=\"http://biocurious.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\">BioCurious\u003c/a>, a community lab in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'd found Harness at a conference in Oakland billed as \u003ca href=\"http://biohacktheplanet.com/\" target=\"_blank\">BioHACK THE PLANET\u003c/a>, and told him my editor and I were particularly intrigued by a portion of Sunday's \u003ca href=\"http://biohacktheplanet.com/schedule/\" target=\"_blank\">program\u003c/a> titled \"Bad things happen - are you prepared?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harness was unsurprised. That's what every member of the press wants to talk about, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, the subject is far less juicy than you might expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2013 survey titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.synbioproject.org/publications/6676/\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Myths and Realities about Do-It-Yourself Biology\u003c/a>\" by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.synbioproject.org/events/archive/6673/\" target=\"_blank\">Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\u003c/a> in Washington, D. C., the vast majority of DIYers work with non-toxic, non-harmful organisms approved for biosafety level 1 research. Just like a high school lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than working anonymously and solitarily, the report finds, DIYers overwhelmingly use group lab space. Many are still learning the basics of biology and don't have knowledge or tools of an advanced virologist. More importantly, lab directors keep an eye on all materials purchased, brought in, and removed from the lab, providing an obstacle to anyone trying to do secret nefarious \"\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Frankensteinian\" \u003c/span>work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, it would be naive to suggest something \u003cem>couldn't\u003c/em> go wrong. A workshop in August held by the \u003ca href=\"https://cgsr.llnl.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Global Security Research\u003c/a> concluded that self regulation of community labs is working well so far, while also acknowledging that probability of an \"unfortunate incident\" increases as the DIY bio community continues to grow. (\u003ca href=\"https://cgsr.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/Independent_Biotechnology_Workshop_SummaryNOV2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the workshop report.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One idea under consideration is the creation of a \"soft\" safety licensing program for unaffiliated researchers, similar to amateur radio FCC licensing. Another recommendation from the workshop is that DIY labs create a code of conduct and establish relationships with local fire departments, public health officials and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent experimenters, working in their garages and kitchens, seem to trigger the greatest fears. And while these DIY-ers may fly under the radar (no one can control what you do in you garage after all), the report suggests we're probably more fearful that we need to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Early narratives created by some writers and opinion-makers presented the notion of a lone 'biohacker' in a garage laboratory surreptitiously working with—or creating—dangerous pathogens,\" says the CGSR report. This is likely a \"greatly exaggerated threat\" the authors conclude, as it generally assumes amateurs in home labs can do what cannot yet be done by professional biologists in institutional settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creativity, Unleashed \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrik D'haeseleer, self-described \"cat herder\" at \u003ca href=\"https://counterculturelabs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Counter Culture Labs\u003c/a>, works a day job as a computational scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've worked my whole career side by side with experimental biologists and I've always regretted not having the chance to build up that side of the skills as well,\" he told me. \"So when I first heard about DIY bio I jumped on that. It's liberating. It's really energized my own career, because it opens up a field of creativity where I can just play around with things and try things out in the lab.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he gets a cool idea on Saturday he might be working on it come Monday. In his professional career, he says by contrast, \"at a very minimum it would be at least a year before we can actually work on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DIY biologists are currently working on such cool ideas as \u003ca href=\"https://wiki.realvegancheese.org/index.php/Real_Vegan_Cheese\" target=\"_blank\">'real vegan cheese'\u003c/a> by coaxing baker's yeast into expressing milk protein. Someone is at work on an \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/21/pharma-hackers-create-a-diy-epipen-the-epipencil/\" target=\"_blank\">EpiPencil\u003c/a>, which would cost $30, instead of the hundreds charged for an EpiPen. Others are working to develop more affordable generic medical treatments, such as \u003ca href=\"https://experiment.com/projects/open-insulin\" target=\"_blank\">insulin\u003c/a> for diabetics, or \u003ca href=\"http://maggic.ooo/Open-Source-Estrogen-2015\" target=\"_blank\">estrogen\u003c/a> for trans women. (Before reaching the market, these products would require normal regulatory approval.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eri Gentry, co-founder and president of \u003ca href=\"http://biocurious.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\">BioCurious\u003c/a> (she works a day job at \u003ca href=\"http://www.iftf.org/erigentry/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for the Future\u003c/a> too), says she sees a current lack of investment in basic research and development. Her hope is \u003cspan class=\"s1\">to make biological research accessible to more people, broaden the playing field and spur more innovation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm hoping that we'll see more solutions for mankind,\" Gentry says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh6I7IXiEVM]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biotech will be the technology of this century D'haeseleer says. \"It's going to affect our lives just as much or more as computers have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'haeseleer points to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/04/29/how-a-new-crisprcas9-technique-may-get-us-closer-to-curing-genetic-diseases/\">CRISPR, a gene-editing technique\u003c/a> which has raised both widespread hope and alarms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me, it's just a better screwdriver,\" D'haeseleer says. \"There's lots of [good or bad] stuff you could do with a better screwdriver and it's probably those things you should be worried about and not the screwdriver.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'd found Harness at a conference in Oakland billed as \u003ca href=\"http://biohacktheplanet.com/\" target=\"_blank\">BioHACK THE PLANET\u003c/a>, and told him my editor and I were particularly intrigued by a portion of Sunday's \u003ca href=\"http://biohacktheplanet.com/schedule/\" target=\"_blank\">program\u003c/a> titled \"Bad things happen - are you prepared?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harness was unsurprised. That's what every member of the press wants to talk about, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, the subject is far less juicy than you might expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2013 survey titled \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.synbioproject.org/publications/6676/\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Myths and Realities about Do-It-Yourself Biology\u003c/a>\" by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.synbioproject.org/events/archive/6673/\" target=\"_blank\">Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\u003c/a> in Washington, D. C., the vast majority of DIYers work with non-toxic, non-harmful organisms approved for biosafety level 1 research. Just like a high school lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than working anonymously and solitarily, the report finds, DIYers overwhelmingly use group lab space. Many are still learning the basics of biology and don't have knowledge or tools of an advanced virologist. More importantly, lab directors keep an eye on all materials purchased, brought in, and removed from the lab, providing an obstacle to anyone trying to do secret nefarious \"\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Frankensteinian\" \u003c/span>work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, it would be naive to suggest something \u003cem>couldn't\u003c/em> go wrong. A workshop in August held by the \u003ca href=\"https://cgsr.llnl.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Global Security Research\u003c/a> concluded that self regulation of community labs is working well so far, while also acknowledging that probability of an \"unfortunate incident\" increases as the DIY bio community continues to grow. (\u003ca href=\"https://cgsr.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/Independent_Biotechnology_Workshop_SummaryNOV2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the workshop report.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One idea under consideration is the creation of a \"soft\" safety licensing program for unaffiliated researchers, similar to amateur radio FCC licensing. Another recommendation from the workshop is that DIY labs create a code of conduct and establish relationships with local fire departments, public health officials and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent experimenters, working in their garages and kitchens, seem to trigger the greatest fears. And while these DIY-ers may fly under the radar (no one can control what you do in you garage after all), the report suggests we're probably more fearful that we need to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Early narratives created by some writers and opinion-makers presented the notion of a lone 'biohacker' in a garage laboratory surreptitiously working with—or creating—dangerous pathogens,\" says the CGSR report. This is likely a \"greatly exaggerated threat\" the authors conclude, as it generally assumes amateurs in home labs can do what cannot yet be done by professional biologists in institutional settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creativity, Unleashed \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrik D'haeseleer, self-described \"cat herder\" at \u003ca href=\"https://counterculturelabs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Counter Culture Labs\u003c/a>, works a day job as a computational scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've worked my whole career side by side with experimental biologists and I've always regretted not having the chance to build up that side of the skills as well,\" he told me. \"So when I first heard about DIY bio I jumped on that. It's liberating. It's really energized my own career, because it opens up a field of creativity where I can just play around with things and try things out in the lab.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he gets a cool idea on Saturday he might be working on it come Monday. In his professional career, he says by contrast, \"at a very minimum it would be at least a year before we can actually work on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DIY biologists are currently working on such cool ideas as \u003ca href=\"https://wiki.realvegancheese.org/index.php/Real_Vegan_Cheese\" target=\"_blank\">'real vegan cheese'\u003c/a> by coaxing baker's yeast into expressing milk protein. Someone is at work on an \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/21/pharma-hackers-create-a-diy-epipen-the-epipencil/\" target=\"_blank\">EpiPencil\u003c/a>, which would cost $30, instead of the hundreds charged for an EpiPen. Others are working to develop more affordable generic medical treatments, such as \u003ca href=\"https://experiment.com/projects/open-insulin\" target=\"_blank\">insulin\u003c/a> for diabetics, or \u003ca href=\"http://maggic.ooo/Open-Source-Estrogen-2015\" target=\"_blank\">estrogen\u003c/a> for trans women. (Before reaching the market, these products would require normal regulatory approval.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eri Gentry, co-founder and president of \u003ca href=\"http://biocurious.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\">BioCurious\u003c/a> (she works a day job at \u003ca href=\"http://www.iftf.org/erigentry/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for the Future\u003c/a> too), says she sees a current lack of investment in basic research and development. Her hope is \u003cspan class=\"s1\">to make biological research accessible to more people, broaden the playing field and spur more innovation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm hoping that we'll see more solutions for mankind,\" Gentry says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/eh6I7IXiEVM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/eh6I7IXiEVM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biotech will be the technology of this century D'haeseleer says. \"It's going to affect our lives just as much or more as computers have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D'haeseleer points to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/04/29/how-a-new-crisprcas9-technique-may-get-us-closer-to-curing-genetic-diseases/\">CRISPR, a gene-editing technique\u003c/a> which has raised both widespread hope and alarms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me, it's just a better screwdriver,\" D'haeseleer says. \"There's lots of [good or bad] stuff you could do with a better screwdriver and it's probably those things you should be worried about and not the screwdriver.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=501029887&mediaId=501203372\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months ago, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch emerged from a 10-hour surgery that she hadn't done before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of my patients are humans,\" says Bloch, who works at the Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This patient was a rhesus macaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monkey's spinal cord had been partially cut. So while his brain was fine and his legs were fine, the two couldn't communicate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally, the brain is giving commands, and the legs are responding to the commands through the spinal cord. When you have a spinal cord lesion, then this command is interrupted,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.chuv.ch/neurochirurgie/nch_home/nch-le-service-en-bref/nch-notre-equipe/nch-nos-medecins/nch-notre-equipe-nos-medecins-bio-jocelyne-bloch.htm\">Bloch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloch and her colleagues were testing a device that might circumvent the injured nerves and help the brain talk to the legs another way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She placed electrodes in the part of the monkey's brain that controls leg movement, and docked a wireless transmitter on the outside of his skull. Then, she put another set of electrodes along the spinal cord, below the injury. She also implanted an instrument in one leg so they could record muscle activity there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days later, Bloch and her colleagues switched on a device to pick up signals from the electrodes in the monkey's brain, pass them through a computer, and then send them to the electrodes in the spine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a few seconds you saw the leg moving, and that's something that would not have happened naturally,\" she says. Without the procedure, it would've likely taken months before the leg was able to move at all, Bloch says. 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Bloch did the same surgery in a second monkey, with similar results after two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings were \u003ca href=\"http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature20118\">published\u003c/a> Wednesday in the journal \u003cem>Nature\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, researchers have focused on getting brain signals to control machines, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/mind-controlled-robot-arms-show-promise-1.10652\">like a robotic arm\u003c/a>, but this experiment was about re-establishing control over the body itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group worked with rodents for 10 years before moving to experiments in monkeys for another seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here they're kind of closing the loop, where they're driving that stimulation based on activity decoded from the brain,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.rehabmedicine.pitt.edu/people/bios/collinger_2016.html\">Jen Collinger\u003c/a>, a bioengineer at the University of Pittsburgh whose work focuses on getting paralyzed patients to operate robotic arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems the principles learned in rats are now translating into primates,\" says Collinger, who was not involved in the study. \"And that gives more confidence that it might also translate into humans.\" But, she says, there are still some major hoops to jump through. For example, it's unclear if the technology would work long-term, or if it would support the balance and weight-bearing required with walking on two feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers in the Swiss study agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will take at least another decade in order to achieve the full translation in humans, with no guarantee whatsoever that it will be a successful endeavor,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://courtine-lab.epfl.ch/\">Gregoire Courtine\u003c/a>, a neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a co-author of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an accompanying commentary\u003cem>,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/staff/profile/andrewjackson.html#research\">Andrew Jackson \u003c/a>of the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University in the U.K. pointed out that researchers have recently come up with some pretty incredible devices — like those allowing people to control computers and robots with their thoughts — but have not been able to create a self-contained, wireless connection between human brain and limb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Jackson points out, the pace of translating technology like this from primates to humans has been remarkably quick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is therefore not unreasonable to speculate that we could see the first clinical demonstrations of interfaces between the brain and spinal cord by the end of the decade,\" Jackson wrote, especially because the components described in the study already are approved for human use in Switzerland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Swiss group has started a clinical trial in eight people with partial leg paralysis. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an edited excerpt from Robert Wachter’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Doctor-Hope-Medicines-Computer/dp/0071849467\" target=\"_blank\">The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age\u003c/a>,” reprinted with permission from McGraw-Hill. Copyright 2015.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2012, Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has been predicting that most of what physicians currently do can, will, and should be done by computers. “By 2025,” he has written, “more data-driven, automated health care will displace up to 80 percent of physicians’ diagnostic and prescription work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">A computer can’t read a patient’s tone of voice or anxious look. These clues—like one patient saying, “I have chest pain,” and another, “I HAVE CHEST PAIN!!!”—can make all the difference in diagnosis.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Though Khosla’s comments have irked many a physician, I’m not willing to dismiss him as a kooky provocateur or a utopian techno-evangelist. First of all, his investment track record has made him a Silicon Valley rock star. More important, as recently as a decade ago, some very smart and savvy computer engineers and economists believed that another seemingly intractable problem, building a driverless car, was beyond the reach of modern technology. As of April 2014, the Google car had clocked nearly 700,000 miles and been involved in just two accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the driverless car weren’t enough of a challenge to human superiority, who could have watched IBM’s Watson supercomputer defeat the Jeopardy Hall of Famers in 2011 and not fretted about the future of physicians, or any highly skilled workers, for that matter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just as factory jobs were eliminated in the twentieth century by new assembly-line robots,” wrote all-time (human) Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings soon after the lopsided match ended, “Brad [Rutter, the other defeated champ] and I were the first knowledge-industry workers put out of work by the new generation of ‘thinking’ machines. ‘Quiz show contestant’ may be the first job made redundant by Watson, but I’m sure it won’t be the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the well-publicized trouncing, IBM announced that one of its first “use cases” for Watson would be medicine. Sean Hogan, vice president for IBM Healthcare, told me that “health care jumped out as an area whose complexity and nuances would be\u003ca href=\"https://contextly.com/redirect/?id=K8AsBQdj7f:274449:4068:13:::sidebar:5820be532053f2-30720465\" target=\"_blank\"> receptive to what Watson was representing\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sticking Up for Team Human\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy McAfee, coauthor with Erik Brynjolfsson of the terrific book \"The Second Machine Age,\" agrees with Khosla that computers will ultimately take over much of what physicians do, including diagnosis. “I can’t see how that doesn’t happen,” McAfee, a self-described “technology optimist,” told me when we met for lunch near his MIT office. McAfee and Brynjolfsson argue that the confluence of staggering growth in computing power, zetabytes of fully networked information available on the Web, and the “combinatorial power” of innovation mean that areas that seemed like dead ends, such as artificial intelligence in medicine, are now within reach. They liken the speed with which old digital barriers are falling to Hemingway’s observation about how a person goes broke: “gradually, then suddenly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In speaking with both McAfee and Khosla, I felt a strange obligation to stick up for my teams: humans and the subset of humans called doctors. I told McAfee that while I was in awe of the driverless car and IBM’s victories in chess (over world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997) and Jeopardy, he just didn’t understand how hard medicine is. Answering questions posed by Alex Trebek like, “While Maltese borrows many words from Italian, it developed from a dialect of this Semitic language” (the correct response is “What is Arabic?”—Watson answered it, and 65 of the 74 other questions it rang in for, correctly) is tricky, sure, but, at the end of the day, one is simply culling a series of databases to find a fact—a single right answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Quiz show contestant’ may be the first job made redundant by Watson, but I’m sure it won’t be the last.'\u003ccite>(Human) 'Jeopardy' champ Ken Jennings\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Medical diagnosis isn’t like that. For one thing, uncertainty is endemic, so that the “correct” answer is often a surprisingly probabilistic notion. For another, many diagnoses reveal themselves over time. The patient may present with, say, a headache, but not a worrisome one, and so the primary treatment is reassurance, Tylenol, and time. If the headache worsens over the next two weeks—particularly if it is now accompanied by additional symptoms such as weakness or nausea—that’s an entirely different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAfee listened sympathetically—he’s obviously heard scores of versions of the \"You just don’t understand; my work is different\" argument—and then said, “I imagine there are a bunch of really smart geeks at IBM taking notes as guys like you describe this situation. In their heads, they’re asking, ‘How do I model that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undaunted, I tried another tack on Khosla when we met in his office in Menlo Park. “Vinod,” I said, “in medicine we have something we call the ‘eyeball test.’ That means I can see two patients whose numbers look the same”—things like temperature, heart rate, and blood counts—“and my training allows me to say, ‘That guy is sick [I pointed to an imaginary person across the imposing conference table] and the other is okay.’” And good doctors are usually right, I told him, as we possess a kind of sixth sense that we acquire from our training, our role models, and a thousand cases of trial and error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Khosla could dismiss this as the usual whining from a dinosaur on the edge of extinction, I tossed him an example from his own world. “I’ll bet you have CEOs of start-ups constantly coming through this office pitching their companies,” I said. “I can imagine two companies that look the same on paper: both CEOs have Stanford MBAs; the proposals have similar financials. Your skill is to be able to point to one and say, ‘Winner’ and to the other, ‘Loser,’ and I’m guessing you’re right more often than not. You’re using information that isn’t measurable. Right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nice try. He didn’t budge. “The question is, ‘Is it not measurable or is it not being measured?’” he responded. “And, when does your instinct work and when does it mislead? I think if you did a rigorous study, you’d find that your ‘eyeball test’ is far less effective than you think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P18EdAKuC1U\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Secrets of the Great Diagnosticians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a rich 50-year history of efforts to build artificial intelligence (AI) systems in health care, and it’s not a particularly uplifting story. Even technophiles admit that the quest to replace doctors with computers—or even the more modest ambition of providing them with useful guidance at the point of care—has been overhyped and unproductive. But times have changed. The growing prevalence of electronic health records offers grist for the AI and big data mills, grist that wasn’t available when the records were on paper. And in this, the Age of Watson, we have new techniques, like natural language processing and machine learning, at our disposal. Perhaps this is our “gradually, then suddenly” moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Early attempts to use computers for diagnosis were like tackling Saturday’s crossword puzzle in the New York Times before first mastering the one in USA Today.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The public worships dynamic, innovative surgeons like Michael DeBakey; passionate, insightful researchers like Jonas Salk; and telegenic show horses like Mehmet Oz. But we seldom hear about those doctors whom other physicians tend to hold in the highest esteem: the great medical diagnosticians. These sages, like the legendary Johns Hopkins professors William Osler and A. McGehee Harvey, had the uncanny ability to deduce the truth from what others found to be a jumble of symptoms, signs, and lab results. In fact, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a physician by training, modeled Sherlock Holmes on one of his old professors, Joseph Bell, a renowned diagnostician at Edinburgh’s medical school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most doctors, diagnosis forms the essence of their practice (and of their professional souls), which may help explain why we find it so painful to believe that this particular skill could be replaced by silicon wafers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, a Tufts kidney specialist named Jerome Kassirer (who later became editor of the New England Journal of Medicine) decided to try to unlock the cognitive secrets of the great diagnosticians. If he succeeded, the rewards could be great. The insights, problem-solving strategies, and reasoning patterns of these medical geniuses might be teachable to other physicians, perhaps even programmed into computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kassirer focused first on the differential diagnosis, the method that doctors have long used to inventory and sort through their patients’ problems. The differential diagnosis is to a physician what the building of hypotheses is to a basic scientist: the core work of the professional mind. Let’s say a female patient complains of right lower abdominal pain and fever. We automatically begin to generate “a differential,” including appendicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, kidney infection, and a host of less common disorders—some of them quite serious. Our job is to weigh the facts at hand in an effort to ultimately “rule in” one diagnosis on the list and “rule out” the others. Sometimes, the information we gather from the history and physical examination is sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More often, particularly when patients are truly ill, we require additional laboratory or radiographic studies to push one of the diagnoses over the “rule in” line. There is considerable skill, and no small amount of art, involved in this process. For one thing, we need to figure out whether the patient’s symptoms are part of a single disease or are manifestations of two or more distinct illnesses. The principle known as\u003ca href=\"http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=26739\" target=\"_blank\"> Occam’s Razor\u003c/a> bids us to try to find a unifying diagnosis for all of a patient’s symptoms. But as soon as medical students memorize this so-called Law of Clinical Parsimony, we whipsaw them with \u003ca href=\"http://www.emergencymedicalparamedic.com/what-is-hickams-dictum/\" target=\"_blank\">Hickam’s Dictum\u003c/a>, which counters, irreverently, that “patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"fXsrKyRyGekfunOt3dsmZPdJAbzwHrbd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting the “rule in” threshold is yet another challenge, since it’s wholly dependent on the context. For diseases with relatively benign treatments and prognoses—let’s say, stomach discomfort with no alarming features—I might make the diagnosis of “nonulcer dyspepsia” if I’m 75 percent certain that this is what’s going on. Why? Dyspepsia is a not-too-serious illness, the other illnesses that might present with the same symptoms aren’t likely to be acutely life-threatening either, and dyspepsia has a safe, inexpensive, and fairly effective treatment. All of this makes a 75 percent threshold high enough for me to try an acid-blocker and see what happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now let’s turn to a patient who presents with acute shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. In this patient, I’m considering the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (a blood clot to the lungs), a more serious disorder whose treatment (blood thinners) is riskier. Now, I’d want to be at least 95 percent sure before attaching that diagnostic label. And I won’t rule in a diagnosis of cancer—with its psychological freight, prognostic implications, and toxic treatments—unless I’m close to 100 percent certain, even if it takes a surgical biopsy to achieve this level of confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kassirer and his colleagues observed the diagnostic reasoning of scores of clinicians. They found that the good ones employed robust strategies to answer these knotty questions, even if they couldn’t always articulate what they were doing and why. The researchers ultimately came to appreciate that the physicians were engaging in a process called “iterative hypothesis testing” to transform the differential diagnosis (or, more accurately, diagnoses, since sick patients often have a variety of abnormalities to be explained) into something actionable. After hearing the initial portion of a case, the doctors began drawing possible scenarios to explain it, modifying their opinions as they went along and more information became available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, when a physician confronts a case that begins with, “This 57-year-old man has three days of chest pain, shortness of breath, and lightheadedness,” she responds by thinking, “The worst thing this could be is a heart attack or a pulmonary embolism. I need to ask if the chest pain bores through to the back, which would make me worry about aortic dissection [a rip in the aorta]. I’ll also inquire about typical cardiac symptoms, such as sweating and nausea, and see if the pain is squeezing or radiates to the left arm or jaw. But even if it doesn’t, I’ll certainly get an EKG to rule out a heart attack or pericarditis [inflammation of the sac that surrounds the heart]. If he also reports a fever or a cough, I might begin to suspect pneumonia or pleurisy. The chest X-ray should help sort that out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every answer the patient gives, and each positive or negative finding on the physical examination (yes, there is a heart murmur; no, the liver is not enlarged) triggers an automatic, almost intuitive recalibration of the most likely alternatives. When I see a master clinician at work—my favorite is my UCSF colleague Gurpreet Dhaliwal, who was profiled in a 2012\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/health/quest-to-eliminate-diagnostic-lapses.html\" target=\"_blank\"> New York Times article\u003c/a>—I know that these synapses are firing as he asks a patient a series of questions that may seem unrelated to the patient’s presenting complaint but are directed toward “narrowing the differential.” It turns out that there’s an even more impressive piece of cognitive magic going on. The master clinician embraces certain pieces of data (the patient’s trip to rural Thailand last year) while discarding others (an episode of belly pain and bloating three weeks ago). This is the part of diagnostic reasoning that beginners find most vexing, since they lack the foundational knowledge to understand why their teacher focused so intently on one nugget of information and all but ignored others that, to the novice, seemed equally crucial. How do the great diagnosticians make such choices?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We now recognize this as a relatively intuitive version of \u003ca href=\"http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10301\" target=\"_blank\">Bayes’ theorem\u003c/a>. Developed by the eighteenth-century British theologian-turned-mathematician Thomas Bayes, this theorem (often ignored by students because it is taught to them with the dryness of a Passover matzo) is the linchpin of clinical reasoning. In essence, Bayes’ theorem says that any medical test must be interpreted from two perspectives. The first: How accurate is the test—that is, how often does it give right or wrong answers? The second: How likely is it that this patient has the disease the test is looking for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These deceptively simple questions explain why, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic (when HIV testing was far less accurate than it is today), it was silly to test heterosexual couples applying for a marriage license, since the vast majority of positive tests in this very low-risk group would be wrong. Similarly, they show why it is foolish to screen healthy 36-year-old executives with a cardiac treadmill test or a heart scan, since positive results will mostly be false positives, serving only to scare the bejesus out of the patients and run up bills for unnecessary follow-up tests. Conversely, in a 68-year-old smoker with diabetes and high cholesterol who develops squeezing chest pain while jogging, there is a 95 percent chance that those pains are from coronary artery disease. In this case, a negative treadmill test only lowers this probability to about 80 percent, so the clinician who reassures the patient that his negative test means that his heart is fine—“take some antacids; it’s OK to keep jogging”—is making a terrible, and potentially fatal, mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The AI Challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if this weren’t complicated enough for the poor IBM engineer gearing up to retool Watson from answering questions about “Potent Potables” to diagnosing sick patients, there’s more. While the EHR at least offers a fighting chance for computerized diagnosis (older medical AI programs, built in the pen-and-paper era, required busy physicians to write their notes and then reenter all the key data), parsing an electronic medical record is far from straightforward. Natural language processing is getting much better, but it still has real problems with negation (“the patient has no history of chest pain or cough”) and with family history (“there is a history of arthritis in the patient’s sister, but his mother is well”), to name just a couple of issues. Certain terms have multiple meanings: when written by a psychiatrist, the term depression is likely to refer to a mood disorder, while when it appears in a cardiologist’s note (“there was no evidence of ST-depression”) it probably refers to a dip in the EKG tracing that is often a clue to coronary disease. Ditto abbreviations: Does the patient with “MS” have multiple sclerosis or mitral stenosis, a sticky heart valve? Finally, the computer can’t read a patient’s tone of voice or the anxious look on her face, although engineers are working on this. These clues—like one patient saying, “I have chest pain,” and another, “I HAVE CHEST PAIN!!!”—can make all the difference in the world diagnostically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the trickiest problem of all is that—at least today—the very collection of the facts needed to feed an AI system is itself a cognitively complex process. Let’s return to the example of aortic dissection, a rip in the aorta that is often fatal if it is not treated promptly. If the initial history raises the slightest concern about dissection, I’m going to ask questions about whether the pain bores through to the back and check carefully for the quiet murmur of aortic insufficiency as well as for asymmetric blood pressure readings in the two arms, all clues to dissection. If I don’t harbor a suspicion of this scary (and unusual) disease, I’m not going to look for these things—they’re not part of a routine exam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades ago, MIT’s Peter Szolovits, an AI expert who worked with Kassirer and his colleagues in the early days, gave up thinking about diagnosis as a simple matter of question answering. This was mostly because he came to appreciate the importance of timing—a nonissue in Jeopardy but a pivotal one in medicine. “A heart attack that happened five years ago has different implications from one that happened five minutes ago,” he explained, and a computer can’t “know” this unless it is programmed to do so. (It turns out that such issues of foundational knowledge are fundamental in AI—computers have no way of “knowing” some of the basic assumptions that allow us to get through our days, things like water is wet, love is good, and death is permanent.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, much of medical reasoning relies on feedback loops: observing how events unfold and using that information to refine the diagnostic possibilities.We think a patient has bacterial pneumonia, and so we treat the “pneumonia” with antibiotics, but the patient’s fever doesn’t break after three days. So now we consider the possibility of tuberculosis or lupus. This is the cognitive work of the practicing clinician—focused a bit less on “What is the diagnosis?” and more on “How do I best manage this situation?”—and an AI program that doesn’t account for this will be of limited value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Early Attempts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that you appreciate the nature of the problem, it’s easy (in retrospect, at least) to see why the choice by early health care computer experts to focus on diagnosis was risky, perhaps even wrongheaded. It’s like tackling Saturday’s crossword puzzle in the New York Times before first mastering the one in USA Today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Fagan, an early Stanford computing pioneer, told me, “We were not naive about the complexity. It’s just that it was the most exciting question.” Diagnosis is not just exciting, it’s at the heart of safe medical care. Diagnostic errors are common, and they can be fatal. A number of autopsy studies conducted over the past 40 years have shown that major diagnoses were overlooked in nearly one in five patients. With the advent of CT scans and MRIs, the number has gone down a bit, but it still hovers around one in ten. Diagnostic errors contribute to 40,000 to 80,000 deaths per year in the United States. And reviews of malpractice cases have demonstrated that diagnostic errors are the most common source of mistakes leading to successful lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical IT experts jumped into the fray in the 1970s, designing a series of computer programs that they believed could help physicians be better diagnosticians, or perhaps even replace them entirely. That decade’s literature was replete with enthusiastic articles about how microprocessors, programmed to think like experts, would soon replace the brains of harried doctors. The attitude was captured by one early computing pioneer in a 1971 paean to his computer: “It is immune from fatigue and carelessness; and it works day and night, weekends and holidays, without coffee breaks, overtime, fringe benefits or human courtesy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-1980s, disappointment had set in. The tools that had seemed so promising a decade earlier were, by and large, unable to manage the complexity of clinical medicine, and they garnered few clinician advocates and miniscule commercial adoption. The medical AI movement skidded to a halt, marking the start of a 20-year period that insiders still refer to as the “AI winter.” Ted Shortliffe, one of the field’s longstanding leaders, has said that the early experience with programs like INTERNIST, DXplain, and MYCIN reminded him of this cartoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/cartoon.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-276235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"cartoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/cartoon.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/cartoon-160x199.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/cartoon-240x298.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Version 0'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinod Khosla is prepared for this. He knows that even today’s generation of medical AI programs will produce some crazy output, akin to when Watson famously mistook Toronto for an American city during its Jeopardy triumph. (It was worse in rehearsal, when Watson referred to civil rights leader Malcolm X as “Malcolm Ten.”) Khosla points out that the enormous cellphones of the late 1980s would seem equally ridiculous when placed alongside our iPhone 6.0s. He calls today’s medical AI programs “Version 0,” and cautions that people should “expect these early systems and tools to be the butt of jokes from many a writer and physician.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These cases illustrate a perennial debate in AI, one that pits two camps against each other: the “neats” and the “scruffies.” The neats seek solutions that are elegant and provable; they try to model the way experts think and work, and then code that into AI tools. The scruffies are the pragmatists, the hackers, the crazy ones; they believe that problems should be attacked through whatever means work, and that modeling the behavior of experts or the scientific truth of a situation isn’t all that important. IBM’s breakthrough was to figure out that a combination of neat and scruffy—programming in some of the core rules of the game, but then folding in the fruits of machine learning and natural language processing—could solve truly complicated problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was asked about the difference between human thinking and Watson’s method, Eric Brown, who runs IBM’s Watson Technologies group, gave a careful answer (note the shout-out to the humans, the bit players who made it all possible):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A lot of the way that Watson works is motivated by the way that humans analyze problems and go about trying to find solutions, especially when it comes to dealing with complex problems where there are a number of intermediate steps toget you to the final answer. So it certainly is inspired by that process. . . . But a lot of it is different from the ways humans work; it tends to leverage the powers and advantages of a computer system, and its ability to rapidly analyze huge amounts of data and text that humans just can’t keep track of.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>However Watson works, we find ourselves today in a world with new tools, new mental models, and a new sense of optimism that computers can do pretty much anything. But have we finally reached the age when computers can master the art of clinical reasoning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Eric Brown, who worked on the \"Jeopardy\" project and is now helping to lead Watson’s efforts in medicine, what the equivalent event might be in health care, the moment when his team could finally congratulate itself on its successes. I wondered if it would be the creation of some kind of holographic physician—like “\u003ca href=\"http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Holographic_program\" target=\"_blank\">The Doctor\u003c/a>” on Star Trek Voyager—with Watson serving as the cognitive engine. His answer, though, reflected the deep respect he and his colleagues have for the magnitude of the challenge:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be when we have a technology that physicians suddenly can’t live without.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This is an edited excerpt from Robert Wachter’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Doctor-Hope-Medicines-Computer/dp/0071849467\" target=\"_blank\">The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age\u003c/a>,” reprinted with permission from McGraw-Hill. Copyright 2015.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2012, Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has been predicting that most of what physicians currently do can, will, and should be done by computers. “By 2025,” he has written, “more data-driven, automated health care will displace up to 80 percent of physicians’ diagnostic and prescription work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">A computer can’t read a patient’s tone of voice or anxious look. These clues—like one patient saying, “I have chest pain,” and another, “I HAVE CHEST PAIN!!!”—can make all the difference in diagnosis.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Though Khosla’s comments have irked many a physician, I’m not willing to dismiss him as a kooky provocateur or a utopian techno-evangelist. First of all, his investment track record has made him a Silicon Valley rock star. More important, as recently as a decade ago, some very smart and savvy computer engineers and economists believed that another seemingly intractable problem, building a driverless car, was beyond the reach of modern technology. As of April 2014, the Google car had clocked nearly 700,000 miles and been involved in just two accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the driverless car weren’t enough of a challenge to human superiority, who could have watched IBM’s Watson supercomputer defeat the Jeopardy Hall of Famers in 2011 and not fretted about the future of physicians, or any highly skilled workers, for that matter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just as factory jobs were eliminated in the twentieth century by new assembly-line robots,” wrote all-time (human) Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings soon after the lopsided match ended, “Brad [Rutter, the other defeated champ] and I were the first knowledge-industry workers put out of work by the new generation of ‘thinking’ machines. ‘Quiz show contestant’ may be the first job made redundant by Watson, but I’m sure it won’t be the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the well-publicized trouncing, IBM announced that one of its first “use cases” for Watson would be medicine. Sean Hogan, vice president for IBM Healthcare, told me that “health care jumped out as an area whose complexity and nuances would be\u003ca href=\"https://contextly.com/redirect/?id=K8AsBQdj7f:274449:4068:13:::sidebar:5820be532053f2-30720465\" target=\"_blank\"> receptive to what Watson was representing\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sticking Up for Team Human\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy McAfee, coauthor with Erik Brynjolfsson of the terrific book \"The Second Machine Age,\" agrees with Khosla that computers will ultimately take over much of what physicians do, including diagnosis. “I can’t see how that doesn’t happen,” McAfee, a self-described “technology optimist,” told me when we met for lunch near his MIT office. McAfee and Brynjolfsson argue that the confluence of staggering growth in computing power, zetabytes of fully networked information available on the Web, and the “combinatorial power” of innovation mean that areas that seemed like dead ends, such as artificial intelligence in medicine, are now within reach. They liken the speed with which old digital barriers are falling to Hemingway’s observation about how a person goes broke: “gradually, then suddenly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In speaking with both McAfee and Khosla, I felt a strange obligation to stick up for my teams: humans and the subset of humans called doctors. I told McAfee that while I was in awe of the driverless car and IBM’s victories in chess (over world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997) and Jeopardy, he just didn’t understand how hard medicine is. Answering questions posed by Alex Trebek like, “While Maltese borrows many words from Italian, it developed from a dialect of this Semitic language” (the correct response is “What is Arabic?”—Watson answered it, and 65 of the 74 other questions it rang in for, correctly) is tricky, sure, but, at the end of the day, one is simply culling a series of databases to find a fact—a single right answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Quiz show contestant’ may be the first job made redundant by Watson, but I’m sure it won’t be the last.'\u003ccite>(Human) 'Jeopardy' champ Ken Jennings\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Medical diagnosis isn’t like that. For one thing, uncertainty is endemic, so that the “correct” answer is often a surprisingly probabilistic notion. For another, many diagnoses reveal themselves over time. The patient may present with, say, a headache, but not a worrisome one, and so the primary treatment is reassurance, Tylenol, and time. If the headache worsens over the next two weeks—particularly if it is now accompanied by additional symptoms such as weakness or nausea—that’s an entirely different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAfee listened sympathetically—he’s obviously heard scores of versions of the \"You just don’t understand; my work is different\" argument—and then said, “I imagine there are a bunch of really smart geeks at IBM taking notes as guys like you describe this situation. In their heads, they’re asking, ‘How do I model that?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undaunted, I tried another tack on Khosla when we met in his office in Menlo Park. “Vinod,” I said, “in medicine we have something we call the ‘eyeball test.’ That means I can see two patients whose numbers look the same”—things like temperature, heart rate, and blood counts—“and my training allows me to say, ‘That guy is sick [I pointed to an imaginary person across the imposing conference table] and the other is okay.’” And good doctors are usually right, I told him, as we possess a kind of sixth sense that we acquire from our training, our role models, and a thousand cases of trial and error.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Khosla could dismiss this as the usual whining from a dinosaur on the edge of extinction, I tossed him an example from his own world. “I’ll bet you have CEOs of start-ups constantly coming through this office pitching their companies,” I said. “I can imagine two companies that look the same on paper: both CEOs have Stanford MBAs; the proposals have similar financials. Your skill is to be able to point to one and say, ‘Winner’ and to the other, ‘Loser,’ and I’m guessing you’re right more often than not. You’re using information that isn’t measurable. Right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nice try. He didn’t budge. “The question is, ‘Is it not measurable or is it not being measured?’” he responded. “And, when does your instinct work and when does it mislead? I think if you did a rigorous study, you’d find that your ‘eyeball test’ is far less effective than you think.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/P18EdAKuC1U'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/P18EdAKuC1U'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Secrets of the Great Diagnosticians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a rich 50-year history of efforts to build artificial intelligence (AI) systems in health care, and it’s not a particularly uplifting story. Even technophiles admit that the quest to replace doctors with computers—or even the more modest ambition of providing them with useful guidance at the point of care—has been overhyped and unproductive. But times have changed. The growing prevalence of electronic health records offers grist for the AI and big data mills, grist that wasn’t available when the records were on paper. And in this, the Age of Watson, we have new techniques, like natural language processing and machine learning, at our disposal. Perhaps this is our “gradually, then suddenly” moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Early attempts to use computers for diagnosis were like tackling Saturday’s crossword puzzle in the New York Times before first mastering the one in USA Today.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The public worships dynamic, innovative surgeons like Michael DeBakey; passionate, insightful researchers like Jonas Salk; and telegenic show horses like Mehmet Oz. But we seldom hear about those doctors whom other physicians tend to hold in the highest esteem: the great medical diagnosticians. These sages, like the legendary Johns Hopkins professors William Osler and A. McGehee Harvey, had the uncanny ability to deduce the truth from what others found to be a jumble of symptoms, signs, and lab results. In fact, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a physician by training, modeled Sherlock Holmes on one of his old professors, Joseph Bell, a renowned diagnostician at Edinburgh’s medical school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most doctors, diagnosis forms the essence of their practice (and of their professional souls), which may help explain why we find it so painful to believe that this particular skill could be replaced by silicon wafers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, a Tufts kidney specialist named Jerome Kassirer (who later became editor of the New England Journal of Medicine) decided to try to unlock the cognitive secrets of the great diagnosticians. If he succeeded, the rewards could be great. The insights, problem-solving strategies, and reasoning patterns of these medical geniuses might be teachable to other physicians, perhaps even programmed into computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kassirer focused first on the differential diagnosis, the method that doctors have long used to inventory and sort through their patients’ problems. The differential diagnosis is to a physician what the building of hypotheses is to a basic scientist: the core work of the professional mind. Let’s say a female patient complains of right lower abdominal pain and fever. We automatically begin to generate “a differential,” including appendicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, kidney infection, and a host of less common disorders—some of them quite serious. Our job is to weigh the facts at hand in an effort to ultimately “rule in” one diagnosis on the list and “rule out” the others. Sometimes, the information we gather from the history and physical examination is sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More often, particularly when patients are truly ill, we require additional laboratory or radiographic studies to push one of the diagnoses over the “rule in” line. There is considerable skill, and no small amount of art, involved in this process. For one thing, we need to figure out whether the patient’s symptoms are part of a single disease or are manifestations of two or more distinct illnesses. The principle known as\u003ca href=\"http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=26739\" target=\"_blank\"> Occam’s Razor\u003c/a> bids us to try to find a unifying diagnosis for all of a patient’s symptoms. But as soon as medical students memorize this so-called Law of Clinical Parsimony, we whipsaw them with \u003ca href=\"http://www.emergencymedicalparamedic.com/what-is-hickams-dictum/\" target=\"_blank\">Hickam’s Dictum\u003c/a>, which counters, irreverently, that “patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Setting the “rule in” threshold is yet another challenge, since it’s wholly dependent on the context. For diseases with relatively benign treatments and prognoses—let’s say, stomach discomfort with no alarming features—I might make the diagnosis of “nonulcer dyspepsia” if I’m 75 percent certain that this is what’s going on. Why? Dyspepsia is a not-too-serious illness, the other illnesses that might present with the same symptoms aren’t likely to be acutely life-threatening either, and dyspepsia has a safe, inexpensive, and fairly effective treatment. All of this makes a 75 percent threshold high enough for me to try an acid-blocker and see what happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now let’s turn to a patient who presents with acute shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. In this patient, I’m considering the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (a blood clot to the lungs), a more serious disorder whose treatment (blood thinners) is riskier. Now, I’d want to be at least 95 percent sure before attaching that diagnostic label. And I won’t rule in a diagnosis of cancer—with its psychological freight, prognostic implications, and toxic treatments—unless I’m close to 100 percent certain, even if it takes a surgical biopsy to achieve this level of confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kassirer and his colleagues observed the diagnostic reasoning of scores of clinicians. They found that the good ones employed robust strategies to answer these knotty questions, even if they couldn’t always articulate what they were doing and why. The researchers ultimately came to appreciate that the physicians were engaging in a process called “iterative hypothesis testing” to transform the differential diagnosis (or, more accurately, diagnoses, since sick patients often have a variety of abnormalities to be explained) into something actionable. After hearing the initial portion of a case, the doctors began drawing possible scenarios to explain it, modifying their opinions as they went along and more information became available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, when a physician confronts a case that begins with, “This 57-year-old man has three days of chest pain, shortness of breath, and lightheadedness,” she responds by thinking, “The worst thing this could be is a heart attack or a pulmonary embolism. I need to ask if the chest pain bores through to the back, which would make me worry about aortic dissection [a rip in the aorta]. I’ll also inquire about typical cardiac symptoms, such as sweating and nausea, and see if the pain is squeezing or radiates to the left arm or jaw. But even if it doesn’t, I’ll certainly get an EKG to rule out a heart attack or pericarditis [inflammation of the sac that surrounds the heart]. If he also reports a fever or a cough, I might begin to suspect pneumonia or pleurisy. The chest X-ray should help sort that out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every answer the patient gives, and each positive or negative finding on the physical examination (yes, there is a heart murmur; no, the liver is not enlarged) triggers an automatic, almost intuitive recalibration of the most likely alternatives. When I see a master clinician at work—my favorite is my UCSF colleague Gurpreet Dhaliwal, who was profiled in a 2012\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/health/quest-to-eliminate-diagnostic-lapses.html\" target=\"_blank\"> New York Times article\u003c/a>—I know that these synapses are firing as he asks a patient a series of questions that may seem unrelated to the patient’s presenting complaint but are directed toward “narrowing the differential.” It turns out that there’s an even more impressive piece of cognitive magic going on. The master clinician embraces certain pieces of data (the patient’s trip to rural Thailand last year) while discarding others (an episode of belly pain and bloating three weeks ago). This is the part of diagnostic reasoning that beginners find most vexing, since they lack the foundational knowledge to understand why their teacher focused so intently on one nugget of information and all but ignored others that, to the novice, seemed equally crucial. How do the great diagnosticians make such choices?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We now recognize this as a relatively intuitive version of \u003ca href=\"http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10301\" target=\"_blank\">Bayes’ theorem\u003c/a>. Developed by the eighteenth-century British theologian-turned-mathematician Thomas Bayes, this theorem (often ignored by students because it is taught to them with the dryness of a Passover matzo) is the linchpin of clinical reasoning. In essence, Bayes’ theorem says that any medical test must be interpreted from two perspectives. The first: How accurate is the test—that is, how often does it give right or wrong answers? The second: How likely is it that this patient has the disease the test is looking for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These deceptively simple questions explain why, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic (when HIV testing was far less accurate than it is today), it was silly to test heterosexual couples applying for a marriage license, since the vast majority of positive tests in this very low-risk group would be wrong. Similarly, they show why it is foolish to screen healthy 36-year-old executives with a cardiac treadmill test or a heart scan, since positive results will mostly be false positives, serving only to scare the bejesus out of the patients and run up bills for unnecessary follow-up tests. Conversely, in a 68-year-old smoker with diabetes and high cholesterol who develops squeezing chest pain while jogging, there is a 95 percent chance that those pains are from coronary artery disease. In this case, a negative treadmill test only lowers this probability to about 80 percent, so the clinician who reassures the patient that his negative test means that his heart is fine—“take some antacids; it’s OK to keep jogging”—is making a terrible, and potentially fatal, mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The AI Challenge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if this weren’t complicated enough for the poor IBM engineer gearing up to retool Watson from answering questions about “Potent Potables” to diagnosing sick patients, there’s more. While the EHR at least offers a fighting chance for computerized diagnosis (older medical AI programs, built in the pen-and-paper era, required busy physicians to write their notes and then reenter all the key data), parsing an electronic medical record is far from straightforward. Natural language processing is getting much better, but it still has real problems with negation (“the patient has no history of chest pain or cough”) and with family history (“there is a history of arthritis in the patient’s sister, but his mother is well”), to name just a couple of issues. Certain terms have multiple meanings: when written by a psychiatrist, the term depression is likely to refer to a mood disorder, while when it appears in a cardiologist’s note (“there was no evidence of ST-depression”) it probably refers to a dip in the EKG tracing that is often a clue to coronary disease. Ditto abbreviations: Does the patient with “MS” have multiple sclerosis or mitral stenosis, a sticky heart valve? Finally, the computer can’t read a patient’s tone of voice or the anxious look on her face, although engineers are working on this. These clues—like one patient saying, “I have chest pain,” and another, “I HAVE CHEST PAIN!!!”—can make all the difference in the world diagnostically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the trickiest problem of all is that—at least today—the very collection of the facts needed to feed an AI system is itself a cognitively complex process. Let’s return to the example of aortic dissection, a rip in the aorta that is often fatal if it is not treated promptly. If the initial history raises the slightest concern about dissection, I’m going to ask questions about whether the pain bores through to the back and check carefully for the quiet murmur of aortic insufficiency as well as for asymmetric blood pressure readings in the two arms, all clues to dissection. If I don’t harbor a suspicion of this scary (and unusual) disease, I’m not going to look for these things—they’re not part of a routine exam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades ago, MIT’s Peter Szolovits, an AI expert who worked with Kassirer and his colleagues in the early days, gave up thinking about diagnosis as a simple matter of question answering. This was mostly because he came to appreciate the importance of timing—a nonissue in Jeopardy but a pivotal one in medicine. “A heart attack that happened five years ago has different implications from one that happened five minutes ago,” he explained, and a computer can’t “know” this unless it is programmed to do so. (It turns out that such issues of foundational knowledge are fundamental in AI—computers have no way of “knowing” some of the basic assumptions that allow us to get through our days, things like water is wet, love is good, and death is permanent.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, much of medical reasoning relies on feedback loops: observing how events unfold and using that information to refine the diagnostic possibilities.We think a patient has bacterial pneumonia, and so we treat the “pneumonia” with antibiotics, but the patient’s fever doesn’t break after three days. So now we consider the possibility of tuberculosis or lupus. This is the cognitive work of the practicing clinician—focused a bit less on “What is the diagnosis?” and more on “How do I best manage this situation?”—and an AI program that doesn’t account for this will be of limited value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Early Attempts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that you appreciate the nature of the problem, it’s easy (in retrospect, at least) to see why the choice by early health care computer experts to focus on diagnosis was risky, perhaps even wrongheaded. It’s like tackling Saturday’s crossword puzzle in the New York Times before first mastering the one in USA Today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Fagan, an early Stanford computing pioneer, told me, “We were not naive about the complexity. It’s just that it was the most exciting question.” Diagnosis is not just exciting, it’s at the heart of safe medical care. Diagnostic errors are common, and they can be fatal. A number of autopsy studies conducted over the past 40 years have shown that major diagnoses were overlooked in nearly one in five patients. With the advent of CT scans and MRIs, the number has gone down a bit, but it still hovers around one in ten. Diagnostic errors contribute to 40,000 to 80,000 deaths per year in the United States. And reviews of malpractice cases have demonstrated that diagnostic errors are the most common source of mistakes leading to successful lawsuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medical IT experts jumped into the fray in the 1970s, designing a series of computer programs that they believed could help physicians be better diagnosticians, or perhaps even replace them entirely. That decade’s literature was replete with enthusiastic articles about how microprocessors, programmed to think like experts, would soon replace the brains of harried doctors. The attitude was captured by one early computing pioneer in a 1971 paean to his computer: “It is immune from fatigue and carelessness; and it works day and night, weekends and holidays, without coffee breaks, overtime, fringe benefits or human courtesy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-1980s, disappointment had set in. The tools that had seemed so promising a decade earlier were, by and large, unable to manage the complexity of clinical medicine, and they garnered few clinician advocates and miniscule commercial adoption. The medical AI movement skidded to a halt, marking the start of a 20-year period that insiders still refer to as the “AI winter.” Ted Shortliffe, one of the field’s longstanding leaders, has said that the early experience with programs like INTERNIST, DXplain, and MYCIN reminded him of this cartoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/cartoon.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-276235\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"cartoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/cartoon.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/cartoon-160x199.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/11/cartoon-240x298.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Version 0'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinod Khosla is prepared for this. He knows that even today’s generation of medical AI programs will produce some crazy output, akin to when Watson famously mistook Toronto for an American city during its Jeopardy triumph. (It was worse in rehearsal, when Watson referred to civil rights leader Malcolm X as “Malcolm Ten.”) Khosla points out that the enormous cellphones of the late 1980s would seem equally ridiculous when placed alongside our iPhone 6.0s. He calls today’s medical AI programs “Version 0,” and cautions that people should “expect these early systems and tools to be the butt of jokes from many a writer and physician.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These cases illustrate a perennial debate in AI, one that pits two camps against each other: the “neats” and the “scruffies.” The neats seek solutions that are elegant and provable; they try to model the way experts think and work, and then code that into AI tools. The scruffies are the pragmatists, the hackers, the crazy ones; they believe that problems should be attacked through whatever means work, and that modeling the behavior of experts or the scientific truth of a situation isn’t all that important. IBM’s breakthrough was to figure out that a combination of neat and scruffy—programming in some of the core rules of the game, but then folding in the fruits of machine learning and natural language processing—could solve truly complicated problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was asked about the difference between human thinking and Watson’s method, Eric Brown, who runs IBM’s Watson Technologies group, gave a careful answer (note the shout-out to the humans, the bit players who made it all possible):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A lot of the way that Watson works is motivated by the way that humans analyze problems and go about trying to find solutions, especially when it comes to dealing with complex problems where there are a number of intermediate steps toget you to the final answer. So it certainly is inspired by that process. . . . But a lot of it is different from the ways humans work; it tends to leverage the powers and advantages of a computer system, and its ability to rapidly analyze huge amounts of data and text that humans just can’t keep track of.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>However Watson works, we find ourselves today in a world with new tools, new mental models, and a new sense of optimism that computers can do pretty much anything. But have we finally reached the age when computers can master the art of clinical reasoning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Eric Brown, who worked on the \"Jeopardy\" project and is now helping to lead Watson’s efforts in medicine, what the equivalent event might be in health care, the moment when his team could finally congratulate itself on its successes. I wondered if it would be the creation of some kind of holographic physician—like “\u003ca href=\"http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Holographic_program\" target=\"_blank\">The Doctor\u003c/a>” on Star Trek Voyager—with Watson serving as the cognitive engine. His answer, though, reflected the deep respect he and his colleagues have for the magnitude of the challenge:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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