Research

What do we know? How do we know it? Evidence-based medicine…evidence-informed practice…patient-centered care…the art of medicine.… These terms fly around the landscape of integrative health and medicine with the potential to ultimately generate a meaningful consensus and a shared language for how we discuss clinical decision-making and clinical practice. With as clear a shared vision Read more

The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) is the largest health study of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States to date. As explored in a previous post on this blog, Einstein investigators in the Bronx lead one of the four sites for this project. The other sites are in Chicago, Miami and San Diego. While Read more

Graduate school is, for many, the first big dose of “failure is the mother of success.” After my first grant application came back with a substantially worse score on the revision submission than on the initial submission (how is that possible?), and the paper I was working on was rejected for the third time, my Read more

“Standard of care” research (also known as “comparative effectiveness” research) is a design that compares two therapies in routine use to determine which has greater benefits or fewer risks. All institutions that perform this research, including Albert Einstein College of Medicine and its University Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center, face questions about how to handle patient Read more

Editors’ Note: Malaria causes over 200 million new infections annually. Each year, more than 600,000 people die from the disease. The WHO estimates that an African child dies every minute from malaria. There has been progress, however. In April, the U.N. reported that malaria rates for children in Africa are down by half. Still, there is much to be Read more