On the medical front …

Time magazine’s  ‘Are Doctors Just Playing Hunches?’  addresses the phenomenon of evidence based medicine, a growing presence in the world of health care.  Originated by Dr Gordon Guyatt of McMaster University, evidence based medicine has benefited appreciably from work by the Cochrane Collaboration, a network of researchers specializing in evaluating existing medical data; the Collaboration digs through reams of research to produce evaluations of the efficacy of medical treatments.  Guyatt and colleague David Sackett have stalwartly promoted evidence based medicine, though some of its limitations are now being recognized.  While there is still room for the traditional art and personal experience of the physician, evidence based medicine is commanding increasing appeal.

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