Here’s an article at NPR that gives advice on talking to doctors about pain. It questions the usefulness of the old tried-and-true 1-10 pain scale and comes down in favor of more descriptive words. It’s not that I disagree entirely; … Continue reading →
The power of a mitochondria injection: In animal studies at Boston Children’s Hospital and elsewhere, mitochondrial transplants revived heart muscle that was stunned from a heart attack but not yet dead, and revived injured lungs and kidneys. Infusions of mitochondria … Continue reading →
…finally in the works after all these years and many false hopes? Drug treatment has reduced the mortality of AIDS, particularly in countries where people (and insurers) can afford the treatment. Even in Africa, the continent hardest hit, progress has … Continue reading →
Let me get a couple of things straight: the first is that there has been a recent uptick in suicide rates in the US, as I wrote about yesterday. The second is that there have been plenty of things about … Continue reading →
This news is not completely unexpected. I was thinking about Krauthammer the other day, who has had undisclosed but obviously serious health problems for almost a year, and wondering how he might be and when we might be hearing from … Continue reading →
This news is not completely unexpected. I was thinking about Krauthammer the other day, who has had undisclosed but obviously serious health problems for almost a year, and wondering how he might be and when we might be hearing from … Continue reading →
This news is not completely unexpected. I was thinking about Krauthammer the other day, who has had undisclosed but obviously serious health problems for almost a year, and wondering how he might be and when we might be hearing from … Continue reading →
This news is not completely unexpected. I was thinking about Krauthammer the other day, who has had undisclosed but obviously serious health problems for almost a year, and wondering how he might be and when we might be hearing from … Continue reading →
This news is not completely unexpected. I was thinking about Krauthammer the other day, who has had undisclosed but obviously serious health problems for almost a year, and wondering how he might be and when we might be hearing from … Continue reading →
This news is not completely unexpected. I was thinking about Krauthammer the other day, who has had undisclosed but obviously serious health problems for almost a year, and wondering how he might be and when we might be hearing from … Continue reading →
There have been two suicides of prominent celebrities in the news in the past few days: Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. I’ll talk about them a bit later in this post, but I want to start with something more general—this … Continue reading →
One can hope. Regular readers of this blog may recall that I’ve written several times about sepsis. It’s a topic I really knew nothing about until I lost a loved one to it, and then I lost another. They both … Continue reading →