March 5, 2018
Published and unpublished studies by investigators in the pharmaceutical industry indicate that a disturbingly high number of academic laboratories’ reports nominating potential new cancer-drug targets are either
Infection causes one in five cancers throughout the world. Why do just seven human viruses cause cancer, but not others? Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), the recently discovered
October 26, 2017
There are 374 mental disorders. How many do you have? Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author
July 10, 2017
It’s relatively easy to imagine a new medicine — the hard part is testing it, and that can delay promising new cures for years. In this well-explained
July 8, 2017
Biochemist Gregory Petsko makes a convincing argument that, in the next 50 years, we’ll see an epidemic of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, as the world population
June 14, 2017
Matthew O’Reilly is a veteran emergency medical technician on Long Island, New York. In this talk, O’Reilly describes what happens next when a gravely hurt patient asks
May 10, 2017
Lasers that induce human dental stem cells to regenerate dentin, a tiny camera that can be attached to the tip of a catheter device and capture real
May 8, 2017
Jimmy and his wife Molly welcomed their second child together, William “Billy” Kimmel. At three days old, Billy had successful open heart surgery at Children’s Hospital Los
May 3, 2017
Physician David Casarett was tired of hearing hype and half-truths around medical marijuana, so he put on his skeptic’s hat and investigated on his own. He comes
April 25, 2017
New Expert Round Table on the Hottest Trials From ACC.17 Watch the new ACC Cardiology Hour, an expert roundtable discussion of late-breaking clinical trials from ACC.17. Valentin
April 12, 2017
Mario Cazzola, MD is an Associate Editor for Blood discusses his involvement with some of the biggest published studies to date.
April 1, 2017
Murray Cohen, PhD, MPH, CIH, science Advisor, Infectious Control Consultant Medical Grade Innovations, discusses what healthcare facilities can do to reduce community-acquired infections. Source: The Doctor’s
March 31, 2017
Farrin Manian, MD, discusses a retrospective study looking at patients presenting with a fall who also had a co-existing systemic infection. Obstacles and poor eyesight get blamed.
March 8, 2017
The following originally appeared at ZDoggMD.com.
February 28, 2017
The following was pulled from PW partner ZDoggMD at http://zdoggmd.com/vegetables. “What public health really needs is a 90’s-style gangsta rap about…vegetables. At least, that was the premise driving this collaboration with
January 3, 2017
The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a
