The other day, I was getting my semi-annual cleaning at the dentist office. When the hygienist asked what I did before retirement, I told her I was a medical school professor. That touched off a 15-minute interrogation about childhood vaccination. She has an infant daughter. While she’s gotten all the recommended vaccines, she was plainly […]

“Southwest’s disappearing precipitation is also due to human-driven climate change,” University of Michigan News To end the Colorado River Basin’s megadrought, ‘we just need to stop climate change,’ a U-M expert says. ‘We know how to stop it and it’s not too late to stop it.’ Like much of the southwestern U.S., the Colorado River […]

Or Family First? The existing patten? When working couples start a family, many will face some life changing choices over time. For example, how much time they will re-invest to home rather than to work. Also, they will decide which one will make the bigger investment to family and home over work. What this rather […]

Typically, it does take more than one clinical study to insure . . . A lower number of Clinical Studies: WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration plans to begin requiring one clinical study, instead of the standard two, for medical products before consideration for approval, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced late in 2025.  While historically the […]

Intro . . . Pulling from the CDC and University of Minnesota for details on what appears to be a Measles outbreak in the United States. A recent outbreak occurring in multiple states include Arizona where I reside today. The outbreak in Arizona was or is still growing. Sixty-five percent of the cases are with […]

I started college at the dawning of the age of cloning. Recombinant DNA technology represented the transition from descriptive molecular biology to genetic engineering. By the time I started teaching medical students, the genes mutated in terrible diseases like cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs, hemophilia and Fragile X were being cloned. There was always an obligatory paragraph […]

I vividly recall a meeting when I was a young assistant professor and all the other male faculty, all MDs, were wearing white coats. The topic of “evidence-based medicine” came up. It was the first time I’d heard the phrase, so I asked the white-coat next to me (sotto voce, of course): “As opposed to […]

I was in the vaccine arm of the Moderna mRNA vaccine phase III trial. I’ve had a total of eight jabs since August 2020 and I’m still fine. Of course, I’m just an anecdote. But by now, hundreds of millions have had the mRNA vaccines worldwide, with few if any proven side effects beyond mild […]

Since Mister Tru_p has decided to take it to the populus or those who have little say, we are on a precipice of an economic fall. That is when we consider some of the other things he has implemented . . . such as tariffs? Healthcare is not a state issue. It is more of […]

In which Bill Cassidy aims to do to health coverage what he did to public health, Xpostfactoid, Andrew Sprung I never set up to be a prophet of healthcare policy, or anything else. But when Senator Bill Cassidy floated a plan in early November to extend and modify the enhanced ACA marketplace subsidies that are […]