Beheading is not the right word. Atrocities of decapitation are what we are reading about.
New review of mammography in JAMA explores our lack of coherent or easily applied decision-making about the benefits and risks of the test and whether and when women should undergo screening mammograms
Recent hypertension guidelines by the ACC/AHA substantially relax treatment standards. I explain why I disagree with the changes, as do various other professional groups. Here’s the short story.
BMC Medicine article on DNA barcoding of randomly chosen herbal products yields troubling results.
Testosterone is not everything and is overmarketed. Twin bathtubs are quaint. Women’s libido is the next frontier, but far in the distance.
I avidly read and observe news and public affairs. Frequently I am frustrated by incomplete analysis or failure to even ask no less answer questions that seem not only obvious to me but central to the issue. I thought I would share some of these observations from time to time. Perhaps you can answer them, or at least commiserate, or set me straight.
The sky is falling. My headache must be a brain tumor. Advance catastrophication raises a patient’s anxiety and rarely is helpful. Doctors need to proceed thoroughly and calmly but still rationally protect against risk to the patient in a timely fashion.
Like the main character in this book, long-term Orchard Health Care member Joan Dash spent much of her childhood in a nudist camp. She went on to get a master’s and Ph.D. at Harvard where she studied soil microbiology. Today, she and her husband use the ground penetration techniques described in this book, helping archaeologists decide where to dig.
Traditional Jewish ethnic food, especially delicatessen, is typically extraordinarily high in salt and saturated fat. It probably unwittingly contributed to the early mortality of the patriarchs of prior generations.