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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Henrietta Lacks replaces Robt E Lee

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https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109551240176991160
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Anthony Fauci: A Message to the Next Generation of Scientists

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…  At ‌81, I still can clearly recall the first time I drove onto the bucolic N.I.H. campus in Bethesda, M‌‌d., in June of 1968 as a 27-year...

We Can Cure Disease by Editing a Person’s DNA. Why Aren’t We?

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But for the next few years, devastating genetic ailments and cancer are where CRISPR clinical trials must remain; ethical considerations ove...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Prognosis

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CktxD7xh5ws/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
Friday, October 21, 2022

Much Work Remains

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    Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics ⁦‪@bermaninstitute‬⁩ We Advised Biden on the Pandemic. Much Work Remains to Face the Next Cr...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

The neglected clitoris

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Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don't Doctors Study It? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/health/clitoris-sex-doctors-surgery.html?...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

America Is Choosing to Stay Vulnerable to Pandemics - The Atlantic

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Recently, after a week in which  2,789 Americans died of COVID-19 , President Joe Biden proclaimed that "the pandemic is over."  A...

Scientists Knew More About Covid-19 Than We Think. And They Still Do.

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"Nobody," Donald Trump claimed in a March 2020 address, "had any idea." He was talking about the Covid virus — which had...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Tweet by NPR on Twitter

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    NPR ⁦‪@NPR‬⁩ Researchers say diseases that spread between humans and animals, like COVID and monkeypox, will become increasingly commonp...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

‘Very Harmful’ Lack of Data Blunts U.S. Response to Outbreaks

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'Very Harmful' Lack of Data Blunts U.S. Response to Outbreaks Major data gaps, the result of decades of underinvestment in public he...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Her Discovery Changed the World. How Does She Think We Should Use It?

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…What about the ethics of all those gene-editing possibilities? That's something you've been talking about for years now, but what w...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

A huge side benefit of the new climate bill

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Air pollution sickens and kills millions every year. Here’s how the new measure will help tackle the problem. ...the law will avert heart a...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Why Storytelling Is Part of Being a Good Doctor

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Doctors are people too. "…the word 'doctor' comes from the Latin 'to teach.' By writing stories, we as doctors aim to t...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

Time for a national public health system

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Since the early months of the covid-19 pandemic, it's been clear that the U.S. public health system needs major improvements. Now, a  bl...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

BCSP/HT Change Your Mind

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Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics   Friends, readers, viewers,  I’m happy to share that  the four-part Netflix series  based o...
Friday, July 8, 2022

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  CRISPR cure for sickle cell nearly 100% effective after three years Newly released data shows nearly universal efficacy with no drop...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Authors Michael Lewis and Malcolm Gladwell | C-SPAN.org

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Michael Lewis on The Premonition— https://www.c-span.org/video/?518489-2/authors-michael-lewis-malcolm-gladwell
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Australia’s solution

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    CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 ⁦‪@CBSSunday‬⁩ In Australia, there have been only one mass shooting, and gun homicides decreased nearly 60%. After...

Sandy Hook to Uvalde

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    CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 ⁦‪@CBSSunday‬⁩ Francine and David Wheeler, whose son Ben was among the 26 students, teachers and staff killed in t...

The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier

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A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations — with potentially lethal cons...