The idea of certain aspects of our diet being healthy or not, often come with a lot of confusion. Salt fits safely in the category that bewilders most people! I remember the first time I wondered about salt in my dental practice. Salt can have many benefits for the mouth. So is salt healthy? Salt… Read more »
PETER UBEL, MD|POLICY | JULY 3, 2019 Jill Ladkin was already having a terrible autumn. It began with a seizure that put her in the hospital with what seemed like scores of unfamiliar physicians attending to her state of health. The brain scan revealed a mass in the lining of her brain, a location usually signifying a benign tumor;… Read more »
HANS DUVEFELT, MD|PHYSICIAN | JULY 9, 2019 My first job after residency was in a small mill town in central Maine. I joined two fifty something family doctors, one of whom was the son of the former town doctor. I felt like I was Dr. Kiley on Marcus Welby, MD. I didn’t have a motorcycle, but I… Read more »
Love, meaningfulness and the power of connection don’t stop just because we get old. Aunt Doris on her 106th birthday. By Barry Eisenberg May 22, 2019 My Aunt Doris recently passed away, exactly two weeks before her birthday. She would have been 107. I have been involved in health care for my entire professional life, as… Read more »
BY JAMIE DUCHARME JUNE 21, 2019 More than a year ago, a pair of Australian researchers published a paper in Scientific Reports to little fanfare. In it, they noted that a surprising number of young people were developing bone growths on the backs of their skulls. The researchers posited that this was due to the amount of time they spent looking… Read more »
Researchers at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, have documented the prevalence of bone spurs at the back of the skull among young adults. (Scientific Reports)By Isaac Stanley-BeckerJune 20 at 4:40 AM Mobile technology has transformed the way we live — how we read, work, communicate, shop and date. But we already know… Read more »
National Library of Medicine/Public DomainBY KATHERINE FOXHALL JUNE 18, 2019 The following is adapted from an excerpt from social and medical historian Katherine Foxhall’s new book, Migraine: A History, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and out June 18, 2019. In 1936, Alfred Goltman, a physician from Tennessee, reported on one of his cases in the prominent medical… Read more »
BY TARA LAW JUNE 17, 2019 Three years ago this month, on June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court ruled in the biggest abortion case in more than two decades: Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. In a vote of 5 to 3, the Justices struck down two provisions in a Texas law as unconstitutional because they placed an “undue… Read more »
SARAH E. JORGENSEN, RN | POLICY | NOVEMBER 28, 2018 Corporate health care mentality set up nurses up to be inhuman while holding us to superhuman expectations. We’re told to be caring — but not allowed to do it. It’s time to demand that we stop being abandoned and dismissed by dysfunctional leadership. Early in my nursing career, I… Read more »
DR. SARA R. AHRONHEIM | PHYSICIAN | JUNE 10, 2019 There’s always so much to write about, and there’s never any time. I work too much; it’s become evident recently that I need to cut down. I have started noticing that things affect me much more than they ever did; there are days I hide my tears, and days… Read more »