Quarantine the healthy

The flu shot only works 60-70% of the time and even less in people with impaired immunity. ...

No cancer? Give chemo.

Giving chemotherapy to a patient with no cancer, how can you tell if it works? ...

100% Inconclusive

If the physician has really “laid down the law”, helping can become impossible. ...

Radiation: power to cure

Radiation therapy is an astonishingly precise tool with millimeter accuracy, based on advanced physics, experimentation and, above all, power....

Saving after Sandy

When the saga of the storm is written, there will be a long list of remarkable people who instead of running away, ran forward to help. ...

The aggressive chemo fallacy

We are in a war, a war on cancer. We talk of battle and attack, magic bullets, proton beam rays, laser surgery and targeted drugs, doctors as combat commanders,...
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