Quarantine the healthy

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

No cancer? Give chemo.

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

100% Inconclusive

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

Radiation: power to cure

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

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. ...
5 years ago

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,...
5 years ago
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